Mary Ann was at the Jordan bungalow on the night of July 13, 1966, when Phil and Suzie stopped by. Martin talked recently in his Oak Park law office about Cora's bravery. "Always very playful and very compassionate. The trial lasted just 12 days and, on April 15, 1967, the jury found Speck guilty of all eight murders, after less than an hour's deliberation. 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. 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. Through the end of spring and on into summer, Tina and her Filipina friends were sometimes spotted walking to a nearby shopping center, and they took occasional field trips, but they spent a lot of their nonworking time in the townhouse, frequently writing letters home. High school nursing club. "Awful, awful. 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. As they snuggled, the phone rang in the nearby den. He pulled it out recently as he talked for the first time publicly about the sister he lost when he was 15. Richard Speck Mindhunter: Ford goes too far in interviewing Speck, trying to use inflammatory, sexist language to get the murderer to open up. "He is not going to harm you," the voice said. Bottom row from left are Patricia Matusek, Valentina Pasion, Nina Jo Schmale and Pamela Wilkening. 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. John and Nina grew up on an acre of land near suburban Wheaton, a remnant of the Schmale family farm. Once, remarking on her diligence and steady temperament, her brother told her she'd make a good military nurse. . In their tightknit neighborhood, Pat and her friends stood on corners during the fall to help her dad sell peanuts for the Kiwanis Club. She started college as an English major at Northern Illinois University, then switched to nursing. "She wasn't the prom queen or the valedictorian," her brother recalled. At Thornton Fractional South High School, she attended almost every basketball and football game with her closest girlfriends, but she didn't play sports. 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. That is no comfort to the families of his victims. She began working at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington and then at the Veterans Administration Medical Center. His mother filed them away neatly, along with the pictures and newspaper clippings. THE VOICE OF RICHARD SPECK - Chicago Tribune What the camera couldn't catch were the girl's thoughts, the confusion she felt at the spectacle of all these other graduates. Why he did what he did in the next few hours will never be known. (Chicago Tribune historical photo / Chicago Tribune). I stabbed them and I choked them. After several minutes, they heard a female voice urging them to come out. Nursing students were under strict rules during the 1960s, but still they found time for fun. Amurao, she believes, saved her life. 'Mindhunter' Episode 9 Recap: Born to Raise Hell | Decider The next morning, Pat's mother called Kubasek, worried. She accepted an assignment at South Chicago Community Hospital and landed at O'Hare airport on May 1, 1966. What he did, however, is known, because Cora, a 4-foot-10 nurse from the land of the concealed knife, escaped his sight at one point and hid under one bed, then another, until he was gone. William Martin was the lead prosecutor for Speck's trial. Suzie was the kind of girl people might call pretty, perky, popular. He spent a few days there before traveling to Monmouth, Illinois, where he stayed with some family friends from his early childhood. She rang the bell. The eight nurses killed by Richard Speck on July 14, 1966, in Chicago were, top from left, Gloria Davy, Suzanne Farris, Merlita Gargullo and Mary Ann Jordan. On July 15, 1966, the Chicago Tribune's front page reported the news with the headline "Search for Mass Slayer." There she joined two other Filipina exchange nurses, Merlita Gargullo and Corazon Amurao, who had arrived a few days earlier. "She laughs a lot.". Speck admitted he committed the killings _ breaking for the first time his claim of drug-induced amnesia. Suzie was lucky. The day of her sister's death had been recorded as her graduation day. he said. Me, I`m not like Dillinger or anybody else. He wonders what it would have been like to grow old with a sister, his sister. (Schmale family ). The End of Richard Speck: Cora Amurao, dressed as a nurse, entered Speck's hospital room and identified him to police as the killer. Atienza was the states key witness when Martin prosecuted Speck in the 1967 trial. "What wonderful people they were.". `Parents ought to be careful about their kids,'' Richard Speck said. Would Kubasek help? He was in need of surgery to repair his severed artery, and was watched over by a dozen policemen who were determined to ensure that his days of making lucky escapes were over. "She found the thing she loved doing, she meets a guy that she says 'yes' to about being married," he said. Who Is Suspected Pentagon Leaker Jack Teixeira? 