Speck broke in through the window of the townhouse at 11 p.m. on July 13, 1966, and made his way to the bedrooms. Biography.com for more about his life. He would be arrested 41 times before the age of 24. His prison therapist said he admitted he hated getting fucked and you can tell hes insincere in the video. The video alternates between talk show and hard-core pornography--Speck being the receptive partner in anal intercourse). He is in that room because he is just like the other two guys in the room. Oh God, Im the only one alive.. She continued screaming until the police arrived. Speck was a poor student throughout school. Speck served this sentence at Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois. To evade further police questioning, Speck skipped town and found work on a ship. As you all know, in 1988 Richard Speck and Ronzelle Larimore made a video in prison that is half talkshow, half pornography. Michigan authorities also wanted to question him about his whereabouts during the murder of four other females, aged between 7 and 60, as his ship had been in the vicinity at the time. 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. Speck never expressed remorse for his victims. Pitying the grieving child, his sisters and female teachers babied him. Richard Speck full prison video Hi, first post here. Thank you! Richard Benjamin Speck was born in the small city of Monmouth, Illinois to two religious, teetotaling parents in 1941. 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. The tape appeared to have been made over two days and one inmate is heard saying it is 1988, Kurtis said. He spent the rest of his life in prison until he died of a heart attack in 1991 at age 49. After 25 years behind bars, Speck died from a heart attack on December 5, 1991, a day before his 50th birthday. ``They have anal and oral sex for the camera.. Maybe if we were calm and quiet he will be, too. In the video, Speck, wearing silk panties and with female-like breasts grown using smuggled hormone treatments, performs oral sex on another inmate, while they both do large amounts of cocaine. var selection = window.getSelection(); We gravitate to people like us. Would you like to submit an article? This comment cracked me up. Likely because of these late arrivals, Speck must have lost count of how many women he had tied up, as he forgot about Amurao. Specks one true confidante was his psychiatrist. heres a link to documentary clip discussing the video. He missed the birth of his daughter, Bobby Lynn, as he was behind bars at the time, serving a brief stint on charges of theft and check fraud. Authorities in the state of Indiana wanted Speck for questioning in the disappearances of three young women on July 2, 1966. Mugshot of Richard Speck, taken when he was 23. His stepfather was a traveling salesman with a long criminal record who would drink and verbally abuse the young Speck. To my knowledge, he was consuming smuggled hormone drugs to stimulate development of breast tissue, and with this enhanced feature he was prostituting himself to other inmates. In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court abolished capital punishment, and Specks death sentence was commuted to 50 to 100 years in prison. Speck, who later claimed he was high on both alcohol and drugs, may have originally planned to commit a routine burglary. A survivor's account of the attack. My question is, do you believe the full 2-hour video was out there at some point? Richard speck video noorvideo 81 subscribers Subscribe 253 Save 164K views 10 years ago Show more Show more Notice Age-restricted video (based on Community Guidelines) Suggested by UMG Rihanna. 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. While Specks back was turned, Amurao rolled under a bed in the room. Richard Speck's crimes only escalated after his divorce from Shirley. 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. Corrections Director Odie Washington has ordered that all video equipment be removed from the prisons education area. 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. After his father's death, Richard's mother remarried and the family moved to Dallas, Texas. He had "Born to Raise Hell" tattooed on his forearm and periodically worked on cargo . He stayed at a cheap hotel in hiding. Richard Speck was a murderer notorious for killing eight student nurses in 1966. The tape has proved to be a major embarrassment for Illinois corrections officials, who beginning Wednesday will be called before a state legislative panel to answer questions about how closely they watched one of the nations most notorious serial killers. She climbed out on a window ledge and screamed for help, at which point concerned neighbors summoned the police. ``Obviously there was a breakdown in the supervision.. Amurao bolted from her hiding place to the nearest window, from where she screamed, They are all dead. In 2010, paranormal investigators tried to film Richard Speck's ghost at the site of his heinous killing spree. Everywhere the ship docked, women seemed to come up missing or brutally killed. Richard Speck died on Dec. 5, 1991, the eve of his 50th birthday, from a heart attack. Women Are Human is dedicated to exploring the impact of the modern gender identity ideology movement on society, particularly on women and girls, from legal identity, legal rights, safety, health, sexuality, participation in sports, politics, careers and more. After only 45 minutes of deliberation, the jury came back with a guilty verdict for Speck. Just a few glimpses of the video have been shown (in the A&E) documentary about Richard. Even into adulthood, Speck would often be financially dependent on his doting sisters, as he was perpetually drunk and frequently jobless. 