The American mass murderer named Richard Benjamin Speck was born on December 6, 1941 in Kirkwood, Illinois the seventh of eight children. He was from a broken home whereby his beloved father died when he was six and his stepfather abused him unmercifully.
He died on December 5, 1991 in Joliet at age 49 after getting over on the criminal justice system for most of his life. He is known for killing eight female nursing students in a Chicago town house in 1966. He went largely unpunished dying of lifestyle disease instead of the electrocution he so richly deserved.
Prior to his life sentence incarceration he was arrested numerous times for things like check fraud, murder, rape, and yet he was set loose upon the earth beyond all of that to commit more acts of murder and mayhem.
He was sentenced to death in the electric chair. Then the libtard Supreme Court declared capital punishment unconstitutional in 1972. This commuted his sentence to eight consecutive terms of 50 to 150 years.
He was denied parole a number of times and died of a heart attack at age 49 after a life of homosexual debauchery and drugs in prison — some of which was filmed at Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet, Illinois and shown on broadcast television under the auspices of journalist Bill Kurtis.
It makes me wonder just how someone like this may slip through the cracks and actually enjoy his incarceration while those families who remain of his victims receive nothing in the way of justice. If anyone is truly in Hell as punishment for misdeeds in life it is surely this man.
Burn in hell.
Gloria Davy, Patricia Matusek, Nina Jo Schmale, Pamela Wilkening, Suzanne Farris, Mary Ann Jordan, Merlita Gargullo, and Valentina Pasion were murdered by Richard Speck with a knife. |