Questioned about girls

Associated Press · January 24, 1957

Gesturing, Bennie Bedwell of Paris, Tenn., talks with Cook County Sheriff John Lohman, left, today. Bedwell, the sheriff says, was questioned about Dec. 28 when Bedwell agreed he went night spot gadding with two girls, but denied they were the Grimes sisters whose nude bodies were found in a secluded spot earlier this week. The sheriff said four other person have contended that the then missing Grimes girls, Barbara, 15, and Patricia, 13, were companions of the man, 21, a part-time dishwasher.