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May 7, 2024 · December 5, 1991, Joliet (aged 49) Richard Speck (born December 6, 1941, Kirkwood, Illinois, U.S.—died December 5, 1991, Joliet) was an American mass murderer known for killing eight female nursing students in a Chicago town house in 1966. Speck was the seventh of eight children. Soon after he was born, the family moved to Monmouth, Illinois.
- Nina Jo Schmale. Nina was 19 when she announced to her family, “I’m going to nursing school.” It was the early 1960s, before the flowering of the women’s liberation movement, an era when it wasn’t assumed that women would leave the house to work, and those who did had few choices.
- Patricia Ann Matusek. Often after a day of classes at Fenger High School, Pat Matusek walked to Roseland Community Hospital to see her cousin Tommy. She was 14.
- Pamela Lee Wilkening. A few days before she died, Pam called her mother to say she couldn’t come visit that weekend. Her graduation from nursing school was less than a month away, exams were coming up and she needed to stay at her townhouse in the city to study.
- Mary Ann Jordan. Mary Ann Jordan grew up hearing her father’s tales of her Irish grandmother, Grace. In the early 1900s, Grace Jordan was a high-ranking surgical nurse at the University of Michigan, and the stories of her accomplishments made Mary Ann think she could be a nurse too.
10 Unseen Photos Of The Richard Speck Murders. On the night of July 13, 1966, 25-year-old career criminal Richard Speck broke into the townhouse for student nurses at the South Chicago Community Hospital with the intention of committing a routine burglary. Upon entering the residence, Speck encountered nine young women, all of whom he tied up ...
Feb 21, 2020 · I Survived a Notorious Mass Murder and Never Told My Story – Until Now. In 1966, student nurse Luisa Silverio arrived in Chicago from the Philippines. She'd dodge the knife of a killer within ...
The chilling reality that homicidal maniacs walk among us was introduced to me when I was nine years old on the afternoon of July 14, 1966. I was bringing in the afternoon paper, the Pittsburgh Press, from the front lawn and saw on the front page the photos of each of the eight student nurses murdered in their Chicago apartment by a man named Richard Speck.
Apr 2, 2014 · 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 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. Speck was born in Kirkwood, Illinois. He was the seventh of eight children and raised in a religious family. His father died when he was six, and he was ...
