15 Minutes of Infamy

  After Nancy Boyer, a middle-aged hairdresser, was found murdered in her apartment by her landlady, Washington D.C.'s top detectives leaped into action-- but little did they know that the man they were after had left a trail of red-haired victims from New Orleans to Chicago. So, what was the reason for the killer's distaste for redheads? Chief Detective Robert J. Barrett of the Washington DC homicide squad arrived at the crime scene and observed that the door to Nancy Boyer's ninth-floor apartment had a peephole. The red-haired, 45-year-old hairdresser must've known the person she let into the apartment on 16th street on the night of Tuesday, March 6, 1945. That was the last time anyone had seen Nancy alive. It was the manager of the building, Mrs. Ida Soelter, who entered Nancy's apartment with a pass key on the night of Thursday, March 8, to check on her tenant at the urging of friends and neighbors. She found Nancy's lifeless body slumped against the kitchen...