![]() ![]() On June 26th, 1946, Heirens, then 17, was arrested for attempted burglary and confessed to the crimes during an interrogation, which he later withdrew as coerced, but evidence collected connected him to the murders. He later sued the Chicago Police Department for $15,000. ![]() He was beaten by police during his interrogation, which led to him spending 10 days in the hospital. Police narrowed the search to Heirens building and arrested a 65-year-old janitor, Hector Verburgh, as the suspect. Her body was later found, dismembered, in several places throughout the city of Chicago. In January 1946, Heirens abducted six-year-old Suzanne Degnan from her home in Edgewater and left her parents a random note. That same year, he killed Frances Brown in her apartment, leaving a note written in lipstick that read “For heavens Sake catch me Before I kill more I cannot control myself.” In 1945, Heirens broke into the apartment of Josaphine Ross, 43, and murdered her. Heirens was from Lincolnwood, and reportedly had a troubled upbringing that involved a string of burglaries he committed at the age of 13. William George Heirens, aka “The Lipstick Killer,” got his name from a message he left scrawled on the wall of a victim’s apartment. His parents were arrested in Rock Falls in 2019 on charges of sexual assault of a child. He was arrested on July 1st, 2008 in Granite City. He then killed Tom and Jill Estes at a hotel in Festus, Missouri the following day. Sheley then stole his truck and drove to Rock Falls where used a hammer to bludgeon Kenny Ulve, Brock Branson, Kilynna Blake, and 2-year-old Dylan Blake to death in an apartment. He then killed 65-year-old Ronald Randall at a car wash in Galesburg on June 28th. Holmes would then dissect and sell the remains to medical schools. Some victims were asphyxiated in “the Castle’s” soundproof rooms, or gassed to death in another, while others were hanged, starved, or dehydrated. Holmes’ construction coincided with the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, which brought him plenty of unsuspecting victims, mostly young women, whom he would torture to death in various horrible ways. He soon purchased an empty lot across the street and began construction of what would later become known as the “Murder Castle,” a hotel constructed by numerous, independent contractors which would contain secret rooms, odd-angled hallways, stairways to nowhere, a slide from an upper level to the basement, where he also installed a large fired kiln. She later sold the store to Holmes and was never seen again. Holmes, born Herman Webster Mudgett, was a scam artist who moved to Chicago, Illinois and worked at a drugstore owned by Elizabeth Holton. Henry Howard Holmes is one of America’s best-known criminals and the subject of the book “The Devil in the White City,” soon to be adapted into a Netflix movie. On February 2nd, Stewart killed Radio Shack manager Richard Boeck and customer Donald Rains at a Beloit Radio Shack store. On January 29th, another gas station attendant, Kenny Foust, was shot and killed. The following morning, he killed gas station attendant Kevin Kaisser. Stewart shot Fredd and his nephew, Albert Pearson, 20, at his store. Stewart was implicated in one of the crimes by Willie Fredd, owner of Fredd’s Grocery Store, who was Stewart’s first victim on January 27th, 1981. He was expelled from South Beloit High School and spent several years in jail in the 1970’s for gas station armed robberies. ![]() Raymond Lee Stewart was a spree killer originally from Burlington, North Carolina, and relocated with his family to Rockford. Holmes to John Wayne Gacy, to Raymond Lee Stewart, who terrorized the Rockford area for a week in 1981. ( WTVO) - Illinois has been home to its share of serial killers, from H.H. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. ![]()
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