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- NAME: Richard Speck
- OCCUPATION: Serial Killer
- BIRTH DATE: December 06, 1941
- DEATH DATE: December 05, 1991
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Kirkwood, Illinois
- PLACE OF DEATH: Joliet, Illinois
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In 1966, Richard Speck committed one of the most horrifying mass murders in American history when he brutalized and killed eight student nurses living on Chicago's South Side.
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Richard Speck massacred eight nurses in Chicago in 1966. BIO explores his life of crime and examines his trial.
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In 1996, five years after Speck's death, a TV journalist made public a prison video, which showed Speck taking drugs and engaging in sex with another inmate during the 1980s, while he was an inmate at Statesville Correctional Institute; Speck appears to have breasts in the video, apparently as a result of hormone treatment received while in prison, and is wearing women's underwear. In the video, Speck also casually admits to the killing of the nurses, describing the strangulations in some detail,
and bragging about the strength required to kill someone in this manner.
The video's release caused a major scandal within the Illinois Department of Corrections, and was widely cited as justification for the reintroduction of death penalty. In 1991, while still in prison, Speck died of a heart attack.
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