I cannot believe that the A&E Network or Biography Network showed the disgusting video that they showed here several times in the final segments of this episode on mass murderer Richard Speck, the man who brutally killed eight student nurses in one night in the South Side of Chicago in 1966. It made this the most disturbing episode of "Biography" I've ever seen.
Bill Kurtis, the "investigative journalist" you see on all these true-life crime shows, uncovered this video in which Speck, with a roommate sitting next to him in jail, was interviewed a number of years after the famous crime. The profanity is bleeped out but it's obvious the words used, such as the question offered to him, "Do you like being f----- in the a--? (Answer was, "Oh, yeah, I love it. (laughing). Speck casually discusses all the killings and laughs about them. It means nothing to him. Then he strips for the camera and shows us the breasts he had grown and his blue "panties," etc. Yeah, I'm not exaggerating. I wonder what the living relatives of the victims thought when they saw this TV show? I won't describe more but it's really, really sordid.
The first three-quarters of this Biography episodes details Speck's life which, of course, was not a good one. It's almost a given that a serial killer had at least one very sick parent or step-parent. Speck's father died when Richard was six and it was devastating He mother remarried the opposite the kind of man - a drunken, ex-con who is hated by Richard and vice/versa. The teen-aged Speck then began hanging out with bad a crowd, got drunk all the time, then into drugs, then petty crimes.....etc.
Watching this Biography episode, I couldn't help but shake my head in amazement, wondering how this guy wasn't put away before committing the crime that made him famous. What Speck did, and his outlook on things, is detailed here on this TV program before he murdered all the nurses and you can see it took no genius to see that Speck was a "walking time bomb."
Sadly, it exploded on the night of July 13, 1966 when he brutally killed eight student nurses in town-house located in the South Side of Chicago.. He took his time, raping, strangling and stabbing these innocent women to death.
He died in jail in 1991 after a heart-attack.
Bill Kurtis, the "investigative journalist" you see on all these true-life crime shows, uncovered this video in which Speck, with a roommate sitting next to him in jail, was interviewed a number of years after the famous crime. The profanity is bleeped out but it's obvious the words used, such as the question offered to him, "Do you like being f----- in the a--? (Answer was, "Oh, yeah, I love it. (laughing). Speck casually discusses all the killings and laughs about them. It means nothing to him. Then he strips for the camera and shows us the breasts he had grown and his blue "panties," etc. Yeah, I'm not exaggerating. I wonder what the living relatives of the victims thought when they saw this TV show? I won't describe more but it's really, really sordid.
The first three-quarters of this Biography episodes details Speck's life which, of course, was not a good one. It's almost a given that a serial killer had at least one very sick parent or step-parent. Speck's father died when Richard was six and it was devastating He mother remarried the opposite the kind of man - a drunken, ex-con who is hated by Richard and vice/versa. The teen-aged Speck then began hanging out with bad a crowd, got drunk all the time, then into drugs, then petty crimes.....etc.
Watching this Biography episode, I couldn't help but shake my head in amazement, wondering how this guy wasn't put away before committing the crime that made him famous. What Speck did, and his outlook on things, is detailed here on this TV program before he murdered all the nurses and you can see it took no genius to see that Speck was a "walking time bomb."
Sadly, it exploded on the night of July 13, 1966 when he brutally killed eight student nurses in town-house located in the South Side of Chicago.. He took his time, raping, strangling and stabbing these innocent women to death.
He died in jail in 1991 after a heart-attack.
