"Coming back from the past.". Catherine Ceniza Choy, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, writes about the three exchange nurses extensively in "Empire of Care," her history of Filipino nurses in the United States. On July 13, 1966, Speck unleashed his terror on Chicago by breaking into a building in the neighborhood of South Deering. Nursing students were under strict rules during the 1960s, but still they found time for fun. He couldnt identify everyone he saw, but at the photo of the familiar woman in the familiar yellow two-piece bathing suit, he felt his heart clench. On this day, Amurao personally identified Speck as the killer. Forty miles from home, when they spotted a gas station, they were reluctant to stop for directions because their curlers made them look like creatures from Mars. Speck opens up, admitting for the first time that he only sexually assaulted one of the women during his spree. Guarded by detectives, Corazon Amurao arrives at the courthouse in Peoria to testify as the state's chief witness against Richard Speck on April 5, 1967. On a June day in 1966, when she was 20, she went to one of his races, and afterward waved goodbye. One of eight young nurses killed in a Chicago townhouse on July 14, 1966, by a man who became notorious: Richard Speck. Elmhurst Blotter: Man charged with battery for allegedly punching a security guard at a bar, Hinsdale police blotter: multiple thefts reported by patients at Hinsdale Hospital, Glenview police blotter: Harwood Heights woman charged with possession of a stolen vehicle, Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. Despite the horror of what happened, Atienza carries warm memories of her friends, Martin said. Eight thousand miles from home, they could earn decent money and many, like Tina, sent much of it back to their families. In the Davy family, according to Lori, grieving openly for Gloria was considered weakness, especially by her father, the military man. 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. She has rarely spoken in detail about what happened, not even to her husband. Around 10:30 p.m., she went upstairs to bed, in the high bunk in the room she shared with Merlita. When he left, hours later, taking the money he had stolen, she cowered in her hiding place, terrified, for hours, before finally summoning the courage to seek help. Only recently, since John Schmale got in touch with her about a 50th anniversary commemoration for the women, has Lori let herself believe that it's OK to remember, OK to cry. "She gets out of the car, slams the door and found out from the guy where we are and how to get home from there.". (Chicago Tribune historical photo / Chicago Tribune). These days, Farris is retired from his job as an administrative services manager at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Chicago. She told him she had never forgotten his sister Nina's kindness and that she still misses her. Holden's methods during a disturbing interview with mass murderer Richard Speck create dissension among the team and kick off an internal FBI probe. News item: Richard Speck sentenced. The Matuseks wanted Pat to be buried in the clothes she would have worn for her upcoming graduation, so on the day after the murders, Pat's sister, Betty Jo, asked Kubasek for a favor. The townhouse Gloria shared with the other student nurses was often a mess, so she sometimes paid her little sister a dollar or two to clean. (Schmale family). Seeing them together, it's hard not to wonder what Pat would be like at their age. The Untold Truth Of Murderer Richard Speck - Grunge "It ended an innocence we all had,'' Martin said. Their married bliss was short-lived, however, and Speck's reversion to type landed him a jail sentence for theft and check fraud, in 1963. She played baseball in the alley, badminton across the back fences. By submitting your email to receive this newsletter, you agree to our. What about the notorious ''Born to Raise Hell'' tattoo that led to his capture? I watch her comedy show. In the days before automated fingerprint identification, it took almost a week to identify the prints found in the townhouse as his. He keeps the photo in a plastic pouch, tucked next to the prayer card from her funeral. Atienza became friends and learned to play penny-ante poker with the policemen and bodyguards who watched over her for an entire year while she was in protective custody. According to a 1966 Life magazine story, Tina often mentioned money in her letters. She displayed uncommon ease with the dying and never balked at the mess that came with tending to the human body. Tina, 23, shared a bedroom with three of the American nurses, while Cora and Merlita shared another. 