Episode 726: Richard Speck : The Student Nurse Murders (Part 2)
From Morbid | Podcast
In the early morning hours of July 14, 1966, Chicago police responded to a call about a woman screaming for help at a townhouse in Chicago’s Jeffery Manor neighborhood. When they arrived, they found student nurse Cora Amurao outside the home she shared with eight other student nurses, all of whom had been strangled or stabbed that night by an unknown intruder, while Cora hid underneath her bed. Considered at the time to be a “crime of the century,” the student nurse murders shocked and terrif...
Who is mentioned in this episode?
15 people come up, including Richard Speck, Dr. Leroy Smith, William Kirkland.
- Richard Speck (Person)
- Dr. Leroy Smith (Person)
- William Kirkland (Person)
- Dr. William Norcross (Person)
- Dr. Marvin Zaporin (Person)
- Gerald Getty (Person)
- William Martin (prosecutor) (Person)
- Adolf Ash (Person)
- Sergeant John Griffith (Person)
- William Martin (Person)
- Daniel Ward (Person)
- Bill Curtis (Person)
- Claude Lunsford (Person)
- Kora Amaro (Person)
- Ronzel Laramore (Person)
Mentioned in this episode
- A&E (Company)
- Morbid (Company)
- Sinclair Great Lakes (Product)
- County Hospital (Location)
- National Maritime Union (Company)
- Kermach Memorial Hospital (Location)
- Chicago House of Corrections (Location)
- Peoria, Illinois (Location)
- FBI profiling (Concept)
- Stateville Correctional Center (Location)
- Insanity defense (Concept)
- Student nurses (Concept)
- Sexual assault (Concept)
- NMU (Company)
- Illinois Supreme Court (Company)
- Twilight (Book)
- American Airlines (Company)
- First-degree murder (Concept)
- Miranda v. Arizona (Concept)
- Mass murder (Concept)