On March 20th, 1927, nine-year-old Lorraine Snyder ran screaming from the Queens, New York home where her mother, Ruth, lay in the hallway—feet bound with clothes-line, a cheesecloth tied across her mouth, and rope wound around her wrists. In the bedroom Lorraine's father, Albert, had been brutally battered and strangled to death.Ruth claimed an intruder had tied her up and murdered Albert. But a hard-nosed New York detective was sure the attractive young wife was behind the killing after he learned she carried a lucrative life insurance policy on her husband. He was also convinced she had help. So began the search for Ruth's accomplice...and the most sensational murder investigation of its time. The Ruth Snyder case played out in a macabre carnival of press coverage that included lurid details steamy adulterous sex, shocking betrayal, and cold-blooded murder. Now, in Murderess, the complete story is told: of a bored housewife and a mild-mannered salesman who hatched a greedy murder plot—and how these two deadly lovers turned against each other...all the way to the electric chair.