document.addEventListener('copy', addLink); He saved Gloria Davy for last, raping and sodomizing her before strangling her. His sentence was reduced to 4001,200 years in 1972. My friends are all dead! Illinois Supreme Court Justice John J. Stamos, Cook County's state attorney when Speck was tried, who knew of the hospital confession, stated, "we didn't need it. In addition, Lieutenant Emil Giese testified that fingerprints at the scene had been matched to Richard Speck. Richard Benjamin Speck[2][3] was born in Kirkwood, Illinois in 1941 and was the seventh of eight children of Benjamin Franklin Speck and Mary Margaret Carbaugh. Richard Benjamin Speck (December 6, 1941 December 5, 1991) was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago, residence via stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 1314, 1966. He and his sister Carolyn (b. In the dormitory, he met five student nurses he tied up after robbing them. At 10:30a.m., he was tired of waiting at the NMU hiring hall for a job. Sure enough, the four other death row inmates terrorized Speck, threatening to kill him. She is not on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. Speck was convicted of aggravated assault, given a 16-month sentence to run concurrently with a parole violation sentence, and returned to prison in Huntsville. If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. These continued after Speck's transfer from Cermak Memorial Hospital (inside Chicago's House of Corrections) on July 29, 1966, until February 13, 1967, the day before Speck was transferred to Peoria to stand trial. All my friends are dead. A government agency is set to review its practice of granting requests by male inmates to be transferred to women's prison UK England. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. Students and staff of one of the leading and largest higher education institutions in the UK are accusing the university of UK Scotland. Speck had reason to fear he would not survive long enough to be executed by the state. The event that earned Mr. Speck such notoriety occurred on July 14, 1966, when he broke into a town house where nine seniors from the South Chicago Community Hospital School of Nursing were staying. 199200: possibly a $4.75 black-handled, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, Great Crimes and Trials of the 20th Century, Most prolific murderers by number of victims, "Find missing woman sought in Speck case", "'They're all dead! His troubles with the law didn't end there. Speck had to be placed in solitary confinement for his own safety. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Robie Hulce (124006226)? BUSINESS. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. To evade further police questioning, Speck skipped town and found work on a ship. [26] After Speck's conviction and death sentence were upheld by the Illinois Supreme Court later that year[44] and the appeals process moved to the Federal court system,[45] articles continued to appear in the lay press reporting (or implying) that Speck's supposed XYY genotype would be invoked as a mitigating factor. His mother was religious and a teetotaler. A ninth potential victim, student nurse Corazon Amurao, survived by hiding beneath a bed. In the center was Speck, performing oral sex on another inmate,[57][58] sharing a large quantity of cocaine with another inmate, parading in silk panties, sporting female-like breasts (allegedly grown using smuggled hormone treatments), and boasting: "If they only knew how much fun I was having, they'd turn me loose. 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Now, four years after his death, he's shocking people again as the grotesque star of a drug-and-sex . Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, Images and more on IDCrawl - the leading free people search engine. Thanks for the information. Speck did not have enough money for a rooming house, so he dropped his bags off six blocks east at the Manor Shell filling station at 9954 S. Torrence Ave. and slept in an unfinished house just off E. 103rd St.[4][6], On Wednesday, July 13, Speck picked up his bags and checked in at the NMU hiring hall. Speck lost out that day to a seaman with more seniority for a berth on the SS Flying Spray, a C1-A cargo ship bound for South Vietnam, and returned to his sister Martha's apartment for the weekend. Kerry A Speck is a resident of CO. Lookup the home address and phone 3032273132 and other contact details for this person . Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. [16] In court, Speck was positively identified by the sole surviving student nurse, Corazon Amurao. The murder had a deep and lasting effect on America's feelings of personal protection. ', Victims: (From top left to bottom right) Valentina Paison, Pamela Wilkening, Patricia Matusek, Suzanne Farris, Mary Ann Jordan, Merlita Garguilo, Gloria Davy and Nina Schmale. Richard Speck was born on December 6, 1941 in Kirkwood, Illinois, United States, United States (49 years old). Speck knew that several young nursing students who were doing their residency at South Chicago Community Hospital were living in the townhouse. 