Infidelity

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