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William Heirens: The Lipstick Killer

Chicago, Illinois, United StatesJune 5, 1945

William Heirens was a 17-year-old University of Chicago student convicted of three murders in Chicago between 1945 and 1946, including the dismemberment of six-year-old Suzanne Degnan. At one crime scene the killer scrawled "For heaven's sake catch me before I kill more I cannot control myself" in lipstick on a mirror. Heirens pleaded guilty and died in prison in 2012 after 65 years of incarceration.