Episode 19 - Richard Speck: An Infamous Mass Murderer

On the 13th of July 1966, 24 year old Richard Speck broke into a dormitory where student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital lived. After he broke in, he committed one of the worst mass murders America has ever seen. This episode explores the crimes Richard Speck committed leading up to this fateful day and discusses the life he led in prison after his conviction. 

 

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Sources used in this episode:

Article about Luisa Silverio: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/xgqvjj/richard-speck-murder-nurses-survivor-corazon-amurao-luisa-silverio

https://allthatsinteresting.com/richard-speck

https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/richard-speck/crimes

https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/richard-speck/aftermath

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-04940-001

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MadonnaWhoreComplex

https://www.whiteswanfoundation.org/disorders/other-disorders/organic-mental-disorder-organic-brain-syndrome

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-mass-murderer-leaves-eight-women-dead

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0361684319843298#:~:text=The%20madonna%2Dwhore%20dichotomy%20denotes,or%20as%20bad%20and%20promiscuous.

https://www.womenarehuman.com/the-first-known-man-to-transition-gender-in-prison-was-a-serial-rapist-mass-murderer-of-women-richard-speck/

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/richard-speck

https://www.counselormagazine.com/en/columns/2016/may-jun/cultural-trends-jun-2016

https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/speck-richard.htm#:~:text=Prior%20to%20the%20nurse%20murders,he%20avoided%20in%2Ddepth%20interrogation.

https://apnews.com/caa5b94ca71e5b3edd129a46de1da7c5

https://www.counselormagazine.com/en/columns/2016/may-jun/cultural-trends-jun-2016

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/shadow-boxing/201406/the-fbis-sessions-serial-killers

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5860193/pamela-lee-wilkening

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5860300/mary-ann-jordan

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5860194/merlita-ornado-gargullo

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5860192/gloria-jean-davy

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5860189/patricia-ann-matusek

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5860191/nina-jo-schmale

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/178402071/valentina-p-pasion

 

YOUTUBE LINKS:

The Details of Mass Murderer Richard Speck | Oxygen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6tfvDyjpVs

3 Real Stories Behind the Killers on Mindhunter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_zCNzXlfxQ

RICHARD SPECK (video from inside prison):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slm_YDzx4vI