Ordeal By Trial Author:George Carpozi, Jr. DID SHE OR DIDN'T SHE? — The Alice Crimmins case is the kind that lives on in the annals of criminology. It has all the ingredients of high drama. On trial: a stunningly beautiful New York housewife. The charge: murder of her two children... Carpozi, a New York Post reporter who covered the trials, tells the story in a style that makes it seem... more » part of one long hideous nightmare, which it essentially was. Drawing on trial records and his own investigative reporting, Carpozi sets both trials in perspective and for good measure throws in a closing chapter that raises important new issues plus a motive for the murder. As though the Crimmins case were not already sufficiently sensational, the denouncement envisaged in the final chapter would turn it into an authentic bombshell. Carpozi has produced a first-rate work of reportage which not only chronicles crime and punishment but could conceivably lead to reopening the case.« less