The Two Lost Girls: The Mystery of the Grimes Sisters (Dead Men Do Tell Tales Series) by Taylor Troy

Author:Taylor, Troy [Taylor, Troy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Whitechapel Press / American Hauntings Ink
Published: 2015-11-26T00:00:00+00:00

SECRETS THAT WENT TO THE GRAVE

The release of Bennie Bedwell from jail set off another round of bickering between police departments and various jurisdictions and the case became even more mired in red tape and inactivity. Things got even worse when coroner’s investigator Harry Glos came forward and resurrected the problems with what officials considered to be the Grimes sisters’ time of death. According to reports, they had died on December 28, soon after they had disappeared.

Harry Glos knew this wasn’t true – as others likely did as well – but he was the only one talking about it. Glos, like Lohman, believed that Bennie Bedwell was somehow mixed up in the case. There were too many eyewitness reports of him with the girls that couldn’t be easily dismissed and too many contradictions in Bedwell’s various versions of what had occurred. Had he killed them? Glos didn’t know, but he did know that the two sisters had not simply perished from cold while lying on the side of the road. At that point, the public was still unaware of just how violently the girls had been treated before they were killed. Their cause of death was much more complicated than officials had been admitting. Glos told newsmen, "There were marks of violence on those girls' faces. I know that. And the police know that, too."

Glos shocked the city with his announcement, but he was far from finished. The public had been lied to about the girls' deaths, even about when they had died. Science proved that Barbara and Patricia had not died on December 28, as the reports had originally claimed. Glos explained that an ice layer around the bodies proved that they were warm when they were left along German Church Road and that only after January 7 would there have been low enough temperatures, and enough snow, to create the ice and to hide the bodies.

Glos also raised the issues of the puncture wounds and bruises on the bodies, which had never been explained or explored. He also had plenty to say about the contents of the girls’ stomachs, stating that he’d heard one of the doctors performing the autopsy say that curdled milk was found in Barbara’s stomach, but this never appeared in the official report. Glos also noted the eyewitness accounts of the girls eating popcorn at the theater that night. If they had died on December 28, then why was there no popcorn in their stomach contents?

He was sure that the girls had been violently treated prior to death and also asserted tests proved that Patricia Grimes had been sexually molested before she was killed. Male sperm had been found in the vaginal fluid taken from her body. The pathologists had denied this, but the Chicago Police crime lab reluctantly confirmed it. However, they were angry with Glos for releasing the information because they wanted to keep it secret so that they could use it when questioning suspects. Chief of Detectives Patrick Deeley stated, "This kind of knocks the props out from under us.

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