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Richard Speck
Richard Speck, during his trial in 1966
Born	December 6, 1941(1941-12-06) Kirkwood, Illinois, USA
Died	December 5, 1991 (aged 49) Joliet, Illinois, USA
Conviction(s)	Murder, Kidnapping, Rape
Penalty	Capital punishment, later changed to life imprisonment
Status	Died in prison
Spouse	Shirley Malone (m. 1961, div. 1966)
Parents	Robert Speck Gladys Sterner

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Early life

Speck was born in Kirkwood, Illinois, the seventh of eight children by Robert and Gladys Speck. Speck was raised in a religious family. His father died when he was six, sometime afterward Gladys took Richard and daughter Carolyn to Fair Park, Texas, a small town east of Dallas. After moving, Gladys married a man named Lindbergh, who was loathed by Richard for his drunkenness, abuse, and frequent absences from the house.(Time-Life, pg. 8) Kirkwood is a village located in Warren County, Illinois. ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Largest metro area Chicago Area  Ranked 25th  - Total 57,918 sq mi (149,998 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 390 miles (629 km)  - % water 4. ... Official language(s) No official language See languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Largest metro area Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 261,797 sq mi (678,051 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ... Dallas redirects here. ...

Richard Speck was a poor student in school. By the age of 12, he had begun drinking alcohol, a habit which would last for the rest of his life. The alcohol was used, in part, to stem the headaches received from a series of head injuries which began at the age of five while playing in a sandbox with a claw hammer. He fell out of a tree twice, and at 15 he ran head-first into a steel girder. Speck dropped out of school in the 9th grade.(Time-Life, pg. 8)

At the age of 19, Speck did something that wouldn't pass notice at the time, but would figure later in life as the essence of the man. "We all had something different," he recalled in an interview during the time he was inside a tattoo parlor. "I couldn't think of nothing to have on my arm, so I asked the tattooer if he had any ideas. He suggested all kinds of things, slogans and stuff, and one of them was BORN TO RAISE HELL. That sounded kinda good, so I let him put that. Didn't mean anything special to me."(Time-Life, pg. 9)

Early crime

Around the time he began drinking, Speck was arrested for the first time, for trespassing. Speck was also arrested for burglary and stabbing. Although he was a suspect in the raping of Virgil Harris (65), and the beating death of Mary Kay Pierce, he avoided in-depth interrogation and was never charged. Speck was also a suspect in the July 2, 1966 disappearance of three women in Indiana and the murders of four other females in Michigan.^[1] A detail from The Haywain Triptych by Hieronymus Bosch A stabbing or dicksucking is the penetration of a sharp or pointed dick at close range. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...

The murders

Speck's killings stunned the country during an era in which murder was rare and mass murder was unheard of; this example is from a full page spread in the New York Times, July 18, 1966. (NYT)

On July 14, 1966, Speck broke into a South Chicago townhouse located at 2319 East 100th Street. He took the student nurses hostage who lived there, including Gloria Davy, Patricia Matusek, Nina Schmale, Pamela Wilkening, Suzanne Farris, Mary Ann Jordan, Merlita Gargullo, and Valentina Pasion. Speck, who later claimed he was high on both alcohol and drugs, originally planned to commit a routine burglary.^[2] Speck held the women hostage for hours, methodically beating, raping, and stabbing them to death. Only one person, Cora (Corazon) Amurao, escaped by hiding under a bed during the massacre. Speck knew there were eight nurses living in the dorm, but was unaware that a friend had spent the night. Amurao stayed hidden until 5 AM. When she came out, she ran to the balcony and began screaming, "They're all dead! All my friends are dead!"^[3] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 385 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (586 × 912 pixel, file size: 192 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) FAIR USE REASON: Illustrate news of Richard Specks murders from the time period in question. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 385 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (586 × 912 pixel, file size: 192 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) FAIR USE REASON: Illustrate news of Richard Specks murders from the time period in question. ... is the 195th day of the year (196th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ...

After the murder, Richard Speck was observed entering a diner near the scene and sitting at the counter. Richard Speck was in such an agitated and disordered state that he aroused the suspicions of Mr. Robert Everhart, a patron at the diner. Everhart was unaware of the crime that had been committed, but called and left an anonymous tip to the police about Speck before leaving the diner. After Speck became a wanted fugitive, he was identified by a drifter named Claude Lunsford. Speck, Lunsford and another man had been drinking on July 16 on the fire escape of the Starr Hotel at 617 W. Madison. Lundsford recognized Speck's picture in the paper on July 17 and phoned the police after visiting Speck in his room at the Starr Hotel. The police, however, did not respond to the call although their records showed the call had been made. Speck attempted suicide and the Starr Hotel desk clerk phoned in the emergency after Lundsford had called the police. Speck, who was not recognized by the police, was taken to Cook County Hospital at 12:30 AM on July 17. At Cook County Hospital, Speck was recognized by Dr. LeRoy Smith, a 25-year-old surgical resident physician, who recognized the "Born To Raise Hell" tattoo from a newspaper story and the police were alerted to his real identity.^[4] is the 197th day of the year (198th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 198th day of the year (199th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Mayor of Leipzig, Germany, committed suicide along with his wife and daughter on April 20, 1945. ... Cook County Hospital is the fictional hospital in the NBC series ER ... is the 198th day of the year (199th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Residency is a stage of postgraduate medical training in North America and leads to eligibility for board certification in a primary care or referral specialty. ...

Pre-trial

Felony Court Judge Herbert J. Paschen appointed an impartial panel who would determine Speck's competence to stand trial and sanity at the time of the crime. The panel was comprised of three persons submitted by both the defense and the prosecution, five psychiatrists and one psychologist. The panel ultimately found Speck competent to stand trial.^[5]

While awaiting trial, Speck participated in twice weekly sessions with psychiatrist, Dr. Marvin Ziporyn, which continued from his arrest until 13 February 1967. Ziporyn prepared a discharge summary regarding Speck which listed depression, anxiety, guilt, and shame, but a deep love for his family. It went on to note an obsessive-compulsive personality and a "Madonna-prostitute" manner of dealing with women. Ziporyn maintained that Speck would view women as saintly until he felt betrayed by them for some reason, after which hostility would develop. He maintained that Speck had organic brain syndrome from the cerebral injuries suffered earlier in life. This was fundamental in the defense's attempt to lay the foundation for an insanity defense.^[5]

Although Ziporyn would go on to be the defense's primary witness, later discoveries led prosecutors to doubt his motives. At some point during his interviews with Speck, Ziporyn had obtained a written three-sentence consent from Speck authorizing him to tell "what I am really like."^[5] Ziporyn went on to publish a biography of Speck in 1967.^[5] By 1986, the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation had suspended Ziporyn's license to practice psychiatry for various charges unrelated to Speck's treatment. ^[6] Ziporyn continued to testify in trials as an expert witness, but never practiced psychiatry again.

Speck later said he had no recollection of the murders, but he had confessed the crime to Dr. LeRoy Smith at the Cook County Hospital. Dr. Smith did not testify however, since the confession was made while under the influence of drugs. Illinois Supreme Court Justice John J. Stamos, Cook County's state attorney when Speck was tried, knew of the confession. "We couldn't use it because [Speck] was under the influence of sedatives," said Stamos. "And we didn't need it. We had an eyewitness."^[4] In a film convicts made at the Stateville Correctional Center years later, Speck recounted the deed.^[7] Recollection is the retrieval of memory. ...

Trial

Speck's jury trial began April 3, 1967, in Peoria, Illinois, three hours south of Chicago, with a gag order on the press.^[8] Speck was identified in a dramatic scene in court by the sole surviving student nurse, Cora (Corazon) Amurao. When Amurao was asked if she could identify the killer of her fellow students, Amurao rose from her seat in the witness box, walked directly in front of Speck and pointed her finger at him, nearly touching him, and said, "This is the man." It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Jury. ... is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday and the summer of 1967 was known as The Summer of Peace and Love (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... , : See how it plays in Peoria United States Illinois Peoria 46. ... A gag order is an order, sometimes a legal order by a court or government, other times a private order by an employer or other institution, restricting information or comment from being made public. ...

Lieutenant Emil G. Giese headed the Identification Section of the Chicago Police Department and compared a fingerprint that was dusted from a door at the murder scene to another provided by the FBI. Lt. Giese was also chosen by the chief prosecutor William Martin to testify at the trial, along with the only eyewitness - Corazon Amurao. The fingerprints provided the scientific evidence the prosecution needed for a conviction, and along with Amurao's testimony, put the evidence toward Speck beyond any reasonable doubt.^[9]

On April 15, after 49 minutes of deliberation, the jury found Speck guilty and recommended the death penalty. On June 5, Judge Herbert J. Paschen sentenced Speck to die in the electric chair but granted an immediate stay pending automatic appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court, which upheld his conviction and death sentence on November 22, 1968.^[10] is the 105th day of the year (106th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 156th day of the year (157th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The electric chair is an execution method in which the person being put to death is strapped to a chair and electrocuted through electrodes placed on the body. ... Supreme Court of Illinois is the apex court of judicature of the state of Illinois, United States of America. ... is the 326th day of the year (327th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Death penalty reversal

On June 28, 1971, the United States Supreme Court (citing their April 24, 1968 decision in Witherspoon v. Illinois) upheld Speck's conviction, but reversed his death sentence because objectors to capital punishment had been systematically excluded from his jury. The case was remanded to the Illinois Supreme Court for re-sentencing. is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C., (large image) The Supreme Court of the United States, located in Washington, D.C., is the highest court (see supreme court) in the United States; that is, it has ultimate judicial authority within the United States... is the 114th day of the year (115th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Holding Court membership Chief Justice: Earl Warren Associate Justices: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, John Marshall Harlan II, William J. Brennan, Potter Stewart, Byron White, Abe Fortas, Thurgood Marshall Case opinions Laws applied Ill. ... Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the state as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences. ...

On June 29, 1972, in Furman v. Georgia, the United States Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional, so the Illinois Supreme Court's only available option was to order Speck re-sentenced to prison by the original Cook County court.^[11] is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Holding The arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into constitutionality. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

On November 21, 1972, in Peoria, Judge Richard Fitzgerald re-sentenced Speck to 400 to 1,200 years in prison (8 consecutive sentences of 50 to 150 years).^[12] The sentence was reduced in 1973 to a new statutory maximum of 300 years, making him eligible for parole in 1977. He was denied parole in seven minutes at his first parole hearing on September 15, 1976, and at six subsequent parole hearings in 1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 1987, and 1990.^[13][14][15] is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1976 Pick up sticks(MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ...

While incarcerated at Stateville Prison in Joliet, Illinois, Speck was given the nickname "birdman", after the film Birdman of Alcatraz, when he kept a pair of sparrows that flew into his cell. He was described as being a loner, keeping a stamp collection, listening to music, and he would carry out his work details painting the bars and walls throughout the prison. His usual contact with the warden would include requests for new shirts or a radio or other mundane items. The warden merely described him as "a big nothing doing time." Speck was not a model prisoner; he was often caught with drugs or distilled moonshine. Punishment for such infractions never stopped him. "How am I going to get in trouble? I'm here for 1,200 years!"^{[citation needed]} Incorporated City in 1834. ... Birdman of Alcatraz is a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster and directed by John Frankenheimer. ... Genera Passer Petronia Carpospiza Montifringilla The true sparrows, the Old World sparrows in the family Passeridae, are small passerine birds. ... Look up Moonshine in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

XYY theory rejected

It was suggested thought that the XYY syndrome made a person more likely to commit crimes and that Richard Speck had the XYY syndrome. Later on it was proven that Speck did not have the XYY syndrome and the theory that there is a relation between XYY syndrome and criminal behavior was rejected soon afterward.^[16] XYY, or XYY syndrome and also known as the Jacob Syndrome, is a trisomy of the sex chromosomes in which a human male receives an extra Y chromosome in each cell, hence having a karyotype of 47,XYY. Effects Physical traits XYY syndrome typically causes no unusual physical features or...

Speck's death: autopsy and funeral

Speck died of a heart attack at 6:05 a.m. December 5, 1991, one day before his 50th birthday, at Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet. He had been taken to Silver Cross after complaining of chest pains and nausea at Stateville Correctional Center.^[17] December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ...

After Speck's death, Dr. Jan E. Leestma, a neuropathologist at the Chicago Institute of Neurosurgery, performed an autopsy of Speck's brain. Leestma found apparent gross abnormalities. Two areas of the brain encroached on each other and their boundaries were blurred -- the hippocampus, which involves memory, and the amygdala, which deals with rage and other strong emotions.^[7] Leestma made tissue section slides and presented them to others who agreed his findings were unusual. There was no further analysis however, the tissue samples were lost or stolen when sent to a Boston neurologist for further study and Leestma's findings were inconclusive.^[7] The hippocampus is structurally located inside the medial temporal lobe of the brain. ... Look up Amygdala in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Dr. John R. Hughes, a neurologist and longtime director of the Epilepsy Clinic at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and a colleague of Leestma, examined photos of the tissue in the 1990s and brain wave tests of Speck in the 1960s. Hughes stated, "I have never heard of that [type of abnormality] in the history of neurology. So any abnormality that exceptional has got to have an exceptional consequence." Hughes attributes Speck's homicidal nature to a combination of the brain abnormalities, the violence Speck suffered at the hands of his alcoholic stepfather and his drinking and violence in Texas.^[7]

After Speck died, nobody wanted to claim his body. Duane Krieger, Will County coroner when Speck died, stated that he had talked to Richard Speck's sister but, "She said they were afraid people would desecrate the grave if they had him buried out there. Duane also stated that the sister "told her kids, 'You can never tell people Richard Speck was your uncle.'"^[17]

Speck was cremated. The ashes were scattered in a location known only to Krieger, his chief deputy, a pastoral worker and Joliet Herald News columnist John Whiteside (Whiteside has since died). All witnesses swore to keep the location secret, a "pastoral" and "an appropriate location" in the Joliet area. "We said a couple of prayers and spread them to the wind," Krieger said. "It was a very small funeral."^[17]

The video

In May 1996, Chicago television news anchor Bill Kurtis received video tapes from an anonymous attorney which were made at Stateville Prison in 1988. Showing them publicly for the first time in front of a shocked and deeply angry Illinois state legislature, Kurtis pointed out the explicit scenes of sex, drug use, and money being passed around by prisoners who seemingly had no fear of being caught, and in the center of it all was Speck, ingesting cocaine, parading around in silk panties, sporting female-like breasts grown from smuggled hormone treatments, and boasting, "If they only knew how much fun I was having, they'd turn me loose."^[18] Bill Kurtis (born September 21, 1940) is a television journalist and producer best known as the host of numerous A&E crime and news documentary shows, including Investigative Reports, American Justice, and Cold Case Files. ... Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. ...

From behind the camera, a prisoner asked him why he killed the nurses. Speck shrugged and jokingly said "It just wasn't their night." Asked how he felt about himself in the years since, he said "Like I always feel. Had no feelings." He also described in detail what must be done when strangling someone: "it's not like TV...it takes over three minutes and you have to have a lot of strength." John Schmale, the brother of one of the murdered nurses, said, "It was a very painful experience watching him tell about how he killed my sister."

The tapes were later broadcast on the A&E Network's Investigative Reports, and were used to argue for the death penalty. The same airing of Investigative Reports included interviews with people who believed that Speck was not taking hormones, wearing panties, etc. voluntarily, and that he'd instead been forced to by other inmates, and this may have been a way of surviving his time in prison. Biography is one of A&Es longest-running and most popular programs. ... Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the state as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences. ... ‹ The template below (Expand) is being considered for deletion. ...

Cultural references

• Japanese "pink film" director, Koji Wakamatsu, based his 1967 film, Violated Angels (犯された白衣 - Okasareta Hakui) on the Speck murders ^[19]

• A 1976 film, entitled alternately "Born For Hell"^[20] and "Naked Massacre" is a direct retelling of the Speck murders, except that the locale is war-torn Ireland.

• In 2002, a movie called Speck was made about the case.

• The Simon and Garfunkel song "7 O'Clock News" was composed of several radio broadcasts being read against Christmas standard "Silent Night." One of the broadcasts referred to the indictment of Speck by a grand jury for his murder of the student nurses.

• The Cheap Trick song "The Ballad of T.V. Violence" is about Speck, the lyrics sung from the murderer's point of view. The song was originally titled "The Ballad of Richard Speck," but the band changed it out of concern for the families of Speck's victims. Their song "Born to Raise Hell," which appeared in the animated film Rock & Rule, may be a reference to Speck's tattoo, although this is unconfirmed.

• Macabre recorded a song about Speck called "What The Heck, Richard Speck (8 Nurses You Wrecked)", which appeared on Sinister Slaughter, 1993.

• Portraits of the eight nurses Speck murdered were made into Eight Student Nurses (1966), a painting series by German artist Gerhard Richter.

• Former Marilyn Manson member Zsa Zsa Speck formed the name from Zsa Zsa Gabor's first name and Richard Speck's last name.

• The film 10 to Midnight starring Charles Bronson parallels the Speck Murders, in that a man enters the home of several student nurses and systematically kills them while one, who was hiding under a bed, escapes.

• In the 1996 movie Freeway, the photo of the main character's father is of Speck.

• The film director John Waters also mentions Speck in a few of his films including the 1974 movie Female Trouble, Divine mentions Richard Speck in her nightclub act, saying: "I blew Richard Speck!", and also in the 1994 film Serial Mom, Kathleen Turner's character's husband finds an envelope with the return address "Richard Speck, Statesville Correctional Center, Joliet, Illinois 60434" containing an autographed 8x10 glossy photograph of Speck.

• Richard Speck was the subject of a song by the same name by Wesley Willis.

• The 29 March 2007 episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, titled Empty Eyes, featured a story line with many elements paralleling the Speck case.

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References

1. ^ Richard Speck Biography Channel, A & E TV
2. ^ "'They're all dead!': 40 years ago this week, Richard Speck killed 8" Scott Fornek (July 9, 2006) Chicago Sun-Times
3. ^ http://www.time.com/time/2007/crimes/9.html
4. ^ ^{a b} "Dogged detectives, alert physician nailed Speck " Reprint of Scott Fornek's July 10, 2006 Chicago Sun-Times article
5. ^ ^{a b c d} Breo, Daniel L.; William J. Martin (1993). Crime of the Century; Richard Speck and the Murder of Eight Student Nurses. New York, NY: Bantam Books. ISBN 0-553-56025-5. 
6. ^ Ziporyn v. Zollar Court ruling re: Ziporyn suspension
7. ^ ^{a b c d} Was he evil, crazy -- or brain-damaged? Reprint of article by Scott Fornek (July 11, 2006) Chicago Sun-Times
8. ^ The Press and Richard Speck Time.com March 3, 1967
9. ^ Interview with Emil G. Giese on April 6, 2007
10. ^ CBS Evening News November 22, 1968
11. ^ The Illinois death penalty experience — Furman v. Georgia to the present Northwestern Law August 18, 2004
12. ^ Time Time.com December 4, 1972
13. ^ AROUND THE NATION; Murderer of 8 Nurses Is Denied Parole Again New York Times September 8, 1984
14. ^ Slayer of 8 Student Nurses Is Denied Parole in Illinois New York Times September 10, 1987
15. ^ No Parole for Nurses' Killer New York Times September 12, 1990
16. ^ Pop Culture Crime Discussion with sources on genetic influences
17. ^ ^{a b c} "Ashes scattered in secret spot Reprint of Chicago-Sun Times article (July 11, 2006)
18. ^ The Crime Library Richard Speck
19. ^ Weisser, Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser. (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. Miami. (ISBN 1-88928-852-7), p.101.
20. ^ Born For Hell at IMDB

• "The Voice Of Richard Speck," Chicago Tribune, December 8, 1991.
• True-Crime: Mass Murderers (chapter "Loser"), Time-Life books, Morristown, New Jersey 1991. ISBN 0-7835-0004-1

Released to "DVD" in 2007, the film entitled "The Chicago Massacre" gives details and the story of Richard Speck during his killing rampage and a look into the mind of the killer.

External links

• Richard Franklin Speck. Carpenoctem.tv An independent website.
• Night of Terror Crime Library
• Richard Speck Handwriting sample, dated 1-13-67, by R. Speck saying he endorses the book authored by Dr. Ziporyn.
• "Maybe this symbol of evil found peace" Eulogy by John Whiteside, Chicago Suburban News. Reprint of article written 12/17/91 after Whiteside witnessed the secret dispersal of Speck's ashes. Speck's ashes were disposed of at the burial of the ashes of an unclaimed infant and a John Doe.

Further reading

• Dennis L. Breo and William J. Martin (1993) Crime of the Century; Richard Speck and the Murder of Eight Student Nurses.

William J. Martin was the prosecutor that succeeded in getting Speck imprisoned.

• Jack Altman and Marvin, Ziporyn, M.D (1967) Born to Raise Hell: The Untold Story of Richard Speck. The Man, The Crime, The Trial. Grove Press,

Dr. Ziporyn interviewed Speck approximately twice a week over a period of six months before Speck's trial and was an expert witness for Speck's defense.

• Jay Robert Nash (1995) Bloodletters and Badmen. M. Evans and Co.

Contains a chapter on Speck