EPISODE · Dec 24, 2018 · 32 MIN
Ep 28 - Flesh Fajitas and Ruth Snyder DEAD!
from Dead Bodies Podcast · host Dead Bodies Podcast
Would you eat human flesh? A man who had his leg amputated after a motorcycle accident made it into fajita tacos and served it to his friends. Ruth Snyder was sent to the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in 1928, and the image of her dead body was plastered on the front page of the New York Daily News. The case changed forever the protocols for media at executions.
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Would you eat human flesh? A man who had his leg amputated after a motorcycle accident made it into fajita tacos and served it to his friends. Ruth Snyder was sent to the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in 1928, and the image of her dead body was plastered on the front page of the New York Daily News. The case changed forever the protocols for media at executions.
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