"Who is the Lipstick Killer?"

("for heavens sake catch me before i kill more i can not control myself")

-- a message from the Lipstick Killer...

William Heiren, 1940

In the 1940s, Heirens began a reign of terror, using his skills of burglary as his Modus Operandi. He would break into women's homes and burglarize them, surprising the victims while doing so. After the victims detected him in the house, Heirens would either stab, or shoot them, or both. After Heirens arrest, he blamed his atrocities on another personality named George Murman, which was short for Murder man. Heirens was dubbed the Lipstick Killer, after he left a message written in lipstick on one of the victim's mirrors in the bedroom, the words were "For Heaven's sake catch me before I kill more. I cannot control myself." Arrested 16 years old and spent his adult life in jail.

the victims...

Josephine A. Ross

-her throat gashed by multiple stabbings, her head wrapped in a dress; blood had spewed across the room onto the walls, the drapes, the furniture, and it soaked the mattress.

Frances Brown

-found stretched over the bathtub, her head wrapped in her pyjamas, a butcher knife rammed into her neck and a bullet hole in her skull.

Suzanne Degnan

-evening, January 7, detectives Lee O'Rourke and Harry Benoit did just that. Noticing that a sewer cover on nearby Winthrop Avenue looked misplaced, they shone their flashlight into the well and found what looked like the head of a golden-haired doll. But, it was no doll's head. An alarm went out. Before the evening ended, the rest of Suzanne Degnan her legs and torso were found scattered in the debris of adjacent sewers. (Her arms were found several weeks later.) A basement washtub below an apartment off Winthrop Avenue proved to be the place of dismemberment. Blood, pieces of human flesh and blonde hairs were found in its drain.

...after years of trial, Heiren was found guilty and was sentenced for a lifetime imprisonment. now, after 53 years of imprisonment, Heiren still declares his innocence of the crime. well, he might be innocent but his other personality may be not...