Robbie Lynn Speck, Personal Life and Net Worth. Sorry Nicola, says JENNI MURRAY, but 16 is dangerously young to change your gender. He was 49 years old. Robbie Ann Hulce of Moody went to be with the Lord Januaary 15, 2014 at the age of 48. Robbie L Speck, 1924 - 2002 Robbie L Speck was born on April 4 1924. Mr. Speck had been taken to the hospital after suffering chest pains on Wednesday night at the nearby Stateville Correctional Center, where he was serving eight consecutive terms of 50 to 150 years each. Prince and Princess of Wales pay tribute to Auschwitz survivor Zigi Shipper, who dedicated his life to Keep calm and carry on! Mrs Virgil Harris survived the ordeal and later identified Speck via his 'soft Southern drawl'. Two days after the murders, Mr. Speck attempted suicide and was taken to Cook County Hospital. Speck never showed any remorse for the killings, later boasting that, 'It's not like TV it takes over three minutes and you have to have a lot of strength. A ninth potential victim, student nurse Corazon Amurao, survived by hiding beneath a bed. Robbie Lynn Specks father had started drinking at 12, often got in trouble, and could be arrested for petty crimes. The trial lasted just 12 days and, on April 15, 1967, the jury found Speck guilty of all eight murders, after less than an hour's deliberation. Kerry A Speck is a resident of CO. Lookup the home address and phone 3032273132 and other contact details for this person . Speck knew that several young nursing students who were doing their residency at South Chicago Community Hospital were living in the townhouse. var selection = window.getSelection(); Leave your condolences to the family on this memorial page or send flowers to show you care. On June 28, 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court (citing their June 3, 1968 Witherspoon v. Illinois decision) upheld Speck's conviction but reversed his death sentence, because more than 250 potential jurors were unconstitutionally excluded from his jury because of their conscientious or religious beliefs against capital punishment. The sponsor of a memorial may add an additional. Speck became angry when he learned his ex-wife had remarried two days after she was granted a divorce on March 16, 1966. This is not to say that others in prison had not transitioned, but that their names are not in any way on record. [4], Speck later claimed he had no recollection of the murders, but he had confessed the crime to Dr. LeRoy Smith at the Cook County Hospital. Speck responded: "Sure I did." The email does not appear to be a valid email address. Family members linked to this person will appear here. [4][5] In autumn 1957, Speck started ninth grade at Crozier Technical High School, but failed every subject. Searching for the forgotten heroes of World War Two. Merchant Marine might provide a suitable occupation for his unemployed brother-in-law, so on April 25 he took Speck to the U.S. Coast Guard office to apply for a letter of authority to work as an apprentice seaman. [4], On Friday, July 8, 1966, Speck's brother-in-law Gene drove him to the NMU hiring hall to pick up his seaman's card and register for a berth on a ship. When turned loose, Speck refused to pay the hospital expenses his wife had incurred during her pregnancy and labor. A search of his room turned up a radio and costume jewelry Mrs. Virgil Harris had reported missing from her house, as well as items reported missing in two other local burglaries in the previous month. The inmates did not kill Speck, because they preferred to use him sexually. She leaves behind to cherish her memory her 2 sons, Jonathan Hulce and Christopher Hulce both . He had instead left town. In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court abolished capital punishment, and Specks death sentence was commuted to 50 to 100 years in prison. As an adult, he worked at a succession of unskilled jobs: trucker's helper, bakery worker, construction worker, seaman. Adeja Peterson: Who is Adrian Petersons Daughter? You need a Find a Grave account to continue. Please try again later. [4], After he was discharged from the hospital, Speck returned to stay with his sister Martha and her family in Chicago to recuperate. Speck fled town before he could be questioned by police and travelled to Chicago to borrow money from his sister Martha. cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. //hide the newly created container He was a 6-foot-tall white man who was "very polite" and spoke "very softly with a Southern drawl." 18+ 80+ Include past locations. Visitation will be held Wednesday, January 22 from 11 am to 1 pm at Cole Chapel in Moody. HOME IMPROVEMENT. Use Escape keyboard button or the Close button to close the carousel. [4], On June 30, Speck's brother-in-law Gene drove him to the National Maritime Union (NMU) hiring hall at 2335 E. 100th St. in the Jeffery Manor neighborhood of South Deering, Chicago to file his paperwork for a seaman's card. During that interview, he publicly confessed to the murders for the first time, and said he thought he would get out of prison "between now and the year 2000," at which time he hoped to run his own grocery store business. Corazon Amurao, one of the nursing students, answered, and Speck forced his way in. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. His mother was religious and a teetotaler. The application required being fingerprinted and photographed, and having a physical examination by a doctor. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. At some point during his interviews with Speck, Ziporyn had obtained a written three-sentence consent from Speck authorizing him to tell "what I am really like." He was sentenced to death. His father worked as a packer at Western Stoneware in Monmouth having previously worked as a farmer and logger. [4], On April 19, 1966, Speck returned to stay at his sister Martha's second-floor apartment at 3966 N. Avondale Ave., in the Old Irving Park neighborhood on the Northwest side of Chicago, where she lived with her husband, Gene Thornton, and their two teenage daughters. Panicked and desperate, Speck attempted suicide, slicing his own wrists and arm. } Failed to delete memorial. In December 1965, upon the recommendation of his mother, Speck moved in with a 29-year-old divorced woman, an ex-professional wrestler and now a bartender at his favorite bar, Ginny's Lounge, to babysit her three children. Mr. Speck, whose wife divorced him a year before the murders, is survived by a son, Robbie Lynn Speck of Dallas. 