Crime & Safety
Killer Richard Speck Is Shown Confessing, Having A Ball On Video In 1996 CBS Chicago Reports
This tape sparked outrage among lawmakers in Springfield who demanded change in the state prison system.
August 30, 2024
CHICAGO (CBS) -- On the night of July 13, 1966, Richard Speck broke into a Southeast Side dormitory and killed eight student nurses, in a murder spree that is still considered one of the most heinous and horrible in Chicago history.
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Three decades after the crime and even five years after his own death, Speck was still making headlines and drawing ire from prosecutors and victims' families who saw him mocking the justice system.
In May 1996, Bill Kurtis received an eight-year-old videotape from an attorney. The tape showed Speck and two other inmates in their cell at Stateville Prison. Not only did Speck remorselessly admit to the murders and describe how he carried them out in chilling detail, but he engaged in a hedonistic romp of sex and drug use right there in his cell at Stateville Prison.
