The Alice Crimmins Case

Anaïs Renevier

New York, summer of 1965. Two children disappear - the mother must be guilty...

One hot summer in Queens, two children disappear. Their body will be found a few days later,on a waste ground. No evidence, no proof.
However, the detectives - who are Irish and Catholic for the most - quickly draw the attention to the mother of the children, Alice Crimmins.
Why her? Apparently, because she recently got divorced, has many lovers,and does not seem to be sad enough.
A story of morals, patriarchal justice, and of a mystery: to this day, the murders remain unsolved. Alice Crimmins was charged for the murder of her children. She was released 10 years later, in 1977. She changed her name and has completely vanished ever since.
Journalist Anaïs Renevier has followed her footsteps.

In partnership with the French magazine Society, this collection aims at painting a picture of the United States through their biggest criminal cases, with - approximately - one book per state. Society met a massive success with a special editions in two volumes about the Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès case, which sold 400,000 copies.
The stories are written by French journalists from Society, who were sent to the USA to investigate. Our goal is to offer highly documented and short true crime books that could be read as thrillers, and the result is stunning. The tone is incisive, and straight-to-the-point - as journalists know how to do - and the stories are at the same time as gripping as a thriller, with cliff-hangers at the end of chapters.