"I'm in," said Gloria, who phoned her mother every night to say she was back and safe. There, next to his kitchen near the village of Mahomet, 140 miles south of Chicago, the lost women flickered back to life. Its why he wants a 50th anniversary commemoration that reclaims all the womens names, all their lives. On July 15, 1966, the Chicago Tribune's front page reported the news with the headline "Search for Mass Slayer." Opening the box at first meant to me that I was going to reopen her death. Schmale was a student nurse at South Chicago Community Hospital. One of eight young nurses killed in a Chicago townhouse on July 14, 1966, by a man who became notorious: Richard Speck. ''I like Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson. She started college as an English major at Northern Illinois University, then switched to nursing. "Time is moving on," he said one afternoon, sitting in his peaceful yard under the old, low-hanging trees. "I just would have liked her to see the kids," he said, and he cried. He could be seen doing what appeared to be cocaine and in an interview-like discussion he answered questions about the murders of the nurses . According to the New York Times, at least one victim was raped. Wilkening has had a full life, but he doesn't pretend the pain is gone or that his life ever returned to a true version of normal. Pam had been quiet, studious and decisive since she was a girl in south suburban Lansing. Lori has come to believe that Gloria's death prepared her to handle anything, and to see, in some useful ways, the possibility of death in everything. (Chris Walker / Chicago Tribune). Stewardess. Mary Ann is 8. '', He said that if he were ever paroled, and someone annoyed him, ''I`ll be back in prison. He thinks about the family she might have had, wishes she could have met his two sons and daughter and eight grandchildren. A Tribune freelancer in the Philippines had no success either, and reported that the Philippine Nurses Association in Manila had no contact information for their families. After his father died, his mother married an abusive alcoholic who savagely abused Speck and his seven siblings. Here are the details of the Richard Speck case, explained. I don`t know why it happened to me. From early childhood, she connected with him in a unique way, and he was why she wanted to specialize in pediatric nursing. Elmhurst Blotter: Man charged with battery for allegedly punching a security guard at a bar, Hinsdale police blotter: multiple thefts reported by patients at Hinsdale Hospital, Glenview police blotter: Harwood Heights woman charged with possession of a stolen vehicle, Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. Lori Davy, center, accepts a nursing school diploma on behalf of her slain sister, Gloria Davy, at a ceremony at McCormick Place in 1966. In the basement's dim overhead light, a big, brown cardboard box caught his eye, a box so soggy its bottom was ready to fall out. "It was him," she said. Tammy Siouchoff remembers life with her fellow students before six of them and two visiting nurseswere murdered in a neighboring townhouse on Chicago's South Side in 1966. There she joined two other Filipina exchange nurses, Merlita Gargullo and Corazon Amurao, who had arrived a few days earlier. She has rarely spoken in detail about what happened, not even to her husband. Guarded by detectives, Corazon Amurao arrives at the courthouse in Peoria to testify as the state's chief witness against Richard Speck on April 5, 1967. Who Is Richard Speck? They're walking home from church, dressed in matching blue coats and hats and black patent leather shoes, each clutching an Easter basket. "Don't hate," she told them. Together they helped prepare Pat's body for burial, at the funeral home run by Arlene Baskys' dad, next door to Joe Matusek's bar. "If I send you money, you will be able to fix the house," she said in one. Billy loved her tremendously.". Bottom row from left are Patricia Matusek, Valentina Pasion, Nina Jo Schmale and Pamela Wilkening. A photo shows four of the eight slain student nurses at South Chicago Community Hospital, circa 1966. After Speck's trial she moved back to the Philippines and married in 1969, but she returned to the U.S. about four years later. In Lori's words, Gloria was driven, independent, intelligent, headstrong, poised, creative and snippy when she didn't like what you were doing. Their mother eventually forgave Richard Speck and urged her children to do the same. "She walked within two inches of his forehead and pointed . ''Dillinger and them guys, that was the Depression, they were robbing banks because that was their only way to survive. The End of Richard Speck: Cora Amurao, dressed as a nurse, entered Speck's hospital room and identified him to police as the killer. On some summer days, because it gives him a warm feeling he can't entirely explain, he drives around, top down, in a car he bought a few years ago. In 1978, though, I spent two hours with him at Stateville Prison, having a conversation he later said he wished he hadn`t agreed to. Brownie. As the 50th anniversary of the murders approaches, that's what he wants for himself and the other families to reopen the lives of the women whose names have been overshadowed by their killer's. But any kid can end up just like me.''