Richard Speck was an American serial killer who terrorized the city of Chicago in the mid-1960s. He was convicted of murdering eight student nurses in their dormitory in 1966. Speck was born in 1941 in Monmouth, Illinois, and he had a troubled childhood. He was
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Richard Benjamin Speck was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago, residence by stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 13–14, 1966. Speck also raped one victim before killing her. A ninth potential victim, student nurse Corazon Amurao, survived by hiding beneath a bed.