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Richard Speck had a lengthy criminal record prior to the murders of eight nurses in Chicago, Illinois, beginning in Dallas, Texas.
Speck started drinking at the age of 12, and was first arrested in 1955 at 13 for trespassing.
In 1963, when Speck was 21, he was sentenced to three years in prison for forgery and burglary, but he was paroled 16 months later in 1965.
In March 1966, Speck bought an old car and robbed a grocery store for 70 cartons of cigarettes.
In April 1966, a 65-year-old woman was raped and robbed and found dead in an empty hog house behind Frank’s Place, IL.
Speck was convicted of the murders of seven nursing students in 1966.
He was sentenced to death in 1971 after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the death penalty in 1971.
Speck died in 1991 after suffering a heart attack at the age of 49.
In 1978, Speck publicly confessed to the murders in 1978.
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