GERMAN CHURCH ROAD

It was on this road that the bodies of Patricia, thirteen, and Barbara Grimes, fifteen, were found murdered.
In December of 1956 they went to the Brighton Theater, a mile away from thier home, to see a movie. They were seen in line at nine thirty p.m. and afterwards on a bus at eleven p.m.
They were supposed to be home by eleven forty-five. They never made it to their expected stop. The largest missing persons hunt ensued and reports of sightings of the girls came in from many sources.
A police switchboard operator got a call from a man who told her that he had dreamed that the bodies of the missing girls were in a park at eighty-first and Wolf. The call came from Walter Kranz, who was taken into custody after the bodies were found. He was one of many that were interrogated and released.

The bodies of the Grimes sisters were found near a guardrail on German Church Road. It was determined that they were there for at least a week, but because of the snowfall and cold temperatures it could have been longer. According to newspaper reports there was three wounds in Patricia's abdomen, and the side of her face had been beaten. Barbara's head had also been battered and she was stabbed multiple times with an ice pick.
After the autopsy they were able to conclude that they had died on December 28, the night they disappeared. The strange thing is that they were seen after that date. The case was never solved.
Near the area where the bodies were found was a driveway that led to a house hidden by the trees. The family that lived there deserted the house shortly after the bodies were found. They left behind a lot of their possessions and the house was set on fire by unkown person or persons. The owner finally had to tear down what was left.
Why they left is still unknown. Some say that the owner had been questioned by the police about the murder and felt uneasy about staying. Maybe they had seen something that night and were scared to stay.
Another theory is that the house became haunted, which is a likely explanation considering the police have gotten calls from people that have heard a car driving up to the area where the girls were found. The sound of a door opening and something being dropped and the door closing, then the car driving away, all this without any visble sign of a car.

GERMAN CHURCH ROAD