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. Pamela Wilkening, left, Mary Ann Jordan, right, and Suzanne Farris, second from right, are shown with other student nurses having fun with a South Chicago Community Hospital School of Nursing banner, circa 1966. Merlita was considered quiet, shy, hardworking, efficient, pretty and blessed with a rich singing voice. She wanted to do Pat's hair and makeup for the funeral. Nursing school, as one former student describes it, was like a cross between a convent and boot camp. Student nurses Patricia Matusek, left, and Suzanne Farris, circa 1966. In this interview, Speck confessed to the murders for the first time publicly and said he thought he would get out of prison "between now and the year 2000", at which time he hoped to run his own grocery store business. Look at her. In recent months, John Schmale has tried, with no luck, to find friends and relatives of Tina and Merlita, hoping to connect with them for the 50th anniversary commemoration. Secretary. She walked off the stage, shoulders back, carrying a diploma dated July 14, 1966. Richard Speck, in full Richard Benjamin Speck, (born December 6, 1941, Kirkwood, Illinois, U.S.died December 5, 1991, Joliet), American mass murderer known for killing eight female nursing students in a Chicago town house in 1966. Siouchoff was the student who, on the night of the murders, rang the back doorbell of her friends' townhouse, in search of bread, then left when no one answered. Photo: Bettmann / Contributor / Getty Images, G. Gordon Liddys Wild Career After Watergate, Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads, Name: Richard Speck, Birth Year: 1941, Birth date: December 6, 1941, Birth State: Illinois, Birth City: Kirkwood, Birth Country: United States. On what occasion? Lori has come to believe that Gloria's death prepared her to handle anything, and to see, in some useful ways, the possibility of death in everything. It was Gloria, 22, calling from the townhouse to say that her fiance had just dropped her off. "She showed the indomitability of her spirit by continuing her path as a nurse and dedicating her life to helping others and raising a family, but you can never get something like this out of your life," Martin said. News item: Speck's death sentence reversed. Richard Roundtree? He's still searching for the words to explain to his three children who his sister was, what happened to her. Betty Jo, whose married name was Purvis, died in 2015. It was all right. In one of John Schmale's slides, Nina poses wearing nothing but a white towel and her nurse's cap, holding a hypodermic needle and pretending she's about to give one of her housemates a shot. She loved Elvis, cats and the color pink. Q. What he had, in this mysterious box he had inherited when his father died, were four carousels of slides, many of them corroded, warped, moldy, ravaged by water and time. In 1991, while still in prison, Speck died of a heart attack. When Farris thinks about growing up with Suzie, he thinks about the kitchen. Books, documentaries, countless news stories, a 2007 film called "Chicago Massacre: Richard Speck" were dedicated to the so-called crime of the century. Speck was the seventh of eight children. Tina was known as a good cook. One summer night in 1966, when her father, who worked for a steel company, was in Pittsburgh on business, Lori and her two younger sisters crowded into their parents' bed. Subsequent nationwide enquiries also raised the other incidents in which Speck was suspected, as well as his criminal record. "He is not going to harm you," the voice said. He managed to deflect police questioning and escape once again, but police discovered some of Harris' personal effects in his vacant hotel room that conclusively tied him to her attack. Speck admitted he committed the killings _ breaking for the first time his claim of drug-induced amnesia. Its why he wants a 50th anniversary commemoration that reclaims all the womens names, all their lives. On the night of July 13, 1966, she was in bed when a commotion erupted. "She did well with other people in situations that you're not necessarily in control of," Farris said, "which I think is a good skill for nursing.". The murders happened in a townhouse in the 2300 block of East 100th Street that served as housing for student nurses who worked at South Chicago Community Hospital. Brownie. "I don't believe this," Schmale said to his wife on that day half a century later, gazing inside the box. 30 Strange And Bizarre Facts About Richard Speck Cora the first of the residents to see Richard Speck that night, and the only one to survive unlocked it. Richard Speck attack survivor: 'Somebody up there was hiding me from Not only had they been allowed a slumber party with their mother, but their big sister who was about to graduate from nursing school was coming home for good the next day. From early childhood, she connected with him in a unique way, and he was why she wanted to specialize in pediatric nursing. By July of 1966, however, Mary Ann, 20, had moved out of the townhouse and back into the family bungalow. A photo that appeared in Life magazine after the murders shows her sitting with three of her housemates. .css-m6thd4{-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;display:block;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-family:Gilroy,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.2;font-weight:bold;color:#323232;text-transform:capitalize;}@media (any-hover: hover){.css-m6thd4:hover{color:link-hover;}}G. Gordon Liddys Wild Career After Watergate. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. Site contains certain content that is owned A&E Television Networks, LLC. She'd bring him water, fluff his pillow, hold his hand, tell him that she loved him. Their father was a cement finisher descended from Germans. Lori realized it was time to tell the truth. This important Mindhunter moment didn't happen in real life - Digital Spy He wonders what it would have been like to grow old with a sister, his sister. In winter they went sledding. On that Monday, she was taken to a townhouse on East 100th Street rented by her new employer, South Chicago Community Hospital. Atienza was one of three Filipina exchange nurses who lived there, too, and worked at the hospital. 