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. He was also heard saying, "If they knew how much fun I was having in here, they would turn me loose," as reported by AP News. Speck then woke up the Americans and tied all six girls wrists behind their backs with strips of torn bedsheets. A total of eight woman, between ages 19 and 24, were systematically bound, robbed, beaten, strangled and stabbed during Speck's frenzy. 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. 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. Seen a video of him in a cell with . In the days before automated fingerprint identification, it took almost a week to identify the prints found in the townhouse as his. Speck changed his name and maintained a low profile, but could feel law enforcement closing in. He dragged Pamela Wilkening into another room to rape her. 100 Ghost Street: The Return of Richard Speck: Directed by Martin Wichmann Andersen. One physician who checked up on Speck said, "His pockmarked face was much fleshier and had taken on female characteristics. 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. IT SHOWED UP ANIMOUSLY IN THE MAIL OF A CHICAGO NEWS STATION AFTER HE PASSED. The children suffered considerable abuse at the hands of their drunken stepfather, and Speck's childhood was marked by juvenile delinquency and alcohol abuse, which soon led to petty crime. IN THE SUMMER OF RACE RIOTS IN CHICAGO HE BROKE INTO A NURSE'S DORMITORY WHERE HE ENGAGED IN HIS TWISTED OBSESSIONS. The trial lasted just 12 days and, on April 15, 1967, the jury found Speck guilty of all eight murders, after less than an hour's deliberation. 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. Amurao said that none of her friends screamed as they were being led from the room, but she later heard their muffled cries. Thank you for finding this story and publishing it. The private party room? In 1996, a bizarre video taken of Speck in 1988 was released to the public by an anonymous attorney. The mystery of the tape itself fascinates me. During questioning, Speck faked feeling sick but promised to return later on for further interrogation. Speck found work on a ship, and it began to seem like bodies turned up wherever Speck had been. But the videotaping? This is not to say that others in prison had not transitioned, but that their names are not in any way on record. A ninth potential victim, student nurse Corazon Amurao, escaped Speck's detection by hiding beneath a bed.Speck died of a heart attack while incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center in December 1991 at the age of 49.If you like my videos, please consider joining my Patreon, this is how I manage to pay for my narrations. Corrections officials learned the tape existed about a month ago, Howell said. The second was Mary Ann Jordan, 20, who Speck also stabbed to death upon her entry to the dorm. Speck brought her to his room where he raped her and stole her mail-order .22 caliber Rhm pistol. This is the shocking true story of Richard Speck and how he became a cold-blooded killer. Police remove one of eight bodies of the student nurses slain by Richard Speck. 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. On the night of the crime, 24-year-old Speck snuck into a townhouse in Chicago where the nurses lived. All rights reserved. There is an old saying look at the 5 people closest to you and that is who you are. She eventually crawled out onto a window ledge and screamed for help. The videotape, portions of which began airing last week on Chicagos WBBM-TV, shows no contrition from the man who murdered eight student nurses nearly 30 years ago. Not even close. document.body.appendChild(newdiv); 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.. Amurao waited until 6 a.m. the following day, crawled out onto a second-story ledge and alerted the police. Bettmann/Getty ImagesFrom left, top are: student nurses Gloria Jean Davy, 22, Mary Ann Jordan, 20, Suzanne Farris, 21, and Valentina Pasion, 23, and bottom, Patricia Matusek, 20, Merlita Gargullo, 23, Pamela Wilkening, 20, and Nina Schmale, 24, all of whom were slain in July 1966 by Richard Speck. Richard Speck sits in court before being returned to Chicago. Richard Speck, left, with a fellow inmate in Statesville Correctional Institute. Welp.. here is your yearly reminder not to commit mass murder. Corazon Amurao was the sole survivor, having escaped Specks notice by hiding under a bed. ``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. Bill Kurtis obtained the tape through an anonymous lawyer, his production company paid 5K for it back in the 90's. A mugshot of Richard Speck taken when he was just 20. He was initially given a death sentence, but this was reduced to life in prison in 1971 when the Supreme Court ruled that people opposed to the death penalty were unconstitutionally excluded from the jury. After a mile, he came across a townhouse that was functioning as a dormitory for nine student nurses at the South Chicago Community Hospital. 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. With Steve Bencich, Tony Besson, Hayley Derryberry, Chance Harlem Jr.. //insert the container, fill it with the extended text, and define the new selection When he was 20 years old in 1962, Richard Speck met Shirley Malone, a girl five years his junior. When Speck saw his pregnant teen wife looking on, he would laugh, reveling in her pain before driving off. Had & quot ; born to Raise Hell & quot ; born to Raise &! 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