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Barbara and Patricia Grimes were teenage sisters who disappeared from the Brighton Park, Chicago, Illinois area on December 28, 1956 and were found dead on January 22, 1957. Despite an official conclusion that they had been murdered〔In both death certificates of Barbara & Patricia Grimes, their death is labeled as "murder" although the line for "immediate cause" reads "secondary shock - exposure to low temperatures - cold."〕 on the night of their disappearance, there were numerous alleged sightings of the girls in the period prior to the discovery of their dead bodies. The confession of the initial prime suspect in the case was found not to line up with the forensic evidence, and he later recanted. The case remains unsolved. ==Disappearance== On December 28, 1956, sisters Barbara (aged 15) and Patricia (aged 13), students at Thomas Kelly High School and St. Maurice respectively, went to the Brighton Theater to see the Elvis Presley movie ''Love Me Tender''. The theater was about one-and-a-half miles from the girls' McKinley Park home.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://mapq.st/ZUjCCw )〕 They had $2.15 between them. It is not known how they travelled to the theater. Patricia's friend, Dorothy Weinert, sat behind the girls with her own younger sister during the movie. Weinert and her sister left the theatre at the intermission of the double feature showing that night, about 9:30, and, while leaving, saw the Grimes girls in the popcorn line who seemed in good spirits. Neither the Weinerts nor anyone else noticed anything unusual.〔 The sisters stayed for the second film, and were expected home around 11:45 p.m. When there was no sign of them by midnight, their mother Loretta sent their older brother and sister to wait by the nearest bus stop for their arrival. After three buses had gone by with no sign of them, the siblings returned. At 2:15 a.m., their mother reported Barbara and Patricia as missing.〔 The two girls' disappearance launched one of the biggest missing-person cases in Chicago history, producing many reports of sightings but nothing in the way of hard evidence. It was initially thought that they might have simply run away, possibly to Nashville to see Elvis Presley in concert or just to "emulate his lifestyle."〔 On January 19, 1957, a statement was issued by Graceland in which Presley was ostensibly asking the girls to return home: "If you are good Presley fans, you'll go home and ease your mother's worries."〔Nash, Jay Robert. ''Open Files: A Narrative Encyclopedia of the World's Greatest Unsolved Crimes''; Mcgraw-Hill; April 1983; ISBN 978-0070459076〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Murder of the Grimes sisters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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