[1][2] Speck fue arrestado unos días después, siendo la huella definitiva un tatuaje con las palabras "Born to raise Hell" (nacido para desatar el infierno). After his killing spree in 1966, a manhunt ensued and he was captured two days later. [10], Two days after the murders, Speck was identified by a drifter named Claude Lunsford. Richard Benjamin Speck[1][2] was born in Kirkwood, Illinois, the seventh of eight children of Benjamin Franklin Speck and Mary Margaret Carbaugh. [3], One week after his parole, on January 9, 1965, Speck was wielding a 17-inch (43 cm) carving knife when he attacked a woman in the parking lot of her apartment building. Ziporyn prepared a discharge summary with depression, anxiety, guilt, and shame among Speck's emotions, but also a deep love for his family. I'm sorry as hell. The man blindfolded her, tied her up, raped her, ransacked her house, and stole the $2.50 she had earned babysitting that evening. 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. Speck stopped using the name Richard Benjamin Lindberg when he got married and began using the name Richard Benjamin Speck. Richard Speck has been described as a drifter, a loner, a high school dropout, a sociopath, a heavy drinker, a violent man who could be charming. The judge sentenced Speck to death. [3], Speck spent the rest of the day drinking in nearby taverns before he accosted Ella Mae Hooper at knifepoint; she was a 53-year-old woman who had spent the day drinking at the same taverns that Speck had patronized. Richard Benjamin Speck was born in Kirkwood, Illinois, the seventh of eight children of Benjamin Franklin Speck and Mary Margaret Carbaugh. [55] He was denied parole in seven minutes at his first parole hearing on September 15, 1976, and at six subsequent hearings in 1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 1987, and 1990. Speck died of a heart attack in 1991, after 25 years in prison. Richard Speck se hizo famoso por haber secuestrado, torturado, violado y apuñalado a muerte a ocho estudiantes de enfermería del South Chicago Community Hospital en Chicago el día 14 de julio de 1966. [43][44], In a review article published in the Journal of Medical Genetics in December 1968, Michael Court Brown found no overrepresentation of XYY males in chromosome surveys of Scottish prisons and hospitals for the developmentally and mentally disabled, and suggested that any conclusions drawn from study populations composed solely of institutionalized males were likely distorted by selection bias. [46][28][47], Despite repeated efforts by Getty,[42] Engel,[23] and others to set the record straight regarding Speck's erroneous association with XYY syndrome, he remains labeled as such in some textbooks, online sites, and other sources.[21][48][49][50][51][52]. Speck started drinking alcohol at age 12 and by age 15 he was getting drunk almost every day.
Speck, however, seemed to have a knack for making a quick escape and keeping police forces guessing. The body count was so high that he failed to notice that Amurao, who had opened the door for him on his arrival, had managed to hide herself under one of the beds. His father died when he was 6 and his mother moved the family to Dallas.
After the death of his father when Speck was six, his mother remarried, moving the family to Dallas, Texas. Asked how he felt about himself in the years since, he said, "Like I always felt ... had no feeling.
Speck's brother Howard was a carpenter in Monmouth and found a job for him sanding plasterboard for another Monmouth carpenter. [3], A few years later, Speck's religious, teetotaler mother fell in love with a traveling insurance salesman from Texas, Carl August Rudolph Lindberg, whom she met on a train trip to Chicago.
