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Gruesome: Horrific True Crime

The Grimes Sisters

Gruesome: Horrific True Crime

Gruesome Podcast

True Crime

4.6932 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Just days after Christmas in 1956, 15-year-old Patricia and 12-year-old Barbara Grimes pooled their money to order to go see the movie Love Me Tender, starring Elvis Presley, at the theater. Their family would never see them alive again. Meg describes the mysterious circumstances around this double homicide and what we’ve learned in the 60+ years since. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Welcome to Grusum, your horrific true crime podcast. I am Connie and along with person who doesn't think

0:29.2

in and out is all that great Meg that's not what I said. She's going to tell us tonight about the

0:38.4

Grimes sisters. I don't I think in and out he's. I like in and out.

0:44.0

She thinks all fast foods the same.

0:46.0

I don't. I just think that it's romanticized and it's not like the epitome of all fast food.

0:54.8

Okay, Gordon Ramsey.

0:56.8

Pelt us.

0:57.8

Two pieces of bread on either side of your head right now.

1:03.0

Psh.

1:04.0

Okay, okay.

1:07.0

We can get into it, but I will give you some trigger warnings.

1:11.0

Um, murder, obviously. warnings. Murder, like minimal sexual assault, but it's there. It's not like graphic. We'll say that. And children. And we can get right into it. That's fine.

1:29.0

Because it was only a few days after Christmas on December 28, 1956,

1:40.0

that sisters Patricia and Barbara Grimes had pooled their money in order to go see the movie

1:47.4

Love Me Tender, starring none other than Elvis Presley.

1:54.0

They had seen it almost a dozen times already.

1:58.9

But they, like many other young girls in 1956, they loved Elvis. They had recently signed up for his

2:06.6

fan club and were eagerly awaiting their membership cards in the mail. At 930, they were at the theater and they grabbed popcorn before heading in, but that was the last time that Patricia, who was 12, and Barbara, who was 15, were seen again.

2:29.1

The girls grew up in the neighborhood, in a neighborhood in Chicago called McKinley Park, which at the time was a very

2:37.2

working class neighborhood. It's full of hard working people who occasionally like to treat themselves.

2:43.7

And it wasn't often during this time that girls, especially young teen girls, just went missing.

2:51.2

Barbara Jean was born May 5th, 1941, and Patricia Kathleen was just a few days shy of her

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