He opened it. Once, remarking on her diligence and steady temperament, her brother told her she'd make a good military nurse. Her brother, John Farris, still carries the photo and prayer card in his wallet 50 years later. "The families are slowly disappearing.". I watch. (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune). She told him she had never forgotten his sister Nina's kindness and that she still misses her. She has rarely spoken in detail about what happened, not even to her husband. But to this day Atienza suffers nightmares that Speck will come back and kill her. Amurao had arrived the previous day to identify the killer in person, but Speck was not well enough. It's the psychological kind, full of memories and emotions, the kind Schmale means when he says: "Opening the box at first meant to me that I was going to reopen her death. So much youth and beauty, so much wit and fun. Mary Ann Jordanin her nursing uniform in an undated photo. Teacher. Q. During one of Pam's shifts, a patient slugged her. Tina was known as a good cook. And the mail. Start each day with Chicago Tribune editors' top story picks, delivered to your inbox. He killed more than eight people., Lori Davy Sivek remembers her sister Gloria Davy, one of eight student nurses and nurses murdered together 50years ago on Chicago'sSouth Side. Lori didn't cry. These attacks, however, paled into insignificance on July 13, 1966, when Speck arrived on the doorstep of a townhouse in South Chicago, which served as a communal home for a group of eight young student nurses from nearby South Chicago Community Hospital. Speck was captured two days later when an emergency room doctor at Cook County Hospital thought a patient he was treating for self-inflicted gashes looked familiar. Richard Speck had a troubled past and a rap sheet a mile long. The judge sentenced Speck to death. We were just totally out of our minds.''. Her experience there whetted her interest in nursing. On Aug. 7, 1966, when Lori Davy, 11, walked across the stage to accept her sister's diploma, her father's orders were fresh in her mind. Phil was engaged to one of Mary Ann's classmates, Suzanne Farris, who still lived in the townhouse, and Suzanne was with him that evening. Her family her father, John, a pipe fitter; her mother, Lena, a homemaker born in Germany; and her only sibling, Jack lived in a small, one-story brick Cape Cod on Commercial Avenue. It was around dawn when she made her way to an upstairs window. His leisure tastes? ''I know it keeps up their morale. He told Greene one of his pleasures in prison was "getting high." Look at her. The doctor had just had a dinner break and had seen the front page of a newspaper featuring the killer's face. There's another kind of sealed box many of them have carried around as well. They laughed their way through Catholic elementary school and on through Fenger High, where Pat was on the Titanette pompom squad. And Carol Burnett. Finding no one there, he marched them back upstairs. He unearthed his ancient 35 mm slide projector, marveled that the bulb still worked and began projecting images on a wall. It was that door that a student nurse from a neighboring townhouse approached at 12:15 a.m. on July 14, in search of bread for a late-night sandwich. Stewardess. William Martin, shown April 22, 2016, in his Oak Park law office, was the lead prosecutor in the Richard Speck mass murder case. The United States needed nurses, and Filipinas helped relieve the shortage. Despite concerns about her ability to testify after her harrowing ordeal, she gave a faultless performance, impressing the jury with every detail of that evening, identifying Speck unequivocally. The day of her sister's death had been recorded as her graduation day. Its a typical 1950s school photograph, small, black-and-white, cropped with pinking shears, showing Suzie at about 10, wearing what looks like her Brownie uniform. ''I stay up at night as long as it takes me to fall asleep or pass out from the hooch or from whatever we have at the time.''. I watch her comedy show. Why should you be surprised?". 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. (Chicago Tribune historical photo / Chicago Tribune). Dykton and the unidentified woman were not killed by Richard Speck. ''A lot of them women are pretty,'' Speck said. Their mother, of English and Czech stock, stayed at home to take care of her children. Many fans can agree that the interview with Richard Speck was high in terms of tension. 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. . Atienza was the states key witness when Martin prosecuted Speck in the 1967 trial. In the basement's dim overhead light, a big, brown cardboard box caught his eye, a box so soggy its bottom was ready to fall out. Atienza did not respond to Tribune requests for an interview. She rang the bell. One of her sisters would later say the delay may have been a sign that "God didn't want her to leave.". "She walked within two inches of his forehead and pointed . He remembers that after she died, when the mourners came, their father wept and moaned, Cooky, Cooky, Cooky., Suzanne Farris, left, and Gloria Davy pose at the dinner table, circa 1966. Jewelry, makeup and nail polish were forbidden on duty. Mary Ann brought her Irish humor, her sense of duty and her talent for friendship to nursing school and to the townhouse on East 100th Street. The children suffered considerable abuse at the hands of their drunken stepfather, and Speck's childhood was marked by juvenile delinquency and alcohol abuse, which soon led to petty crime. The kitchen door opened onto a narrow alley where Nina parked her Bel Air and where a hospital shuttle picked up and delivered students. She wrote her daughter's name, Nina, on a piece of pink paper. At Thornton Fractional South High School, she attended almost every basketball and football game with her closest girlfriends, but she didn't play