Guilty, until proven innocent. William George Heirens (November 15, 1928 – March 5, 2012) confessed to three murders in 1946. Heirens was called the Lipstick Killer after a notorious message scrawled in lipstick at a crime scene. On March 5, 2012, Heirens died at the age of 83 at the UIC Medical Center from complications arising from diabetes. At the time of his death, in 2012, Heirens was reputedly Chicago's longest-serving prisoner, having spent 65 years in prison. Heirens had recanted his confession and claimed to be a victim of coercive interrogation and police brutality. You be the judge. Early life William Heirens grew up in Lincolnwood, a suburb of Chicago. He was the son of George and Margaret Heirens. George Heirens was the son of immigrants from Luxembourg and Margaret was a homemaker. His family was poor and his parents argued incessantly, leading Heirens to wander the streets to avoid listening to them. He took to crime and later claimed that he mostly stole for fun and to release tension. He never sold anything he had stolen. At 13 years of age, Heirens was arrested for carrying a loaded gun. A subsequent search of the Heirens' home discovered a number of stolen weapons hidden in an unused storage shed on the roof of a nearby building along with furs, suits, cameras, radios and jewelry he had stolen. Heirens admitted to 11 burglaries and was sent to the Gibault School for wayward boys for several months. Not long after his release, Heirens was again arrested for theft/larceny. This time, he was sentenced to three years at the St. Bede Academy, operated by Benedictine Monks. During his time at the school, Heirens stood out as an exceptional student excelling in all subject areas including but not limited to: mathematics, biological sciences, and social sciences. His test scores were so high he was urged to apply for the University of Chicago's special learning program. He was accepted into the program just before his release and asked to begin classes in the 1945 fall term, allowing him to bypass high school. He was 16 years old. Heirens returned home to live and commuted to the university, but this was impractical, and he eventually boarded at the university's Gates Hall. His parents were unable to afford either the tuition or boarding, so Heirens worked several evenings a week as an usher and at the university to pay his way. However, he also resumed his serial burglary, even as he studied at the University of Chicago. University of Chicago graduate Riva Berkovitz (PhD 1948) reports that Heirens was quite popular in the ballroom dancing class that they had together: “I remember the most popular boy in my class, who was handsome, smart and a good dancer. We all wanted to dance with him - the foxtrot, tango or a waltz. It didn't really matter." Murders Josephine Ross On June 5, 1945, 43-year-old Josephine Ross was found dead in her apartment at 4108 North Kenmore Avenue, Chicago. She had been repeatedly stabbed, and her head was wrapped in a dress. She was presumed to have surprised an intruder, who then killed her. Dark hairs were found clutched in Ross' hand, indicating that she had struggled with the intruder before she was killed. No valuables were taken from the apartment. Ross' fiancé had an alibi, as did her former boyfriends and ex-husbands, and police had no other suspects. They looked for a dark-complected man who was reported loitering at the apartment or running from the scene, but were unable to identify or locate him. Frances Brown On December 10, 1945, Frances Brown, a divorced woman, was discovered with a knife lodged in her neck and bullet wound to the head in her apartment at 3941 North Pine Grove Avenue, Chicago, after a cleaning woman heard a radio playing loudly and noted Brown's partly open door. Brown had been savagely stabbed, and authorities thought that a burglar had been discovered or interrupted. No valuables were taken, but someone had written a message in lipstick on the wall of Brown's apartment: For heavens Sake catch me Before I kill more I cannot control myself Police found a bloody fingerprint smudge on the doorjamb of the entrance door. Also, there was a possible eyewitness to the killer's escape. An "eye-witness," George Weinberg, heard gunshots at about 4 am. According to John Derick, the night clerk stationed in the lobby of the building, a nervous man of 35–40 years old and weighing approximately 140 pounds got off the elevator, fumbled for the door to the street and left. (William Heirens, who was ultimately convicted of the murder, was 14 years old at the time.) Four days after the murder, the Chicago Police announced they had reason to believe the killer was a woman. Suzanne Degnan On January 7, 1946, 6-year-old Suzanne Degnan was discovered missing from her first-floor bedroom in Edgewater, Chicago. Police found a ladder outside the girl's window, and a ransom note: GeI $20,000 Reddy & wAITe foR WoRd. do NoT NoTify FBI oR Police. Bills IN 5's & 10's. BuRN This FoR heR SAfTY. Acting on an anonymous tip, police discovered Suzanne's head in a sewer a block from the Degnan residence, her right leg in a