“The Metropolitan Opera House has also had its brush with murder. In 1981 a Met stagehand, Craig Crimmins, was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for hurling a violinist, Helen Hagnes Mintiks, to her death down an airshaft from the roof of the opera house. Ms. Mintiks had disappeared during an intermission of a Berlin Ballet performance.”
March 23, 2008 at 3:38 am
posted @ 8:36pm Saturday 3/22/08
I remember that story. I was in NYC at the time. It got a lot of press. How did you come across it?
Phil
March 23, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Through that NYT article about other operatic disasters…