richard speck interview
He'd turned on the TV news in Pennsylvania. The old hospital is now called Advocate Trinity. '', He said that if he were ever paroled, and someone annoyed him, ''I`ll be back in prison. I stabbed them and I choked them. Born on December 6, 1941a day before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that dragged the US into World War IIRichard Benjamin Speck was born in rural Illinois, the seventh of eight children. Nursing school exposed Pam and her classmates to life's wide range of joy and trouble. (Chicago Tribune historical photo / Chicago Tribune). When Farris thinks about growing up with Suzie, he thinks about the kitchen. Lori tries to live by her mother's words. In those postwar years, most residents of Chicago's Far South Side were white and working-class, still close to their immigrant roots. The next morning, Pat's mother called Kubasek, worried. 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. He was very close with his biological father, who had toiled as a logger, farmer, and factory worker. Ate an early supper with Merlita and Tina. Tina, as her family called her, had graduated the year before among the top 10 nursing students in her class at Manila Central University. Schmale was a student nurse at South Chicago Community Hospital. He plays a lot of solitaire. And yet news of Speck continued to haunt them. Dr. John Schmale found a box of old slides in his waterlogged basement and opened a flood of memories. Wednesday, July 13, began as an ordinary day. 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 also has a foul mouth on him and Ford realizes that there is only one way to communicate with him. For those girls, and for their families, and for me. Many, like Schmale, have boxes of photos and mementos they've never opened. No immediate relatives were there. "It was terrible," Kubasek said, remembering what she saw. She rang the bell. I watched `Magnum Force` the other night. The next time he saw her, her body was on a gurney behind a window in the coroners office. A few days later, 8,000 miles from their native land, Merlita Gargullo and Valentina Pasion were memorialized at a Mass led by Archbishop John Cody. An average student at Aquinas High School, she was turned down by Loyola University, so after graduation she took a job as a file clerk for Peoples Gas. There she joined two other Filipina exchange nurses, Merlita Gargullo and Corazon Amurao, who had arrived a few days earlier. Chicago was chilly, with a trace of snow, on May 9, 1966, when Tina's plane landed hardly the steamy weather she had known in Jones, a town 240 miles from Manila, where she grew up with five siblings. Her village was small (200 people) and her family was large (eight kids). He was arrested and stood trial for murdering the eight nurses. "I'm home.". When their bodies were flown back to Manila, however, more than 100 people relatives and friends waited in the rain to watch their caskets unloaded from an airliner and hefted into funeral coaches. Mary Ann had family responsibilities. Meanwhile, the women he murdered were relegated to the role of victims, their names largely forgotten except by the people who loved them and cannot forget. No scuffs were allowed on their white saddle shoes. It was a close-knit community where almost no one locked their doors. Attorney William J. Martin, 79, talks about Corazon Amurao Atienza, the lone survivor of the Richard Speck murders. So do their lives. 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. Mary Ann was at the Jordan bungalow on the night of July 13, 1966, when Phil and Suzie stopped by. Would she still love water ballet? But to hear Speck talk about himself in his own voice was repugnant and hypnotic. Corazon Amurao Atienza has moved on with her life and wants to be happy every day. (Chris Walker / Chicago Tribune) (Chicago Tribune). Cora the first of the residents to see Richard Speck that night, and the only one to survive unlocked it. An impressive and brazen mimic, Mary Ann made everyone around her laugh. The camera also catches the misery on those women's faces. Lori would ride her bike over, do the dishes, pick up the clothes scattered around the living room. Indigenous Restaurant Sarasota,
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richard speck interview