[57], In May 1996, Chicago television news anchor Bill Kurtis received video tapes made at Stateville Correctional Center in 1988 from an anonymous attorney. [60], Speck's sister feared that his grave would be desecrated, so he does not have a physical resting place. Speck possibly lost count or might have known eight women lived in the townhouse but was unaware that a ninth woman was spending the night. From The Sound of Music to Oklahoma! [3], After his release from prison, Speck worked for three months as a driver for the Patterson Meat Company and had six accidents with his truck before he was fired for failing to show up for work. On June 27, after Judy gave him $80 to help him until he found work, Speck left to again stay with his sister Martha and her family in Chicago for the next two weeks. He entered and, using only a knife, killed Gloria Davy, Patricia Matusek, Nina Jo Schmale, Pamela Wilkening, Suzanne Farris, Mary Ann Jordan, Merlita Gargullo and Valentina Pasion. 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 Chicago's South Side. For a short time he was a carpenter, but soon he was in trouble again: 65-year-old Virgil Harris was viciously raped and robbed in her own home on April 2, 1966, and on April 13 a barmaid in his local tavern, Mary Kay Pierce, was brutally beaten to death. He also robbed a grocery store, making away with cigarettes, beer and $3 in cash. A total of eight woman, between ages 19 and 24, were systematically bound, robbed, beaten, strangled and stabbed during Speck's frenzy. [59], From behind the camera, a prisoner asked Speck if he had killed the nurses. [15], In December 1965 and March 1966, Nature and The Lancet published findings by British cytogeneticist Patricia Jacobs and colleagues of a chromosome survey of patients at Scotland's only security hospital for the developmentally disabled. [3], Speck fue condenado a la pena de muerte, pero su sentencia fue revisada por la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos poco antes de la ejecución en 1972, resultando en que finalmente muriera en prisión en 1991.[3]. The application required being fingerprinted and photographed, and having a physical examination by a doctor. Horrified, the guard said, 'I thought you liked that bird.' They parked on E. 100th St. next to Luella Elementary School, across the street from the townhouses where the nurses lived. Speck's mother and stepfather had separated, and his stepfather had moved to California. Speck's first voyage on the Clarence B. Randall was brief, since he was stricken with appendicitis on May 3, and was evacuated by U.S. Coast Guard helicopter to St. Joseph's Hospital in Hancock, Michigan, on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan's Upper Peninsula where he had an emergency appendectomy. Subsequent nationwide enquiries also raised the other incidents in which Speck was suspected, as well as his criminal record. [20][35][36][37] Similar articles followed, again citing Telfer, in Time[38] and Newsweek,[39] and six months later in The New York Times Magazine. Of the five XYY patients identified, four exhibited moderate to severe facial acne, leading the group to suggest that acne be added to the list of defining XYY characteristics. [23] One month later, a court-appointed panel of six physicians rejected Getty's insanity argument and concluded that Speck was mentally competent to stand trial. [45], In May 1969, at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Telfer et al. She was reported missing on April 13, and her body was found that day in an empty hog house behind the tavern.
[1][2] Speck fue arrestado unos días después, siendo la huella definitiva un tatuaje con las palabras "Born to raise Hell" (nacido para desatar el infierno). After his killing spree in 1966, a manhunt ensued and he was captured two days later. [10], Two days after the murders, Speck was identified by a drifter named Claude Lunsford. Richard Benjamin Speck[1][2] was born in Kirkwood, Illinois, the seventh of eight children of Benjamin Franklin Speck and Mary Margaret Carbaugh. [3], One week after his parole, on January 9, 1965, Speck was wielding a 17-inch (43 cm) carving knife when he attacked a woman in the parking lot of her apartment building. Ziporyn prepared a discharge summary with depression, anxiety, guilt, and shame among Speck's emotions, but also a deep love for his family. I'm sorry as hell. The man blindfolded her, tied her up, raped her, ransacked her house, and stole the $2.50 she had earned babysitting that evening. 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. Speck stopped using the name Richard Benjamin Lindberg when he got married and began using the name Richard Benjamin Speck. Richard Speck has been described as a drifter, a loner, a high school dropout, a sociopath, a heavy drinker, a violent man who could be charming. The judge sentenced Speck to death. [3], Speck spent the rest of the day drinking in nearby taverns before he accosted Ella Mae Hooper at knifepoint; she was a 53-year-old woman who had spent the day drinking at the same taverns that Speck had patronized. Richard Benjamin Speck was born in Kirkwood, Illinois, the seventh of eight children of Benjamin Franklin Speck and Mary Margaret Carbaugh. [55] He was denied parole in seven minutes at his first parole hearing on September 15, 1976, and at six subsequent hearings in 1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 1987, and 1990. Speck died of a heart attack in 1991, after 25 years in prison. Richard Speck se hizo famoso por haber secuestrado, torturado, violado y apuñalado a muerte a ocho estudiantes de enfermería del South Chicago Community Hospital en Chicago el día 14 de julio de 1966. [43][44], In a review article published in the Journal of Medical Genetics in December 1968, Michael Court Brown found no overrepresentation of XYY males in chromosome surveys of Scottish prisons and hospitals for the developmentally and mentally disabled, and suggested that any conclusions drawn from study populations composed solely of institutionalized males were likely distorted by selection bias. [46][28][47], Despite repeated efforts by Getty,[42] Engel,[23] and others to set the record straight regarding Speck's erroneous association with XYY syndrome, he remains labeled as such in some textbooks, online sites, and other sources.[21][48][49][50][51][52]. Speck started drinking alcohol at age 12 and by age 15 he was getting drunk almost every day.