8 Dead Nurses In One Night: The Horrible Story Of Richard Speck I stabbed them and I choked them. By the time Nina entered nursing school, she was three or four years older than most of her classmates and worried that she was over the hill. Richard Speck has been described as a drifter, a loner, a high school dropout, a sociopath, a heavy drinker, a violent man who could be charming. "The mailman would bring them in boxes," he said. "I just would have liked her to see the kids," he said, and he cried. Dr. John Schmale found a box of old slides in his waterlogged basement and opened a flood of memories. Who Is Richard Speck? The camera also catches the misery on those women's faces. In 1996, five years after Speck's death, a TV journalist made public a prison video, which showed Speck taking drugs and engaging in sex with another inmate during the 1980s, while he was an inmate at Statesville Correctional Institute; Speck appears to have breasts in the video, apparently as a result of hormone treatment received while in prison, and is wearing women's underwear. Nina Jo Schmale appears in an undated photo. And did he have any particular feelings about the American people? She was home on the night of July 13, when her brother Phil stopped by. Speck, asked how many lovers he has had in prison, responded that he can't count that high. Shes in her nurses uniform, gazing down. 'Mindhunter': The True Stories Behind The Show's Killers And Profilers One of them, Corazon Amurao, steered him to the front door. Richard Speck | The Chicago Nurse Killer - YouTube Richard Benjamin Speck was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago residence on the night of July 13-14, 19. Lori Davy, center, accepts a nursing school diploma on behalf of her slain sister, Gloria Davy, at a ceremony at McCormick Place in 1966. Her village was small (200 people) and her family was large (eight kids). ''), the rest of the conversation was sickeningly mesmerizing. It took Nina a while to choose nurse. Clicking from slide to slide, Schmale stepped into his sister's vanished world. Now, with the 50th anniversary of the massacre by Speck approaching, we are recuing our report on the compelling interview with the sole survivor of this grisly attack. I don`t know why it happened to me. Speck died of a heart attack after 25 years in prison. Gloria Davy jokes around in the South Side townhouse that was used as a dormitory for student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital, circa 1966. 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 Speck unequivocally. Bottom row from left are Patricia Matusek, Valentina Pasion, Nina Jo Schmale and Pamela Wilkening. She married Alberto Atienza, and then, with her husband, a lawyer, moved back to the United States. He committed several violent crimes against his family as a teenager and young man before he became a mass murderer at the age of 25. Patricia Matusek was murdered along with five fellow nursing students and two visiting nurses in 1966 on Chicago'sSouth Side. Together they helped prepare Pat's body for burial, at the funeral home run by Arlene Baskys' dad, next door to Joe Matusek's bar. Her brother Phil, who lost both his sister and his fiancee on that July night, died at 64. In this interview, Speck confessed to the murders for the first time publicly and said he thought he would get out of prison "between now and the year 2000", at which time he hoped to run his own grocery store business. At age 10, she walked her sister Susan to her first day of kindergarten. Many, like Schmale, have boxes of photos and mementos they've never opened. 28. "What do I have here?". She perpetuated the ruse until the day her daughter, then in high school, was watching a TV show about Speck, the women he murdered and the families left behind. Kubasek hurried to her car and drove to the townhouse. ''A lot of them send pictures,'' Speck told me. But 50 years ago, the murders were perhaps as shocking in the Philippines as they were in Chicago. Corazon Amurao Atienza has moved on with her life and wants to be happy every day. And Carol Burnett. Fifty years later, Pat Matusek's two best childhood friends are the primary custodians of her past. Like others Schmale has contacted, she was wary at first of resurrecting the past, but she has felt some relief in it. How do you talk about something so terrible? Nina was 19 when she announced to her family, "I'm going to nursing school.". ''Because any kid can end up to be like me. Name: Richard Speck Birth Year: 1941 Birth date: December 6, 1941 Birth State: Illinois Birth City: Kirkwood Birth Country: United States Gender: Male Best Known For: In 1966, Richard Speck. Kubasek recalled one day not long ago, sitting with her old friend Arlene Baskys. Speck is the character who, while being interviewed by Ford and Tench, tosses a pet bird into a fan. Pam had been quiet, studious and decisive since she was a girl in south suburban Lansing. He has never discussed it with them in depth or with his sister