European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Richard speck Center being Lei from the courthouse in Peoria iii., in Jura 1967, after bang sentenced to die for murder of eight nurses. Later to was resin Tenca to re eight consecutive terms of so to 150 year each. Lingering horror Over 1966 Chicago murders by Patricia c. Thompson associated press Wenty years ago. A tiny  nurse pushed Cut a bedroom window screen. Crawled onto a ledge 10 last above her dormitory Lawn and screamed they Are All dead my friends Are All dead1 of. God i m he Only one  inside the Chicago House. Police found the body of a student nurse on a first floor Couch and the bodies of seven others Scall ered in two upstairs bedrooms and a bathroom. All had been stabbed strangled or both and one had been raped newspapers called it the crime of the  nine months later a jury deliberated 49 mules and convicted Richard speck 24, a lanky itinerant Seaman with born to raise hell tattooed on his left Arm o the murders two decades later the sense of horror lingers. The smell is probably whet i remember most and the Large puddles of dried blood recalled George Muda Ugri 47, who helped prosecute speck and visited the town House a a Days after police removed the bodies. It was the smell of  John Schr Nale 83, father of one of the slain women said you can t hardly miss thinking about it every Day. She had Al o a we to live Belore her. Such a wasted  members of the South Chicago Community Hospital school of nursing class of 1966 saw their 20th anniversary reunion As a Chance to share with their fellow students the memory of their graduation said Nadine Fri Pink a Hospital spokeswoman thai reunion however was intentionally scheduled last year a year Early she said explaining they Felt the Momory of the murders would be in their minds this  Jack Wallenda 60, one of the first detectives on the scene after the bodies were discovered can still rattle Oli the names of each victim the exact placement of each body what each woman was wearing specifics about each wound. You get hardened to murder to a Point. But i knew some of those girls. I recognized them. How in hell can you explain it to the parents he said. Speck at first was sentenced to deals. But when the Page 16 the stars and stripes  super Enecon l struck Down the deals penalty which was rain sealed in Illinois in 1977, he was to sentenced to serve eight consecutive terms of 50 to 150 years each. Speck incarcerated at the Stateville correctional Center in Joliet has been denied parole five limes. Joseph Malusek 79, father of another slain nurse suffers from Arlen is. Angina and degenerating hips. Al though he needs two canes and a wheelchair to gel around he has attended each of speck s parole hearings. As Long As i m still Here i la continue to work so speck can t gel  Matusek said. We Don l want people to forget for the first few years alter the murders the families of the victims would gather each month Al a restaurant they always ended up talking about the loss of their daughters said Matusek s wife Bess 74. Sharing grief helped us Cope with what had happened said mrs Matusek who remembers washing her daughter s hair giving her a Massage and begging her to spend the night at Home the evening before she was murdered. Malusek said he believed the tragedy extended beyond the town House dormitory. Several parents he said died from the stress and Strain they were  Schmale s wife Dorothy died of ulcerative colitis two years after their daughter was killed. He said he believed his wife s grief fed to her death she could t take it he said. According to irial testimony speck broke into the town House tied up the nurses and chatted with them Lor a few minutes telling them he wanted Only Money to get to new Orleans. Then he led them from the room one by one and murdered them. He raped one nurse who closely resembled his former wife. All of tie slain nurses were in their 20s. Six were americans scheduled to graduate shortly from the nursing school Nina to Schmale Patricia Ann Malusek Mary Ann Jordan Gloria Davy Suzanne Farris and Pamela Wilkening. Two Merlita Cargullo and Valentia pasion were visiting Exchange nurses from the Philippines. Corazon Amurao a third nurse from the Philippines survived by rolling under a bunk bed while speck was Oul of the room. After murdering the women. Speck rented a 90-Cenl Friday August 22,198e a night room in a skid Row hotel and attempted suicide by slicing his wrist and the inside of his Elbow with a  wine Billle. An emergency room surgeon recognized speck from a sketch and a description of his Tattoo thai was published in newspapers around the country. The surgeon alerted a Hospital Security guard and speck was arrested. Marvin Ziporyn 63, the Cook county jail psychiatrist who treated speck before his irial contended in his controversial Book bom to raise hell thai speck had suffered brain damage As a child As the result of several concussions. Speck was not legally responsible for the murders because of mental incompetency caused by the brain damage and alcohol or drugs Ziporyn argued. If he is let Oul he would t be dangerous As Long As he did t drink or take drugs Ziporyn said in a recent interview. I could say the same thing Aboul 50,000 people walking the streets of Chicago  Ziporyn now an adjunct criminal Justice professor at the University of munis in Chicago said speck at the time was easy to get along  an acne scarred Young Man with a Good sense of humor who liked to watch Toad runner cartoons and to read the Bible and detective and Western stories. However Murtaugh remember a different speck. He was surly arrogant a surly Bastard who does t belong in civilized  he said recently. One doctor described no As a physical social and  speck did not respond to a written request for an interview. He told reporters in 1983 that he had become a marshmallow in prison and spent his Lime painting Walls adding. I love Stateville. This is my  slowly tone has erased physical reminders of the murders. The hotel where speck tried to commit suicide has been demolished the nursing school will close next year. But just inside the front Entrance of Shmalo s one bedroom apartment a Black and White picture of the 33 nurses who were supposed to graduate in 1966 hangs on he Wall. Nina to is in the second Row from Tho Bottom. Malusek said he used to visit Patricia Ann s grave once a week often placing carnations on it bul no goes Only occasionally. Ii takes a lot to go every week Bess Matusek  brings Back Everli Pinr