The Grimes Sisters
OVERVIEW The Grimes sisters, 15 year old Barbara, and 12 year old Patricia, were tragically murdered after disappearing on December 28, 1956, while walking home from a movie theater in Chicago. Their disappearance sparked one of the city's largest missing persons investigation. Nearly a month later, their nude bodies were found by a roadside in Willow Springs on January 22, 1957. Autopsies indicated both girls were killed within 5 hours of their last known sighting and died from secondary shock. However, several witnesses claimed to have seen them alive during the weeks they were missing. The case deeply impacted Chicago, symbolizing a loss of innocence and is considered one of the most extensive and well-known unsolved murder cases in the city's history. On the evening of December 28, 1956, Barbara and Patricia, 2 of 7 children of Joseph and Loretta Grimes, went to see Love Me Tender - an Elvis Presley film they had already watched 10 times, at a theater in Brig...