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1. December 6, 1941(1941-12-06)
December 5, 1991(1991-12-05)
(aged 49)

2. • He had a drinking problems along
with drugs.
•
On July 13th 1966, he has tortured,
Raped, and killed 8 out of 9 student
Nurses with no remorse, or motive.
All of his victims were student nurses.
• He later attempted suicide, but
Failed. He was also sent to
Life in prison.
• In 1991, he died in prison of a
heart attack.

3. Monmouth, 1941–1950
 Richard Benjamin Speck was born
in the village of Kirkwood. Speck
was very close to his father, who
died in 1947 from a heart attack at
the age of 53.
 A few years later, Speck's religious,
mother met and fell in love with a
traveling insurance salesman from
Texas, Carl August Rudolph
Lindberg.
 Speck's mother married Lindberg
on May 10, 1950 in Palo Pinto,
Texas.

4. Dallas, 1951–1966
 Speck has worked as a laborer for
the 7-Up bottling company in
Dallas for almost three years, and
got fired on July 19, 1963. Speck
changed his name Richard Franklin
Lindberg when he got married and
began using the name Richard
Franklin Speck.
 After his release from prison, Speck
worked for three months as a
driver for the Patterson Meat
Company and had six accidents
with his truck before he was fired
for failing to show up for work.
 On January 1966, Speck's wife
filed for divorce.

5. Crimes in Dallas 1951 - 1966
 After his wife filed a divorce, Speck stabbed a man in a knife fight at
Ginny's Lounge and was charged with aggravated assault.
 On March 5, 1966, the following evening, he burglarized a grocery
store, stole 70 cartons of cigarettes, sold them out of the trunk of his
car in the grocery store's parking lot, and then abandoned the car.
 The police traced the car, issued a warrant for his arrest for burglary
on March 8. His 42nd arrest in Dallas, would mean another prison
term, so on March 9, 1966, Speck's sister Carolyn drove him to the
Dallas Bus Depot, where he caught a bus to Chicago, Illinois.

6. Chicago, April–June 1966
 On April 19, 1966, Speck returned
to stay at his sister Martha's
second-floor apartment at 3966 N.
Avondale Ave. Speck found work
immediately after obtaining the
letter of authority, joining the 33-
member crew of Inland Steel's
Clarence B. Randall, on April 30.
 On June 30, his brother-in-law
Gene drove Speck to the National
Maritime Union [NMU]hiring hall at
2335 E. 100th St. to file his
paperwork for a seaman’s card.

7. Chicago, July 1966
 Speck had outstayed his welcome
with his sister Martha and her
family.
 On Tuesday, July 12, Speck returned
to the NMU to received an
assignment on Sinclair Oil's tanker
SS Sinclair Great Lakes, but when he
arrived there he found his spot had
already been taken.
 Speck then encountered Ella Mae
Hooper, took her to his room at the
Shipyard Inn, raped her, and stole
her black .22 caliber Röhm revolver.
 He then dresses up in all black
equipped with a switchblade and
hunting knife.

8.  Due to his psychological problems,
and his recent events, he then
decided to torture, rape and kill
8 random student nurses at 11:00 PM on
July 13, 1966.
 Speck then broke into a townhouse
located at 2319 East 100th Street in
the Jeffery Manor neighborhood of
Chicago.
 Speck held the women in the house
for hours, methodically leading
them out of the room one by one,
stabbing or strangling them to
death.

9.  Armed with only a knife he then
killed most of the young women,
including Gloria Davy, Patricia
Matusek, Nina Jo Schmale, Pamela
Wilkening, Suzanne Farris, Mary
Ann Jordan, Merlita Gargullo, and
Valentina Pasion.
 Speck, who later claimed he was
high on both alcohol and drugs,
may have originally planned to
commit a routine burglary.

10. "They're all dead! All my
friends are dead!“
- Cora (Corazon) Amurao
• Only one woman, Cora Amurao,
escaped because she managed to
hide under a bed while Speck was
out of the room with one of his
victims.
• Speck may have lost count, or he
may have known there were eight
women living in the townhouse but
had been unaware a ninth student
nurse was spending the night
there.
• Amurao stayed hidden until almost
6 a.m.

11.  Felony Court Judge Herbert J.
Paschen appointed an impartial
panel to report on Speck's
competence to stand trial and his
sanity at the time of the crime.
 The panel's confidential
report deemed Speck
competent to stand trial
and concluded he had
not been insane at the
time of the murders.

12.  Speck later claimed he had
no memory of the murders, but he
had confessed the at the Cook
County Hospital.
 Smith did not testify, because the
confession was made when Speck
was sedated. Illinois Supreme Court
Justice John J. Stamos, Cook
County's state attorney when
Speck was tried, stated, "...we
didn't need it. We had an
eyewitness."

13.  On June 28, 1971, the U.S. Supreme  In court, Speck was identified by
Court citing their June 3, 1968 the sole surviving student nurse,
decision in held Speck's conviction but Cora Amurao. On April 15, after
reversed his death sentence, because 49 minutes of deliberation, the
more than 250 potential jurors were jury found Speck guilty and
excluded from his jury because of recommended the death
their conscientious against capital
penalty.
punishment.
"This is the man."
- Cora Amurao
 Judge Richard
Fitzgerald
resentenced Speck
to 400 to 1,200
years in prison.

14. o Speck was given the
nickname "birdman"
because he kept a pair
of sparrows that had flown
into his cell.
o Speck customarily
refused all media
requests, but granted
one prison interview
to Bob Greene in 1978;
Speck told Greene he
read Greene's column in
the Chicago Tribune.

15.  Speck died of a heart attack at 6:05
a.m. on December 5, 1991, one
day before his 50th birthday, at
Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet under
the name of Elbeezer Masa.
 He had been taken to the Silver
Cross after complaining of chest
pains and nausea at the Statesville
Correctional Center.
 Speck was then cremated later,
and had his ahses scattered to
an unknown location.

16. There were 12 hidden
Nyan cats in this
Presentation. Did you find
Them all?