Wilkening spit in Specks face and told him shed remember his face for a lineup. Speck began to idolize his mother, holding Mary Speck upas a saint to whom no woman could compare. //hide the newly created container He was one of the murderers featured in Netflix's "Mindhunter.". Speck never expressed remorse for his victims. He stayed there for five days awaiting a shipping assignment and in that time, committed the worst of his crimes. SHOWING EVEN FROM THE GRAVE RICHARD WAS AGAIN SCREWING OVER SOCIETY. There was that ludicrous XYY syndrome myth, but for some reason people are more aware of that than they are with organic brain syndrome he had, on top of anomaly he was most likely born with: hippocampus and amygdala having unclear boundaries. I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Its like a law of attraction thing. He was forced to become what he hated, a woman, which was a reason enough for him to kill someone, in order to survive. But . The remarriage of Specks mother to Carl Lindberg three years later and the familys subsequent relocation to Dallas, Texas gave the resentful boy an excuse to rebel against his strict religious upbringing. Whenever I see people talking about Speck I see not just condemnation, but plain hatred regarding him, this thread included. Enter your email address to subscribe to Women Are Human and receive notifications of new articles by email. Speck was a painter. The video's release caused a major scandal within the Illinois Department of Corrections, and was widely cited as justification for the reintroduction of death penalty. The tape of Mr. Speck, who died in prison in 1991, was made available to the State House Judicary-Criminal Law Committee and other lawmakers by the journalist Bill Kurtis, who has made a. On July 13, 1966, Speck followed a middle-aged woman as she bar-hopped, unaware of the stalker. During this period he had the words "Born to Raise Hell" tattooed on his arm, a sentiment that wife Shirley had experienced firsthand: She filed for divorce in January 1966. Corazon Amurao, the lone survivor of the brutal Chicago massacre of eight student nurses. Richard Speck Biography Learn more Watch on YouTube Watch on In 1996, Chicago icon and renowned journalist Bill Kurtis interviewed Richard Speck and two other inmates inside the maximum-security, Stateville Correctional Center, which aired on Chicago's WBBM-TV. Fortunately, Amurao remembered the distinctive "Born to Raise Hell" tattoo that, along with the image, enabled police to identify their suspect as Richard Speck. Enraged, Speck embarked on a drinking spree in the neighborhood. Speck delayed his execution by filing numerous appeals. He tattoed born to raise hell on his arm and certainly lived by that ethic. Speck died of a heart attack after 25 years in prison. deserve much more punishment than just living uncomfortably. As long as he has a knife or gun. Surely the U.S. Supreme Court hasnt outlawed executing prisoners as I believe there are still states doing it? The second was Mary Ann Jordan, 20, who Speck also stabbed to death upon her entry to the dorm. Speck was placed on trial for the murders after a panel of psychiatrists chosen by both his defense and his prosecution judged him competent to do so. The family no longer struggled financially due to Lindbergs lucrative career in insurance. ONE WERE SPECK NOW HAD HORMONE INDUCED BREASTS A WOMAN'S HAIRCUT AND PANTYHOSE. Richard was doing a side job as a carpenter for Pierce's workplace, and police questioned him briefly (via ATI). After three weeks of dating, the teen discovered she was pregnant, and the pair wed. Speck viewed his teen bride as a sexually loose woman, and was plagued by the unsubstantiated fear that she was cheating on him. Oh God, Im the only one alive.. And tragically, eight women inside would meet horrific ends that night. Speck was never officially charged with the murders of which he was suspected prior to the events that took place in the South Chicago townhouse and, officially, those cases remain unsolved. Speck, infuriated at Wilkenings disgust and defiance, took his fury out on the two women entering, and stabbed them 20 times as they tried to flee the apartment. 1. Perhaps losing track of the number of women present, one student nurse, Corazon Amurao, hid under the bed until the carnage was over (via NBC News). That same year, a barmaid named Mary Kay Pierce was found beaten to death at her place of work called Frank's Place. Corrections officials learned the tape existed about a month ago, Howell said. ``It was a pornographic tape, Kurtis said. Just a few glimpses of the video have been shown (in the A&E) documentary about Richard. On the night of the crime, 24-year-old Speck snuck into a townhouse in Chicago where the nurses lived. Shirley filed for divorce in January 1966, after about three years of marriage. ``We dont know why it was made, what they were going to get out of it, he said. Students and staff of one of the leading and largest higher education institutions in the UK are accusing the university of UK Scotland. copytext = selection + pagelink; On the evening of July 13, 1966, Richard Speck snuck into the boarding house of the student nurses where he would take the lives of his final victims. Upon entering the residence, Speck encountered 9 young women, all of which he tied up at gunpoint using strips torn from bedsheets. If the guards are turning their backs on aberrant behavior because "they're bad people anyways" or they're just really fucking lazy, that prison needs new guards. I am somehow a PhD, more or less calm and collected most of the time and, needless to say, I look at this case with utter horror, because if not for proper diagnosis and treatments received over the years (as well as generally supportive family and social circles) probability of me being a violent criminal would've been rather high. Criminal files Serial Killers - Richard Speck Crime Watch Follow Richard Benjamin