Generation Why - #28 - The Lipstick Killer

Summary: William Heirens was the longest serving inmate in U.S. history. He confessed to murdering two women and a little girl. To understand how a teenage thief could become known as the notorious Lipstick Killer, one must first go back to the Chicago of the 1940's. A time when the press could print whatever it wished and the police could use just about any means necessary to get a suspect to bend to their will.