. Parts of the confession were almost certainly bogus; Speck said that he had not killed all eight nurses-that an accomplice, whom Speck later shot to death, had killed one of the nurses, while Speck killed the other seven. News item: Another Speck parole hearing at Stateville Correctional Center. "She was great with him," recalled their sister, Susan Jordan Morin. Best Known For: In 1966, Richard Speck committed one of the most horrifying mass murders in American history when he brutalized and killed eight student nurses living on Chicago's South Side. Siouchoff was the student who, on the night of the murders, rang the back doorbell of her friends' townhouse, in search of bread, then left when no one answered. A native Tagalog speaker, she began learning English in first grade. But she still can't stand the smell of roses. Losing his parking spot as he carted all that food here and there. ''Here,'' he said. The police arrived to scenes of carnage, and took Amurao into custody, interviewing her and proceeding with the construction of an Identikit image. "She laughs a lot.". There's another kind of sealed box many of them have carried around as well. Speck is in jail for murdering and raping a group of women. Took a nap. Had Pat gotten in OK the night before? "What do I have here?". Come spend the night, Suzie suggested. Before long, she, Merlita and Cora were huddled in a small bedroom closet, holding the door shut. Seeing them together, it's hard not to wonder what Pat would be like at their age. Report a correction or typo . Just a few glimpses of the video have been shown (in the A&E) documentary about Richard. Student nurses Suzanne Farris, left, and Mary Ann Jordan are shown in their townhouse,circa 1966. But whatever the veracity of his account of that murderous night (''It was just one of them weird coincidences. In 1996, five years after Speck's death, a TV journalist made public a prison video, which showed Speck taking drugs and engaging in sex with another inmate during the 1980s, while he was an inmate at Statesville Correctional Institute; Speck appears to have breasts in the video, apparently as a result of hormone treatment received while in prison, and is wearing women's underwear. He's still searching for the words to explain to his three children who his sister was, what happened to her. ''A lot of them women are pretty,'' Speck said. It was around dawn when she made her way to an upstairs window. Shortly before she died, she wrote a friend about a trip to Wisconsin. Holden's methods during a disturbing interview with mass murderer Richard Speck create dissension among the team and kick off an internal FBI probe. Atienza did not respond to Tribune requests for an interview. "I don't believe this," Schmale said to his wife on that day half a century later, gazing inside the box. Later she learned that Speck, responding to the bell, had forced two of his hostages downstairs, a gun at their backs. In that small room, with its linoleum floor and overhead light, Suzie taught him how to make a grilled cheese sandwich and how, if you mixed sour cream and dry onion soup mix, presto, you had French onion dip. I`m not a violent man.''. So much youth and beauty, so much wit and fun. Once, remarking on her diligence and steady temperament, her brother told her she'd make a good military nurse. For years, whenever July 14 comes around, John Farris has found himself depressed for a week before and after. In the Davy family, according to Lori, grieving openly for Gloria was considered weakness, especially by her father, the military man. The judge sentenced Speck to death. Martin and Dennis Breo are co-authors of a 1993 book called "The Crime of the Century." Speck's trial began on April 3, 1967, and his claim that he had no recollection of the eight murders committed placed Corazon Amurao in the spotlight as the star witness. "She is doing very, very well," said William Martin, 79, the former assistant state's attorney who was the lead prosecutor in the case. (Chris Walker / Chicago Tribune) (Chicago Tribune). Michigan authorities also wanted to question him about his whereabouts during the murder of four other females, aged between 7 and 60, as his ship had been in the vicinity at the time. They were the last women to arrive at the townhouse that night. The kitchen door opened onto a narrow alley where Nina parked her Bel Air and where a hospital shuttle picked up and delivered students. she reportedly told friends a few days after the murders. It's the psychological kind, full of memories and emotions, the kind Schmale means when he says: "Opening the box at first meant to me that I was going to reopen her death. Guarded by detectives, Corazon Amurao arrives at the courthouse in Peoria to testify as the state's chief witness against Richard Speck on April 5, 1967. Nina Jo Schmale appears in an undated photo. (Schmale family ). Start each day with Chicago Tribune editors' top story picks, delivered to your inbox. And it turned out that it reopened her life.". Pamela Wilkening, left, Mary Ann Jordan, right, and Suzanne Farris, second from right, are shown with other student nurses having fun with a South Chicago Community Hospital School of Nursing banner, circa 1966. With her salary, she paid tuition for college night classes downtown, after which she commuted home to 111th Street and Avenue E. Eventually she enrolled in nursing school, and though it wasn't a field she had dreamed of as a girl, she had a knack. Among the mourners standing in the drizzle was an older, bareheaded man from Mindoro. When their bodies were flown back to Manila, however, more than 100 people relatives and friends waited in the rain to watch their caskets unloaded from an airliner and hefted into funeral coaches.
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