The ex-husband and sole surviving child of convicted baby killer Paula Sims died in a traffic crash Saturday afternoon in Mississippi.
Robert and Randall Sims died when their Jeep was forced off an interstate overpass, a prosecutor in the case has confirmed.
Robert Sims was the ex-husband of Paula Sims, who was also convicted for the murder of one of her daughters and hiding the death of another daughter.
In June of 1986, Sims claimed a masked gunman had kidnapped her 13-day-old daughter Loralei from their home. Police launched a massive search and the alleged abduction made headlines. Ten days later, the skeletal remains of baby Loralei were found about 150 feet behind the Sims' home. The cause of death was never determined and no one was charged.
Three years later, it happened again. Paula Sims called police and said a masked gunman knocked her unconscious as she was taking out the trash and took her 6-week-old daughter Heather. Four days later, Heather's body was found in a trash can in a parking lot in West Alton.
A jury in 1990 found Paula Sims guilty of the murders of her daughters and she confessed to the crimes.
In 2006, Sims told NewsChannel 5 that after she began her life sentence, she came to believe postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis led her to kill her daughters.
Randall Sims was her sole surviving child.