catch basin, her torso in another storm drain, and her left leg in another drain. Her arms were found a month later in another sewer. Searches of an apartment building near where her head was found uncovered a basement laundry room with four tubs that contained evidence indicating she had been dismembered there. The killer had mopped the floor, but blood was found in the drains of all four tubs. The press called it the "Murder Room" although the autopsy showed that she had been alive when taken from her home, murdered at a second location that was never identified, and then taken to the laundry room. Police questioned hundreds of people regarding the Degnan murder, and gave polygraph exams to about 170. On several occasions, authorities claimed to have captured the killer, but the suspects were eventually released. Witnesses Coroner Brodie fixed the time of death at between 12:30 and 1:00 am and stated that a very sharp knife had been used to expertly dismember the body. The site was later found to be in the basement laundry room at 5901 Winthrop Avenue, near the Degnans' home; however, it was determined that Suzanne was already dead when she was taken to the room. Dr. Kearns, the coroner's expert, stated that the killer was "either a man who worked in a profession that required the study of anatomy or one with a background in dissection...not even the average doctor could be as skillful, it had to be a meat cutter." Brodie concurred, adding that it was a "very clean job with absolutely no signs of hacking." Hector Verburgh Arrest The Chicago police were anxious to make an arrest. 65-year-old Hector Verburgh, a janitor in the building where Degnan lived, was arrested and touted as the suspect. Police told the press "This is the Man," despite discrepancies between Verburgh's profile and the one that was developed by them as to what kind of skills the killer had, including him having surgical knowledge or at least being a butcher. Police cited such evidence as Verburgh frequenting the so-called "Murder Room", and the grimy state of the ransom note suggested it was written by a dirty hand such as that of a janitor. The police pressured Verburgh's wife to implicate her husband in the murder. Police held Verburgh for 48 hours of questioning, which included tying his hands and hanging him from the ceiling (which resulted in separating his shoulder), blindfolding him, and beating him. They also starved him. Throughout, Verburgh denied involvement in the murder and was ultimately released with the comment that a guilty man couldn’t have withstood the beatings. Hector stated after his release, “Any more and I would have confessed to anything.” Verburgh sued the Chicago Police Department for $15,000 but was awarded $20,000, which is approximately $222,000 in today’s dollars. Five thousand dollars of the $20,000 awarded to Verburgh was awarded to his wife. So the Chicago police still had 3 murders to solve. Sidney Sherman Investigation Another notable false lead was that of Sidney Sherman, a recently discharged Marine who had served in World War II. Police had found blonde hairs in the back of the Degnan apartment building. Near that was a handkerchief the police suspected might have been used as a gag to keep Suzanne quiet. On the handkerchief was a laundry mark name: S. Sherman. The police hoped that perhaps the killer had erred in leaving it behind. They searched military records and discovered that a Sidney Sherman lived at the Hyde Park YMCA. The police went to question Sherman but discovered that he had vacated the residence without checking out and quit his job without picking up his last paycheck. A nation-wide manhunt ensued. Sherman was found four days later in Toledo, Ohio. He explained under interrogation that he had eloped with his girlfriend and denied that the handkerchief was his. He was administered a polygraph test, which he passed, and was later cleared. The handkerchief's real owner, Airman Seymour Sherman of New York City, was eventually found. He had been out of the country when Suzanne Degnan was murdered. He had no idea how it could possibly have ended up in Chicago and the presence of the handkerchief was determined to be a coincidence. Lack of progress In February 1946, Suzanne Degnan's arms were found by sewer workers about a half mile from her home. By this time, the press was taking an increasingly critical tone as to how the police were handling the Degnan investigation. Phoenix Investigator offers promising lead Richard Russell Thomas was a nurse living in Phoenix, Arizona, having moved from Chicago. At the time of the Chicago investigation, he was imprisoned in Phoenix for molesting one of his own daughters, but he was in Chicago at the time of the Degnan murder. A handwriting expert for the Phoenix Police Department first informed Chicago authorities of the "great similarities" between Thomas' handwriting and that of the Degnan ransom note, noting that many of the phrases Thomas had used in an extortion note were similar and his medical training as a nurse matched the profile suggested by police. Although Thomas lived on the south