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We are presented the case of Paula Sims by the Prosecutor who convicted her and a Journalist her covered her trial from start to finish. Her crime? First degree murder. Of who? Her 12 day old and six week old daughters. The twist? The girls were born and murdered three years apart. And both times, Sims tells the same story to the police: a lone masked gunman came in kidnapped her daughters. Later police found their tiny bodies disposed of and primative forensics was able to disclose that a lone "bandito" was not responsible for these babies deaths. As a general rule, I choose not to read books relating the stories of mothers who kill their children; it's just not to my liking. But, after receiving this book in a lot I purchased from a fellow eBayer, I decided to read it anyway. I'm glad I did. While the story itself is very depressing and heartbreaking, the attempts to understand the psychosis behind Paula Sims' actions are intruiguing. Understanding HOW she could do it is diffuclt. WHY she did it is simply: her husband, Robert, didn't want female children and she did it to please him. The act of ridding herself of daughters was simple as she never did want children anyway; much less daughters. Because of important events in her past, she viewed daughters are troublemakers and inducers of family sorrow. Amazingly, after reading this book, I was so intruiged by the case of Paula Sims that I began to research for updates. I was disgusted to learn that, after 17 years in an Illinois State Prison, Sims has now declared that she suffered from Post-Partum Psychosis (PPP) and has asked the Governor of Illinois for Clemency. What I was left wondering is...how is one supposed to believe that Sims suffered PPP with the female children born to her yet her sole surviving child, a male now in his late teens, managed to avoid the same fate as his sisters?Read full review
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