Marilyn, who has moved away from Chicago. We strive for accuracy and fairness.If you see something that doesn't look right,.css-47aoac{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:0.0625rem;text-decoration-color:inherit;text-underline-offset:0.25rem;color:#A00000;-webkit-transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;}.css-47aoac:hover{color:#595959;text-decoration-color:border-link-body-hover;}contact us! He had pried open the screen of a first-floor window, reached inside for the back-door handle and slipped into the house. After she married and had three children, she told her kids that Aunt Gloria had died in a car crash. What would Nina, who died at 24, look like today, at 74? Whatever confluence of forces saved her, Cora Amurao made it through the night alive. She teaches her students about them and what they meant in both countries. "Time is moving on," he said one afternoon, sitting in his peaceful yard under the old, low-hanging trees. Her dad was on the line. It's the psychological kind, full of memories and emotions, the kind Schmale means when he says: "Opening the box at first meant to me that I was going to reopen her death. She loved swimming, ice skating and softball. And yet news of Speck continued to haunt them. Pat asked. Nurse. Lori Davy Sivek remembers her sister Gloria Davy, one of eight student nurses and nurses murdered together 50years ago on Chicago'sSouth Side. Many of those people have never spoken at length about what happened, not even to close family members. From left are Mary Ann Jordan, Judith Dykton, in cap, Suzanne Farris, Nina Jo Schmale, an unidentified woman and Pamela Wilkening, seated. Just below, in smaller type, was the news that six policemen had been shot during riots on the West Side. (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune). Pat was born in 1945, the year World War II ended, to Joe and Bessie Matusek, both of Czech descent. He has found another way as well to hang on to his sister's hopeful spirit. After the murders, the nursing students in the nearby townhouses moved back into the dorms connected to the hospital. In November 1962, Speck married Shirley Malone, and they had a daughter, Bobby Lynn, soon after. Cora has gone on to have a life that appears normal. The murders continue to have a profound impact on American crime and American society, Martin said. She also wrote about Chicago's weather, which she described in one letter as "really terrible. It was small and nothing fancy: One bathroom and three bedrooms upstairs. Baskys says that for a while she slept with a flashlight or a knife, but eventually, determined not to raise her children in fear, went through five years of therapy to retrain her thinking. One of eight young nurses killed in a Chicago townhouse on July 14, 1966, by a man who became notorious: Richard Speck. After Speck's trial she moved back to the Philippines and married in 1969, but she returned to the U.S. about four years later. They laughed their way through Catholic elementary school and on through Fenger High, where Pat was on the Titanette pompom squad. They opened the door. According to the New York Times, at least one victim was raped. To be reminded of his sister's kindness, to be able to speak with someone about her in that way, gave him rare comfort. Speck found work on a ship, and it began to seem like bodies turned up wherever Speck had been. Many fans can agree that the interview with Richard Speck was high in terms of tension. Theyre smiling and wearing regular clothes. It was the kind of childhood that half a century later people look back on and call simpler, innocent, a time when city kids were raised to be independent and unafraid. Jordan Morin, who was 15 when Mary Ann died, has never before spoken publicly about her sister's death, and she doesn't talk easily about it now. Corazon Amurao, center, the nurse who survived the massacre of eight of her fellow student nurses, walks between another nurse and William Ruddel, Bridewell jail superintendent, from Bridewell's Cermak Memorial Hospital after a second visit to the building where Richard Speck was being held on July 19, 1966. Speck's jury trial began April 3, 1967, in Peoria, Illinois, three hours southwest of Chicago, with a gag order on the press. The next time he saw her, her body was on a gurney behind a window in the coroners office. When John Schmale talks about what happened that night, he uses the words "anger," "rage," "mourning.". From the transcript of Speck's trial: Q: How long did you scream, in a sitting position, with the window open? Through the end of spring and on into summer, Tina and her Filipina friends were sometimes spotted walking to a nearby shopping center, and they took occasional field trips, but they spent a lot of their nonworking time in the townhouse, frequently writing letters home. He watched it once and hurled it into a corner. Half an hour later, she heard four knocks at the bedroom door. '', He said that if he were ever paroled, and someone annoyed him, ''I`ll be back in prison. It hurt to see Nina in her yellow swimsuit he thought back to the Life magazine photo after the murders that showed it hanging on a rod in her bedroom but it also made him glad, glad to be reminded of who his sister was before death defined her.
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