The Unsolved Murders of Barbara and Patricia Grimes Trailer
"...something that you'd like to listen to I would go ahead and fast forward about two minutes autopsies were done the following day in order to give the girl's bodies enough time to thaw out and what they would find nobody could have ever imagined each body underwent a five-hour autopsy when there's some exclusion tents were examined Pathologists were able to conclude that the sisters most likely died within about five hours from the last time they were seen at the theater so that would make their time of death somewhere between the late evening of December 28th and the early morning of the 29th no conclusion was actually ever made to their actual time of death toxicology reports were able to conclude that neither Barbara or Patricia consumed any alcohol drugs or poison prior to their death Barbara was discovered to have engaged in sexual intercourse however no marks or wounds were found on her body to suggest that it was forced semen was also found in Patricia's vaginal fluid no fatal wounds were found however both of the girls faces were inflicted with wounds that were thought to have come from rodents after death the official cause of death for both Barbara and Patricia is Murder By secondary shock as a result to being exposed to the elements which caused their body temperature to go below the critical level compatible with Life Walter made Caron was one of the coroner's to perform the autopsies on Barbara and Patricia and he had determined that the girl's body is had been laying there near Devils creaks four weeks before they were discovered on January 22nd apparently it had gotten extremely cold and there was tons of snowfall during the weeks leading up to the discovery of the bodies and that was the reason that they were not found sooner however Chief investigator Henry gloss believe that Barbara and Patricia had been alive until at least January 7th and that they were dumped just after the snowfall since only after then with the snow be able to melt around their bodies due to them still being warm enough to create the ice that was found to have formed around them he also believe that the wounds on the sisters faces were consistent with that of some kind of brutal assault leading him to conclude that they were indeed molested like I said there were many alleged sightings of Barbara and Patricia and these sightings went along with glosses timeline a security guard named Jack Franklin reported giving the girls directions on the morning of December 29th that afternoon at around 2:30 p.m. a friend of the girls named Judy Barrow reported seeing both of the sisters walking Westward and in the early evening another classmate of Patricia has stated that she saw her walking past a restaurant and the company of two other girls none of which were Barbara on the early morning of December 30th at around 5:40 a.m. the restaurant owners of D and L Restaurant on West Madison which was only about five and a half miles from Brighton theater sees Barbara and Patricia who seemed drunk as she was unable to walk on her own they were in the company of one of their dishwashers Edward Benny Bedwell that well was a young Drifter from Tennessee and it was said that he bore quite the resemblance to Elvis Presley he quickly became a suspect and actually later confessed to the murder of the grime sisters however he later recanted his confession after stating that it was coerced by police after they did an intense three-day interrogation on him and even after the owners of the restaurant said they had missed identified the girls he was with that morning that well would be charged with Barbara and Patricia's murder however no evidence against him would be found and on February 6 he'd be freed on a 20 thousand dollar Bond another Prime Suspect it's 17 year old Max flag and even though in the state of Illinois it is illegal for a minor to be..."
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