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. `60 Minutes,` the news, keep up on the outside world. He instantly recognized his mother's cursive handwriting. Another time, according to a different news account, Tina wrote her sister saying she wished she could live in Chicago forever. Tina, 23, shared a bedroom with three of the American nurses, while Cora and Merlita shared another. We were just totally out of our minds.''. He lugged it upstairs. From the transcript of Speck's trial: Q: How long did you scream, in a sitting position, with the window open? "When Merlita (Gargullo) cooked adobo filipino and pancit and they came home from the hospital and smelled the food and they say 'it's good' so we invited them to join us to eat, and they really like it. I don`t know why it happened to me. His sister and seven of her fellow student nurses and nurseswere murdered 50years ago in one of Chicagos darkest crimes. 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. How to Talk to Serial Killers: An Interview with 'Mindhunter' John But before she was gone, she placed four carousels of slides neatly in a box. "It ended an innocence we all had,'' Martin said. She played baseball in the alley, badminton across the back fences. She probably wouldn't still wear her hair in a perfect flip. When 23-year-old Corazon Amurao opened the front door to Speck's knock, he forced his way in at gunpoint. He was sentenced to death, but the sentence was later overturned due to issues with jury selection at his trial. `Parents ought to be careful about their kids,'' Richard Speck said. (Schmale family ). The American student nurses and the exchange nurses never grew close, but from the outset they were friendly. ''I like Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson. Police, cameras, gawkers were everywhere, and someone said something about "the bodies.". It will be available May 10. He keeps the photo in a plastic pouch, tucked next to the prayer card from her funeral. A doting mother and grandmother, she enjoys baby-sitting her grandchildren about twice a week and the constant companionship of her children. Peter McNamee washes the 1957 Chevrolet owned by his girlfriend, Nina Jo Schmale, whom he planned to marry after graducation, circa 1966. Except, Speck doesn't see himself as an evil person. But I ended up in jail before I could keep the appointment.'' He hates knowing that anyone who Googles the name "Nina Schmale" lands on the name "Richard Speck.". She wanted to make her sister look like her sister, Kubasek said, choking up on the word sister., Student nurses Patricia Matusek, left, and Suzanne Farris, circa 1966. There's no question that Richard Speck lived a very troubled life from an early age. Sat down to write letters. As part of their psychiatric rotation, they dealt with mentally disturbed patients. 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. She walked off the stage, shoulders back, carrying a diploma dated July 14, 1966. 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. He was referring to letters he received in his prison cell every week from women-female admirers who, he said, wanted to correspond with him. It was a world of hair curlers, hair spray cans, ashtrays, manual typewriters, textbooks, sheath dresses, corsages, cluttered rooms, a place where young women laughed, hugged, studied, ate, teased each other's hair. Washed clothes in the bathroom sink, hung them to dry in the basement. 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. In the Davy family, according to Lori, grieving openly for Gloria was considered weakness, especially by her father, the military man. 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. Over his 25-year career with the FBI's Investigative Support Unit, Douglas interviewed hundreds of America's most notoriously brutal killers, from Charles Manson and Ted Bundy to " Son of Sam " David Berkowitz and the " BTK Killer ," Dennis Rader. He pushed up his left sleeve to reveal ugly scars on his arm. She displayed uncommon ease with the dying and never balked at the mess that came with tending to the human body. 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. (Harold Norman / Chicago Tribune). Lori Davy Sivek remembers her sister Gloria Davy, one of eight student nurses and nurses murdered together 50years ago on Chicago'sSouth Side. On this day, Amurao personally identified Speck as the killer. Merlita's father. Their married bliss was short-lived, however, and Speck's reversion to type landed him a jail sentence for theft and check fraud, in 1963. Richard Speck attack survivor: 'Somebody up there was hiding me from Atienza was the states key witness when Martin prosecuted Speck in the 1967 trial. But 50 years ago, the murders were perhaps as shocking in the Philippines as they were in Chicago. Lori tries to live by her mother's words. Richard Roundtree? Those who had been fortunate enough to be out at the time of his arrival found themselves also subjected to brutal attacks when they returned home later that evening. It was the early 1960s, before the flowering of the women's liberation movement, an era when it wasn't