Richard Speck
Published on Nov 22, 2015
Alexa
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
- Born on December 6, 1941
- He was the 7th of 8 children in a religious family
- Father died when he was 6
- Mother got remarried and had to move the family to Texas
- Abuse from stepdad caused him to begin a life of crime
INTERESTING FACTS
- "Born to raise Hell" tattooed on his forearm
- Made him easy to distinguish when he was wanted
- Made him easy to distinguish when he was wanted
- "Love" and "Hate" tattooed on his knuckles
INTERESTING FACTS
- Got married to a 15 year old when he was 20
- Shirley Malone
- Had a daughter named Robbie Lynn
- Marriage filled with abuse
- Divorced in 1966, 6th months before mass murder
INTERESTING FACTS
- He was a very poor student
- Refused to recite or present in class
- Had a fear of people looking at him
- Failed every class freshman year
- Dropped out of school at 16
INTERESTING FACTS
- March 5, 1966
- He bought a used car and then robbed a grocery store
- Stole 70 cartons of cigarettes and sold them from the trunk
Photo by kevin dooley
INTERESTING FACTS
- His mass murder was featured on American Horror Story
- Murder House, "Home Invasion"
JULY 13/14, 1966
- Speck broke into a dorm on the South side of Chicago
- He took 8 nurses hostage
- Promised he would only rob them
- He took them into different rooms to separate them
- He gagged, raped, stabbed, strangled, and suffocated them
LAST HOSTAGE
- Corazon (Cora) Amurao
- Hid under a bed
- Listened to Speck kill her roommates
- Waited for hours until she knew she was alone
- Hysterically cried and screamed for help
OUTCOME
- Corazon reports Speck's tattoo to police
- After seeing himself on the news he tried to kill himself
- When he slashed his wrists in a suicide attempt, he severed an artery
- Went to hospital, doctors recognized his tattoo and called police
Photo by djwudi
TRIAL
- April 3, 1967
- Trial lasted 12 days
- Speck said he did not remember committing the murders
- Took jury less than an hour to find him guilty of all 8
- Richard Speck was sentenced to death
CHANGES
- 1972- capital punishment was abolished
- Speck was sentenced to 8 counts of 50-150 years
- 1973- changed new maximum to 300
- He died in prison from a heart attack after serving 19 years
REASONS
- When asked why he did it he doesn't know
- Was thought to be addicted to raping women
- He blames it on intense binge drinking and taking drugs
Photo by Bob Jagendorf
