Who Murdered the Grimes Sisters?
9 min readJun 30, 2020
“My poor babies. Why couldn’t they have taken me and let my babies live? If the police had listened to me they would have had the true story half an hour after the girls were missing.” — Loretta Grimes
On the 28th December 1956, Barbara and Patricia Grimes caught the bus to the theatre in Brighton Park, on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois, wanting to see the newest Elvis Presley picture. What came next was one of the largest missing persons cases in Cook County history and a lesson in investigation handling.
It was a few days after Christmas and Barbara, 15 and Patricia, 13, wanted to go to the theatre with money they had saved up. Both girls loved Elvis Presley and wanted to see Love Me Tender, again. Having promised their mother, Loretta, they would be home before midnight, the sisters boarded the bus from their home in McKinley Park to the Brighton Theatre and bought their $1.50 tickets for the double feature. They were seen by their friend, Dorothy Weinert, during the…
