Alice, Sweet Alice

In 1961 Paterson, New Jersey, divorced mother Catherine Spages visits Father Tom with her two daughters, nine-year-old Karen and twelve-year-old Alice (Paula Sheppard), who both attend St. Michael's Parish Girls' School. A jealous Alice puts on a Halloween mask, frightening Father Tom's housekeeper, Mrs. Tredoni (Mildred Clinton). Moments before her First Communion, Karen is strangled to death in the church transept by a person wearing a Halloween mask and a yellow raincoat; her crucifix is ripped from her neck and her body is set on fire.