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On June 5, 1945, forty-three-year-old Josephine Ross was found stabbed to death in her Chicago apartment. Nothing had been stolen from Ross’ apartment and it appeared as though there were ritualistic aspects to the murder, but with little evidence and no suspects, the case hit a dead end almost as soon as it started. Ross’ murder came to detectives’ minds six months later, when another Chicago woman, Frances Brown, was found murdered in her apartment. This time an ominous message was scrawled on the wall in red lipstick: “For heavens sake catch me before I kill more I cannot control myself.”
The brutal nature of the two murders, and the implication that the killer would strike again, terrified the women of Chicago, and that fear was stoked by the city’s five major newspapers, who were in a daily battle for readers’ attention. The story reached a fever pitch just one month later when six-year-old Suzanne Degnan was abducted from her bedroom by someone who’d entered through an open window. Despite the presence of a ransom note demanding $20,000, investigators discovered Degnan’s dismembered body in the sewer a short time later.
Thank you to the incredible Dave white of Bring Me the Axe & 99 Cent Rental Podcast for research!
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Episode 515: The Murder of the Grimes Sisters
Episode 514: Bernie Tiede and the murder of Marjorie Nugent
Episode 513: Mamie Thurman
Episode 512: Nutty Putty Cave Incident
Episode 511: Nan Patterson and The Death of Frank "Caesar" Young
Episode 510: Alvin and Judith Ann Neelley Part 2
Episode 509: Alvin and Judith Ann Neelley Part 1
Episode 508: The Murders of Elisabeth Congdon and Velma Pietila
Episode 507: A Conversation With Rachel Stavis, A Real Life Exorcist
Episode 506: Listener Tales 79
Episode 505: Leonarda Cianciulli: The Soap-Maker of Correggio
Episode 504: The Sauchie Poltergeist aka Wee Hughie
Episode 503: The Torsåker Witch Trials
Episode 502: The Highgate Vampire
Episode 501: The Stanfield Hall Murders
Episode 500: Eastern Air Lines Flight 401
Episode 499: The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill
Episode 498: Listener Tales 78
Episode 497: The Haunting of Doris Bither
Episode 496: Half-Hanged Mary
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