side, he frequented a car yard directly across the street from where Suzanne Degnan's arms were found. During questioning by Chicago police, he freely admitted killing Suzanne Degnan. However, the investigators were called back to Chicago, that very same day, with the report police in Chicago had arrested the killer. A college student, William Heirens, was caught fleeing from the scene of a burglary, brandished a gun at police. During the foot pursuit, a fight ensued and Heirens got the better of the officer. While Heirens was on top of the officer, at the bottom of long stairwell below the street, an off-duty policeman witnessed the fight and dropped three clay flowerpots on Heirens's head, one at a time, from the top of the stairs, rendering him unconscious. Back in Phoenix, Richard Thomas now recanted his confession, but Thomas went unnoticed by the press in light of the new lead. Arrest and Questioning of Heirens On June 26, 1946, 17-year-old William Heirens was arrested. He remembered drifting into unconsciousness under questioning. The police had taken him to Bridewell Hospital, which was adjacent to the Cook County Jail. The questioning was violent. Heirens later said he was interrogated around the clock for six consecutive days, being beaten by police and not allowed to eat or drink. The severity of this assault is not fully known, although it was known they burned his testicles with ether in an attempt to render a confession. Heirens was not allowed to see his parents for four days. He was also refused the opportunity to speak to a lawyer for six days. Two psychiatrists, Doctors Haines and Roy Grinker, gave Heirens sodium pentothal without a warrant and without Heirens' or his parents' consent. They interrogated him for three hours. Still he never confessed. Under the influence of the drug, authorities claimed, Heirens blamed someone, which the police concluded was an alternate personality of Heirens. When police asked for the last name he said he couldn't remember, but that it was "a murmuring name." Police translated this to "Murman" and the media later dramatized it to "Murder Man." What Heirens actually said is in dispute, as the original transcript disappeared. In 1952, Dr Grinker revealed that Heirens had never implicated himself in any of the killings. On his fifth day in custody, Heirens was given a lumbar puncture (spinal tap) without anesthesia. Moments later, Heirens was driven to police headquarters for a polygraph test. They tried for a few minutes to administer the test, but it was rescheduled for several days later after they found him to be in too much pain to cooperate. When the polygraph was administered, authorities, including State's Attorney William Tuohy, announced that the results were "inconclusive." On July 2, 1946, he was transferred to the Cook County Jail, where he was placed in the infirmary to recover from his physical injuries (that occurred in questioning). Heirens's first confession After the sodium pentothal questioning but before the polygraph exam, Heirens spoke to Captain Michael Ahern. With State's Attorney William Tuohy and a stenographer at hand, Heirens offered an indirect confession, confirming his claim while under sodium pentothal that his alter-ego might have been responsible for the crimes. Authorities were skeptical regarding Heirens's claims and suspected that he was laying the groundwork for an insanity defense, but the confession earned widespread publicity with the press transforming "Murman" to "Murder Man.” Hard evidence While handwriting analysts did not definitively link Heirens's handwriting to the "Lipstick Message," police claimed that his fingerprints matched a print discovered at the scene of the Frances Brown murder. It was first reported as a "bloody smudge" on the doorjamb. Furthermore, a fingerprint of the left little finger also allegedly connected Heirens to the ransom note with nine points of comparison. As Heirens's nine points of comparison were loops, this could also provide a match to 65% of the population. At the time, Heirens's supporters pointed out the FBI handbook regarding fingerprint identification required 12 points of comparison matching to have a positive identification. Contradictions from the police department: On June 30, 1946, Captain Emmett Evans had told newspapers that Heirens had been cleared of suspicion in the Brown murder, as the fingerprint left in the apartment was not his. Twelve days later, Chief of Detectives Walter Storms confirmed that the "bloody smudge" left on the doorjamb was Heirens'. The partial finger print on the ransom note, now contained Heirens full print, as if his finger was rolled finger print style on the document. One investigator later commented, “I’ve never seen this ( a full rolled fingerprint) again in any case.” The FBI suggested the chain of evidence had clearly been violated. Loot Police searches (without a warrant) of Heirens's residence and college dormitory found other items that earned publicity. Notably recovered was a scrapbook containing pictures of Nazi officials that belonged to a war veteran, Harry Gold, that was