sports. Only one of her siblings, a brother, is still alive. Richard speck video - YouTube Phil taught public school, had a sailboat and was nice to him, the kid brother. He touched on feelings of pressure from police and investigators to help solve cases, as well as the empathy and duty he felt towards families of victims. She loved swimming, ice skating and softball. Attorney William J. Martin, 79, talks about Corazon Amurao Atienza, the lone survivor of the Richard Speck murders. Then I screamed for help. Next door was a funeral home, run by Arlene Baskys' dad. From early childhood, she connected with him in a unique way, and he was why she wanted to specialize in pediatric nursing. he said. She was petrified of Speck but had the courage to step down from the witness stand, walk up to him and point her finger 2 inches from his forehead. Despite the horror of what happened, Atienza carries warm memories of her friends, Martin said. (Schmale family ). In this interview, Speck confessed to the murders for the first time publicly and said he thought he would get out of prison "between now and the year 2000", at which time he hoped to run his own grocery store business. At the door stood a tall stranger with a pockmarked face and a gun. You climbed down to the ledge on 100th Street? "She gets out of the car, slams the door and found out from the guy where we are and how to get home from there.". Their father, John, had attended seminary, changed his mind about the priesthood and married a young woman, Mary, who had grown up three blocks from him. They could talk about the wedding. On a trip to Florida with her classmates not long before she died, she sent a postcard home to report that immediately after their plane landed, they had gone to Mass. He's still searching for the words to explain to his three children who his sister was, what happened to her. Gloria Davy jokes around in the South Side townhouse that was used as a dormitory for student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital, circa 1966. Richard Speck was one of the most fiendish mass murderers in American history as his slayings of eight nursing students in a single evening captured the attention of the entire nation. ''I`m in here for 1,200 years. A couple of days after his basement flooded, John Schmale finally mustered the energy to head downstairs and investigate the damage. ''What`s that dude who played in `Shaft`? During this period he had the words "Born to Raise Hell" tattooed on his arm, a sentiment that wife Shirley had experienced firsthand: She filed for divorce in January 1966. Her father, who had become a familiar figure on TV, with his cane or in his wheelchair as he protested the possibility of Richard Speck's parole, died in 1990 on Pat's birthday. All Rights Reserved. Richard Roundtree? (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune). (Harold Norman / Chicago Tribune). A. I screamed there for about five minutes and nothing. We strive for accuracy and fairness.If you see something that doesn't look right,.css-47aoac{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:0.0625rem;text-decoration-color:inherit;text-underline-offset:0.25rem;color:#A00000;-webkit-transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;}.css-47aoac:hover{color:#595959;text-decoration-color:border-link-body-hover;}contact us! Fortunately, Amurao remembered the distinctive "Born to Raise Hell" tattoo that, along with the image, enabled police to identify their suspect as Richard Speck. Richard speck video noorvideo 81 subscribers Subscribe 253 Save 164K views 11 years ago Notice Age-restricted video (based on Community Guidelines) Almost yours: 2 weeks, on us 100+ live channels. She started college as an English major at Northern Illinois University, then switched to nursing. Atienza became friends and learned to play penny-ante poker with the policemen and bodyguards who watched over her for an entire year while she was in protective custody. But 50 years ago, the murders were perhaps as shocking in the Philippines as they were in Chicago. But she came with a coveted distinction: She had a car, and not just any car, a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible in pale yellow "Colonial Cream," a gift from her father, who could barely afford it and who himself drove a run-down pickup truck. She did, however, like her volunteer job at an elder-care facility known as the poor farm, and she made friends with her patients, even brought them Christmas presents. John and Nina grew up on an acre of land near suburban Wheaton, a remnant of the Schmale family farm. Suzanne Farris, left, and Gloria Davy pose at the dinner table, circa 1966. They'd see each other Friday, go hang out on Rush Street on the Gold Coast. On April 15, after 49 minutes of deliberation, the jury found Speck guilty and recommended the death penalty. 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. No immediate relatives were there. The interview only goes south when Holden oversteps the bounds his newfound. "A lot of us never locked our doors but the Speck case changed all that.". All of the bedrooms were upstairs, and none had a phone. Episode #1.9: Directed by David Fincher. News item: Richard Speck sentenced. Two officials at the Consulate General of the Philippines in Chicago, when asked recently about the Filipina nurses, weren't familiar with the crime. He could be seen doing what appeared to be cocaine and in an interview-like discussion he answered questions about the murders of the nurses . We kind of lost her, Lori said. Peter McNamee washes the 1957 Chevrolet owned by his girlfriend, Nina Jo Schmale, whom he planned to marry after graducation, circa 1966. Menudo Star Says Jos Menendez Assaulted Him. She was not the same person. She'd bring him water, fluff his pillow, hold his hand, tell him that she loved him. Among Pam's favorite pleasures was watching Jack, who was seven years older, race cars. THE VOICE OF RICHARD SPECK - Chicago Tribune Pamela Wilkening, left, Mary Ann Jordan, right, and Suzanne Farris, second from right, are shown with other student nurses having fun with a South Chicago Community Hospital School of Nursing banner, circa 1966. There was a man with a gun in the house. It is being republished for the anniversary with updated sections, including one about Atienza. Richard Benjamin Speck (December 6, 1941 - December 5, 1991) was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago, residence via stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 13-14, 1966. Videos by Chicago Tribune's Chris Walker. 