Alice Crimmins

Alice Crimmins is an American woman who was charged with killing her two children, 5 year old Eddie and 4 year old Alice Marie, known as Missy, who went missing on July 14, 1965. Alice Marie's body was found that day, and Eddie Jr.'s was found five days later. No evidence could be found tying anyone to the deaths. Crimmins was followed and covertly recorded by the New York Police Department for two years, before finally being charged and going to trial in 1968. She was found guilty and sent to prison, later released on appeal, recharged and found guilty again in 1971, overturned in 1973, reinstated and reincarcerated in 1975. She was paroled in 1977. The Crimmins trial has been compared by some in the media to the Casey Anthony trial.

In popular culture

• The Alice Crimmins Case by Kenneth Gross
• Ordeal By Trial by George Carpozi, Jr.
• The Investigation by Dorothy Uhnak
• Where Are The Children? (book and subsequent 1986 movie) by Mary Higgins Clark
• A Question of Guilt, aired on television 1978
• Landscape of the Body play by John Guare, opened in 1977
• Two Small Bodies play by Neal Bell, opened in 1977
• Two Small Bodies film by Beth B., from 1993
• Investigation Discovery miniseries A Crime to Remember, aired in 2013

Little Deaths by Emma Flint, 2017 novel, Picador