Speck, however, seemed to have a knack for making a quick escape and keeping police forces guessing. The body count was so high that he failed to notice that Amurao, who had opened the door for him on his arrival, had managed to hide herself under one of the beds. His father died when he was 6 and his mother moved the family to Dallas.
After the death of his father when Speck was six, his mother remarried, moving the family to Dallas, Texas. Asked how he felt about himself in the years since, he said, "Like I always felt ... had no feeling.
Speck's brother Howard was a carpenter in Monmouth and found a job for him sanding plasterboard for another Monmouth carpenter. [3], A few years later, Speck's religious, teetotaler mother fell in love with a traveling insurance salesman from Texas, Carl August Rudolph Lindberg, whom she met on a train trip to Chicago.
[57], In May 1996, Chicago television news anchor Bill Kurtis received video tapes made at Stateville Correctional Center in 1988 from an anonymous attorney. [60], Speck's sister feared that his grave would be desecrated, so he does not have a physical resting place. Speck possibly lost count or might have known eight women lived in the townhouse but was unaware that a ninth woman was spending the night. From The Sound of Music to Oklahoma! [3], After his release from prison, Speck worked for three months as a driver for the Patterson Meat Company and had six accidents with his truck before he was fired for failing to show up for work. On June 27, after Judy gave him $80 to help him until he found work, Speck left to again stay with his sister Martha and her family in Chicago for the next two weeks. He entered and, using only a knife, killed Gloria Davy, Patricia Matusek, Nina Jo Schmale, Pamela Wilkening, Suzanne Farris, Mary Ann Jordan, Merlita Gargullo and Valentina Pasion. 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 Chicago's South Side. For a short time he was a carpenter, but soon he was in trouble again: 65-year-old Virgil Harris was viciously raped and robbed in her own home on April 2, 1966, and on April 13 a barmaid in his local tavern, Mary Kay Pierce, was brutally beaten to death. He also robbed a grocery store, making away with cigarettes, beer and $3 in cash. A total of eight woman, between ages 19 and 24, were systematically bound, robbed, beaten, strangled and stabbed during Speck's frenzy. [59], From behind the camera, a prisoner asked Speck if he had killed the nurses. [15], In December 1965 and March 1966, Nature and The Lancet published findings by British cytogeneticist Patricia Jacobs and colleagues of a chromosome survey of patients at Scotland's only security hospital for the developmentally disabled. [3], Speck fue condenado a la pena de muerte, pero su sentencia fue revisada por la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos poco antes de la ejecución en 1972, resultando en que finalmente muriera en prisión en 1991.[3]. The application required being fingerprinted and photographed, and having a physical examination by a doctor. Horrified, the guard said, 'I thought you liked that bird.' They parked on E. 100th St. next to Luella Elementary School, across the street from the townhouses where the nurses lived. Speck's mother and stepfather had separated, and his stepfather had moved to California. Speck's first voyage on the Clarence B. Randall was brief, since he was stricken with appendicitis on May 3, and was evacuated by U.S. Coast Guard helicopter to St. Joseph's Hospital in Hancock, Michigan, on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan's Upper Peninsula where he had an emergency appendectomy. Subsequent nationwide enquiries also raised the other incidents in which Speck was suspected, as well as his criminal record. [20][35][36][37] Similar articles followed, again citing Telfer, in Time[38] and Newsweek,[39] and six months later in The New York Times Magazine. Of the five XYY patients identified, four exhibited moderate to severe facial acne, leading the group to suggest that acne be added to the list of defining XYY characteristics. [23] One month later, a court-appointed panel of six physicians rejected Getty's insanity argument and concluded that Speck was mentally competent to stand trial. [45], In May 1969, at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Telfer et al. She was reported missing on April 13, and her body was found that day in an empty hog house behind the tavern.
He was described as a loner who kept a stamp collection and enjoyed listening to music. [3], Speck worked as a laborer for the 7-Up bottling company in Dallas for almost three years, from 1960 to 1963.
