Richard Speck captured the nation's attention during the summer of 1966 after murdering eight female students who lived together on Chicago's South Side. ``To use cocaine, to smoke marijuana, to have explicit sexual contact with who knows how many people, thats a disaster, said Republican Rep. Peter Roskam. He had already left town and headed to Chicago, where one of his sisters resided and the murders of the eight student nurses took place. ``It was a pornographic tape, Kurtis said. Richard Speck Jailhouse Tapes Commercial 1996 video editor 5.26K subscribers Subscribe 18 Share Save 20K views 8 years ago https://www.twitter.com/videosurplus Show more Show more RICHARD. Speck had reason to fear he would not survive long enough to be executed by the state. He is in that room because he is just like the other two guys in the room. He stayed at a cheap hotel in hiding. 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. Specks one true confidante was his psychiatrist. The leaking of the tape? ``He was supposed to be supervised all the time, Howell said. Its like a law of attraction thing. And what do you think Bill's production company will do with it, let it rot and disintegrate. Amurao screamed for help when she was sure the intruder was gone. There, they found stolen items from reported thefts, but Speck was nowhere to be found. Sure enough, the four other death row inmates terrorized Speck, threatening to kill him. Richard's stepfather was an abusive alcoholic who often lashed out at his stepchildren the opposite of the father he idolized. Speck's trial began on April 3, 1967, and his claim that he had no recollection of the eight murders committed placed Corazon Amurao in the spotlight as the star witness. He was ultimately released after six months due to an error. All Rights Reserved. Speck was not aware that he was careless and left a witness, and Corazon Amurao testified against Speck in court (via Insider). Fearing for her life, Specks wife filed for divorce and took full custody of their child. TL;DR: I don't like people joking about Speck, because it is clearly a case of a person with severe brain damage on top of a brain anomaly who was never properly treated and diagnosed mostly post-mortem. On the night of the crime, 24-year-old Speck snuck into a townhouse in Chicago where the nurses lived. How Speck and two other inmates at Stateville Correctional Center got into an area with video equipment reserved for staff training is something that corrections spokesman Nic Howell called the ``$60 million question.. var selection = window.getSelection(); 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). Show more Show more Almost yours: 2 weeks, on us. Speck, asked how many lovers he has had in prison, responded that he cant count that high. ``We dont know why it was made, what they were going to get out of it, he said. He repeated the eighth grade and eventually dropped out in the second semester of his first year of high school. Photo: Bettmann / Contributor / Getty Images, Idaho Murders: What Led Police to Bryan Kohberger, Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads, Name: Richard Speck, Birth Year: 1941, Birth date: December 6, 1941, Birth State: Illinois, Birth City: Kirkwood, Birth Country: United States. Amurao, the lone survivor of the encounter, later said: The American girls told us we more or less had to trust him. In 1972, Speck was re-sentenced to from 400 to 1,200 years in prison (eight consecutive sentences of 50 to 150 years). In Roger Carons book, Go-Boy (1979), he describes the shock he felt entering prison as a young man in the fifties and seeing inmates with breasts. With his new family, Speck moved to East Dallas, Texas, where they bounced from house to house, living in many of the poorer neighborhoods of the city. The trial of Richard Speck was a national sensation. When he left, hours later, taking the money he had stolen, she cowered in her hiding place, terrified, for hours, before finally summoning the courage to seek help. Just watched the video and they said the Supreme Court overturned the death penalty verdict. He unleashed the unresolved anger that lurked in his subconscious outward onto other women. newdiv.innerHTML = copytext; Amurao remained hidden for hours after Specks departure, trembling in terror. Thank you! He justified his hatred by deciding that too many women were sexually easy, and deserved any foul treatment he might inflict. Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagesRichard Speck sits in court before being returned to Chicago. He saved Gloria Davy for last, raping and sodomizing her before strangling her. Information and news about serial killers. Shirley filed for divorce in January 1966, after about three years of marriage. Well, of course he was. https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1t69kj/mass_murderer_richard_speck_sporting_his_hormone/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf, Oh yes. Do you have a story you'd like us to cover? Richard Speck, left, with a fellow inmate in Statesville Correctional Institute. At 10 PM that same night, Speck took the stolen gun and went to a townhouse by Luella Park. ``Obviously there was a breakdown in the supervision.. But that childhood was derailed when he was six. This is not to say that others in prison had not transitioned, but that their names are not in any way on record. The life we live and choices we make put us on course to end up surrounded by people like us. Subsequent nationwide enquiries also raised the other incidents in which Speck was suspected, as well as his criminal record. In order to ensure his continued survival in the dangerous prison, Speck wore silky womens underwear, consumed hormones to make his body more feminine, and adapted effeminate mannerisms. Richard Speck Biography 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. AS SPECK IS SEEN WITH HORMONE INDUCED BREASTS, A FEMALE BOWL HAIRCUT, AND PANTYHOSE. 1. //insert the container, fill it with the extended text, and define the new selection Speck had to be placed in solitary confinement for his own safety. newdiv.style.position = 'absolute'; Watch on. The shocking video of Richard Speck in prison in 1988. 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A mugshot of Richard Speck taken when he was just 20. His trial was held at the Peoria . Mary Ann Jordan and Suzanne Farris entered the apartment at that moment, unaware of what was happening inside. A&E Television Networks He knocked first on the door of Filipina exchange student nurse Corazon Amurao, 23, and, at gunpoint, herded her and her fellow exchange students from the Philippines, Merlita Gargullo, 23, and Valentina Pasion, 23, into the next room where American students Patricia Matusek, 20, Pamela Wilkening, 20, and Nina Jo Schmale, 24, were sleeping. US Brownsburg, Indiana. Richard and Shirley soon wed, and they had a baby girl named Bobby Lynn. Richard Speck: Natural Born Killer: With Corazon Amurao, Jim Barrell, Gerald Getty, Danny Johnson. When Speck saw his pregnant teen wife looking on, he would laugh, reveling in her pain before driving off. //hide the newly created container At one point, a prisoner from behind the camera asked Speck why he killed the eight student nurses, to which he merely replied, It just wasnt their night, and laughed. The video, apparently filmed in prison in 1988, showed Speck wearing panties, snorting cocaine, and performing sex acts on a fellow prisoner. 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. She continued screaming until the police arrived. When he was 20 years old in 1962, Richard Speck met Shirley Malone, a girl five years his junior. That seemed to be the end of the Richard Speck story until a bizarre videotape surfaced in 1996. One of America's most infamous mass murderers, Richard Speck attacked nine student nurses on July 14, 1966, killing eight, in their Chicago dormitory. Between the hundreds of fingerprints Speck left at the crime scene and Amuraos positive identification in court, the trial was open and shut, lasting only 12 days. Speck found work on a ship, and it began to seem like bodies turned up wherever Speck had been. Yeah I find the thought of anyone getting raped upsetting, even if they were a rapist and shit. One physician who checked up on Speck said, "His pockmarked face was much fleshier and had taken on female characteristics. After moving back to Monmouth to live with his sister, he stabbed a man in a bar fight, stole a car and robbed a grocery store, then burgled, tortured, and raped a 65-year-old woman in her home. When arrested, he claimed he had blacked out and couldnt remember the incident. Read more at: " + document.location.href; Speck moved back to his childhood state of Illinois. Speck's chest was also noticeably different in the video. In 1991, while still in prison, Speck died of a heart attack. 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. After his killing spree in 1966, a manhunt ensued and he was captured two days later. THE RICHARD SPECK VIDEO FROM STATEVILLE MAXIMUM SECURITY PENITENTIARY. WHILE NON NONCHALANTLY SAYING OF THE NURSING STUDENTS \"IT WASN'T THERE NIGHT\" THIS VIDEO ALONE SENT SWEEPING REFORMS THROUGH THE IDOC. She was the only one of the women that Richard Speck raped and sexually brutalized before strangling her. On July 13, 1966, Speck unleashed his terror on Chicago by breaking into a building in the neighborhood of South Deering. 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. He refused to wear the glasses that he needed and would not speak in class due to anxiety. But almost no details exist about the story of the tape. .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. Speck viewed women through the prism of a Madonna / Whore complex, and treated them accordingly. THEN SNUFFED OUT THE LIFE OF 8 OF THOSE NURSING STUDENTS. 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