# Best of 2025: Richard Speck: The True Story of the 1966 Chicago Nurse Murders Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/weekly-spooky-horror-stories-scary-tales-692630/best-of-2025-richard-speck-the-true-story-of-the-1966-chicago-nurse-murders Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/weekly-spooky-horror-stories-scary-tales-692630/best-of-2025-richard-speck-the-true-story-of-the-1966-chicago-nurse-murders.md Podcast: [Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Spooky Season](https://stenobird.com/podcast/weekly-spooky-horror-stories-scary-tales-692630) Published: 2026-04-24T09:00:24+00:00 Episode link: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/best-of-2025-richard-speck-the-true-story-of-the-1966-chicago-nurse-murders--71568983 Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71568983/born_to_raise_hell_richard_speck_and_the_1966_chicago_nurse_murders.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/weekly-spooky-horror-stories-scary-tales-692630/episodes/best-of-2025-richard-speck-the-true-story-of-the-1966-chicago-nurse-murders Duration seconds: 5707 ## Resource Richard Speck and the 1966 Chicago nurse murders remain one of the most horrifying chapters in Chicago true crime history. In this Best of 2025 revisit, Terrifying & True returns to one of its most gripping and disturbing deep dives: the night eight young student nurses were terrorized and murdered inside their South Side townhouse, and the long shadow that crime cast over America. This episode follows the full arc of the case, from Speck’s violent early life and downward spiral into crime, to the sweltering July night that ended in unimaginable brutality, to the frantic manhunt, nationally watched trial, and the disturbing revelations that surfaced long after his conviction. It’s one of the most engrossing episodes we released in 2025, and absolutely one worth revisiting. What makes this story hit so hard is not just the scale of the crime, but the human terror inside it: a house full of young women trapped with a killer, one survivor forced to hide in silence while the horror unfolded around her, and a city left reeling by what newspapers called the crime of the century. This is one of the strongest and most unforgettable Terrifying & True episodes of the year, blending historical detail, emotional weight, and true crime suspense in a case that still shocks decades later. Inside this episode: The life and psychological decline of Richard Speck before the murders The 1966 Chicago nurse murders and the horrifying events inside the townhouse Corazon Amurao’s survival and the eyewitness testimony that helped identify Speck The massive Chicago manhunt that led to his arrest days later The trial, conviction, and death sentence reversal that kept the case in the headlines The prison scandal and later confession tapes that revealed Speck’s lack of remorse and deepene… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/weekly-spooky-horror-stories-scary-tales-692630/episodes/best-of-2025-richard-speck-the-true-story-of-the-1966-chicago-nurse-murders/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/weekly-spooky-horror-stories-scary-tales-692630/best-of-2025-richard-speck-the-true-story-of-the-1966-chicago-nurse-murders.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.