The Killing Spree of Richard Speck
Throughout the twentieth century, there have been many mass/serial killers. One killer who may be over-shadowed by the likes of Ted Bundy or Paul Bernardo, is Richard Speck. To some, Speck may be considered a "lightweight" in the mass murder world but to his victims and their families, he is a man of sub-human character. To prove his poor character, on that frightful night, while he was raping one of his victims he calmly said to her, "Would you mind putting your legs on my back?"(www.flashback.net/~slayer/speck.htm).
Richard Speck was no stranger to violence. Before the frightful night of July 13, 1966, Speck was no stranger to violence. He was suspected in a number of other murders but was never charged because of his calm and cool demeanour. He even went as far as to admit that he killed his ex-wife's husband to a barmaid in his childhood hometown of Monmouth, Illinois. No one truly took the allegations to heart but everyone's mind would change after the night of July 13, 1966 on which Richard Allen Speck murdered eight women, and raped one.
The events of the night began when Speck left work after a fist fight with his boss, after which he proceeded to borrow money for alcohol and drugs. After he ran out of money, and high on an unknown drug, he approached the home of nine student nurses, armed with a gun and a knife, and demanded money. He told the young woman who answered the door that he needed money, and forced her and five other residents in the house to lay on the floor of a bedroom. Speck then proceeded to tie them up with ripped bed sheets along with three more women who entered the house at a later time, telling them all that they would not be hurt. After ransacking the hou...
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...ornographic videos with his lover from jail and two other inmates who helped him make his tape(s). Speck apparently showed no remorse in jail because he is seen and heard on the video tape admitting to the murders saying, "…just wasn't their night" www.mayhem.net/Crime/speck.html).
Richard Speck died of a heart attack in 1991 at the age of 48 while incarcerated. He may be gone from this earth but his mark of brutality will always be etched into the minds of American's who came to refer to him as, "…a symbol of evil" ( http://www.amrvideo.com/new/SOE2/SOE-16053.htm).
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