Speck (December 6, 1941 - December 5, 1991) was an American mass murderer who systematically tortured, raped, and murdered eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital on July 13, 1966. Richard Speck was a murderer notorious for killing eight student nurses in 1966. Speck is also the sole suspect in the April 13, 1966 beating death of local barmaid Mary Kay Pierce. This is not to say that others in prison had not transitioned, but that their names are not in any way on record. The boy took his fathers death hard, regressing to eating crayons and attention-seeking behaviors. Copyright 2016-2022 True Crime Magazine, A GRAPHIC Look Back at Richard Ramirezs Reign of Terror, 10 Little-Known True Crime Facts To Blow Your Mind, A GRAPHIC Look Back At the Hillside Strangler Murders, Revisiting Ted Bundys Issaquah Dump Site, A GRAPHIC Look Back at Zodiac Killers Reign of Terror, A GRAPHIC Look Back At Richard Chases Reign of Terror, A GRAPHIC Look Back At Ted Bundys Execution, NSFW: The Blood-Soaked Trail of the Times Square Killer. At age 20, Speck met 16-year-old Shirley Malone at a state fair. IN THE VIDEO HE IS SEEN SNORTING DRUGS OF ANOTHER INMATES, WELL YOU KNOW. When Speck is drinking, he will fight or threaten anybody, his probation officer once reported. I feel I will pass on the book, as I have no personal interest in prison life or in men with breasts, LOL, but each to her or his own. Richard Speck was an alcoholic and a petty criminal with over 20 arrests on his record by the age of 25. .css-m6thd4{-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;display:block;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-family:Gilroy,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.2;font-weight:bold;color:#323232;text-transform:capitalize;}@media (any-hover: hover){.css-m6thd4:hover{color:link-hover;}}Idaho Murders: What Led Police to Bryan Kohberger, Adnan Syed: A Complete Timeline of His Trial, Appeal and Killing of Hae Min Lee. The remaining women had no other choice than to listen to the muffled screams of their roommates being brutally murdered. He systematically brutalized and fatally stabbed the nurses one by one over a four-hour period. We still don't know jack when it comes to serial killers and mass murders in terms of common neurological problems between them and it's not something we at this point should just sweep under the rug. He saved Gloria Davy for last, raping and sodomizing her before strangling her. In it, Speck can be seen among other inmates ingesting cocaine and doing sex acts. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ In the videotape secretly recorded in a maximum-security prison, mass murderer Richard Speck strips off his jumpsuit to reveal womens blue underwear. At the time, this building functioned as a dormitory for student nurses. In 1966, Richard Speck committed one of the most horrifying mass murders in American history when he brutalized and killed eight student nurses living on Chicagos South Side. All rights reserved. We can use it as a mirror and decide to go another way or use the familiarity of the mindset and behavior to be as comfortable as possible. The shocking video of Richard Speck in prison in 1988. Speck knew that several young nursing students who were doing their residency at South Chicago Community Hospital were living in the townhouse. I'm not saying he was not guilty of horrendous crimes, because he was and most people even with mid- to severe neurological problems can control themselves. I dont think he actually liked doing it at all. Thanks for the information. newdiv.style.left = '-99999px'; The seventh of eight children born to Benjamin and Mary, Richard Speck was raised in a poverty-stricken family. He unleashed the unresolved anger that lurked in his subconscious outward onto other women. After the death of his father when Speck was six, his mother remarried, moving the family to Dallas, Texas. Amurao bolted from her hiding place to the nearest window, from where she screamed, They are all dead. She eventually crawled out onto a window ledge and screamed for help. Having been paroled in January 1965, he lasted only four weeks outside, before being arrested again for aggravated assault, and he was jailed for a further 16 months, of which he served 6 months. A government agency is set to review its practice of granting requests by male inmates to be transferred to women's prison UK England. Instead, Speck then led them one by one out of the room and then stabbed or strangled each of the women to death. When 23-year-old Corazon Amurao opened the front door to Speck's knock, he forced his way in at gunpoint. She stayed hidden under the bed until 6 a.m. for safe measure, hours after Speck had finished his rampage. Speck then rounded the nurses up and ordered them to empty their purses, before tying them all up. Their married bliss was short-lived, however, and Speck's reversion to type landed him a jail sentence for theft and check fraud, in 1963. He tied up the women and went on his rampage. All of Speck's victims were women. Teacher Used ALL Students Last Names to Avoid Trans Names, Pronouns; Lost Religious Discrimination Students Demand University Staff Declare Gender Pronouns to Abate Culture of Transphobia. These attacks, however, paled into insignificance on July 13, 1966, when Speck arrived on the doorstep of a townhouse in South Chicago, which served as a communal home for a group of eight young student nurses from nearby South Chicago Community Hospital. Have you spotted an error or omission? The two-hour tape surfaced last summer when an attorney approached WBBM anchor Bill Kurtis. https://www.patreon.com/serialkillersFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SKDocumentaries Corazon Amurao was the sole survivor, having escaped Specks notice by hiding under a bed. Malone said Speck would often rape her at knifepoint and demanded sex four to five times a day from her. His sentence was