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| The 'Lipstick Killer', Illinois' longest-serving inmate, dies aged 83 |
| By newser.com - DON BABWIN - AP |
| Published: 03/06/2012 |
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A Chicago man who confessed to one of the most shocking slayings in the city's history and paid for it with more years of his life than any Illinois state prison inmate has died. According to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office, 83-year-old William Heirens died Monday at a Chicago hospital after officials at Dixon Correctional Center found him unresponsive in his cell. The office said that an autopsy was scheduled for Tuesday or Wednesday. Heirens was a 17-year-old University of Chicago student and petty burglar when he confessed to killing two women in 1945 _ one was shot and stabbed, the other stabbed _ and the abduction, slaying and dismemberment of a 6-year-old girl the next year. The crimes sent chills through city residents. Investigators found a message scrawled on a mirror with lipstick at one of the women's homes that read: "For heaven's sake, catch me before I kill more. I cannot control myself." That note earned Heirens the moniker "Lipstick Killer." But it was the slaying of 6-year-old Suzanne Degnan that terrified the city most of all. Suzanne was abducted from her home on the first day of school after Christmas vacation by an intruder who used a ladder to climb into her bedroom. The girl was strangled then taken to the basement of a nearby building and dismembered. Pieces of her body were found in sewers and catch basins near her home on the city's North Side. Heirens was arrested in June 1946 at the scene of a burglary in the same neighborhood. Police charged him with murder after determining that his fingerprints were on a $20,000 ransom note that had been left behind at the girl's home. After confessing to the slayings, Heirens was sentenced to three consecutive terms of natural life with the possibility of parole. Read More. |
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