Thats why he and his wife established the Nina Jo Schmale Scholarship Fund at Wheaton College; Ninas name, and hers alone, is now attached to something good. She has looked at the Facebook page Schmale started as part of the commemoration for the nurses, a place for trading stories and photos, though she doesn't linger. God was so nice," she said in an email to Martin. Secretary. Richard Speck was born on December 6, 1941, the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor. It took Nina a while to choose nurse. She loved Elvis, cats and the color pink. He thinks of his sister every day. His horrifying violence had made him a murderous celebrity on the level of John Dillinger. He wonders what it would have been like to grow old with a sister, his sister. But 50 years ago, the murders were perhaps as shocking in the Philippines as they were in Chicago. Would Kubasek go with her to the townhouse to get Pat's nursing cap and uniform? A total of eight woman, between ages 19 and 24, were systematically bound, robbed, beaten, strangled and stabbed during Speck's frenzy. No more parole hearings, no more fear that he might be released. When he left, hours later, taking the money he had stolen, she cowered in her hiding place, terrified, for hours, before finally summoning the courage to seek help. Her father, who had become a familiar figure on TV, with his cane or in his wheelchair as he protested the possibility of Richard Speck's parole, died in 1990 on Pat's birthday. Billy loved her tremendously.". In the years that followed, Siouchoff, 70, distanced herself from everything and everyone involved with that awful night. A couple of days after his basement flooded, John Schmale finally mustered the energy to head downstairs and investigate the damage. Bottom row from left are Patricia Matusek, Valentina Pasion, Nina Jo Schmale and Pamela Wilkening. On the night of the crime, 24-year-old Speck snuck into a townhouse in Chicago where the nurses lived. 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. What a waste that Nina and her friends weren't able to give the world everything they had to give, or enjoy its pleasures. She closed the box, surely hoping that one day it would be opened. In the spring of 1966, she stepped into an airplane bound for Chicago. She married Alberto Atienza, and then, with her husband, a lawyer, moved back to the United States. One went into nursing. Gloria Davy was the second of six siblings, born in the same hospital where she eventually studied nursing, raised not far from the townhouse where she died. Their father was a cement finisher descended from Germans. "Did I just see Grandpa on the television?" Being in the world of the older girls felt cool. In 1991, while still in prison, Speck died of a heart attack. There she joined two other Filipina exchange nurses, Merlita Gargullo and Corazon Amurao, who had arrived a few days earlier. In the Davy family, according to Lori, grieving openly for Gloria was considered weakness, especially by her father, the military man. Nursing school, as one former student describes it, was like a cross between a convent and boot camp. (Schmale family ). She waved and waited for Pat to go inside. Catherine Ceniza Choy, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, writes about the three exchange nurses extensively in "Empire of Care," her history of Filipino nurses in the United States. But any kid can end up just like me.''. The time he spent unpacking the food. She hit her head against a brick wall and suffered a slight concussion. During one of Pam's shifts, a patient slugged her. Criminal files Serial Killers - Richard Speck - video Dailymotion Dorothy Schmale died five years after her daughter did, her death hastened by heartbreak. The two Arlenes still laugh easily when they think of Pat, but the memory of her death brings them quickly to tears. Abigail Atienza followed in her mother's footsteps and became a nurse practitioner, and Christian is a certified public accountant. He's still searching for the words to explain to his three children who his sister was, what happened to her. Those who had been fortunate enough to be out at the time of his arrival found themselves also subjected to brutal attacks when they returned home later that evening. "I don't believe this," Schmale said to his wife on that day half a. For many years she worked as a nurse at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. Now 73, she has two children and several grandchildren. Lori realized it was time to tell the truth. On what occasion? Another time, according to a different news account, Tina wrote her sister saying she wished she could live in Chicago forever. I`d never shot heroin before. She helped raise eight younger siblings, swam in the river and was good enough in school to be admitted to the nursing program at Arellano University in the big city of Manila. They