Hi crime junkies, I'm your host Ashley Flowers and I'm bringing you another throwback that

happened only a few hours northwest of my home in Indianapolis, a city I absolutely love, Chai Town.

I feel like Britain, I maybe should make a little trip out there sometime soon,

maybe a little girls weekend with our crime junkies.

But Chicago isn't just home to incredible food and sports and tours and shopping whatever.

It is actually home to one of the cases that continues to baffle me even all these years later. So let's go back to 2020 when I first told this story.

Hi, Crown Junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers and I'm Britt and the story I want to tell you today is one of those cases that sounds so simple on the surface

three brutal murders one sadistic killer open and shut. But as soon as I really started researching this

story it got way more complex than I ever expected because as you're about to find

out nothing is quite what it seems, and sometimes getting answers only

leads to more questions.

This is the story of William Hirons, the man most people have dubbed the lipstick killer. the So, On January 6, 1946, the Degnan family was settling in for a nice Sunday evening in their split level home on Chicago's north side.

Jim and Helen's two daughters, Betty, who's 10 and Suzanne who's 6, both had been enjoying their winter break from school, but like all good things, Christmas

vacation had come to an end and the girls have to go back to school tomorrow.

So Jim and Helen put their daughters to bed at a reasonable hour so they'll be well rested for classes.

They tucked them in, kiss them good night, and leave them with one final wish of sweet dreams.

Now at some point during the night, Jim hears Suzanne get up once and go to the bathroom, but she goes right back to bed, goes to sleep with no difficulty.

The next morning, Jim goes to wake the girls up for school. Betty gets up easily and comes for breakfast,

but Jim notices something a little strange.

Suzanne's bedroom door is closed.

Now at six years old, she's hardly a baby baby anymore but she's afraid of the dark and

according to an article I read on crime library she always sleeps with the door

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