taken when Heirens burgled his place the night Suzanne Degnan was killed. Gold lived in the vicinity of the Degnans. This, once again, put Heirens in the circle of suspicion. Also in Heirens's possession was a stolen copy of Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), Richard von Krafft-Ebing's famous study of sexual deviance. In addition, among Heirens's belongings police discovered a stolen medical kit, but they announced that the medical instruments could not be linked to the murders. No trace of biological material such as blood, skin or hair were found on the tools. Moreover, no biological material of the victims were found on Heirens himself or any of his clothes. The medical kit tools were considered to be too fine and small to be used for dissection. Instead, Heirens had used the four-inch-long medical kit to alter the war bonds he stole. A gun was found in his possession that was linked to a shooting. A Colt Police Positive revolver had been stolen in a burglary at the apartment of Guy Rodrick on December 3, 1945. Two nights later, a bullet crashed through the closed eighth-floor apartment window of Marion Caldwell, wounding her. Heirens had that gun in his possession and, according to the Chicago Police Department, the bullet that injured Caldwell was linked through ballistics to that same gun. Press influence Without evidence, the press convicted Wlliian Heirens. As Time observed in its July 29, 1946, issue: The News and Hearst's Herald-American hit the street together with front-page layouts showing William Heirens as a Dr. Jekyll (hair combed) and Mr. Hyde (hair mussed). He had not yet been charged with murder, but the Tribune airily convicted him: On July 16, 1946, Chicago Tribune staff reporter George Wright wrote a piece on the case titled "The Heirens Story! How He Killed Suzanne Degnan and 2 Women." Wright manufactured details and cited "unimpeachable sources" that said Heirens had confessed. The Tribune devoted 38 columns to the story. It began: This is the story of how William George Heirens, 17, kidnapped, strangled and then dismembered Suzanne Degnan, 6, last Jan. 7, and distributed the parts of her body in sewer openings near her home. It is the story of how William George Heirens climbed into the apartment of Miss Frances Brown...and shot and stabbed her to death, and left a message on the wall with lipstick imploring the police to catch him...And it is the story of how William George Heirens entered the apartment of Mrs. Josephine Ross...and how he stabbed her to death when she awoke. A radio newscast reported on the Chicago Tribune's scoop of the "confession," which Heirens heard in his cell. He was incredulous, stating: I didn't confess to anybody, honestly! My God, what are they going to pin on me next? State's Attorney Tuohy also absolutely denied that Heirens had made a confession. Regardless, the other four competing daily newspapers reprinted the Tribune alleged confession in their publications with Chicago newspapers headlining the story 157 times over the next ten weeks. As The Tribune wrote later: So great was public confidence in the Tribune, that other newspapers ... reprinted the story solely because the Tribune said it was so. . . . For a while, Heirens maintained his innocence. But the whole world believed his guilt. The Tribune had said he was guilty. As late as 1975, the Chicago Daily News was still taking credit for its "scoop." Second confession Heirens's defense attorneys "felt" their task was to save Heirens from the electric chair. Heirens was kept in a cell, several feet from the electric chair. The prosecutor, on the other hand, was not certain he could get a conviction. The prosecutor prompted the state's attorney's office to seek out an agreement with defense counsel, pointing out that all they honestly had in the Degnan case was a partial fingerprint that matched 65% of the population on the ransom note. Heirens's lawyers pressured him to take a plea bargain. The deal, which was the topic of that closed-door meeting with Prosecuter Tuohy, stated that Heirens would serve one life sentence if he confessed to the murders of Josephine Ross, Frances Brown, and Suzanne Degnan. With the help of his lawyers, he began drafting a confession using the Chicago Tribune article on the murders as a guide: William Heirens stated, “If I made a mistake, they would say, 'Now, Bill, is that really the way it happened?' Then I would change my story because, obviously, it went against what was known (in the Tribune)." Both Heirens and his parents signed a confession. The parties agreed to a date of July 30 for Heirens to make his official confession. On that date, the defense went to Tuohy's office, where several reporters were assembled to ask Heirens questions and where the prosecutor made a speech. Angry over it all, Heirens stated, “If you want the truth, I didn’t do it. I was being forced to lie to save myself. It made me angry...so I told them the truth, and everyone got very upset." Tuohy withdrew the previously agreed sentence and threatened Heirens with the death penalty if he went to trial. They threatened