were excited. Not only had they been allowed a slumber party with their mother, but their big sister who was about to graduate from nursing school was coming home for good the next day. Mary Ann was the fourth of the six kids of Philip and Mary Jordan. The Untold Truth Of Murderer Richard Speck - Grunge Nursing students were under strict rules during the 1960s, but still they found time for fun. Mary Ann is 8. "This is the man," she said as pandemonium erupted. Nina Jo Schmale appears in an undated photo. Until he was six-years-old, he lived a fairly normal life in a small town in Illinois. He was referring to letters he received in his prison cell every week from women-female admirers who, he said, wanted to correspond with him. Speck was never officially charged with the murders of which he was suspected prior to the events that took place in the South Chicago townhouse and, officially, those cases remain unsolved. The Filipina women often ate dinner together at the townhouse kitchen table, sometimes joined by other exchange nurses. These attacks, however, paled into insignificance on July 13, 1966, when Speck arrived on the doorstep of a townhouse in South Chicago, which served as a communal home for a group of eight young student nurses from nearby South Chicago Community Hospital. ", "But work is easier than in the Philippine Islands," she continued, "only the patients are as big as water buffalo.". Grief will always be tangled in that youthful happiness. She probably wouldn't still wear her hair in a perfect flip. (Harold Norman / Chicago Tribune). Atienza, 73, retired about five years ago after many years as a critical care nurse in Washington, D.C. She now spends most of her time with her husband, Alberto, daughter Abigail, son Christian and her six grandchildren. Though she rarely talked to her two children about what happened, she made sure her sister Pat lived on through her daughter, to whom she gave the name Patricia Ann. Phil was engaged to one of Mary Ann's classmates, Suzanne Farris, who still lived in the townhouse, and Suzanne was with him that evening. "I don't believe this," Schmale said to his wife on that day half a century later, gazing inside the box. Episode #1.9: Directed by David Fincher. Mary Ann Jordanin her nursing uniform in an undated photo. Despite the horror of what happened, Atienza carries warm memories of her friends, Martin said. It was a close-knit community where almost no one locked their doors. Repacking it. She rang the bell. The eight nurses killed by Richard Speck on July 14, 1966, in Chicago were, top from left, Gloria Davy, Suzanne Farris, Merlita Gargullo and Mary Ann Jordan. he said. Why were they here, and her sister wasn't? A funeral parlor jammed with mourners. Suzanne Farris, left, and Gloria Davy pose at the dinner table, circa 1966. Police, cameras, gawkers were everywhere, and someone said something about "the bodies.". Richard Speck - Life in Prison | Life Prison - LiquiSearch For the past few years, Schmale, a friendly, white-haired man of 78, has searched for a way to honor exactly those aspects of his sister and her friends, a way that would emphasize not how they died but how they lived, that would focus on them more than on their killer. "Don't hate," she told them. Richard Benjamin Speck was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago residence on the night of July 13-14, 19. She had the guts to move (under the bed), which saved her life," Martin said. It may be difficult for those who weren't alive half a century ago to understand how profoundly Speck's crime shook the city, how far the ripples ran through time and space. "You are surprised I survived?" Biography and associated logos are trademarks of A+E Networksprotected in the US and other countries around the globe. In 1996, five years after he died, a video surfaced of Speck in prison, doing drugs and engaging in lewd acts with other prisoners. He instantly recognized his mother's cursive handwriting. "I think there was somebody up there who was hiding me from him. We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back. They could talk about the wedding. Here's an image she holds on to, one her father captured on a Super 8 movie camera: A sunny Easter morning. "She is doing very, very well," said William Martin, 79, the former assistant state's attorney who was the lead prosecutor in the case. Mary Ann was at the Jordan bungalow on the night of July 13, 1966, when Phil and Suzie stopped by. But before she was gone, she placed four carousels of slides neatly in a box. I`m not a violent man.''. In 1965 she became president of the Student Nurses Association of Illinois. Speck admitted he committed the killings _ breaking for the first time his claim of drug-induced amnesia. How do you talk about something so terrible? He'll never forget the cards and letters that flooded in from strangers all over the world. One of them, Corazon Amurao, steered him to the front door. ''I stay up at night as long as it takes me to fall asleep or pass out from the hooch or from whatever we have at the time.''