Richard Speck

Richard Speck was an American criminal who gained notoriety for committing a mass murder in 1966. He entered a Chicago townhouse where nine nurses were sleeping and systematically killed eight of them, injuring the ninth. His crimes shocked the nation and drew widespread media attention due to their brutality and Speck’s subsequent trial and conviction. He was sentenced to life in prison but died of a heart attack in 1991. Speck's case remains one of the most infamous instances of serial murder and mass killing in U.S. criminal history.