Episode 528: Richard Speck
On one horrific night in July 1966, Richard Speck methodically murdered 8 nursing students in Chicago, Illinois. After breaking into a townhouse on E. 100th St., Speck, who had a long criminal history, took the lives of eight young women who were just a month away from graduating. He has now become known as one of America’s first “mass murderers”, but the victims are what are more important. Gloria Davy, Patricia Matusek, Nina Jo Schmale, Pamela Wilkening, Suzanne Farris, Mary Ann Jordan, Merlita Gargullo, and Valentine Pasion lost their lives to a heinous monster.
Sources for this episode:
https://www.chicagohistory.org/first-mass-murderer-richard-speck/
https://www.cga.ct.gov/PS97/rpt/olr/htm/97-R-0242.htm
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/killer-richard-speck-confessing-video-1996-report/
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/july-13/a-mass-murderer-leaves-eight-women-dead
https://windycityghosts.com/the-1966-chicago-nurse-murders-revisiting-the-richard-speck-case/