. Me, I`m not like Dillinger or anybody else. Except, Speck doesn't see himself as an evil person. When John Schmale talks about what happened that night, he uses the words "anger," "rage," "mourning.". She began working at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington and then at the Veterans Administration Medical Center. Richard Speck had a troubled past and a rap sheet a mile long. . Wednesday, July 13, began as an ordinary day. I had that put on me when I was 14 or 15. After graduating from Far Eastern University in Manila, she worked for a couple of years as a staff nurse, then applied for work in the United States. Speck is in jail for murdering and raping a group of women. The Matuseks wanted Pat to be buried in the clothes she would have worn for her upcoming graduation, so on the day after the murders, Pat's sister, Betty Jo, asked Kubasek for a favor. 'Mindhunter': How the Real Serial Killers Compare to Show's - Insider "Well," she wrote, "it was a fine, dizzying, exciting and wonderful weekend, but I still believe there is no place like home.". The doctor had just had a. He couldnt identify everyone he saw, but at the photo of the familiar woman in the familiar yellow two-piece bathing suit, he felt his heart clench. Speck found work on a ship, and it began to seem like bodies turned up wherever Speck had been. Tina, 23, shared a bedroom with three of the American nurses, while Cora and Merlita shared another. John Farris liked his sister's boyfriend. It was the kind of childhood that half a century later people look back on and call simpler, innocent, a time when city kids were raised to be independent and unafraid. I don`t know why it happened to me. ''I burned that tattoo off with a cigarette. Girls, we need to clean the house.". He had no doubt. She wanted to do Pat's hair and makeup for the funeral. She walked off the stage, shoulders back, carrying a diploma dated July 14, 1966. (Schmale family). It was around dawn when she made her way to an upstairs window. Phil was also the brother of one of Suzie's classmates, Mary Ann Jordan, who had lived in the townhouse for a while, then moved back home. It reinforced his sense of mission and its urgency. Amurao had arrived the previous day to identify the killer in person, but Speck was not well enough. her daughter asked. In recent months, John Schmale has tried, with no luck, to find friends and relatives of Tina and Merlita, hoping to connect with them for the 50th anniversary commemoration. Changing his mind at the last minute, he summoned help, and was taken to Cook County hospital, where, again, his tattoo gave him away, and he was arrested and taken into custody. On Aug. 7, 1966, when Lori Davy, 11, walked across the stage to accept her sister's diploma, her father's orders were fresh in her mind. THE VOICE OF RICHARD SPECK - Chicago Tribune Eight thousand miles from home, they could earn decent money and many, like Tina, sent much of it back to their families. She appreciates every day of life and wants to be happy all the time, because life is not long, Martin said she told him recently. "She found the thing she loved doing, she meets a guy that she says 'yes' to about being married," he said. Life magazine cited her "pancit," made of noodles and vegetables with pork. Richard Speck attack survivor: 'Somebody up there was hiding me from Betty Jo had one more request. Suzanne Farris appears as a young girl with a prayer card from her funeral on July 18, 1966. ''Just tell `em to keep up their hatred for me,'' Speck said. The True Story Behind Netflix's Mindhunter - Men's Health The close quarters helped turn most of the women into close friends, and for all their dedication and discipline, they loved pranks. Lori Davy Sivek remembers her sister Gloria Davy, one of eight student nurses and nurses murdered together 50years ago on Chicago'sSouth Side. By submitting your email to receive this newsletter, you agree to our. But she came with a coveted distinction: She had a car, and not just any car, a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible in pale yellow "Colonial Cream," a gift from her father, who could barely afford it and who himself drove a run-down pickup truck. Atienza was one of three Filipina exchange nurses who lived there, too, and worked at the hospital. 