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Nice to have your hometown famous for something. Richard Speck was from mine (Monmouth Ill.). He lived at the "Y" for awhile and had a record at the time. Our moms would warn us not to talk to him. Of course we did anyway. There was a barmaid murdered and left in a hog house that locals credited to him but nobody was ever convicted. He had two nephews that were a year older and younger than I and both are great guys. The younger is named Richard Speck also and I remember that a local judge asked him if he wanted to change it. He didn't, which I could never understand. We went on a family vacation shortly after the murders and of course every time someone would ask us where we were from that's what came up. So much for my brush with fame. Oh, and John Wayne Gacey lived down the road in Roseville for awhile.