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Episode 515: The Murder of the Grimes Sisters

2023/11/27
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Ash和Emelia详细讲述了1956年芝加哥格莱姆斯姐妹的谋杀案,以及随后的调查。她们讨论了案件的背景、姐妹俩的失踪、尸体被发现、以及主要嫌疑人贝尼·贝德维尔的审讯。她们分析了调查中存在的矛盾之处,例如目击证词与验尸报告的不一致,以及执法机构之间的合作不足。她们还探讨了案件中涉及的社会和文化因素,例如对女性贞洁的关注以及对性侵犯的隐瞒。最后,她们总结了案件的现状,以及对未来调查的希望。 Ash和Emelia对格莱姆斯姐妹案进行了深入的分析,揭示了案件中错综复杂的问题。她们指出,由于对媒体和公众隐瞒关键信息,以及执法机构之间的沟通不畅,调查工作受到了阻碍。她们还批评了对受害者贞洁的过度关注,以及对性侵犯指控的处理方式。她们认为,这些因素导致了案件的长期悬而未决,并呼吁对案件进行重新调查,以寻求真相和正义。

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Barbara and Patricia Grimes were sisters growing up in Chicago, Illinois. They were huge Elvis fans. On December 28, 1956, they went to see an Elvis movie and never returned home.
  • Barbara (15) and Patricia (13) Grimes lived in Chicago with their mother and siblings.
  • They were devoted Elvis Presley fans and had seen his movie "Love Me Tender" multiple times.
  • The girls disappeared after going to the movies on December 28, 1956, failing to return home by their curfew.

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On the evening of December 28, 1956, fifteen-year-old Barbara Grimes and her thirteen-year-old sister, Patricia, left their home in Chicago, Illinois headed for a movie theater in Brighton Park to see the latest Elvis Presley film. When the girls failed to return home that evening as expected, their mother sent the two other siblings to wait for them at the closest bus station, but when they returned later without Barbara and Patricia, she became anxious and began calling their friends, before eventually phoning the police. Three weeks later, Barbara and Patricia’s bodies were discovered on the side of a rural road by a construction worker in Willow Springs, about an hour outside Chicago.

The murder of the Grimes sisters and the investigation that followed remains one of Chicago’s most notorious cold cases and one of the most costly and labor-intensive searches in the state’s history.

Thank you to the incredible Dave White of Bring Me The Axe Podcast for research assistance!

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Milwaukee Journal. 1957. "Grimes case tiff costs job." Milwaukee Journal, February 16.

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Taylor, Troy. 2015. The Two Lost Girls: The Mystery of the Grimes Sisters. Jacksonville, IL: Whitechapel Press.

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