An Illinois woman who admitted that she killed her infant daughters three years apart has been approved for parole after serving 32 years. Paula Sims, 62, blames post-partum depression for the crimes—which she tried to pin on kidnappers at the time, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Sims suffocated 6-week-old Loralei in 1986; her body was later found behind the house. Three years later, she did the same to 13-day-old Heather, whose body was found in a trash can. Her attorney told the parole board, “This woman is not a violent person. She’s not an evil person. She’s a person who suffered from a mental illness. And that mental illness is gone.”
