Episode Summary
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 Info
William Heirens
William Heirens
William Heirens
William Heirens in 2008
Suzanne Degnan
Ransom note found after Suzanne went missing
Josephine Ross and one of her daughters
Francis Brown
Note from killer written in red lipstick
Richard Russell Thomas
Elizabeth Short – Black Dahlia
Dr. George Hodel
Episode Source Materials
- 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