Child-Killer Susan Smith, or, Why Alice Crimmins Makes a Lousy Role Model
By Susan Amper
March 3, 2014Many people believe that Alice Crimmins got away with the 1965 murder of her two children. (Read my views on the Crimmins case here.) But could the Crimmins case have provided fodder for a future child killer? Alice Crimmins always maintained her innocence, but the police and much of the press believed Alice Crimmins was…