The Granite Woman: Ruth Snyder and the Murder That Inspired Double Indemnity
In March 1927, in a quiet house in Queens Village, New York, a nine-year-old girl woke to find her mother bound on the floor and her father dead in bed—bludgeoned with a sash weight, strangled with picture wire, and chloroformed.
What looked like a botched burglary was actually the work of Ruth Snyder and her lover, Judd Gray, after years of a failing marriage, a secret affair, and multiple failed attempts to collect on life insurance policies with a double indemnity clause.
Host Alexander Lawson unpacks the clumsy plot, the sensational trial that captivated Jazz Age America, the iconic…
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