The Gruesome Unsolved case of The Grimes Sisters

Chicago in 1956, the Grimes sisters aged 15 and 12 would vanish when returning from a movie theatre. The inseparable sisters were huge Elvis Presley fans and had been at the theatre that night to see Love Me Tender. After the credits rolled at the end they would head home, but they would never get there. This would spark the largest missing persons enquiry in Chicago’s history and would even see one of the most famous stars in the world at that time making a personal plea on TV and Radio.

The murder of the Grimes Sisters has been described by authors as “The crime that shattered the innocence of Chicago.”

So what happened to them? Were they abducted? Why did it take almost a month before they were found? Lets find out what happened to the Grimes Sisters.

Barabra and Patricia Grimes were only 15 and 12 when they went missing that fateful night back in 1956. They were 2 of 7 kids born to parents Loretta and Joseph Grimes.

Although Joseph and Loretta would divorce in 1951, and although the children remained with their mother, things were fairly amicable between the parents and with Joseph still living nearby all of the Grimes kids still had a functional relationship with their father.

The girls would be described as good decent girls, they were well mannered and…