Her Children Vanished. Police Studied Her Makeup: The Alice Crimmins Case
Her Children Vanished. Police Studied Her Makeup: The Alice Crimmins Case
On July 14, 1965, Alice Crimmins opened her children's bedroom door in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, and found two empty beds. Her daughter Missy, 4, was found strangled in a vacant lot that same afternoon; her son Eddie Jr., 5, was found five days later, so decomposed that no cause of death was ever determined. Why did the lead detective judge the mother's clothes and makeup before any evidence existed? Why did police drop the father as a suspect over a refused polygraph? And how did three years of wiretaps, tails, and…
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