INFAMOUS: The Lipstick Killer
A young Chicago girl’s brutal murder in 1946 led police to a dangerous criminal with more blood on his hands than anyone could have imagined. However, decades later those who re-examine the facts wonder if they got the wrong man.
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Episode Source Material
- FBI, Chicago Police Pushing Great Manhunt
- Degnan Girl’s Head and Limbs Located In Sewers Near Her Home
- New Quiz in Kidnap-Killing
- Former Lewisburg Convict Confesses Kidnap-Slaying of Little Suzanne Degnan
- Prisoner Says He Killed Girl
- Youth Held In Slaying
- Chicago Student Held In Degnan Case
- Heirens Linked To Murder of Wave By Print
- How Heirens Slew Three
- 3 Psychiatrists Report Heirens Sane, Abnormal
- Officials Hear Story of Ross, Brown Murders
- Chronicle of the Crimes
- Kill-Crazed Animal?
- Amended Petition For Executive Clemency (2002, by William Heirens’ lawyers)
- Document Dilemma – The state-mandated destruction of public records can literally mean the difference between life and death
- Some Believe ‘Truth Serums’ Will Come Back
- In The Shadow of Bill Heirens
- The Long, Long Life of the Lipstick Killer
- ‘Lipstick Killer’ behind bars since 1946
- Fall Books Special: My Dad Did It
- William Heirens, known as the ‘Lipstick Killer,’ dead
- I know who killed the Black Dahlia: my own father
- LA and Chicago Autopsy Reports Confirm a Skilled Surgeon Performed “Hemicorpectomy” on Both LA Victim Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short and Chicago “Lipstick Murder” Victim Six-Year-Old, Suzanne Degnan
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