American photographer Richard Avedon was best known for his work in the fashion world and for his minimalist, large-scale character-revealing portraits. Speck was very close to his father, who died in 1947 from a heart attack at the age of 53.
Speck was fined $10 and jailed for three days after he failed to pay the fine. "[58], Speck died of a heart attack on December 5, 1991, the eve of his 50th birthday. [24], In 1968, biochemist Mary Telfer and associates published data from a genetic analysis, similar in design to Jacobs', of subjects confined in psychiatric hospitals and penal institutions in Pennsylvania. [13], Speck's jury trial began April 3, 1967, in Peoria, Illinois, three hours southwest of Chicago, with a gag order on the press. At some point during his interviews with Speck, Ziporyn had obtained a written three-sentence consent from Speck authorizing him to tell "what I am really like." Ziporyn also earned the ire of the Cook County Jail, which fired him as its part-time psychiatrist the week after Speck's trial ended. In mid-afternoon, he received an assignment on Sinclair Oil's tanker SS Sinclair Great Lakes, which was a 30-minute drive away in East Chicago, Indiana. While there he had 37 arrests for drunk and disorderly behaviour and burglary. [23] After Speck's conviction and death sentence were upheld by the Illinois Supreme Court later that year[41] and the appeals process moved to the Federal court system,[42] articles continued to appear in the lay press reporting (or implying) that Speck's supposed XYY genotype would be invoked as a mitigating factor. [3], Speck stayed with his sister Martha Thornton and her family in Chicago for a few days, and then returned to his boyhood hometown of Monmouth, Illinois, where he initially stayed with some old family friends. The police arrived to scenes of carnage, and took Amurao into custody, interviewing her and proceeding with the construction of an Identikit image. When Mr. Speck died of a heart attack in 1947 at the age of 53, R… [3], In July 1963, Speck was caught after he forged and cashed a co-worker's $44 paycheck. He had never met the women he was about to kill. 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. to South Pacific, Richard Rodgers helped change the face of Broadway musicals, giving them stories and making them both memorable and "hum-able.". The police traced the car to Speck and issued a warrant for his arrest for burglary on March 8.
[1][2] Speck fue arrestado unos días después, siendo la huella definitiva un tatuaje con las palabras "Born to raise Hell" (nacido para desatar el infierno). After his killing spree in 1966, a manhunt ensued and he was captured two days later. [10], Two days after the murders, Speck was identified by a drifter named Claude Lunsford. Richard Benjamin Speck[1][2] was born in Kirkwood, Illinois, the seventh of eight children of Benjamin Franklin Speck and Mary Margaret Carbaugh. [3], One week after his parole, on January 9, 1965, Speck was wielding a 17-inch (43 cm) carving knife when he attacked a woman in the parking lot of her apartment building. Ziporyn prepared a discharge summary with depression, anxiety, guilt, and shame among Speck's emotions, but also a deep love for his family. I'm sorry as hell. The man blindfolded her, tied her up, raped her, ransacked her house, and stole the $2.50 she had earned babysitting that evening. 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. Speck stopped using the name Richard Benjamin Lindberg when he got married and began using the name Richard Benjamin Speck. Richard Speck has been described as a drifter, a loner, a high school dropout, a sociopath, a heavy drinker, a violent man who could be charming. The judge sentenced Speck to death. [3], Speck spent the rest of the day drinking in nearby taverns before he accosted Ella Mae Hooper at knifepoint; she was a 53-year-old woman who had spent the day drinking at the same taverns that Speck had patronized. Richard Benjamin Speck was born in Kirkwood, Illinois, the seventh of eight children of Benjamin Franklin Speck and Mary Margaret Carbaugh. [55] He was denied parole in seven minutes at his first parole hearing on September 15, 1976, and at six subsequent hearings in 1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 1987, and 1990. Speck died of a heart attack in 1991, after 25 years in prison. Richard Speck se hizo famoso por haber secuestrado, torturado, violado y apuñalado a muerte a ocho estudiantes de enfermería del South Chicago Community Hospital en Chicago el día 14 de julio de 1966. [43][44], In a review article published in the Journal of Medical Genetics in December 1968, Michael Court Brown found no overrepresentation of XYY males in chromosome surveys of Scottish prisons and hospitals for the developmentally and mentally disabled, and suggested that any conclusions drawn from study populations composed solely of institutionalized males were likely distorted by selection bias. [46][28][47], Despite repeated efforts by Getty,[42] Engel,[23] and others to set the record straight regarding Speck's erroneous association with XYY syndrome, he remains labeled as such in some textbooks, online sites, and other sources.[21][48][49][50][51][52]. Speck started drinking alcohol at age 12 and by age 15 he was getting drunk almost every day.
