The Alice Crimmins Case Author:Kenneth Gross In the summer of 1965, two small children were abducted and murdered in Queens. Those are about the only facts of this case that can be definitely confirmed. Everything else is circumstantial and subject to conjecture. — Alice Crimmins, the divorced mother of the two children, would seize scandalous headlines for the next twelve years in one of t... more »he most sensational murder cases of the 1960's. Kenneth Gross' meticulously researched story of the case clearly throws more than a shadow of a doubt on Alice Crimmins' guilty verdicts in 1968 and 1971. While he does not come out and say positively that Alice Crimmins was innocent, he does show that her promiscuous lifestyle worked against her in politically conservative 1968. He also throws into question the memories of detectives and prosecution witnesses who claim they saw Alice doing something as well as the claim that she acted alone in the abduction and murder.
With all the lurid headlines we now see on TV and in the papers, abduction and murder almost seem commonplace. Yet, in 1965, this case was sensational and shocking. This is a gripping, remarkable book that you will not be able to put down.« less