commuted to eight consecutive terms of 50 to 150 years each. and in that case, wouldn't it have made sense for several people to download it? THIS TAPE AND. Astrological Sign: Sagittarius, Death Year: 1991, Death date: December 5, 1991, Death State: Illinois, Death City: Joliet, Death Country: United States, Article Title: Richard Speck Biography, Author: Biography.com Editors, Website Name: The Biography.com website, Url: https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/richard-speck, Publisher: A&E Television Networks, Last Updated: December 1, 2021, Original Published Date: April 2, 2014. Seen a video of him in a cell with . The first known man to chemically 'transition gender' while in a United States prison, Richard Speck was a serial rapist, mass murderer, intimate partner abuser and suspected serial killer. He was given the nickname Birdman because he kept a pair of sparrows that had flown into his cell. THEN SNUFFED OUT THE LIFE OF 8 OF THOSE NURSING STUDENTS. He was the seventh of eight children, having four older sisters, two older brothers, and a younger sister. I wasnt a Ill kill you for $20 type junkie but I was a petty thief and panhandler and those are the people I found myself around. But that childhood was derailed when he was six. One of the medical staff noticed the patients distinctive tattoo, and realized he was the man for whom authorities were searching. His first arrest, in 1955 at age 13, for trespassing, was followed by dozens of others for misdemeanors over the next eight years. On July 12 after receiving an assignment, Speck arrived at the ship only to find his position had been given to someone else. The doctor called the authorities as soon as possible, and that was how the killer was caught. He could no longer be honest with himself about the resentment he felt toward his mother for demanding his rigid adherence to the dictates of the Christian faith, and for upending his world with the introduction of an abusive stepfather and relocation from the home he knew. Well, of course he was. The Untold Truth Of Murderer Richard Speck. In August, With permission, Women Are Human reprints the following biography and poem Where Are You, Sister? from Artemis Passionfire. One victim was also raped prior to her murder. He spent a few days there before traveling to Monmouth, Illinois, where he stayed with some family friends from his early childhood. Perhaps losing track of the number of women present . Though Speck had fled, he was easily recognized after he went to a hospital a few days later and a doctor noticed his tattoo after reading about it in a newspaper. Panicked and desperate, Speck attempted suicide, slicing his own wrists and arm. Media coverage splashed Speck's image all over the front pages and, in a desperate bid to escape, Speck tried to commit suicide on July 19, 1966, by slashing his wrists in the seedy hotel he was staying in. Throughout his time there, he regularly got caught with drugs and moonshine. He also did poorly in school, and soon, he turned to drinking heavily, just like his stepfather. The pockmarked, wreck of nerves became a career criminal and his arrests included theft, robbery, fraud, and assault. THAT VIDEO TAPE ALONE, CREATED SO MUCH PUBLIC OUTCRY THAT THE ENTIRE IDOC WAS OVERHAULED. Your browser doesn't support the HTML5 CANVAS tag. 100 Ghost Street: The Return of Richard Speck: Directed by Martin Wichmann Andersen. Richard Speck was one of the most fiendish mass murderers in American history as his slayings of eight nursing students in a single evening captured the attention of the entire nation. While Specks back was turned, Amurao rolled under a bed in the room. Now, four years after his death, he's shocking people again as the grotesque star of a drug-and-sex videotape that suggests a prison system run amok. Speck had begun drinking alcohol at age 12 and by age 15, was getting drunk almost every day. Everywhere the ship docked, women seemed to come up missing or brutally killed. The tape appeared to have been made over two days and one inmate is heard saying it is 1988, Kurtis said. WHILE NON NONCHALANTLY SAYING OF THE NURSING STUDENTS \"IT WASN'T THERE NIGHT\" THIS VIDEO ALONE SENT SWEEPING REFORMS THROUGH THE IDOC. Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagesRichard Speck sits in court before being returned to Chicago. To save his own life, Speck had to permit to happen to him some of the same sexual abuses he had inflicted on women. People seem torn on wether they should be outraged at him being able to party in jail, or psyched about him having to prostitute himself to stay alive. Those who had been fortunate enough to be out at the time of his arrival found themselves also subjected to brutal attacks when they returned home later that evening. Some additional info-wiki. That was when he got his "Born to Raise Hell" tattoo, which Shirley took as a sign to leave her abusive husband. Biography and associated logos are trademarks of A+E Networksprotected in the US and other countries around the globe. Amurao screamed for help when she was sure the intruder was gone. . In the video, Speck also casually admits to the killing of the nurses, describing the strangulations in some detail, and bragging about the strength required to kill someone in this manner. I know because I'm one of them: with the diagnosis I have people are usually very aggressive, slow at learning things and it overall affects their quality of life, despite a lot of cases go unnoticed before adulthood. ``He was supposed to be supervised all the time, Howell said. The inmates did not kill Speck, because they preferred to use him sexually. He was permitted to plead down to aggravated assault, and got off with a slap on the wrist. IT SHOWED UP ANIMOUSLY IN THE MAIL OF A CHICAGO NEWS STATION AFTER HE PASSED. Richard Speck horrified the public with his savage killings of eight student nurses in 1966. 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