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| The Lipstick Killer, Imprisoned For 66 Years, Dies At 83 |
| 2012-03-07 |
| William Heirens, known as the "Lipstick Killer" because he once scrawled in lipstick on the wall of a victim's apartment "For heaven's sake, catch me before I kill more I cannot control myself.", has died after spending nearly 66 years in an Illinois prison. The sensational case later became the basis for the 1956 Fritz Lang film, "While the City Sleeps." Heirens was a 17-year-old student at the University of Chicago when he confessed in 1946 to killing two women in their homes and strangling a six-year-old girl. The girl's body was dismembered and disposed of in the city's sewers, according to local media accounts. Heirens recanted his confession, saying he admitted to the murders to avoid the electric chair. Drizin said Heirens had been tortured before his confession, and then became a model prisoner, with no discipline problems for 50 years. He became the first person in Illinois to get a four-year-college degree in prison, and redesigned the prison library system, Drizin said. In arguing against Heirens' multiple requests for parole, prosecutors have noted that Heirens' fingerprints were found on a ransom note for the child, and at one of the woman's apartments. |
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