 The girls' nude bodies were discovered alongside a deserted road in Willow Springs on January 22, 1957.Although the sisters' autopsy reports concluded they had been murdered within five hours of their last confirmed sighting, and that both girls had died of secondary shock, numerous individuals attested to having seen the girls alive in the weeks between the night of December 28 and the subsequent discovery of their bodies.The murder of the Grimes sisters has been described by authors as a crime which "shattered the innocence" of Chicago.