100 Murder Cases

The murder of Suzanne Degnan

She was 6 years old when she was kidnapped from her Chicago bedroom, with nothing left behind but a ransom note. Her head was found in a sewer soon after, and other body parts found around her neighborhood. Fingerprints on the ransom note matched a man named William Heirens, who admitted to the crime, but later said he only confessed as part of a plea deal that allowed him to live