'I did,' Speck replied. Nine of the patients, ranging from 5ft 7in (1.70m) to 6ft 2in (1.88m) height, were found to have an extra Y chromosome, the XYY syndrome. Please reset your password. [43], In May 1968, Speck's chromosomes were karyotyped a second time by Engel, with the same result: a normal 46,XY genome. I'm here for 1,200 years! He was tried and found guilty of the murder and sentenced to 40 years in prison in 2015. he also has another open case of attempted murder against him. pagelink = ". The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Robbie Lynn Speck, Personal Life and Net Worth. This account has been disabled. Benjamin Speck died of a heart attack when his youngest son, Richard, was six-years-old. Mr. Speck, whose wife divorced him a year before the murders, is survived by a son, Robbie Lynn Speck of Dallas. However, in 1972, when the U.S. Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional, Speck was resentenced to between 400 to 1,200 years in jail. Corazon Amurao, one of the nursing students, answered, and Speck forced his way in. Just to clarify. Richard Franklin Speck (December 6, 1941-December 5, 1991) was a mass murderer who systematically killed eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital on July 14, 1966. He broke into the nurses townhouse in Chicago. [4], Speck later claimed he had no recollection of the murders, but he had confessed the crime to Dr. LeRoy Smith at the Cook County Hospital. Resend Activation Email. After 25 years behind bars, Speck died from a heart attack on December 5, 1991, a day before his 50th birthday. Leave your condolences to the family on this memorial page or send flowers to show you care. Speck stopped using the name Richard Benjamin Lindberg when he got married and went back to using Richard Benjamin Speck. Law enforcement sources believed Speck broke into the home of 65-year-old Virgil Harris in Monmouth, Illinois onApril 2, 1966, and raped, robbed and bound her. Other known survivors include a brother, William Speck of Monmouth, Ill., and a sister, Carolyn Wilson of Dallas. The boy took his fathers death hard, regressing to eating crayons and attention-seeking behaviors. Oops, something didn't work. Richard Speck Biography Speck is also the sole suspect in the April 13, 1966 beating death of local barmaid Mary Kay Pierce. They said there was blood all over the place. [52], On November 21, 1972, in Peoria, Judge Richard Fitzgerald re-sentenced Speck to from 400 to 1,200 years in prison (eight consecutive sentences of 50 to 150 years),[53] which was then reduced to 100 to 300 years. Robbie passed away on March 5 2002, at age 77. There was a problem getting your location. Robbie Ann Hulce of Moody went to be with the Lord Januaary 15, 2014 at the age of 48. AUTO. Speck delayed his execution by filing numerous appeals. The police arrived within minutes and apprehended Speck a few blocks away. There are no volunteers for this cemetery. Debt-ridden couple killed their dog and then shot themselves dead with shotgun on the day they were due to Was it all for the cameras? After rounding up eight women, he systematically raped and strangled the victims. Although Speck appears to be enjoying himself in prison videos, it is most likely that he was pretending. In Roger Carons book, Go-Boy (1979), he describes the shock he felt entering prison as a young man in the fifties and seeing inmates with breasts. Amurao provided authorities with the information they needed to track down Speck, including a description of his Born to Raise Hell tattoo. Has Melissa Joan Hart Ever Supported Trump? document.body.appendChild(newdiv); Pitying the grieving child, his sisters and female teachers babied him. Had he been apprehended under that warrant, it would have been his 42nd arrest in Dallas and would have surely resulted in another prison term. Between the hundreds of fingerprints Speck left at the crime scene and Amuraos positive identification in court, the trial was open and shut, lasting only 12 days. Ziporyn also earned the ire of the Cook County Jail, which fired him as its part-time psychiatrist the week after Speck's trial ended. I thought you might like to see a memorial for Robie Ann Speck Hulce I found on Findagrave.com. Continuing with this request will add an alert to the cemetery page and any new volunteers will have the opportunity to fulfill your request. Richard Benjamin Speck (December 6, 1941 - December 5, 1991) was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago, residence via stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 13-14, 1966. Unsuspecting of the crimes he had committed, Martha gave her brother $25, which he used to go on a bar crawl. Find family history information in a whole new way Create a free family tree for yourself or for Robbie Speck and we'll search for valuable new information for you. [14] In a film that inmates made at the Stateville Correctional Center in 1988, Speck recounted the brutal murders in detail. One he started, one he went down that road, it was apparently difficult for him to turn back,' said William Nellis, Speck's prosecutor. The comments below have not been moderated. Nation gripped: In last night's episode of Mad Men, America's horror over the mass murder is recalled, with Sally Draper (left) and her step-grandmother Pauline [right] captivated by the gruesome story. Only one student nurse survived on the night of July 14, 1966, by hiding under the bed. He was the seventh of eight children and raised in a religious family. There is a problem with your email/password. During that interview, he publicly confessed to the murders for the first time, and said he thought he would get out of prison "between now and the year 2000," at which time he hoped to run his own grocery store business. Specks psychiatrist would later say that Mary Specks unconditional love created an internal conflict within Speck. Have you spotted an error or omission? Gene Thornton, who had served in the U.S. Navy, thought that the U.S. At 10 PM that same night, Speck took the stolen gun and went to a townhouse by Luella Park. This is a carousel with slides. Was it the Illinois Supreme Court? A public school teacher referred to all students by their last names to circumvent a school policy requiring staff to use UK Leeds, England. Petty crime is legal terminology, meaning crimes that are charged as misdemeanors rather than felonies. When. On May 20, he rejoined the crew of the Clarence B. Randall on which he served until June 14, when he got drunk and quarreled with one of the boat's officers and was put ashore on June 15. Columbia Pictures / Revolution Studios / RKO Pictures / Cubevision: Steve Carr (director); Hank Nelken (screenplay); Ice Cube, Nia Long, John C. McGinley, Aleisha Allen, Philip Daniel Bolden, Tahj Mowry, Dan Joffre, Pedro Miguel Arce, Linda Kash . "[57], Shortly before December 5, 1991, Speck was transported from Stateville Correctional Center to Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet, Illinois after complaining of severe chest pains. Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print. Speck was arrested again on January 9, 1965. newdiv.style.position = 'absolute'; Among his survivors are a brother, William of Monmouth, and a sister, Carolyn Wilson, last known to be living in Dallas. person can appear under different names in public records. I'm sorry as hell. Richard Wilbourn 9188652798. Are you sure that you want to report this flower to administrators as offensive or abusive? Seth Durand Roanoke Il was born on August 20, 1999, to his parents, Tom Durand and Marsha Brown Durand. reported that they had found no evidence of significant behavior differences, on average, between men with XYY karyotypes and those with normal genomes, and that XYY males had been unfairly stigmatized by earlier unsupported speculation.[49][31][50]. To save his own life, Speck had to permit to happen to him some of the same sexual abuses he had inflicted on women. The Illinois Supreme Court subsequently upheld his conviction and death sentence on November 22, 1968. You need a Find a Grave account to continue. One of the medical staff noticed the patients distinctive tattoo, and realized he was the man for whom authorities were searching. Speck moved back to his childhood state of Illinois. Her mothers name is Shirley Annette Malone, and she had Robbie when she was a teen. Fearing for her life, Speck's wife filed for divorce and took full custody of their child. He had several brushes with the law and served two jail sentences before the slayings. And I don't know what I'd do without it. Asked how he felt about himself in the years since, he said: "Like I always felt had no feeling. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. On July 16, Lunsford recognized a sketch of the murderer in the evening paper and phoned the police at 9:30p.m. after finding Speck in his (Lunsford's) room at the Starr Hotel. Lindberg was a traveling insurance salesman from Texas, with a 25-year criminal record that ranged from forgery to several DUIs. Speck was taken to Cook County Hospital at 12:30a.m. on July 17. Read more at: " + document.location.href; *Authors Note: Some readers have expressed concern about the use of the word petty crime in relation to Specks criminal act of indecent exposure. Just watched the video and they said the Supreme Court overturned the death penalty verdict. On the evening of July 13, after drinking all evening, Speck robbed and raped Ella Mae Hooper, 53, taking a .22 revolver which he then used to threaten the student nurses a few hours later. [4], While awaiting trial, Speck participated in twice-weekly sessions with part-time Cook County Jail psychiatrist, Dr. Marvin Ziporyn. Aftermath In. GREAT NEWS! [4][5] In autumn 1957, Speck started ninth grade at Crozier Technical High School, but failed every subject. When police showed up at the Christy Hotel on April 19 to continue questioning Speck, they discovered he had left the hotel a few hours earlier, carrying his suitcases and saying he was just going to the laundromat. [4], Speck stayed with his sister Martha Thornton and her family in Chicago for a few days, and then returned to his boyhood hometown of Monmouth, Illinois, where he initially stayed with some old family friends. Sorry Nicola, says JENNI MURRAY, but 16 is dangerously young to change your gender. On April 2, Speck broke into the Illinois house of a 65-year-old woman and raped her. The little girl murdered as she clutched her father's hand: Dad was found 'cradling' his three-year-old 'Incel' killer's eight-minute reign of terror: Chilling footage shows Plymouth gunman Jake Davison wielding Pictured: Five-year-old girl knocked down and killed by a takeaway delivery driver as her devastated mother 'I've seen grittier performances in lost episodes of Crossroads': HENDRY DEEDES says Keir Starmer is Cut taxes now or the Tories will lose the next election, senior Conservative MPs tell Jeremy Hunt as Crowning jewel: Kim Kardashian buys Princess Diana's iconic amethyst-and-diamond cross necklace at auction Thrifty Kate strikes again! At 6 PM, Speck finally approached the woman on the street, and forced her up to his inn room at knife-point. 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