Was Craig Crimmins Related To Alice???????????????????

                     
                           You have to wonder about that, darlings!  They might not have been of the same blood, but they were, unquestionably, two pieces of trash, cut from the same cloth.

                             Let's start with Craig.  Long before Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom Of The Opera" appeared on the scene, let alone become the Longest Running Broadway Show Ever; one year before Judi Miller wrote the trash classic "Save The Last Dance For Me," which was set in the dance/ballet world of Lincoln Center in New York, a palpably real terror (which may have inspired Miller to write her story)  was haunting these artistic environs.

                               This media described "baby faced killer" was only 21 at the time he murdered  30-year-old violinist Helen Hagnes Muntiks, on the evening of  July 23, 1980.  It was actually off opera season, and the Berlin Ballet was in residence at the Met, giving a series of performances.

                                The first thing I want to know, darlings, is how does some low life, Irish working class kid from the Mosholu Parkway section of the Bronx, become a stagehand at the Met?  And at so young an age?  Did his family have IATSE connections?  Because becoming a stagehand at the MET is akin to joining the NYFD or the Teamsters--it takes connections, usually family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                  Apparently, he was not the artistic type. Remember the famous shot in "Citizen Kane," as the stagehands, at the start of "Salammbo," the ersatz opera meant to mark Susan Alexander's (the great Dorothy Comingore) debut, are seen to pinch their noses, as the camera moves upward, after she has begun to sing????????   Well, Crimmins did not even have this much taste, or interest, or professionalism; he spent less time doing his job (a job which many arts individuals would covet!!!!!!!!!) there, than milling about, trying to find  women to score with.

                                     And this is what led to the murder of Helen Hagnes Muntiks, that evening.  He was in the elevator, riding, with Helen and her friend, Laura Cutler.  Helen was looking for a ballet star whom she was anxious to secure work from for her sculpture husband.  The mysterious man in the elevator advised her to go to the third floor.  When Cutler got off, the brash, low class Crimmins made an overt pass at Helen, for which she rebuffed and slapped him!  Damn right!  You go, girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                       What Helen did not know was that Crimmins was drunk, high on pot (typical for his evening there!!!!!!!!) and fueled by rage, as he regarded her rebuff as an attack on his manhood!  Gimme a break!!!!!!!!!  This crime, for which Crimmins earned the nickname "Phantom Of The Opera," and the case the
"Phantom Of The Opera Murder," was also regarded as a class one; the implication being that a top flight classical violinist would never go near a lowly stagehand.  This may be false, this may be true; I have seen no
evidence to confirm this aspect.   Even if Crimmins had been a dancer, his behavior would still have been boorish and inexcusable.

                                      Fueled by rage, when Helen got off the elevator, near the electrician's office, he followed, then accosted her, dragging her away to another area, where he tried to rape her.  But too much hooch could not set Willy free, if you know what I mean, so, instead of chalking it up to biology and drugs, this crazed nut begins to strangle her.  He eventually hauls her  up to  the roof of the building, where he kicks her off, causing her to fall three stories to a ledge connected to the Met building.

                                         You can bet this guy was caught, about a month later, on August 29, 1980. He was tried, convicted, and 33 years later, now 54 years of age, is still in prison, and it is unlikely he will get out.  Let him do "I Pagliacci" there, if he wants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                           Alice was a different proposition, but cut from the same cloth.  I hate to cast aspersions on the borough of Queens, but that was where she was  from.  Just like Ellen Barkin--straight outta Queens!!!!!!!!  She was accused of killing her two children, Edward, Jr, age 5, and Alice Marie (aka Missy), age 4.  This was the trial of the day; I vividly recall this from my childhood, and the name Alice Crimmins became synonymous, then, with Mothers From Hell!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                            Crimmins claimed the kids vanished from their rooms--that someone took them--on July 14, 1965.  Missy's body, strangled, was found in a vacant lot not far away; days later, the body of Edward, Jr, was found, nearby, in a similar condition.  Her detached manner, except when the cameras turned on her, led cops to believe Crimmins was an attention junkie, who killed those kids!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                               That Alice Crimmins, I am telling you!  She was a cool one, who added to her trashiness by--wait till you hear this, girls!!!!--working as a cocktail waitress!  A cocktail waitress!!!!!! And you know how cheap and trashy they are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                  What goads me is today Crimmins is a free woman, most likely in her seventies, remarried, and living in--where else?????--Florida!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  That this cold bitch could just mentally block out  those children and what she had done to them says all needed to be said about her monstrousness.
There is a higher justice than on Earth, Alice, and someday, it will be coming to you, but good!  I hope those children, in the Afterlife, bitch slap you to Kingdom Come!  Which is just what you deserve!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                      No, I cannot prove that Craig and Alice Crimmins are related!!!!!!!  But,
they may as well have been!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                        At least, Craig is where he now needs to be. Alice is out there living the lie she calls her life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                          Things have a way of catching up, Alice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!