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Biography of Richard Speck
Richard Speck, a notorious serial killer, was born in Dallas in 1941. From a young age, Richard displayed stubbornness and disobedience. Raised by his divorced mother, he lacked the restraining influence of a father figure, which led to his involvement with the police at the age of 14. Eventually, fate led Richard to join the Navy.
During his time in the Navy, Richard got a tattoo on his arm that read, "Born to Raise Hell." This became his life motto, which he lived up to. On the night of July 14, 1966, Richard Speck knocked on the door of a house on the outskirts of Chicago, where nine female medical college students lived. The door was opened by Amurso Corazon, a Filipina. Threatening her with a knife, Richard calmly said, "Miss, I don't want to harm you. I just need money to buy a ticket to New Orleans. Where are the others?" The shocked Filipina replied, "They are already asleep."
This response pleased Richard, as he anticipated no resistance. He entered one bedroom, then another, waking up the sleeping girls. He gathered them in one room, tied them up with torn bedsheets, and asked where the students kept their money. They immediately complied. However, after taking the money, Richard didn't leave. He untied one of the girls he found more attractive and took her out of the room.
Sensing something was wrong, Amurso Corazon told her friends, "Girls, we need to fight. We can overpower him!" But her friends were too afraid. They believed it would only make things worse. Tragically, their cowardice cost them their lives. The girls didn't yet understand the horror of the situation. Meanwhile, Richard returned and took another girl with him. Amurso, even though tied up, managed to crawl under a bed and hid, holding her breath. Richard systematically kidnapped and killed the remaining girls.
Later, the investigation revealed that he had strangled Gloria Davy with a torn bedsheet. Suzanne Farris received nine knife wounds to her chest, shoulders, neck, and face. Patricia Matusek was strangled. Pamela Wilkening was stabbed in the heart. Mary Ann Jordan suffered five knife wounds. Merlita Gargullo had her throat slit. Valentina Pasion, the seventh victim, was strangled and then received four knife wounds. Richard also killed the eighth victim, Nina Schmale, in the same way. He sexually assaulted one of the girls before killing her.
What was astonishing was that none of the girls screamed or called for help. Until the very end, they were held captive by their illusions, not believing that what they were experiencing could happen to them, as if they were in a horror movie.
After committing these heinous crimes, where did the killer flee? It turned out that after disposing of the girls, he casually went to a bar to spend the $50 he had taken from them. In 1966, $50 could get you drunk all night and still leave you with a hangover.
After the excitement wore off and with the help of alcohol, Richard struck up a conversation with another sailor at the bar. Eager to share his "exploits," he pulled out his knife and boasted about buying it from a soldier in Vietnam and how it had already killed several people. Richard portrayed himself as a Vietnam War veteran, omitting his true profession as a sailor.
Hearing the drunken ramblings of the young man, the bar patrons laughed. Suddenly, Richard sobered up. He lunged behind the bar, grabbed the bartender by the neck from behind, and pressed the knife against his throat. "This is how I like to kill!" Silence fell over the bar. After proudly surveying the shocked onlookers, Richard released the trembling bartender and returned to his seat. Another sailor then asked to buy the knife, and Richard agreed.
When Amurso Corazon finally mustered the courage to crawl out from under the bed at 5 a.m., she untied herself and entered the bedroom, only to witness a horrifying scene. Her hysterical scream caught the attention of Police Officer Leonard Ponni. "I almost fainted," he recalls. "It was like a scene from a movie about a Nazi concentration camp. Bodies were everywhere: three in one room, three in another, one in the corridor by the bathtub. The eighth body was in the third room. Blood was everywhere, on the walls, on the bedsheets, on the floor, on the record albums, on the couch pillows..."
Richard Speck was arrested a few days later. After his arrest, he attempted suicide. Subsequent medical examinations revealed the presence of the "crime chromosome" in his blood. Psychiatrists had to acknowledge that Richard Speck was born abnormal, and therefore, he couldn't be held responsible for his actions.
Despite the medical findings, Richard Speck was sentenced to death by the court due to the public outrage caused by the senseless and brutal murder of eight students. The sentence was immediately appealed, leading to a lengthy legal process. Throughout the years, Richard, who became known as the "Born to Raise Hell" man, spent his days in prison, surrounded by the infamous reputation of a mass murderer.
Due to the rumors that Richard Speck had sexually assaulted all the victims, he gained a reputation as a sex machine and received numerous love letters from women with pathological deviations in this area.
Furthermore, like many convicted mass murderers in America, Richard Speck had a fan club. In many cities just outside the upscale neighborhoods, one can buy various items associated with the dark cult of killers.
Store owner Mitch Cutler proudly claims that he sells the most grotesque "paraphernalia" from the criminal world. "I sell cards, board games, books - everything related to mass murderers," he says. His store is filled with various items, and everything sells quickly. Mitch Cutler asserts that the majority of his customers are women.
The fact that women exhibit an unhealthy interest in mass murderers is confirmed by psychologist Michael Newton. "Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker from California, had so many women wanting to visit him in prison that the prison warden had to stop the visits. Women would literally fight each other for the chance to see the inmate. Another mass murderer, Ted Bundy, who was awaiting the death penalty in prison, received bags of love letters from admirers."
As we can see, Richard Speck, the "Born to Raise Hell" man, is not alone in his twisted fame.
