When the pair failed to return by midnight, Lorretta Grimes called the police.Īs officers scoured the city, tips poured in. [Watch Cold Case Files Classic on A&E Crime Central. The two sisters were also close friends, former neighbor Melanie Forgala tells A&E True Crime. It was the Christmas holidays, December 28, 1956, and Lorretta gave her permission.īarbara, a high school sophomore with a dazzling smile, was known as the “serious” one, and Patricia, or “Petey,” was a high-spirited seventh-grader. They’d seen Love Me Tender 10 times but begged their mother to let them catch the evening show at the local theater, just a short bus ride away. Like many 1950s bobbysoxers, Barbara and Patricia adored Elvis Presley. “Our detectives work it as leads come in,” deputy press secretary Matthew Walberg says. Even so, the case is “still an open murder investigation,” a spokesman for Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s office tells A&E True Crime. Now the notorious mystery is a footnote in the city’s history. With the public demanding answers, law enforcement went into overdrive, interviewing multiple suspects and filing charges-only to drop them for lack of proof as authorities feuded openly. The discovery horrified Chicagoans and the working-class Catholic neighborhood where the girls lived.
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