TY  - BOOK
AU  - Renevier,Anaïs
AU  - Bennett,Laurie
TI  - The Alice Crimmins case
T2  - 50 states of crime
SN  - 9781613166291 (paperback) 
AV  - HV 6534 R411a 2025
PY  - 2025///
CY  - New York
PB  - Crime Ink, 
KW  - Crimmins, Alice, 
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Asesinato
KW  - Investigación
KW  - Nueva York (Estados Unidos)
KW  - Estudios de caso
KW  - Trials (Murder)
KW  - Juicios (Homicidio)
KW  - Police
KW  - Policía
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-176)
N2  - "New York, Summer of 1965. One hot summer, two young children disappeared from their first-floor apartment in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens, New York. Their mother, Alice Crimmins, reported them missing to the police. Later that day, the body of four-year-old Missy was found in a vacant lot, showing signs of having been strangled. The body of five-year-old Eddie, Jr., was found several days later. Police were immediately suspicious of the mother. Recently divorced, with teased red hair and heavy makeup, Alice Crimmins did not fit the maternal ideal held by the predominantly Catholic police detectives on the case. Her every action was scrutinized: Was she behaving like a grief-stricken mother or like a coldhearted killer? After three years of police surveillance, Alice was charged with the murder of her children in 1968 in a highly publicized trial. Ultimately found guilty of manslaughter, Alice spent a decade in prison before being released on parole in 1977. But was she truly guilty, or just the victim of police bias and misogynistic judgment? Journalist Anaïs Renevier revisits the case, exploring one of the most famous and divisive trials in recent American history."-- Provided by publisher
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