Lipstick Killer

10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories · Dec 5, 2022 · 8m

The year was 1946 and Americans were rejoicing after the end of the Second World War. The country was optimistic about the bright future ahead. But in Chicago, there was a threat that loomed over the windy city like a dark cloud, and this threat was much closer to home.

Women were being violently murdered, and after a message scrawled in lipstick was left behind at one of the crime scenes, the headlines would soon dub the person responsible: the “Lipstick Killer.” There would be three victims before a man named William Heirens was arrested in connection to the crimes. It seems like justice…