assumed that women would leave the house to work, and those who did had few choices. What would Nina, who died at 24, look like today, at 74? Asked if she recognized the killer, she stepped off the stand and pointed: Since then she has rarely spoken to the media, though in a 1970 court hearing she described her fear of the night, of being alone, of a knock on a door. After it was aired on TV, Wilkening obtained a copy of the video. The townhouse Gloria shared with the other student nurses was often a mess, so she sometimes paid her little sister a dollar or two to clean. Too tired. '', He said that if he were ever paroled, and someone annoyed him, ''I`ll be back in prison. He unearthed his ancient 35 mm slide projector, marveled that the bulb still worked and began projecting images on a wall. One summer night in 1966, when her father, who worked for a steel company, was in Pittsburgh on business, Lori and her two younger sisters crowded into their parents' bed. 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. 'Mindhunter': The True Stories Behind The Show's Killers And Profilers ''How am I gonna get in trouble?'' Her experience there whetted her interest in nursing. By the time he was 24, in 1966, Speck was in Chicago looking for work. In March of 1978, during an interview I had with him inside the walls of Stateville, Speck confessed for the first time to murdering the eight young women in 1966. ''Because any kid can end up to be like me. On the 50th anniversary of the murders, he remembers Corazon's bravery in court. He was arrested and stood trial for murdering the eight nurses. ''I know it keeps up their morale. Seeing them together, it's hard not to wonder what Pat would be like at their age. Pat asked. Grief will always be tangled in that youthful happiness. The time he spent unpacking the food. 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. Changing his mind at the last minute, he summoned help, and was taken to Cook County hospital, where, again, his tattoo gave him away, and he was arrested and taken into custody. That was a good time that we had," she told Martin in a recent email. Among the mourners standing in the drizzle was an older, bareheaded man from Mindoro. She was home on the night of July 13, when her brother Phil stopped by. The first season of Mindhunter saw Ford interview a number of famous serial killers, including Edmund Kemper (Coed Killer), necrophile Jerry Brudos and mass murderer Richard Speck all of. Pat was 20 on the hot evening of Wednesday, July 13, 1966, when Arlene Kubasek dropped her off at the townhouse, well before curfew, which was 10:30 p.m. except for the two nights a week the women were allowed to stay out until 12:30 a.m. Do you want to come in for coffee? The police arrived to scenes of carnage, and took Amurao into custody, interviewing her and proceeding with the construction of an Identikit image. After the murders, the nursing students in the nearby townhouses moved back into the dorms connected to the hospital. Mary Ann is 8. Dorothy Schmale died five years after her daughter did, her death hastened by heartbreak. These days, Farris is retired from his job as an administrative services manager at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Chicago. Around 10:30 p.m., she went upstairs to bed, in the high bunk in the room she shared with Merlita. Only one of her siblings, a brother, is still alive. On what occasion? "She did well with other people in situations that you're not necessarily in control of," Farris said, "which I think is a good skill for nursing.". His little sister. Who is Corazon Amurao? The student nurses' white and pale-gray uniforms had to be strictly starched, their crisp white caps perfectly placed a tough trick on bouffant hair. Who are the victims of the mass murderer? Speck also has a foul mouth on him and Ford realizes that there is only one way to communicate with him. Richard Speck once remarked that the day after he was born, all hell broke loose. Whatever confluence of forces saved her, Cora Amurao made it through the night alive. Tammy Siouchoff remembers life with her fellow students before six of them and two visiting nurseswere murdered in a neighboring townhouse on Chicago's South Side in 1966. Kubasek hurried to her car and drove to the townhouse. Look at her. Richard Speck was born on December 6, 1941, the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor. 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. A few years ago, he ran into an old family friend and she told him a story he'd never heard, about how when she was in high school and couldn't afford a prom dress, Suzie made her one. Would Kubasek go with her to the townhouse to get Pat's nursing cap and uniform? When her father was at work and her mother was taking care of the house and Billy, she took Susan along while she ran family errands on 79th Street, where the shopkeepers knew her name. (Schmale family ). Netflix's 'Mindhunter': All the Real Serial Killers, From Ed - Newsweek
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