The parole board’s action Thursday was heavily criticized by Republican state senators. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Charles Bosworth wrote a best-selling book about the crimes and a television movie was made based on it, titled “Precious Victims.” Eventually, former Assistant Madison County State’s Attorney Don Weber and former St. But according to court testimony, Paula Sims kept her deceased daughter in the freezer before dumping her in a park trash receptacle.īoth cases created a firestorm of media coverage, with Heather’s disappearance and death leading to an unprecedented media presence. The crime was initially treated as a kidnapping. Robert Sims and the couple’s son, Randall, died in an automobile accident in 2015. The couple later moved to Alton where, on April 29, 1989, Paula Sims said she was taking out the garbage when a masked man knocked her unconscious and, when she awoke, her 6-month-old daughter, Heather, was gone. The child’s body was found in a wooded ravine behind the rural Jersey County home she shared with her husband, Robert.
In 1986 Sims initially told police that Loralei Sims - just 13 days old - was taken by a masked gunman. Pritzker granted Sims executive clemency, changing her sentence from life without the possibility of parole to life with the possibility of parole. Sims was serving a life sentence at the Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln after being convicted of killing Heather Sims in 1989 in Alton. At the time of the trial, she insisted she was not guilty.” “Life should mean life,” Haine said earlier this year.
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