What the records say
- When
- 1956
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 41.69° N, 87.76° W
- Description
- unsolved disappearance and double murder of two sisters aged 15 and 12 dating from their disappearance on December 28, 1956, Chicago, US
Placed at the coordinates of its English Wikipedia article.
Murder of the Grimes sisters
1956 unsolved double murder case
The murder of the Grimes sisters is an unsolved double murder that occurred in Chicago, Illinois, on December 28, 1956, in which two sisters named Barbara and Patricia Grimes—aged 15 and 12 respectively—disappeared while traveling from a Brighton Park movie theater to their home in McKinley Park. Their disappearance initiated one of the largest missing persons investigations in the history of Chicago.
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