Ruthann Aron

Ruthann Aron (October 24, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York) is a former politican who unsuccessfully ran for a place in the 1994 US Senate. Aron became notorious in the Potomac county for her 1997 arrest and conviction for hiring a hitman to murder her husband and an attorney [http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/psychology/ruthann_aron/1_index.html] . Ruthann Aron's son was one of the victims of the September 11 attacks of the World Trade Center in 2001. Rythann had left Maryland for New York to be closer to her son after she was released from prison in early 2001 after serving three years [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/aron/aron.htm] . Aron has started her political career by becoming a Maryland senator, living in a lavish estate in Potomac [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/aron/magazine/mystery021598.htm] .

In media

Ruthanns case was a subject of an hour long show of journalist Dominick Dunnes show Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice.

A one hour episode of a documentary called "Snapped" focused on the Aron hitman case. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959207/]

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