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Case Study Edward Lee Bedwell

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There were three key suspects in the case, all of which may have had a part in the murders, even though most of the more prominent pieces of evidence of the Grimes Sisters' deaths pointed to Edward Lee Bedwell could have been the murderer. Official police files found in the local newspaper articles have posted that police later questioned a local drifter about the murders. He told the police that he and Benny “beat the girls to death, then dumped their bodies” (Chicago Now). The man later recanted his confession pleading that he just wanted the police to stop questioning him. He was never identified, and the police never formally charged him with any connection to the crimes. Due to what was a confession to the murder, the police the idea …show more content…

The police needed to crack the case, so they arrested Edward Lee Bedwell who worked at one of those all-night restaurants, that the sister had been spotted at according to eyewitnesses. Benny told the police he had picked up some underage girls one night in the restaurant. These might have been underage girls, but no one is certain if the girls were the Grimes sisters (Graczyk 1). As soon as the police had a suspect on their minds a warrant was placed for Bedwell and posted in the newspaper and it later wrote “Bedwell was booked on two charges of murder” (The Deseret News). While being questioned Edward Lee Bedwell’s statement was recorded by the cook county sheriff’s office in which he admitted the girls were killed after a series of drinking around bars in Skid Row. Bedwell then re-enacted the brutal crime in front of a crowd of thousands of bystanders (The Deseret News). Bedwell should have been arrested for the murders after his re-enactment, it’s assumed that everyone has seen a fight before in their lives, whether it’s a first hand experience or on a television screen. With that said anyone can re-enact the beating of two girls, Also, no one truly knew. Although, the staggering amount of evidence behind Bedwell makes it hard to believe that he was the one how abducted and killed the Grimes

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