Best of 2025: Richard Speck: The True Story of the 1966 Chicago Nurse Murders

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This episode revisits the horrifying true story of Richard Speck and the 1966 Chicago nurse murders, exploring the psychological decline of Speck and the impact of the crime on the victims and the city.

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…

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Host: Henrique Couto

Topics covered

• true crime
• historical crime
• psychological decline
• survival story
• murder case
• crime investigation

Keywords

• Richard Speck
• Chicago nurse murders
• true crime
• Corazon Amurao
• 1966
• murder
• survival
• psychological decline
• crime of the century

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Places: Chicago

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