

Young Ressler and his friends created their own detective group to catch the culprit. The case was dubbed the ‘Lipstick’ case due to a message scrawled at one of the crime scenes. The killer appeared to be appealing for help to forcibly stop his murderous spree as he was unable to stop himself.

He was a 9-year-old boy in Chicago, Illinois at the time of the 1946 ‘Lipstick Killer’ case where two women and a young girl were abducted and murdered in the city. Robert Ressler became fascinated by the act of murder and how one individual can take the life of another at an early age. Robert Ressler was the man who developed psychological profiling at the FBI Behavioural Science Unit in Quantico, Virginia. Along with his colleague John Douglas, he was involved in some of the highest profile serial killer cases in American history, including John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, and Jeffrey Dahmer. Mapping the minds of killers is no small undertaking.
