Detective Story Podcast w/Mike Hammond

Detective Story Podcast w/Mike Hammond True Crime Podcast featuring real discussions by a retired Chicago Police Homicide Detective

06/13/2026

“The case is solvable. It is solvable.”
Producer/Researcher Michael Weber on the Grimes Sisters case — and the path forward. Years of relentless detective work. Maybe a confession. Maybe the one thing nobody knows. It is never over as long as there are living people who may have knowledge.
The shot is there.
🎙️ Episode 26 of Detective Story. Full episode at the link in bio.

06/06/2026

“You cannot let these things sit. You have to go interview these people.”
Producer/Researcher Michael Weber on the cold case discipline most retellings of the Grimes Sisters case never get to.
One of the men Weber believes was responsible for the 1956 murders of Barbara and Patricia Grimes is still alive in 2026. She has met with him.
🎙️ Episode 26 of Detective Story. Full episode at the link in bio.

05/29/2026

“If you are good fans of mine, you’ll go home and ease your mother’s worries. Please go home.”
Elvis Presley. 21 years old. The most famous man in the world in 1956.
Recorded on the radio in Chicago, hoping two missing teenage girls — Barbara and Patricia Grimes — would hear it. They had just gone to see one of his movies.
They never went home.
Producer/Researcher Michael Weber on Episode 26. 🎙️ Full episode at the link in bio.

05/27/2026

When people started locking their doors.
    1956    The Grimes Sisters. 300,000 people interviewed — one of the largest manhunts in Illinois history. Producer Michael Weber on the case that ended Chicago’s innocence.
🎙️ Full episode at the link in bio.
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05/23/2026

In 1956 Kenneth Hansen sat in the same movie theater, same show, same time as Barbara and Patricia Grimes the night they disappeared. Nobody connected it for decades because Hansen wasn’t a suspect until the 1990s. My partner Jim found this buried in a 1956 interview in the mid 2000s. An impossible coincidence — but not the whole story. Episode 26 is live now. Link in bio. UnsolvedMurder DetectiveStory KennethHansen

05/21/2026

Nearly 70 years ago Barbara and Patricia Grimes vanished from the streets of Chicago after seeing an Elvis Presley film. Their disappearance generated so much national attention that Elvis Presley himself recorded a personal radio message urging the girls to come home. Their bodies were found weeks later in unincorporated Cook County. Nearly 70 years later the case remains unsolved — but may not be unsolvable.

Episode 26 of Detective Story with Mike Hammond is live now. Documentarian and researcher Michael Weber joins Mike Hammond and co-host Chris Kafcas to lay out the evidence, the witnesses, and discuss a living individual who has never been formally interviewed by investigators that may know the answers.

Watch and listen on all platforms. Link in comments.

05/21/2026

Nearly 70 years. No answers. Until now.
Documentarian and researcher Michael Weber has spent years investigating the disappearance and death of Barbara and Patricia Grimes — Chicago’s most infamous cold case. She has identified a living individual who she believes had direct contact with the sisters the night they vanished. And has never been formally interviewed by investigators.
Episode 26 of Detective Story with Mike Hammond is live now. Link in bio.
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