# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-heirens
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:44:45.029Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-heirens"
name: "William Heirens"
slug: "william-heirens"
description: "William George Heirens was an American criminal who forcibly confessed to three murders. He was subsequently convicted of the crimes in 1946. Heirens was called the Lipstick Killer after a notorious message scrawled in lipstick at a crime scene. At the time of his death, Heirens was reputedly Illinois' longest-serving prisoner, having spent 65 years in prison."
tagline: "American criminal (1928–2012)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/William_Heirens%2C_pre-trial%2C_1946.jpg/330px-William_Heirens%2C_pre-trial%2C_1946.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1928-11-15"
deathDate: "2012-03-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.23
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.041061333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William Heirens"
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    title: "William Heirens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Heirens"
    title: "William Heirens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Heirens"
    title: "William Heirens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Heirens"
    title: "William Heirens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ویلیام هرنس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Heirens"
    title: "William Heirens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Heirens"
    title: "William Heirens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%9D%E1%80%AE%E1%80%9C%E1%80%BB%E1%80%B6%E1%80%9F%E1%80%B1%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9B%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA%E1%80%85%E1%80%BA"
    title: "ဝီလျံဟေးရန်စ်"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Хайренс, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump