She teaches her students about them and what they meant in both countries. Speck admitted he committed the killings _ breaking for the first time his claim of drug-induced amnesia. 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. (Schmale family ). Heroin and whiskey. Richard speck video noorvideo 81 subscribers Subscribe 253 Save 164K views 11 years ago Notice Age-restricted video (based on Community Guidelines) Almost yours: 2 weeks, on us 100+ live channels. he said. His mother filed them away neatly, along with the pictures and newspaper clippings. Nursing students were under strict rules during the 1960s, but still they found time for fun. You climbed down to the ledge on 100th Street? Peter McNamee washes the 1957 Chevrolet owned by his girlfriend, Nina Jo Schmale, whom he planned to marry after graducation, circa 1966. Speck opens up, admitting for the first time that he only sexually assaulted one of the women during his spree. ''I know it keeps up their morale. Except, Speck doesn't see himself as an evil person. What a waste that Nina and her friends weren't able to give the world everything they had to give, or enjoy its pleasures. News item: Speck's death sentence reversed. "Well," she wrote, "it was a fine, dizzying, exciting and wonderful weekend, but I still believe there is no place like home.". Stewardess. "A lot of people will be here shortly. Amurao, she believes, saved her life. She loved Elvis, cats and the color pink. "She laughs a lot.". Mary Ann Jordanin her nursing uniform in an undated photo. Her mother, Bessie, passed away in 2005. The judge sentenced Speck to death. When John Schmale talks about what happened that night, he uses the words "anger," "rage," "mourning.". Betty Jo had one more request. Suzanne Farris appears as a young girl with a prayer card from her funeral on July 18, 1966. Attorney William J. Martin, 79, talks about Corazon Amurao Atienza, the lone survivor of the Richard Speck murders. Atienza, 73, retired about five years ago after many years as a critical care nurse in Washington, D.C. She now spends most of her time with her husband, Alberto, daughter Abigail, son Christian and her six grandchildren. Student nurses Suzanne Farris, left, and Mary Ann Jordan are shown in their townhouse,circa 1966. Together they helped prepare Pat's body for burial, at the funeral home run by Arlene Baskys' dad, next door to Joe Matusek's bar. Nursing students were under strict rules during the 1960s, but still they found time for fun. 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. She worked part time at a bakery. "This is the man," she said as pandemonium erupted. He watched it once and hurled it into a corner. News item: Richard Speck sentenced. Schmale was a student nurse at South Chicago Community Hospital. Be married, divorced, retired? (Schmale family ). Before long, the Davy home was packed with people, and every room, it seemed, was packed with roses, so many roses the scent made Lori sick. Speck is played by Jack Erdie on "Mindhunter." Netflix/AP Speck is one of the later interviewees in "Mindhunter." He was a high-school dropout and alcoholic by age 15. When Speck died the other day at the age of 49, it was reported that he never gave interviews. He was arrested and stood trial for murdering the eight nurses. There was also Billy. With a rush of excitement and a pang of dread, he read her penciled note: "Nina South Chicago Hospital.". Had Pat gotten in OK the night before? (Schmale family). "Don't hate," she told them. Phil was also the brother of one of Suzie's classmates, Mary Ann Jordan, who had lived in the townhouse for a while, then moved back home. She closed the box, surely hoping that one day it would be opened. On the 50th anniversary of the murders, he remembers Corazon's bravery in court. Lori Davy, center, accepts a nursing school diploma on behalf of her slain sister, Gloria Davy, at a ceremony at McCormick Place in 1966. A photo shows four of the eight slain student nurses at South Chicago Community Hospital, circa 1966. Forty miles from home, when they spotted a gas station, they were reluctant to stop for directions because their curlers made them look like creatures from Mars. Too tired. The American student nurses and the exchange nurses never grew close, but from the outset they were friendly. Billy, the spirited boy who rarely spoke more than two words at a time, blurted three: "Mary Ann's dead!". Richard Speck was a murderer notorious for killing eight student nurses in 1966. Kubasek said no. One went into nursing. Its a typical 1950s school photograph, small, black-and-white, cropped with pinking shears, showing Suzie at about 10, wearing what looks like her Brownie uniform. He couldnt identify everyone he saw, but at the photo of the familiar woman in the familiar yellow two-piece bathing suit, he felt his heart clench. As the 50th anniversary of the murders approaches, that's what he wants for himself and the other families to reopen the lives of the women whose names have been overshadowed by their killer's. Only one of her siblings, a brother, is still alive. At Thornton Fractional South High School, she attended almost every basketball and football game with her closest girlfriends, but she didn't play sports. ''I like Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson. He plays a lot of solitaire. She went home, not knowing that a little more than an hour earlier, a drifter with a knife, a gun and a history of violence had broken in and was holding her friends hostage upstairs. He thinks of his sister every day. Shortly before she died, she wrote a friend about a trip to Wisconsin. The last time John Farris saw Suzie, 21, he had just come home from a track meet, carrying his victory medals, and she was visiting with her boyfriend, Phil. Many of those people have never spoken at length about what happened, not even to close family members. Life, though not idyllic, felt safe. In recent months, John Schmale has tried, with no luck, to find friends and relatives of Tina and Merlita, hoping to connect with them for the 50th anniversary commemoration. It was a close-knit community where almost no one locked their doors. Bottom row from left are Patricia Matusek, Valentina Pasion, Nina Jo Schmale and Pamela Wilkening. But she still can't stand the smell of roses. In November 1962, Speck married Shirley Malone, and they had a daughter, Bobby Lynn, soon after. Merlita Gargullo, left, one of eight nurses slain by Richard Speck, gets a goodbye kiss from her aunt, Ancia Anyayahan, as she left Manila for the United States. "What do I have here?". She displayed uncommon ease with the dying and never balked at the mess that came with tending to the human body. Having been paroled in January 1965, he lasted only four weeks outside, before being arrested again for aggravated assault, and he was jailed for a further 16 months, of which he served 6 months. They opened the door. He pushed up his left sleeve to reveal ugly scars on his arm. Repacking it. Nursing school exposed Pam and her classmates to life's wide range of joy and trouble. News item: Richard Speck dies in prison, of a heart attack, the day before his 50th birthday. If that one girl wouldn`t have spit in my face, they`d all be alive today.''. I want you to look at her eyes.". He thinks about the family she might have had, wishes she could have met his two sons and daughter and eight grandchildren. `Parents ought to be careful about their kids,'' Richard Speck said. Corazon Amurao, center, the nurse who survived the massacre of eight of her fellow student nurses, walks between another nurse and William Ruddel, Bridewell jail superintendent, from Bridewell's Cermak Memorial Hospital after a second visit to the building where Richard Speck was being held on July 19, 1966. In that small room, with its linoleum floor and overhead light, Suzie taught him how to make a grilled cheese sandwich and how, if you mixed sour cream and dry onion soup mix, presto, you had French onion dip. She married Alberto Atienza, and then, with her husband, a lawyer, moved back to the United States. 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. Mary Ann was at the Jordan bungalow on the night of July 13, 1966, when Phil and Suzie stopped by. Dr. John Schmale found a box of old slides in his waterlogged basement and opened a flood of memories. Once, remarking on her diligence and steady temperament, her brother told her she'd make a good military nurse. Despite concerns about her ability to testify after her harrowing ordeal, she gave a faultless performance, impressing the jury with every detail of that evening, identifying Speck unequivocally. Speck, however, seemed to have a knack for making a quick escape and keeping police forces guessing. Here's an image she holds on to, one her father captured on a Super 8 movie camera: A sunny Easter morning. One victim was also raped prior to her murder. In the Davy family, according to Lori, grieving openly for Gloria was considered weakness, especially by her father, the military man. Pat and Arlene Kubasek could hardly stop laughing on the night, during their high school sophomore year, that they went to the drive-in with four other girls, then sat in the car eating popcorn and rolling their hair on giant curlers. In the townhouse, she was known to sing while doing the dishes or the laundry. So did the fact that her brother, John, who was four years older, was studying to be a doctor. "For Filipinos and Filipino Americans who came of age during the 1960s," she said in a recent email, "I think Gargullo and Pasion are remembered as nurses who encountered American violence and tragedy, and Amurao is remembered as the nurse who used her wits to survive.". Betty Jo, whose married name was Purvis, died in 2015. They're walking home from church, dressed in matching blue coats and hats and black patent leather shoes, each clutching an Easter basket. On July 15, 1966, the Chicago Tribune's front page reported the news with the headline "Search for Mass Slayer." Subsequent nationwide enquiries also raised the other incidents in which Speck was suspected, as well as his criminal record. Videos by Chicago Tribune's Chris Walker. After the murders, the nursing students in the nearby townhouses moved back into the dorms connected to the hospital. But any kid can end up just like me.'' When. A few days before she died, Pam called her mother to say she couldn't come visit that weekend. Speck's trial began on April 3, 1967, and his claim that he had no recollection of the eight murders committed placed Corazon Amurao in the spotlight as the star witness. Come spend the night, Suzie suggested. Chicago was chilly, with a trace of snow, on May 9, 1966, when Tina's plane landed hardly the steamy weather she had known in Jones, a town 240 miles from Manila, where she grew up with five siblings. "Time is moving on," he said one afternoon, sitting in his peaceful yard under the old, low-hanging trees. Secretary. "Awful, awful. Speck, asked how many lovers he has had in prison, responded that he can't count that high. Her roommates and friends were killed by Speck on July 14, 1966, after he broke in armed with a gun and a knife. Cora has gone on to have a life that appears normal. She also had a hard time believing he actually died of a heart attack in prison in 1991 and wonders why she was spared. After the trial, she went home to the Philippines, got a job as a nurse and was elected to the town council in her hometown of San Luis. They were excited. Martin and Atienza kept in contact as Martin collaborated with author Dennis Breo, updating the book "Crime of the Century," about the Speck murder case. (Schmale family ). "She found the thing she loved doing, she meets a guy that she says 'yes' to about being married," he said. Lori would ride her bike over, do the dishes, pick up the clothes scattered around the living room. He killed more than eight people., Lori Davy Sivek remembers her sister Gloria Davy, one of eight student nurses and nurses murdered together 50years ago on Chicago'sSouth Side. Nina Jo Schmale appears in an undated photo. The townhouse Gloria shared with the other student nurses was often a mess, so she sometimes paid her little sister a dollar or two to clean. It's where Suzie taught him, as a 10-year-old, to play solitaire. Nina. The police didn't rush them, but they left as fast as they could. Before then, he had been responsible for other acts of violence against his family and others but had a knack for escaping the police. The day of her sister's death had been recorded as her graduation day. I screamed for about 20 minutes. Her brother, John Farris, still carries the photo and prayer card in his wallet 50 years later. Elmhurst Blotter: Man charged with battery for allegedly punching a security guard at a bar, Hinsdale police blotter: multiple thefts reported by patients at Hinsdale Hospital, Glenview police blotter: Harwood Heights woman charged with possession of a stolen vehicle, Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. "It was him," she said. The book is a detailed account of the months before the crime and ends with the drama of the trial. Richard Benjamin Speck[1][2] (December 6, 1941 - December 5, 1991) was an American mass murderer who systematically tortured, raped, and murdered eight stude. ''How am I gonna get in trouble?'' Who Is Richard Speck? Another sister wired the news to their father in their hometown. No immediate relatives were there. I was gonna get that tattoo removed. For those girls, and for their families, and for me. As part of their psychiatric rotation, they dealt with mentally disturbed patients. It was the kind of childhood that half a century later people look back on and call simpler, innocent, a time when city kids were raised to be independent and unafraid. It was around dawn when she made her way to an upstairs window. Just a few glimpses of the video have been shown (in the A&E) documentary about Richard. Richard Benjamin Speck was born on December 6, 1941, in Kirkwood, Illinois, into a large, religious family, where he was the seventh of eight children. Their married bliss was short-lived, however, and Speck's reversion to type landed him a jail sentence for theft and check fraud, in 1963. "When Merlita (Gargullo) cooked adobo filipino and pancit and they came home from the hospital and smelled the food and they say 'it's good' so we invited them to join us to eat, and they really like it. Half an hour later, she heard four knocks at the bedroom door. It was that door that a student nurse from a neighboring townhouse approached at 12:15 a.m. on July 14, in search of bread for a late-night sandwich. "Pat looks at us and says, 'Oh, for crying out loud!'" The Mystery Novelist Who Committed a Real Murder, Boston Marathon Bombings Survivors, 10 Years Later, A Complete Timeline of Adnan Syeds Trial, Release. "Let people know who they were," she said. Richard Speck murdered eight student nurses in one night in 1966. She was homesick. (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune). According to a 1966 Life magazine story, Tina often mentioned money in her letters. On Aug. 7, 1966, when Lori Davy, 11, walked across the stage to accept her sister's diploma, her father's orders were fresh in her mind. Tina was part of the wave of Filipina exchange nurses who came to the United States in that era to learn new things, make friends and, most of all, to work. Nina Jo Schmale appears in an undated photo. Come spend the night at the townhouse, Suzanne suggested to Mary Ann. We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back. Suzie was lucky. Wilkening has had a full life, but he doesn't pretend the pain is gone or that his life ever returned to a true version of normal. What he did, however, is known, because Cora, a 4-foot-10 nurse from the land of the concealed knife, escaped his sight at one point and hid under one bed, then another, until he was gone. Jack Wilkening, brother of Pamela Wilkening, remembers his sister and the days surrounding her 1966 murder along with seven other student nurses and nurseson Chicago'sSouth Side. Kubasek is 71, Baskys 68. For years, Pam's name, along with those of her housemates, was in the paper two or three times a week, or so it seemed to Jack, and always attached to the name of the man who killed her. Her father, who had become a familiar figure on TV, with his cane or in his wheelchair as he protested the possibility of Richard Speck's parole, died in 1990 on Pat's birthday. By the time I was 16 or 17 I knew it was nasty and cheap. Like Schmale, she talks about opening the box of her sister's life, and now that it's open she thinks, "Wow, wow, this was my sister. "It was just awful," Siouchoff said. According to the New York Times, at least one victim was raped. It sure gets way out. Merlita's father. "She is doing very, very well," said William Martin, 79, the former assistant state's attorney who was the lead prosecutor in the case. her daughter asked. Murder made Richard Speck famous. I asked him if he wasn`t afraid of getting in trouble for talking about the contraband he kept in his cell. The interview only goes south when Holden oversteps the bounds his newfound. Here are five things to know about Richard Speck. I had that put on me when I was 14 or 15. Police, cameras, gawkers were everywhere, and someone said something about "the bodies.". Fifty years ago she managed to crawl under a bed and hide while Richard Speck methodically stabbed and strangled eight young nurses after telling them he would not hurt them, that he just needed money to get to New Orleans. She wrote her daughter's name, Nina, on a piece of pink paper. On what occasion? 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. When their bodies were flown back to Manila, however, more than 100 people relatives and friends waited in the rain to watch their caskets unloaded from an airliner and hefted into funeral coaches. . "It ended an innocence we all had,'' Martin said. But whatever the veracity of his account of that murderous night (''It was just one of them weird coincidences. And it hasn't stopped since. "Life is looking good for Suzie.". Jack Wilkening, brother of Pamela Wilkening, remembers his sister and the days surrounding her 1966 murder along with seven other student nurses and nurseson Chicago'sSouth Side. By the time he was 24, in 1966, Speck was in Chicago looking for work. Nurse. Life magazine cited her "pancit," made of noodles and vegetables with pork. High school nursing club. (Chris Walker / Chicago Tribune). From the transcript of Speck's trial: Q: How long did you scream, in a sitting position, with the window open? Atienza visits the Philippines every three years to see relatives. Their mother eventually forgave Richard Speck and urged her children to do the same. At her father's urging, Lori considered becoming a nurse, but she finally told him that she couldn't, she was just too emotional for the job. A total of eight woman, between ages 19 and 24, were systematically bound, robbed, beaten, strangled and stabbed during Speck's frenzy. I watch her comedy show. Speck laughed. Finding no one there, he marched them back upstairs. ", "But work is easier than in the Philippine Islands," she continued, "only the patients are as big as water buffalo.". Always a quiet woman, she grew quieter. After that day, Arline Davy was different. They are young and together and happy. Life in the new country must have brought surprises, but it was hardly dramatic.
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