The Alice Crimmins Case by Anaïs Renevier (Author) and Laurie Bennett (Translator)
Alice Crimmins lived every mother's nightmare: her children were missing. She and her children's father were divorced so she hoped they were just with him somehow. But when the two parents spoke, they realized that neither of them knew where their four-year-old daughter, Missy, and their five-year-old son, Eddie, Jr., were. Alice called the police and, tragically, later the same day Missy was found dead in a vacant lot--possibly strangled. Eddie, Jr. was not found with her and so his parents held out hope for a few days, until he was also found dead at another location. Suspicion immediately fell to Alice. After all, she was a divorcée who clearly spent too much time on her appearance (in the police's opinion). But it wasn't until after three years of surveillance that Alice was charged with the murders of her children. While she was not found guilty of murder, she was found guilty of manslaughter. She spent about ten years in prison before being paroled and from there,...