to charge him with another murder (Estelle Carey) even though Heirens was attending the Gibault School for Wayward Boys, a boarding school in Terre Haute, Indiana, at the time. The Chicago Tribune headline read "Mute Heirens Faces Trial - Killer Spurns Mother's Fervent Plea to Talk." Guilty plea Heirens took full responsibility for the three murders on August 7, 1946. The prosecution had him reenact the crime in the Degnan home in public and in front of the press. On September 4, with Heirens's parents and the victims' families attending and Chief Justice Harold G. Ward presiding, Heirens admitted his guilt on the burglary and murder charges. That night, Heirens tried to hang himself in his cell, timed to coincide during a shift change of the prison guards. He was discovered before he died. He said later that despair drove him to attempt suicide: Everyone believed I was guilty...If I weren't alive, I felt I could avoid being judged guilty by the law and thereby gain some victory. But I wasn't successful even at that...Before I walked into the courtroom my counsel told me to just enter a plea of guilty and keep my mouth shut afterward. I didn't even have a trial... Heirens agreed with the new plea agreement. Heirens said later: "I confessed to save my life." As Heirens waited to be transferred to Stateville Prison from the Cook County Jail, Sheriff Michael Mulcahy asked Heirens if Suzanne Degnan suffered when she was killed. Heirens answered: “I can't tell you if she suffered, Sheriff Mulcahy. I didn't kill her. Tell Mr. Degnan to please look after his other daughter, because whoever killed Suzanne is still out there.” It’s important to note that after all of this had occurred, William Heirens still hadn’t turned 18 years old. Claims of Innocence Within days of his confession in open court, Heirens denied any responsibility for the murders. Mary Jane Blanchard, daughter of murder victim Josephine Ross, was one of the first dissenters, being quoted in 1946 as saying: I cannot believe that young Heirens murdered my mother. He just does not fit into the picture of my mother's death ... I have looked at all the things Heirens stole and there was nothing of my mother's things among them. Polygraph test In 1946, after Heirens underwent two polygraph examinations, Prosecutor Tuohy declared the results inconclusive. However, John E. Reid and Fred E. Inbau published the test findings in their 1953 textbook, Lie Detection and Criminal Interrogation, which seem to contradict that assertion. According to the book, the test was not inconclusive, writing, "Murderer William Heirens was questioned about the killing and dismemberment of six-year old Suzanne Degnan ... On the basis of the conventional testing theory his response on the card test clearly establishes (him) as an innocent person." Handwriting evidence Four separate handwriting experts, both attached to the Chicago police and independent at the time of the original investigation, believed that Heirens had no connections to either the note or the wall scribble. Independent handwriting expert George W. Schwartz was brought in to give his opinion. He stated flatly that "The individual characteristics in the two writings do not compare in any respect." So let’s talk about an alternative suspect After the Degnan murder, but before Heirens became a suspect, Chicago police interrogated 42-year-old Richard Russell Thomas, in Phoenix, a drifter passing through the city of Chicago at the time of Degnan's murder, found in the Maricopa County Jail in Phoenix, Arizona. Police handwriting expert Charles B. Arnold, head of the forgery detail of the Phoenix police in Thomas's hometown of Phoenix, noted similarities between the handwritten Degnan ransom note and Thomas' handwriting when Thomas wrote with his left hand, and suggested that Chicago police investigate Thomas. Upon being questioned, Thomas confessed to the crime, but he was released from custody after Heirens became the prime suspect. Others contend that Thomas was a strong suspect, to wit: • Thomas previously had been convicted of an attempted extortion – with a ransom note that threatened the kidnapping of a little girl. • As previously noted, handwriting experts at the time stated that the Thomas's ransom note from his previous conviction of extortion bears similarity in both style in regard to the wording and in form of the actual structure of the letters formed to the Degnan ransom note. • Thomas was in Chicago at the time of the Degnan murder. • At the time he confessed to the Degnan crime, he was awaiting sentencing for molesting his daughter. • Thomas had a history of violence, including spousal abuse. Thomas was a nurse who was known to masquerade as a surgeon. He often boasted to his friends that he was a doctor and he was known to steal surgical supplies. Chicago Police had previously developed a profile of the Degnan killer as having surgical skills or being a butcher. • He frequented a car agency near the Degnan residence. Parts of Suzanne Degnan's body were found in a sewer across the street from the car agency. • Like Heirens, he was a known burglar. • He