DESCRIPTION:
On this episode of They Walk Among America… In the quiet middle-class neighbourhood of Queens Village, New York City, Harriet Mulhauser was just getting ready for the day ahead. It was March 20th, 1927, and Harriet’s morning was disturbed by a sharp knock on her front door. Opening it, she was greeted by a distressing sight – a look of terror etched across the face of her nine-year-old neighbour, Lorraine Snyder. Lorraine told Harriet that something had happened to her mother, and she needed immediate assistance…
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‘They Walk Among America’ is a Law & Crime podcast network production.
This episode was hosted by Nina Innsted.
Researched and written by Emily G. Thompson.
Editing and scoring by Kory Hilpmann.
Script editing, additional writing and production direction by Rosanna and Benjamin Fitton.
MUSIC:
Things Gone Wrong by Moments
Into The Storm by Moments
Witches Brew by Alternate Endings
Maleficent by Bryant Lowry
Aurora by Featherland
Something Bad is About to Happen by Rhythm Scott
Almost Awake by Joshua Spacht
Changing by Outside The Sky
Half Memory by Glasseyes
The Search by CJ-0
Shadow Passage by Cody Martin
Fight or Flight by Yerself
For more information, visit https://lawandcrime.com/podcasts/ or https://theywalkamonguspodcast.com/
REFERENCES:
NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE
Daily News, 21 March, 1927
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 21 March, 1927
The Ithaca Journal, 21 March, 1927
Times Union, 21 March, 1927
Press and Sun-Bulletin, 21 March 1927
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 22 March, 1927
The Buffalo Times, 22 March, 1927
Times Union, 23 March, 1927
The Buffalo Times, 23 March 1927
Daily News, 25 March, 1927
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 25 March, 1927
Daily News, 25 March, 1927
The Brooklyn Citizen, 29 March, 1927
Daily News, 3 April, 1927
The Buffalo News 18 April, 1927
Star-Gazette, 23 April, 1927
Times Union, 25 April, 1927
Daily News, 26 April, 1927
Times Union, 26 April, 1927
Times Union, 27 April, 1927
The Buffalo News 29 April, 1927
Times Union, 29 April, 1927
Mount Vernon Argus, 29 April, 1927
Daily News, 30 April, 1927
Daily News, 4 May, 1927
Daily News, 10 May, 1927
Daily News, 11 May 1927
Times Union, 16 May, 1927
Daily News, 10 June, 1927
Daily News, 11 January, 1927
Daily News, 11 January, 1928
Times Union, 13 January, 1928
Daily News, 13 January, 1928
BOOKS
The Double Indemnity Murder: Ruth Snyder, Judd Gray, and New York’s Crime of the Century by Landis MacKellar