The Lipstick Killer: Murderer, Scapegoat, or Something Much Darker?
Murder, Mystery & Makeup
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4.9 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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First of all... Disclaimer: Today's episode contains discussions of violence, murder, and sensitive topics that may be disturbing to some viewers. Viewer discretion is advised.
Okay. Picture this... Chicago, winter of 1945. The city is frozen under a sheet of ice, but inside a quiet apartment on the north side… something very dark was being uncovered. Detectives enter an apartment, push open the door and just stop dead in their tracks.
The air is still and thick. The room smells like iron, something sickly sweet. And then detectives see it. On the wall, scrawled in janky ass writing, there's a message written in the victims red lipstick saying:
“For heaven’s sake catch me before I kill more. I cannot control myself.”
Was it a confession? A warning? And the biggest question, what if they meant it? It's a message that would send the city into full blown panic and launch a manhunt for a killer who, even after being caught, would leave people thinking, was that the right guy?
This story couldn't be more on brand because today we are talking about... The Lipstick Killer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends, how are you today? I hope you're having a wonderful day so far. My name is Bailey Sarian and today is Monday, which means it's murder, mystery, and makeup Monday. |
| 0:11.3 | If you're new here, hi, my name is Bailey Sarian and on Mondays I like to sit down and talk about a true crime story that's been heavy on my noggin and I do my makeup at the same time, you know, just like get ready for my day. |
| 0:25.0 | But today we're talking about the Chicago lipstick killer, which I was like, I haven't done the lipstick killer. |
| 0:31.1 | How I haven't not done the lipstick killer? I mean, hello. So listen, ready? Okay. Chicago. 1945, it's winter. Okay. The city is frozen under like a sheet of ice. |
| 0:44.9 | But inside a quiet apartment on the north side, something very dark was being uncovered. |
| 0:51.2 | Detectives, they enter an apartment. They push open the door and they just |
| 0:56.2 | stop. The air, it's still. It's thick. The room smells like iron. You know, something sickly |
| 1:06.3 | and sweet. And then detectives see it on the wall, scrawled in like janky-ass writing, |
| 1:13.9 | there's a message written in the victim's red lipstick saying, for heaven's sake, |
| 1:21.7 | catch me before I kill more. I cannot control myself. Was it a confession? Was it a warning? And the biggest question, |
| 1:32.0 | do they mean it? Yeah. Now it was a message that would send the city into like full |
| 1:37.6 | blown panic and launch a manhunt for a killer who even after being caught would leave people thinking, |
| 1:47.3 | was that the right guy? Today, we're talking about the lipstick killer. Okay, so Chicago, January |
| 1:54.3 | 1945, the city, freezing, well, I consider it freezing. I'm sure some of you will be like, |
| 2:00.7 | that's not phrasing. |
| 2:01.7 | But the temperatures would be around like 20 degrees Fahrenheit or negative 6.6666 Celsius, which is kind of creepy. |
| 2:11.8 | There were snow piling up and heavy smog, like hanging in the air so thick that the city turned the street lights on during the |
| 2:19.4 | day so people could see you know factories they are a thing they were cranking out bombs planes |
| 2:26.2 | engines you name it uh world war two was going on so men are off at at war and. So a lot more women and migrants were filling jobs in |
| 2:37.5 | these giant plants. Rationing was like in full swing. But the people were, they were still trying to |
| 2:44.4 | find little ways to keep life feeling normal. Like, you know, going down to shop on Maxwell Street or going downtown to see a show. |
| 2:55.8 | Because World War II was the backdrop to everything. Every newspaper headline was about the war. |
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