Alice Crimmins

3 AM Mystery Club

04-10-2021 • 42 mins

SEXPOT MOM SWAM NUDE AS TOTS LAY SLAIN would undoubtedly have been the headline on cable news shows throughout the world if Alice Crimmins had been on trial today. It was certainly the type of headline that tabloids had no problem printing even in the 1960s. Was Alice Crimmins guilty of murder or was she merely guilty of living outside of normal conventions for a 60s housewife? Did she do it or were more plausible suspects overlooked? Join the club as Ro discusses the case that often gets compared to Susan Smith and Casey Anthony.

Sources:

A Crime To Remember: Go Ask Alice. Season 1, Episode 1, 2013 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3058158/

Killer Queens Podcast : https://www.killerqueenspodcast.com/alice-crimmins-bad-mom-or-double-standard/

Why Can't You Behave: Revisiting the Case of Alice Crimmins. Weinman, Sarah, 2015 https://hazlitt.net/longreads/why-cant-you-behave-revisiting-case-alice-crimmins