#william heirens

[outofeverythingthisnamewasleft]

[criminol]

Writing on the walls at a crime scene of William Heirens, The Lipstick Murderer. Heirens stabbed three victims in Chicago between 1945 and 1946

[scriptcriminaljustice]

The police are at a murder scene when a second shot is heard on a different floor and the entire building goes into lockdown hopefully trapping the murderer inside. There is a taunt written in lipstick at the second murder scene. Do the police go around bagging lipsticks from everyone there, and do men get searched too?

I’m going to assume that the murders happened in an apartment building since that makes the most sense.

Collecting lipsticks from every apartment, purse/bag/pocket, and person seems the most logical in order to match the color of the taunting message. And, yes, men do get search too. Just because the message was done in lipstick, doesn’t mean it wasn’t a man. The Lipstick Killer, William Heirens, was a serial killer in the 1940s who scrawled a message in lipstick at one of his murder scenes. 

[apocryphi]

Case #5 - William Heirens

With a childhood history of burglaries that landed him in multiple correctional schools, serial killer William Heirens had his beginnings in the world of crime from the age of thirteen. Highly intelligent, the troubled adolescent was able to skip high school after exceptional standardized testing scores, becoming a popular student in college both socially and academically.

Heirens’ first murder was a middle aged woman who was found stabbed to death in her apartment, although his second crime was what his reputation became based off of. Another female was discovered with a knife deep in her neck, coupled with a singular bullet to the head. A message was scrawled on the wall in lipstick, pictured above, earning the assailant the name “The Lipstick Killer,” and wrongly convincing officials the person of interest was also a woman.

Resorting to his old ways following the dismemberment of a six-year-old girl, the young killer was arrested for a minor charge of attempted burglary in a wild goose chase. Fleeing from a janitor at the scene, the teenager was captured when three clay flowerpots were dropped on his head by a pursuing off duty police officer in 1946.

Claiming responsibility for the murders after documented coercion, Heirens created a story about an alter ego who was responsible for the deaths. A bloody fingerprint match left on a doorjamb confirmed his involvement, resulting in him willfully taking a guilty verdict. William Heirens had the record of being Chicago’s longest-serving prisoner until his death in 2012 after 65 years behind bars.

[ladailymirror]

January 7, 1947: Truman B. Carl of Whittier has used the same coffee cup for 27 years. That's it. That's the story. Really.

January 7, 1947: Man Uses Same Coffee Cup for 27 Years

[gbandit]

The lipstick killer in 1945.

[commissariatblues]

William Heirens, le tueur au rouge à lèvres.