Posted on 07/14/2016 11:18:17 AM PDT by Borges
Fifty years ago a stranger with a pockmarked face and a "Born To Raise Hell" tattoo on his left arm barged into a Chicago townhouse where a group of student nurses were living and proceeded to lead them "like lambs to the slaughter."
The intruder's name was Richard Speck and for five hours he systematically tortured and murdered eight women, raping at least one of them.
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The crime horrified Chicago and the rest of the country because it was so unfathomable — a massacre for no apparent reason by a remorseless stranger against a group of young women he didn't know.
And it introduced a term to the American public that has since then become all too familiar: random mass murder.
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The media needed something to counteract recent events. blacks are targeting police. The public may just shake off its lethargy and realize that blacks commit half the violent crime.
A white guy from 50 years ago is just what they needed.
I was up at Great Lakes Naval Training Center, a short distance from Chicago when it happened. Amazed it was so long ago.
Conspiracy much? Today is the 50th anniversary. These sorts of stories are done all the time.
50 years ago girls attending college were not allowed to live off campus except at home with their parents. No apartments and no men allowed in the dorms.
These nurses were cutting edge . . .
“It just wasn’t their night,” Speck said.
I remember reading a paperback about this back in the ‘60’s.
I was still in grade school, so maybe that is why I was so surprised at how easy it was for this murderer to get to women and be allowed into their homes, their bedrooms.
Lots of reasons for such unfeeling violence against innocents.
One big question we must ask and ANSWER and remedy, is why our families are broken.
Good start: C. S. Lewis “The Abolition of Man”.
The tv show Mad Men featured this murder in one episode. The morbid fascination with the horrific event resulted in sheer terror at night when two of the characters...Sally (a child) and her repugnant babysitter tried to sleep.
The filth Speck received the death sentence which should have been promptly administered. But the trial judge congratulated the jury for its decision right after the trial which led the clowns in the majority on the Supreme Court to invalidate the death sentence. Speck then lived in relative ease in a state prison where for whatever reason, he was granted numerous privileges. He deserved the privilege of the electric chair, instead. In my opinion, this is right when American justice started going straight downhill from the system envisioned by the Founders.
Richard Speck was REWARDED with a lifetime of free room and board. A videotape surfaced showing Speck, who was undergoing transgender mutilation, partying in his cell.
IIRC, he was quoted as saying something like, “If Americans only know what I was doing now ...”
THAT was the failure. He should have been executed. Instead, he died of heart failure.
Wonder what happened to him that his conscience died? And, whoever fixed that jury so he wouldn’t be executed should have been hanged.
Indeed.
This subhuman fiend lived out his life as a “woman” with breast implants who enjoyed all the sex he could get in prison.
Look it up. It will make your blood boil.
It’d be interesting to go back and examine rates of firearms purchases as a variable relative to high-profile crimes such as this - then fill in the graph on a year-by-year basis.
What motivates people more - high rates of crime or political instability.
Everyone forgets Manson’s and his cult, who murdered Sharon Tate and family.
#EXECUTECONVICTEDKILLERSNOW!
I was an adult when I saw the movie based on the Boston Strangler case. Weeks of anxiety followed that viewing, and I promised myself then that I would never watch such a movie again.
Speck used a knife or strangulation to kill the women. He was also sexually perverted like many mass murderers.
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