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  1. As you all know, in 1988 Richard Speck and Ronzelle Larimore made a video in prison that is half talkshow, half pornography. Just a few glimpses of the video have been shown (in the A&E) documentary about Richard. Bill Kurtis obtained the tape through an anonymous lawyer, his production company paid 5K for it back in the 90's.

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  2. May 16, 1996 · The tape of Mr. Speck, who died in prison in 1991, was made available to the State House Judicary-Criminal Law Committee and other lawmakers by the journalist Bill Kurtis, who has made a...

    • Who Was Richard Speck?
    • Early Years
    • Tattoo
    • Horrifying Crimes
    • The Arrest
    • The Trial
    • Aftermath

    Richard Speck captured the nation's attention during the summer of 1966 after murdering eight female students who lived together on Chicago's South Side. Before then, he had been responsible for other acts of violence against his family and others but had a knack for escaping the police. After his killing spree in 1966, a manhunt ensued and he was ...

    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. After the death of his father when Speck was six, his mother remarried, moving the family to Dallas, Texas. The children suffered considerable abuse at the hands of their drunken stepfather, and Spe...

    During this period he had the words "Born to Raise Hell" tattooed on his arm, a sentiment that wife Shirley had experienced firsthand: She filed for divorce in January 1966. After Speck was arrested for burglary and assault, he fled to Chicago to seek shelter with his sister, Martha, a couple of months later. He spent a few days there before travel...

    For a short time he was a carpenter, but soon he was in trouble again: 65-year-old Virgil Harris was viciously raped and robbed in her own home on April 2, 1966, and on April 13 a barmaid in his local tavern, Mary Kay Pierce, was brutally beaten to death. He managed to deflect police questioning and escape once again, but police discovered some of ...

    The police arrived to scenes of carnage, and took Amurao into custody, interviewing her and proceeding with the construction of an Identikit image. Fortunately, Amurao remembered the distinctive "Born to Raise Hell" tattoo that, along with the image, enabled police to identify their suspect as Richard Speck. Subsequent nationwide enquiries also rai...

    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. 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 Spec...

    In 1972, Speck's death sentence was commuted to 50 to 100 years in prison, when the U.S. Supreme Court abolished capital punishment. Speck was never officially charged with the murders of which he was suspected prior to the events that took place in the South Chicago townhouse and, officially, those cases remain unsolved. In 1996, five years after ...

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  4. Feb 20, 2019 · February 20, 2019. 5. Richard Speck. US — . The first known man to chemically ‘transition gender’ while in a United States prison, Richard Speck was a serial rapist, mass murderer, intimate partner abuser and suspected serial killer. All of Specks victims were women. Richard Speck, left, with a fellow inmate in Statesville Correctional Institute.

  5. May 18, 1996 · Included in the special is the video of a leering, laughing Speck enjoying his prison lifestyle which has fueled debate over prison conditions and life sentences vs. the death penalty. Cast Bill Kurtis

  6. In July 1963, at the age of 21, Speck was sentenced to serve three years in prison after being convicted of forgery and burglary. Speck had forged and cashed a co-worker's $44 paycheck (equivalent to $438 in 2023) and also robbed a grocery store for cigarettes, beer, and $3 in cash (equivalent to $30 in 2023).

  7. May 16, 1996 · Prison video sparks outrage. Published May 16, 1996 | Updated Sept. 15, 2005. Indignant state lawmakers Wednesday watched a videotape in the Capitol showing a mass murderer snorting cocaine,...

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