had confessed freely to the Degnan murder, although he later recanted. The Chicago detectives dismissed Thomas' claims after Heirens became a suspect. Thomas died in 1974 in an Arizona prison. His prison record and most of the evidence of his interrogation regarding the Chicago murders have been lost or destroyed. Aftermath Soon after Heirens was arrested, his parents and younger brother changed their surname to "Hill." His parents divorced after his conviction. Heirens was first housed at Stateville Prison in Joliet, Illinois. He learned several trades, including electronics and television and radio repair, and at one point he had his own repair shop in the prison. Before a college education was available to prison inmates, Heirens, on February 6, 1972, became the first prisoner in Illinois history to earn a four-year college degree, receiving a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree, later earning 250 course credits by funding the cost of correspondence courses with 20 different universities from his savings. Passing courses as varied as languages, analytical geometry, data processing and tailoring, he was forbidden by authorities to take courses in physics, chemistry or (my favorite banned course) celestial navigation. He managed the garment factory at Stateville for five years, overseeing 350 inmates, and after transfer to Vienna he set up their entire educational program. He aided other prisoners' educational progress by helping them earn their General Educational Development (GED) diplomas and becoming a "jailhouse lawyer" of sorts, helping them with their appeals. Heirens should have been discharged from the Brown murder in 1975 and from all remaining charges in 1983. However, in 1973 the focus moved from rehabilitation to punishment and deterrence, which blocked moves to release Heirens. In 1983, the Seventh District U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that it was unconstitutional to refuse parole on deterrence grounds to inmates convicted before 1973. Magistrate Gerald Cohn ordered Illinois to release Heirens immediately. The brother and sister of Suzanne Degnan went public, pleading with authorities to fight the ruling. Attorney General Neil Hartigan stated "Only God and Heirens know how many other women he murdered. Now a bleeding-heart do-gooder decides that Heirens is rehabilitated and should go free ... I'm going to make sure that kill-crazed animal stays where he is," a sentiment supported by the media. The Illinois Senate passed a resolution that as the "confessed murderer of Suzanne Degnan, a 6-year-old girl whom he strangled in 1946 ... that it is the opinion of the chamber that the release of William Heirens at this time would be detrimental to the best interests of the people of the state." With the support of prominent politicians, the 1983 court ruling was later reversed. In 2002, Lawrence C. Marshall, et al., filed a petition on Heirens's behalf seeking clemency. The appeal was eventually denied. Death After being taken to the University of Illinois Medical Center on February 26, 2012, due to complications from diabetes, Heirens died on March 5, 2012, at the age of 83. This is a case where a juvenile coming out of poverty had no access to justice, even though he was intelligent. Cases like this are important to know about, so we can take steps to prevent similar injustice from re-occurring. Quotes: Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. Mark Twain Why is it that if you take advantage of a tax break, you're a smart businessman, but if you take advantage of something you need to not be hungry, you're a moocher?" Jon Stewart When white people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're homeless, when black people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're called rappers. Carlos Mencia I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. George Carlin Thanks for listening, Frank I never thought I’d say, I really like a Tom T. Hall song, until I heard, “That’s how I got to Memphis.” I definitely have to catch the Avett Brothers in the near future. Here is their version of it. John, Frank and Charlie decide to play a little Cheap Trick and Bob Seger in the wee hours of the morning following Michael and Kristin Weber’s wedding in Moorhead, with a room full of family singing along. It was nice to have Mitch, Breck and Aaron step in and play tunes to keep us from getting dehydrated. It is wonderful to celebrate weddings with friends and family—precious moments!
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Judy ward
6/19/2021 05:48:10 pm
This is a damn SHAME to keep a man locked up over 60yrs knowing he did not do it.Shame on today's people to let this happen...may God have mercy you sure didn't on Mr Heiren.
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6/20/2021 12:48:20 pm
Judy,
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Col Scott
8/21/2023 12:05:55 pm
Heirens knew where the knife he used was- he threw it on the EL Train tracks. There is actually very little doubt of his guilt.
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