That Alice! She Was Some Piece Of Cheap Goods!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                         Did you see it, darlings??????  Well, you should have!!!!!!!   Last night, Investigation Discovery unveiled its new program, "A Crime To Remember," kicking off with what was, back in 1965, the first big true crime case I remember--Alice Crimmins!!!!!!!!!

                           You have heard about Alice on here, before.  But seeing it dramatized last night, and so well, really brought the whole thing home!   The sexy sleazy sick atmosphere of Kew Gardens, Queens, in the 1960s was brilliantly recreated.  And, again, with the Kitty Genovese case only sixteen months past, this gave Kew Gardens, let alone Queens, a less than sterling reputation.

                              But you have to hand it to actress Airen DeLa Mater, who went for the gold as Alice, playing it as though she were Meryl Streep giving one of her great, sterling performances.   When she fainted into the officer's arms, at the sight of her dead child, Missy, in the park, it was the highlight of the show!  Even Meryl would have been impressed.

                              Miss DeLaMater played Alice for what she was--a real gum chewin,' toreador pants wearin,' roundheels tramp!!!!!!!!!   She wanted those kids out of the way, because they got in the way of her life style.  Just like Susan Smith, and Casey Anthony!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Only, things were tougher on Alice, because  back then, if a woman being a mother was anything less than June Cleaver, she was regarded as unfit!  I kid you not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                               Alice eventually did twelve years, finally released in 1977!   She has gone on to live in relative obscurity.  She married Anthony Grace, a contractor she had been seeing, prior to her divorce from Ed Crimmins, (Anthony Grace, I mean!!!!!!) whom many felt had been her accomplice.  They stayed married till he died in 1998!

                                 I personally believe Alice did it!  Not just because she was a tramp, and a narcissist, but because too many questions have remained unanswered.  Even her supporters never bother to hypothesize who or how.  And then--

                                                         If Missy had been strangled, where were the ligature marks?

                                                         When released, why did not Alice make a national effort to
                                                          clear herself, or find who actually killed those children?

                                                          Why didn't ex-husband Eddie do the same thing?  They
                                                          were his children, too!

                                                            Where were the Burkes (Alice's parents) and the
                                                             Crimmins (Eddie's) when all this was going on?

                                                             Why has nothing been heard from them?

                                     I loved the female narrator with the faux Queens accent.  Was she trying to be
Alice's neighbor, Sophie Earominski??????   I just LOVE Sophie!  She certainly had the goods on Alice, and, if she were still alive, I would love to talk to her!

                                      As I would to Alice.  Interesting the segment was titled "Go Ask Alice," after the famous lyric from Grace Slick's "White Rabbit," and the famous drug diary book and movie, which later turned out to be bogus.

                                       As bogus as Alice's innocence!  How fitting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                       Not even Grace Slick worked as a cheap cocktail waitress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!