Snapped Margaret Rudin and Ron Rudin

Status: Incarcerated

In season 5, episode 5 the murder of her husband, Ron Rudin by Margaret Rudin is shown. This murder occurred in the state of Nevada. Oxygen describes this episode of Snapped as Margaret Rudin is accused of shooting her husband, real estate magnate Ron Rudin, in December 1994 and burning his remains in the Nevada desert



Margaret Rudin was convicted of unauthorized surreptitious intrusion of privacy by listening device and Count II, murder with use of a deadly weapon and sentenced to life.

According to Rudin's sister, Dona Cantrell, Rudin would often complain that Ron was stingy, and that Rudin hoped he would die from his poor health. In 1991, following an altercation between Rudin and Ron's employees, Ron forbade Rudin from entering his realty office before 5:00 p.m. Around this same time, Ron also removed a phone line shared between his office and his residence after his employees claimed that Rudin had been eavesdropping on their conversations. After Ron terminated the shared phone line, Rudin and

Cantrell secretly placed hidden listening devices in Ron's office. These devices transmitted a signal to a receiver and recorder that Rudin kept in the residence and allowed her to eavesdrop undetected.

According to Ron's attorney, Patricia Brown, Ron had characterized Rudin, who was a forty-percent beneficiary of his trust, as becoming increasingly "vicious and violent." Accordingly, in 1991, Ron executed a secret directive to the trustees of his estate that they take "extraordinary steps" to investigate the cause of his death if he died by "violent means." The directive also provided that any beneficiary who caused his death was not to receive any assets from his estate. In 1993, Ron increased Rudin's share in his trust to sixty percent.

In 1994, eavesdropping with the aid of her listening devices, Rudin discovered that Ron was involved in a romantic affair with a woman who was also a former employee. During this same time period, Rudin developed a close relationship with Yehuda Sharon


You can write to Margaret Rudin at:

Margaret Rudin 70503
FMWCC
4370 Smiley Road
Las Vegas, Nevada 89115-1808


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