TedMac
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I have gone through the entire thread looking for information on the case.
I do not necessarily accept that the girls willingly got into a small boat and left for a number of reasons.
First, women do not leave their belongings behind, particularly wallets, car keys, and personal effects. Especially on a crowded beach with none of their friends left behind to watch over things. Secondly, a 14-16 foot boat on Lake Michigan is very teacherous because the waves would swamp a boat that size fairly easily. The only explanations I can come up with that mitigates this line of reasoning is that perhaps the boater told the girls he would take them for a quick spin of a few minutes near shore and drop them back off.
The abortion angle makes no sense either.
Recovery from abortions can be devastaing and at best require several hours of rest for the woman.
They certainly could not get back into the water after an abortion, so the fact that they wore bikini's with no change of clothing and no alternative way to get back to the beach rules that out.
The fact that they would have gotten into a boat to be taken to another boat is illogical. Had they wanted an abortion, they could have simply gone to the abortionists facility, where sanitation would be much easier to maintain.
These girls were most likely kidnapped for nefarious reasons.
My guess is White Slavery or human traffiking if you will.
The only way the boat could factor into the case is if either to girls had pre-arranged to meet the guy in the boat, or the guy in the boat was looking for females in the water to lure into his craft. How else would they "find each other" on a crowded beach with probably several hundred swimmers in the water?
It is known that White slave sex rings operated in that area all the way back to 1948 according to this article.
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/...cle/white-slavery-suspects-held-in-2-000-bond
A likely scenario would have the "good looking guy" in the boat pick out potential female victims among the swimmers and attempt to befriend them and gain their trust. Ultimately, he would have lured them into the boat with the promise of a quick run around the beach.
Instead, he easily could have controlled them at gunpoint and likely took them to the Gary, Hammond, Cal City area where they were held captive.
That area was nororious for crime going back to the Capone days where he ran vice operations throughout those cities.
The alternative is that no boat was involved at all, and they were somehow taken captive on a busy beach.
At the very least its a working hypothesis to start with.
Edited to add....
After thinking about this for few moments, I recall boating in that area with my BIL in 1971. He owned a boat that docked in Michigan City.
I don't remember exactly where this was but there was a crowded beach that had a bar where you could buy beer and alcohol. I swam into shore, bought a six-pack and swam back out to the boat.. could this guy have done the same, talking to the girls in the process?
I just don't remember if it was the Indiana Dunes or not.
Hi GT. It is good to see you involved into this case in addition to the Grimes sisters. I've wondered about the "Boat Theory" as well. I felt that all of this (boat, guy in mid-20s, etc) was all prearranged as you wrote above. I think the girls thought they were going for a brief ride around the immediate area and would be back in less than 30 minutes. After that, who knows?