29. Richard Speck once remarked that the day after he was born, all hell broke loose. They`ll never mess with nobody else.''. In May 1966, Valentina Pasion boarded an airplane in the Philippines, headed for Chicago. What a waste that Nina and her friends weren't able to give the world everything they had to give, or enjoy its pleasures. On a June day in 1966, when she was 20, she went to one of his races, and afterward waved goodbye. When he left, hours later, taking the money he had stolen, she cowered in her hiding place, terrified, for hours, before finally summoning the courage to seek help. The camera also catches the misery on those women's faces. They laughed as they sunbathed on the roof between the tavern and the funeral home, watching the people and the cars down on Michigan Avenue, which they called "The Ave.". In the video, Speck also casually admits to the killing of the nurses, describing the strangulations in some detail, and bragging about the strength required to kill someone in this manner. The image suggests who she was, serious and slightly removed from the fun. In those postwar years, most residents of Chicago's Far South Side were white and working-class, still close to their immigrant roots. Finding those carousels of slides, in September 2015, may have been a fluke, but it felt like a providential sign. Mary Ann had family responsibilities. She worked part time at a bakery. Pam had been quiet, studious and decisive since she was a girl in south suburban Lansing. The Matuseks wanted Pat to be buried in the clothes she would have worn for her upcoming graduation, so on the day after the murders, Pat's sister, Betty Jo, asked Kubasek for a favor. The police arrived to scenes of carnage, and took Amurao into custody, interviewing her and proceeding with the construction of an Identikit image. At age 10, she walked her sister Susan to her first day of kindergarten. Speck is in jail for murdering and raping a group of women. By July of 1966, however, Mary Ann, 20, had moved out of the townhouse and back into the family bungalow. "Life is looking good for Suzie.". ''. (Curtis Thatcher & Assoc.). His sister and seven of her fellow student nurses and nurseswere murdered 50years ago in one of Chicagos darkest crimes. And I don`t know what I`d do without it. 'Mindhunter': How the Real Serial Killers Compare to Show's - Insider The particulars could have come from a college fraternity boy. In the early 1900s, Grace Jordan was a high-ranking surgical nurse at the University of Michigan, and the stories of her accomplishments made Mary Ann think she could be a nurse too. In the townhouse, she was known to sing while doing the dishes or the laundry. Him and Eastwood and Bronson. (Schmale family ). "It was him," she said. Eight thousand miles from home, they could earn decent money and many, like Tina, sent much of it back to their families. Her dad was on the line. Rode the hospital shuttle back to the townhouse. She probably wouldn't still wear her hair in a perfect flip. So was pregnancy. Speck's father, to whom he had been deeply attached . Richard Speck Serial Killer Documentary - YouTube Pat was born in 1945, the year World War II ended, to Joe and Bessie Matusek, both of Czech descent. Whatever confluence of forces saved her, Cora Amurao made it through the night alive. Dorothy Schmale died five years after her daughter did, her death hastened by heartbreak. He was arrested and stood trial for murdering the eight nurses. Until he was six-years-old, he lived a fairly normal life in a small town in Illinois. After the death of his father when Speck was six, his mother remarried, moving the family to Dallas, Texas. Grace Jordan wasn't the only family member to stir Mary Ann's interest in nursing. By the time they were in their third year, they had helped deliver babies, treated sick children, watched people die. Politicians delivering food to the wake. He told me that he drank moonshine and took barbiturates in his prison cell. His sister and seven of her fellow student nurses and nurseswere murdered 50years ago in one of Chicagos darkest crimes. Speck'S High Life Shouldn'T Have Been a Shock Being in the world of the older girls felt cool. Elmhurst Blotter: Man charged with battery for allegedly punching a security guard at a bar, Hinsdale police blotter: multiple thefts reported by patients at Hinsdale Hospital, Glenview police blotter: Harwood Heights woman charged with possession of a stolen vehicle, Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. A camera caught the moment: a pretty girl in a plaid dress with a Peter Pan collar, reaching, with white gloves, for the document her sister had worked so hard to earn. Her graduation from nursing school was less than a month away, exams were coming up and she needed to stay at her townhouse in the city to study. It reinforced his sense of mission and its urgency. Richard Speck was waiting. ''I burned that tattoo off with a cigarette. Seeing them together, it's hard not to wonder what Pat would be like at their age. The Filipina women often ate dinner together at the townhouse kitchen table, sometimes joined by other exchange nurses. She closed the box, surely hoping that one day it would be opened.
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