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Teenage sisters, Barbara and Patricia Grimes begged their mother for permission to see the new Elvis Presley movie, Love Me Tender, on December 28, 1956. The sisters attended the movie but never returned home. It would become one of the oldest and most haunting cold case murder investigations in Chicago history.



 



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