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Chicago Tribunei
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Parti page 10 Parti Page 6 FR (Chtragn' mtdaij erihim Aug. 24, 195S 1 12 i-1 Hint Qrimes Sisters Died in Prank 1 red shortly before the girl The death "valley" is 200 died. feet east of the German It was a small, shallow Church County Line inter- Direct From Our Looms to Your Rooms" aorasion in tne center oi a section. Approximately a similar distance north is another short, vertical scratch. It contained dirt but no fibers, in dip virtually identical to the dicating the girl was un Evidence Points to a Brutal I Escapade (Who killed six Chicago youngsters? This is the tlird of six Sunday stories on the thinking of investigators and scientists in the unsolved murders of Judith Mae Andersen, Barbara and one German Church, even to the guard rails on the sides and the ledges and drop to clothed when it was inflicted It was on her chest.

She was lying on her back. The other similar appearing wounds the creek below. Could the tormentors have come back to jmm mm mm trices at All Olson Salesrooms 0rf the wrong one? rV.wartYI were caused by small rodents. Barbara left and Patricia Grimes The main objection from Next Sunday: Clews to the I history, was conducted ponce nas Deen tnat tne ro Grimes killers, fatricia Grimes, Robert Peterson, and John and An w. If.rr.4,.i -iufi, miamimmmmiMmmminintiiv 1 nc mi mum dents could have gnawed three prominent pathologists Doctors Edwin F.

Hirsch, ton bchuessle r. Today's away parts of the girl's faces which had been bruised by From the Olson Facto Jerry F. Kearns, and A. rv story is the first on the Webb. The evidence they sup blows sufficient to cause un MONDAY 9:45 A.M.

to 8 P.M. consciousness. Direct to Your Home, Come the The reply has been that if plied indicates strongly that the girls met their deaths in this way. However, both evidence and the conclusions always have been questioned. there were such blows they death of the Crimes sis BY JOSEPH EGELIIOF The evidence in the death of Barbara and Patricia Grimes Dec.

28, 1956, i i -cates that they were the tims of a brutal escapade were light enough to leave no underlying injury, to tissues, lilt (( si Vain by police experts. to skull, or to brain. Results of Autopsy There has been speculation that the girls could have been In fairness to both sides, thrust into a freezer. The re the autopsy results will be ply is that posture of their described briefly and then Because we manufacture rugs and carpets and sell direct to the home you can buy finest quality all wool carpet for less at Olson's. Olson's Famous "Direct-from-Factory.

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for a movie theater in And, remember Chicagoland) Olson-made carpets can only be purchased at Olson Salesrooms 4 and you 'choose from the Largest Selection offered anywhere. At the point where science The bodies were frozen, so that the pathologists had to places the girls conscious and wait a day to work on them najcea to aie witnout moving Finest Quality AUGUST SALE Prices They were in a remarkable far in the outdoors, all think ing becomes speculation. state of preservation, indicat ing that. death and the begin Could they have died in an unheated enclosure and been ning of freezing were simul 1V2 miles away, and whose naked bodies were found west of Willow Springs Jan. 22, 1957, has been marked by enthusiasm, dispute, and theorizing.

Medical examiners have provided the main evidence. Widely Accepted Version This evidence suggests that o) OJ thrown there? Possibly, but wouldn't the enclosure itself have offered some protection? taneous. Goose pimples were frozen on the bodies. The bodies contained to a high de gree the evidence of shock, the mysterious seepage of the And wouldn't the perpetrators have thrown the bodies over the ledge, rather than on it? Barbara, 15, and Patricia, 13, blood's fluid into adjoining were lured into a car in their home area on the night they tissue, leaving a concentration The question of how the of the blood cells. vanished.

A widely accepted bodies could have lain on the ledge for 24 days without being seen by motorists always With this evidence and neg version of subsequent events Extra Heavy $1520 Loop Pile ative results of an elaborate 13 follows: search for other causes of has puzzled police. A few per Carpet Yeer nitre Heme tar Only s5 DOWN Small Monthly Peymeate ine occupants 01 tne car drove southwest in Archer death the doctors were forced sons undoubtedly saw them but feared to "get involved' Wool avenue to the Willow Springs and didn't report. One' such area, 15 miles away, which is to the conclusion that the girls died of exposure to the cold. Penetration of Skin Rodents had gnawed away person is known to police. brr a summer playground for many persons from the Grimes ill' f3 VTi 3 But the real reason is that P- by chance the bodies fell in a 1 place which, while close to the parts of the faces and inflicted other damage on the bodies.

There were a few round penetrations of the skin road, was concealed from the motorists unless they turned to look at a right angle. At a lesser angle the posts of the guard rail blend in a solid and nearby neighborhoods. They turned off the principal highways and wound up in German Church road, running east and west. They stopped in a valley in the road, about 200 feet east of County Line road, marking the Cook-Du Page border. which attracted attention as puncture wounds a 1 1 Clutch Capes Stoles ine.

The plank at the top ob their diameter was larger than that. These were studied mi structs the view. Was this an unexpected "break" for the croscopically in sections. All There they compelled the parts of the body were studied. perpetrators or is it simply the result of the girls selecting a place where they were hidden from the headlight beams? Square Yard wii r.

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28, 1956, dinner in her stomach girls to remove their clothes and even to take off Patricia's ring and Barbara's wrist watch. Then they pushed the girls out of the car and drove off, saying they would return. Crosses Devil's Creek The valley in the road marks the place where the road crosses a rivulet known in the neighborhood as Devil's creek. It is more of a large culvert than a bridge. Guard rails with broad planks nailed along the top are on each side.

It is the most isolated spotj in that section of the road and the south shoulder is used occasionally by spooners. At least one necking foursome was there in January, 1957, unaware that the bodies of the girls were about 30 feet from scious wnen they fen victim to the cold. There were no signs of drugs, or poisons, or carbon monoxide, or asphyxia you Save .36.50 45.75 199.20 ...48.80 WfeL 149.50 185.85. 9x12 9x15 12x12 12x15 tion, or strangling, or bows. So the medical results indi and the other's stomach had just been emptied.

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