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- 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.
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. One victim was also raped prior to her murder.
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Nov 1, 2021 · On the chilly evening of July 13, 1966, unbeknownst to her, Corazon Amurao would be the lone survivor out of nine nurses who murderer Richard Speck brutally slaughtered during the South Chicago Community Hospital Massacre. After quietly trespassing on the home, Speck calmly knocked four times on Amurao’s bedroom door.
Jul 26, 2016 · Richard Speck died of a heart attack on December 5, 1991, a day short of his 50 th birthday. The three nurses were part of the new wave of Filipino immigrants that gained entry to the U.S.—a ...
Andrew Phillip Cunanan (August 31, 1969 – July 23, 1997) was an American spree killer [note 1] who murdered five people over three months from April 27 to July 15, 1997. [3] His victims include Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace and Chicago real estate developer Lee Miglin. [4] Cunanan died by suicide on July 23, 1997, eight days after ...
Jul 13, 2016 · Richard Speck, a 24-year-old drifter with a 9th grade education broke into a townhouse on East 100th Street on Chicago’s Southeast Side on the night of July 13, 1966, and brutally stabbed and ...
Nov 27, 2023 · That’s 59 fewer people killed when compared with 2022. Austin leads all community areas with the most homicides so far in 2023 — 42. Where each homicide has occurred in 2023 (through Nov. 22 ...
