
EXCLUSIVE Huge breakthrough in one of the largest missing persons investigations in American history... and how Elvis Presley was linked to it
The snow was beginning to thaw on the outskirts of Chicago when a trucker spotted what he thought were two discarded mannequins on the side of a deserted road.
A closer inspection revealed he had discovered the frozen, naked bodies of Barbara and Patricia Grimes - two sisters, 15 and 12, who vanished three weeks earlier after attending the new Elvis film, Love Me Tender.
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