- Ruthann Aron
Ruthann Aron (
October 24 ,1942 , inBrooklyn ,New York ) is a former politican who unsuccessfully ran for a place in the1994 US Senate . Aron became notorious in thePotomac 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 theSeptember 11 attacks of theWorld Trade Center in2001 . 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 Dunne s showDominick 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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