In 1945, two women were found slashed to death in apartments near Wrigley Field.  The killer had bathed the dead corpses. A message was written in red lipstick on the wall of one of the apartments:

"For heaven's sake, catch me before I kill more."

Was it a cry for help or was he taunting the police?

Then came the day forever known as "the day Chicago locked its doors."  In January of 1946, twenty blocks to the north, in the Edgewater neighborhood, a little girl was stolen from her bed in the middle of the night.  Pieces of her body were found in sewers on Kenmore, Winthrop, Ardmore and Hollywood Avenues.

Police were desperate to find the killer.  Chicago was a city with a reputation for violent crime but never before had it been gripped by the kind of fear it experienced in 1946.

This story is true.