William Heirens | The Lipstick Killer - Part 1
The Serial Killer Podcast
PodcastOne
4.2 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The Lipstick Killer case shocked Chicagoans in 1946. Three people murdered, one man condemned and a controversy over his guilt followed. The Serial Killer Podcast brings you the whole case, one delectable piece at a time. Official TSK Online Store – https://theserialkillerpodcast.com/store The Serial Killer Podcast Ringtone – https://www.tuunes.co/ringtone/the-serial-killer-intro Patreon – https://www.theserialkillerpodcast.com/donate Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/theskpodcast Twitter – https://twitter.com/serialkillerpod Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/serialkillerpod
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-serial-killer-podcast.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Love this podcast? |
| 0:02.0 | Support this show through the A-Cask supporter feature. |
| 0:05.0 | It's up to you how much you give, and there's no regular commitment. |
| 0:09.0 | Just click the link in the show description to support now. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to the serial killer podcast. |
| 0:28.0 | The podcast dedicated to serial killers. |
| 0:32.0 | Who they were, what they did, and how. |
| 0:36.0 | I am your Norwegian host, Thomas Viborg Thun. |
| 0:41.0 | After eight episodes, and many hours, in 16th and 17th century Eastern Europe, |
| 0:50.0 | we now travel back across the Atlantic Ocean to the United States of America. |
| 0:58.0 | Rastorei taken us from straight out of a 1940s film noir. |
| 1:04.0 | The Dora Klad detectives and beautiful Zamsels in distress and all. |
| 1:10.0 | In August 1946, 17-year-old University of Chicago student William George Hyrance confessed to three brutal murders, |
| 1:24.0 | and closed a case that had enrapt the full-time attention of the state's attorney and the Chicago police force over many months. |
| 1:35.0 | It had kept city readers glued to the front pages of their newspapers. |
| 1:41.0 | The tabloid press had feasted upon the lurid and graphic details that murders entailed. |
| 1:50.0 | The case was from something straight out of a gothic novel by Edgar Allan Poe, or maybe all the Jack the Ripper had come to life in post-war America. |
| 2:04.0 | The killer had left a note to the police, written on the wall with the victim's lipstick. |
| 2:13.0 | The message was ominous and the medium used forever if Hyrance the nickname of the lipstick killer. |
| 2:25.0 | This episode is thanks to you, dear listener, 100% sponsor dad free. |
| 2:35.0 | It is financed solely by my very loyal patrons who are helping to produce the show via Patreon. |
| 2:44.0 | As I have mentioned the last couple of episodes, the podcast breached the 10 million downloads mark by the 1st of December 2018. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from PodcastOne, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of PodcastOne and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.