Grimes Murders

Grimes Sisters Barbara and Patricia

The Joy Ride that May Still Hold Clues to 1956 Grimes Murders

I was born in Chicago ten years after this murder took place.   My mother was about the girls’ ages when they were murdered, and she lived in the Back of the Yards neighborhood that bordered the McKinley Park neighborhood where the girls lived.  I remember how protective my mother was with us, but I didn’t …

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Charles Melquist listens to verdict in Scott murder

Could Charles Melquist be Responsible for the 1956 Murders of The Grimes Sisters

Many people have never heard the name, Charles Leroy Melquist. It seems to be a name lost to history, but could it hold the key to solving the oldest current cold case in Chicago history? I had become seriously interested in the murders of Barbara and Patricia Grimes after I had left my career in …

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