'But if I can't have it, no one can.'" She worked at Valero in Temple for 3 years and also for a brief time she was part of the staff of Visiting Angels.Robie was preceded in death by her grandparents, Arnold and Hattie Louise Walker Raabe and her sister, Susan Lynn Speck. AUTO. The comments below have not been moderated. function addLink() { Lone survivor: Corazon Amurao, 23, survived the horrific killings by hiding under a bed. *Authors Note: Some readers have expressed concern about the use of the word petty crime in relation to Specks criminal act of indecent exposure. She leaves behind to cherish her memory her 2 sons, Jonathan Hulce and Christopher Hulce both of Oklahoma; her daughter, Susan Lynn Hulce of Moody; mother, Annie Fay Raabe of Moody; father, Leon Gustive Speck and wife Wanda of Pasadena, Texas; 2 brothers, Ronald Edward Speck and wife DeAnna of Temple, Texas and Roland Speck and wife Teresa; sister, Tina Elizabeth Worth and husband John of Florida; grandchildren, Zane Hulce, Jastin Hulce, Peyton Hulce and Kalli and Kiara Moore; aunts and uncles, James and Donna Raabe of Moody and Lyle and Shiela Speck of California; nieces Angela Kirkland, Michelle Kirkland and Diamond Gray and several additional nieces and nephews; great nieces and great nephews and cousins. He was arrested after a doctor there recognized a tattoo on his arm that read, "Born to Raise Hell," which Miss Amurao had described to the police. At age 20, Speck met 16-year-old Shirley Malone at a state fair. [28][29], After Getty contacted Telfer to discuss her findings and their possible relevance to his client, Telfer wrote a speculative piece for the British journal Think in which she mistakenly reported that Speck had an XYY karyotype. Learn About Nicholas Kyle Hoffman. He was ultimately released after six months due to an error. Mary Ann Jordan and Suzanne Farris entered the apartment at that moment, unaware of what was happening inside. The boy took his fathers death hard, regressing to eating crayons and attention-seeking behaviors. The event that earned Mr. Speck such notoriety occurred on July 14, 1966, when he broke into a town house where nine seniors from the South Chicago Community Hospital School of Nursing were staying. Speck and his sister Carolyn stayed with their married sister Sara Thornton in Monmouth for a few months so Speck could finish second grade, before joining their mother and Lindberg in rural Santo, Texas, 40 miles (64km) west of Fort Worth, Texas, where Speck attended third grade. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. On April 2, Speck broke into the Illinois house of a 65-year-old woman and raped her. There is 1 volunteer for this cemetery. We had an eyewitness. Despite being on the run, Speck didn't lie low. Robbies father held them in the room for hours before killing them. The use of the word petty is not intended to represent the authors personal opinion about the gravity of Specks actions. Witzenmann-speck-uk.pdf - SPECK Witzenmann-Speck GmbH Werner-Siemens-Strae 2 75249 Kieselbronn Tel: +49 7231 9517-0 Fax +49 7231 56 54 43 wsp@witzenmann.com www.witzenmann-speck.de Branch office Schwelm Loher Strae 4D D - 58332 Schwelm Tel: +49 2336 4000-71 Fax: +49 - 2336 - 4 Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. One of the nation's most notorious killers, Richard Speck, a drifter who methodically murdered eight student nurses in their Chicago town house a quarter-century ago, died today at Silver Cross Hospital here. [55], While incarcerated at the Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, Illinois, Speck was given the nickname "Birdman" after the film Birdman of Alcatraz, because he kept a pair of sparrows that flew into his cell. The little blue pill really is magic! Quite often, people use short versions of their name (i.e. His first arrest, in 1955 at age 13 for trespassing, was followed by dozens of other arrests for misdemeanors over the next eight years. When arrested, he claimed he had blacked out and couldnt remember the incident. Please reset your password. To evade further police questioning, Speck skipped town and found work on a ship. My friends are all dead! Try again later. Your Scrapbook is currently empty. He broke into the nurses townhouse in Chicago. Petty crime is legal terminology, meaning crimes that are charged as misdemeanors rather than felonies. Speck was not the first transgender prisoner. Just watched the video and they said the Supreme Court overturned the death penalty verdict. Illinois-born Richard Speck, then 24, broke into a dormitory where nurses who worked at the South Chicago Community Hospital were sleeping. Pitying the grieving child, his sisters and female teachers babied him. To punish Shirley Speck for these perceived slights, Richard Speck would routinely kiss and fondle women in a car in front of the house. Had he been apprehended under that warrant, it would have been his 42nd arrest in Dallas and would have surely resulted in another prison term. He justified his hatred by deciding that too many women were sexually easy, and deserved any foul treatment he might inflict. Searching for the forgotten heroes of World War Two. At the hospital, Speck was recognized by Dr. LeRoy Smith, a 25-year-old surgical resident physician, who had read about the "Born To Raise Hell" tattoo in a newspaper story. She and Lindberg had met during a train ride to Chicago. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, or jump to a slide with the slide dots. This was the last time Speck was in police custody in Dallas. He was described as a loner who kept a stamp collection and enjoyed listening to music. She is not on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. 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