Welcome back to Death by Champagne, the podcast here to keep you up at night! Mack starts us off this week with an unbelievable case. Without giving too much away we will just say she covers a semi-local case from Kansas City, MO. The murder of infant Lorelai Sims. Liv takes us to New Jersey and cover a solved cold case known primarily as “Baby Bones”.

This episode contains foul language, major trigger warning for this episode regarding discussions about child abuse, child murder, and specifically infant deaths. We’ll do our best to stay on track, but the bottles are popped!

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Paula Sims
Forensic Files - Season 3, Episode 6: Similar Circumstances

“Paula Sims trial: Either a maniacal killer on the loose, or Sims was lying, prosecutor says”, Charles Bosworth Jr., St. Louis Post Dispatch, December 31, 1990

“Paula Sims claims daughter kidnapped by armed stranger”, St. Louis Post Dispatch, June 17, 1986

“Twisting path continues for Paula Sims, who killed two daughters in the 1980s”, Pat Gauen, St. Louis Post Dispatch, December 14, 2015

“Mom Killed 2 Baby Daughters 3 Years Apart”, Chris Harris, People Magazine, November 15, 2019

“Gauen: Another Mother's Day for Metro East mom who murdered daughters”, Pat Gauen, St. Louis Post Dispatch, May 18, 2017

“Child murder by mothers: patterns and prevention”, Susan Hatters Friedman and Phillip J Resnick, World Psychiatry, October 6, 2007 “After Alton couple claim second infant daughter abducted, baby's body found”, Charles Bosworth, St. Louis Post Dispatch, May 4, 1989

“Sims Baby Buried; Hand Caused Death” Macon Chronicle-Herald, May 11, 1989

“Bits and Pieces of Simses’ Troubled Lives” St. Louis Post Dispatch, reprinted in the Macon Chronicle-Herald, May 12, 1989

“Jury Selected, Opening Remarks Scheduled” Macon Chronicle-Herald, Jan 11, 1990

Encyclopedia of Kidnapping, Michael Newton, p280-281

Women and Crime: A Reference Handbook, Judith A. Warner, p56-57
PEOPLE v. SIMS, No. 5-90-0287

Jon-Niece Jones
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The NY Times Article by J. David Goodman
LA Times Article by Tina Susman
The Star Ledger Article by Bob Considine
NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Article by Rob Spahr
NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Article by Ashley Peskoe