Richard Speck murdered eight student nurses in a South Chicago town house in 1966. Speck was a mass murderer and a serial killer. The sensational crime for which Speck is known for was initially intended to be a burglary in order to obtain money. However,when twenty-three-year-old Corazon Amurao answered the door of the South Chicago apartment, Speck forced his way in wielding a knife and a pistol, maintaining he was only going to tie her and her five roommates up and rob them. In the subsequent hour, three more of Amurao's roommates returned from dates or from studying in the library only to be greeted by Speck who, after having all nine women in the apartment and under his control, decided to engage in a frenzy of violent stabbing and slashing. In addition, Speck raped one of the women prior to killing her. Only Amurao survived by huddling...