Grimes Funeral
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Negative footage of the funeral of Barbara (15) and Patricia Grimes (12), victims of a still-unsolved double murder. The girls' bodies were discovered alongside a deserted road in Willow Springs on January 22, 1957, nearly a month after they disappeared after seeing a movie at Brighton Park theater in McKinley Park. Their disappearance initiated one of the largest missing persons investigations in the history of Chicago.
Credits
Frank Koza (filmmaker)
Complete catalog record
Cfa collection: Frank Koza Collection
Notes: Exterior shot of a casket outside of a church; pallbearers included some of Barbara's classmates. Interior shot of the Holy Mass. A large group of mourners gather outside St. Maurice Church. The girls' mother, Lorretta, is seeing crying and getting into a vehicle. The funeral procession leaves the church.
Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies; Crimes; Murders; Death
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Chicago
Cfa elements: Negatives, 75 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/13323
Notes: Exterior shot of a casket outside of a church; pallbearers included some of Barbara's classmates. Interior shot of the Holy Mass. A large group of mourners gather outside St. Maurice Church. The girls' mother, Lorretta, is seeing crying and getting into a vehicle. The funeral procession leaves the church.
Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies; Crimes; Murders; Death
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Chicago
Cfa elements: Negatives, 75 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/13323
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:17