Between Oct. 1955 and Aug. of 1957, 6 Chicagoland teenagers were brutally murdered. John and Anton Schuessler went to see a movie and bowling with their friend Robert Peterson on October 16, 1955. When the boys did not return home for supper a search was launched and two days later their bodies were found near the Des Plaines River in a ditch in the Robinson Woods Forest Preserve. This case remained unsolved until 1995 when a jury convicted Kenneth Hansen of the boys brutal murders.
Fourteen months later on December 28, 1956 Barbara and Patricia Grimes who lived at 36th and Damen in the McKinley Park neighborhood got on a bus and headed off to the Brighton Theater to see Love Me Tender staring Elvis Presley. They never returned home and their bodies were found on January 22, 1957 on German Church Rd.
Judith Andersen went missing on August 16, 1957 while walking home from a friends house. her body parts were found a week later in the Montrose Harbor stuffed in two 55 gallon oil drums. The Grimes and Andersen murders still remain unsolved.
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