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Prosecutor recalls Sims as among worst offenders; Haine will oppose child killer s parole

Paula Sims The prosecutor responsible for convicting child killer Paula Sims 31 years ago said she was among the worst people he had ever sent to prison. In closing arguments before a Madison County jury in February 1990, then assistant state s attorney Don Weber said he remained silent for nearly two minutes - the amount of time it would have taken to suffocate Sims six-week-old daughter, Heather. He recalls the silence having had a powerful impact on the jury. Suffocation.it s not like TV, where they cut to a commercial, he said. This baby s arms and legs had to be flailing, struggling to stay alive.

Grant redemption to a woman who deserves it | Attorney for Paula Sims to seek parole

In 1986, Sims claimed someone had abducted her daughter Loralei from her Jersey County home. “He was going to kill me, I was in such shock, I didn’t know he was going to take my baby,” she told reporters at the time. “I just did what he said.” Police launched a massive search. Pat Gauen was a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch at the time. “It just riveted news coverage in St. Louis like I rarely have ever seen for any case on either side of the river,” he recalled. Ten days later, the baby’s remains were found 150 feet behind the Sims’ home.

Madison County woman sentenced to life in daughters deaths could get parole

BELLEVILLE — Paula Sims, a Madison County woman serving a sentence of life in prison in the deaths of her daughters more than 30 years ago, is eligible for a parole hearing after a commutation by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker adjusted her sentence. The commutation was first reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Thursday. Sims, 61, was convicted of killing her infant daughter Heather in Alton in 1989 and hiding the death of another daughter, Loralei in 1986. She was serving a life sentence without parole. In appeals and clemency requests, Sims lawyers have argued that she was suffering postpartum psychosis at the time of the babies deaths.

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