Barbara and patricia grimes were teenage sisters who disappeared from the Brighton Park,Chicago on December 28,1956 and were found dead on January 22,1957.On December 28,1956,sisters Barbara(15) and Patricia(13) went to the brighton theatre to see the Elvis Presley movie.The theatre was one and a half miles from their home.Patricia's friend Dorothy weinert reported sitting with both sisters during the first showing of the movie.Other friends subsequently saw them at 9.15 p.m.,standing in the popcorn line of the theatre.They seemed in good spirits and no-one noticed anything unusual.The second show was over by 11:45 p.m.,and they were expected home around 11:45 p.m.,and they were expected home around 11:45 p.m.When there was still no sign of them by midnight,their mother Loretta sent their older brother and sister to wait by the nearest bus stop for their arrival.After three buses has gone by no sign of them,the siblings returned.At 2:15 a.m.,their mother reported Barbara and Patricia as missing.On January 14,the parents of patricia grimes' classmate Sandra Tollstan received two phone calls around midnight.During the first call,nobody at the other end spoke.Picking up the second call 15 minutes later,Sandra's mother heard a frightened and depressed voice asking "Is that you,Sandra?Is Sandra there?"Before she bring her daughter to the phone,the caller had hung up.The mother was convinced that the caller's voice belong to Patricia grimes.On January 22,1957,a construction worker found the nude bodies of the Grimes sisters in a snowbank behind a guard rail off German church road .It was thought that they had most likely been dumped from a passing car.There were no obvious fatal wounds on either girl's body.Both corpses had various bruises and rodent bites,including three puncture wounds in Barbara's chest that may have come from an ice pick.It was later revealed that Barbara had at least likely had sexual intercourse around the time of her death,but no evidence of forcible molestation was found.Their murderer is still unknown.
THE GRIMES SISTERS
THE GRIMES SISTERS