Speck, however, seemed to have a knack for making a quick escape and keeping police forces guessing. The body count was so high that he failed to notice that Amurao, who had opened the door for him on his arrival, had managed to hide herself under one of the beds. His father died when he was 6 and his mother moved the family to Dallas.
After the death of his father when Speck was six, his mother remarried, moving the family to Dallas, Texas. Asked how he felt about himself in the years since, he said, "Like I always felt ... had no feeling.
Speck's brother Howard was a carpenter in Monmouth and found a job for him sanding plasterboard for another Monmouth carpenter. [3], A few years later, Speck's religious, teetotaler mother fell in love with a traveling insurance salesman from Texas, Carl August Rudolph Lindberg, whom she met on a train trip to Chicago.
[57], In May 1996, Chicago television news anchor Bill Kurtis received video tapes made at Stateville Correctional Center in 1988 from an anonymous attorney. [60], Speck's sister feared that his grave would be desecrated, so he does not have a physical resting place. Speck possibly lost count or might have known eight women lived in the townhouse but was unaware that a ninth woman was spending the night. From The Sound of Music to Oklahoma! [3], After his release from prison, Speck worked for three months as a driver for the Patterson Meat Company and had six accidents with his truck before he was fired for failing to show up for work. On June 27, after Judy gave him $80 to help him until he found work, Speck left to again stay with his sister Martha and her family in Chicago for the next two weeks. He entered and, using only a knife, killed Gloria Davy, Patricia Matusek, Nina Jo Schmale, Pamela Wilkening, Suzanne Farris, Mary Ann Jordan, Merlita Gargullo and Valentina Pasion. 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 Chicago's South Side. For a short time he was a carpenter, but soon he was in trouble again: 65-year-old Virgil Harris was viciously raped and robbed in her own home on April 2, 1966, and on April 13 a barmaid in his local tavern, Mary Kay Pierce, was brutally beaten to death. He also robbed a grocery store, making away with cigarettes, beer and $3 in cash. A total of eight woman, between ages 19 and 24, were systematically bound, robbed, beaten, strangled and stabbed during Speck's frenzy. [59], From behind the camera, a prisoner asked Speck if he had killed the nurses. [15], In December 1965 and March 1966, Nature and The Lancet published findings by British cytogeneticist Patricia Jacobs and colleagues of a chromosome survey of patients at Scotland's only security hospital for the developmentally disabled. [3], Speck fue condenado a la pena de muerte, pero su sentencia fue revisada por la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos poco antes de la ejecución en 1972, resultando en que finalmente muriera en prisión en 1991.[3]. The application required being fingerprinted and photographed, and having a physical examination by a doctor. Horrified, the guard said, 'I thought you liked that bird.' They parked on E. 100th St. next to Luella Elementary School, across the street from the townhouses where the nurses lived. Speck's mother and stepfather had separated, and his stepfather had moved to California. Speck's first voyage on the Clarence B. Randall was brief, since he was stricken with appendicitis on May 3, and was evacuated by U.S. Coast Guard helicopter to St. Joseph's Hospital in Hancock, Michigan, on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan's Upper Peninsula where he had an emergency appendectomy. Subsequent nationwide enquiries also raised the other incidents in which Speck was suspected, as well as his criminal record. [20][35][36][37] Similar articles followed, again citing Telfer, in Time[38] and Newsweek,[39] and six months later in The New York Times Magazine. Of the five XYY patients identified, four exhibited moderate to severe facial acne, leading the group to suggest that acne be added to the list of defining XYY characteristics. [23] One month later, a court-appointed panel of six physicians rejected Getty's insanity argument and concluded that Speck was mentally competent to stand trial. [45], In May 1969, at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Telfer et al. She was reported missing on April 13, and her body was found that day in an empty hog house behind the tavern.
