Richard Benjamin Speck

Cases

• Richard Speck: The Chicago Nurses Murders
  Named suspectConvicted

Timeline

Events across every case involving this person

1. July 13, 1966

   Richard Speck, having spent the evening drinking at Chicago bars, enters a South Deering townhouse dormitory housing student nurses

   Richard Speck: The Chicago Nurses Murders
2. July 13, 1966

   Speck murders eight student nurses in the townhouse dormitory; Corazon Amurao survives by hiding under a bed

   Richard Speck: The Chicago Nurses Murders
3. July 14, 1966

   Speck arrested at a Chicago hospital after an emergency room physician recognizes his 'Born to Raise Hell' tattoo from survivor descriptions

   Richard Speck: The Chicago Nurses Murders
4. December 5, 1991

   Richard Speck dies in Joliet, Illinois, one day before his 50th birthday

   Richard Speck: The Chicago Nurses Murders