ever heard of the Alice Crimmins case fifty years ago?

[freepcrusher]

I read about it on a show on Investigation Discovery called "A Crime to Remember". This is probably the most bizarre case ever. In 1965, 26 year old divorced mother (and known swinger) Alice Crimmins reports her four and five year old children missing and a few days later they are found dead (cause of death is strangulation) in different locations. Police zeroed in on her and put surveillance in her house and she said nothing.

Two years later, when they nearly give up on the case, they look at original case documents and find an anonymous letter say they saw a woman putting her kids in a car. They find out it was one of the people in the apartment complex. They track her down (she's mentally ill) and see that as evidence to arrest Alice. They manage to convict Alice on that alone (that and her unorthodox lifestyle which they saw as a motive). What's strange is that instead of first-degree murder, which is what the crime looks like, they gave her manslaughter and she was paroled in 1977. The fact that she's out of jail (and her whereabouts are unknown) not trying to get out meant that the police never gave it a second look.

It's been so long ago that you would think she would break her silence now and say something about what she thought happened and why she was wrongfully convicted, despite having been released 37 years ago. But yet again, she never said much in 1965 about who she thought did it. One theory I have is that it was a random creep. This was Kew Gardens (Queens, NY neighborhood) and 17 months earlier, there was the thrill-kill of Kitty Genovese by a man who was looking for a woman to kill and then rape (being a necrophiliac). With the information I have given you, do you think is might have been a random stranger, her ex-husband in a case of revenge filicide (he was alibi'd out early on) or that Alice actually did it.