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. During this period he had the words "Born to Raise Hell" tattooed on his arm, a sentiment that wife Shirley had experienced firsthand: She filed for divorce in January 1966. ''. `Parents ought to be careful about their kids,'' Richard Speck said. "He is not going to harm you," the voice said. Cook County Assistant States Attorney William Martin, left, watches as witness Corazon Amurao uses a scale model of the townhouse crime scene to detail the murder of eight nurses by Richard Speck, center background, during Specks 1966 trial in Peoria, Ill. (R.K. Davidson). She displayed uncommon ease with the dying and never balked at the mess that came with tending to the human body. Richard Speck - Video, Tattoo & Daughter Tina was known as a good cook. Who are the victims of the mass murderer? 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. In this interview, Speck confessed to the murders for the first time publicly 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. On a trip to Florida with her classmates not long before she died, she sent a postcard home to report that immediately after their plane landed, they had gone to Mass. So did the fact that her brother, John, who was four years older, was studying to be a doctor. During the summers she accompanied Billy to nearby Rainbow Beach, splashed with him in the water, hugged him a lot, made him laugh, a boisterous laugh he copied from her. Their parents slept on a hide-a-bed in the living room. Come spend the night at the townhouse, Suzanne suggested to Mary Ann. They are young and together and happy. Pam had been quiet, studious and decisive since she was a girl in south suburban Lansing. Serial Killer: Richard Speck - Full Documentary - YouTube (Chicago Tribune historical photo / Chicago Tribune). Her village was small (200 people) and her family was large (eight kids). "It ended an innocence we all had,'' Martin said. She accepted an assignment at South Chicago Community Hospital and landed at O'Hare airport on May 1, 1966. Richard Speck full prison video : r/masskillers - Reddit "It was terrible," Kubasek said, remembering what she saw. In the townhouse, she was known to sing while doing the dishes or the laundry. Suzie was lucky. No answer. The United States needed nurses, and Filipinas helped relieve the shortage. On July 15, 1966, the Chicago Tribune's front page reported the news with the headline "Search for Mass Slayer." When her father was at work and her mother was taking care of the house and Billy, she took Susan along while she ran family errands on 79th Street, where the shopkeepers knew her name. I wanted to get rid of it. His little sister. Would she still love water ballet? As you all know, in 1988 Richard Speck and Ronzelle Larimore made a video in prison that is half talkshow, half pornography. "She showed the indomitability of her spirit by continuing her path as a nurse and dedicating her life to helping others and raising a family, but you can never get something like this out of your life," Martin said. When he agreed to talk about his sister, he asked to meet at the Lansing Public Library, which used to be the Indiana Avenue School where he and Pam attended first through fifth grades. Indiana authorities wanted to interview Speck regarding the murder of three girls who had vanished on July 2, 1966, and whose bodies were never found. Before long, the Davy home was packed with people, and every room, it seemed, was packed with roses, so many roses the scent made Lori sick. Just a few glimpses of the video have been shown (in the A&E) documentary about Richard. So you could say that from the beginning, Richard, Speck's life was stained with violence even after the war was over. There's another kind of sealed box many of them have carried around as well. 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. They were the last women to arrive at the townhouse that night. She still gets a kick out of playing poker at casinos in Nevada with her husband. Merlita was considered quiet, shy, hardworking, efficient, pretty and blessed with a rich singing voice. News item: Speck's death sentence reversed. "I just would have liked her to see the kids," he said, and he cried. A few days later, 8,000 miles from their native land, Merlita Gargullo and Valentina Pasion were memorialized at a Mass led by Archbishop John Cody. Many people are unaware of the case, which was the first random mass murder of the 20th century. On July 13, 1966, Speck unleashed his terror on Chicago by breaking into a building in the neighborhood of South Deering. ''What`s that dude who played in `Shaft`? ''Here,'' he said. Tina was part of the wave of Filipina exchange nurses who came to the United States in that era to learn new things, make friends and, most of all, to work. Theyre smiling and wearing regular clothes. He hates knowing that anyone who Googles the name "Nina Schmale" lands on the name "Richard Speck.". Richard Speck | The Chicago Nurse Killer 10,333 views Apr 17, 2020 61 Dislike Share Real Ghost Stories Online 67.8K subscribers In 1966 residents of south Chicago were traumatized by a deviant. There was a man with a gun in the house. Cora the first of the residents to see Richard Speck that night, and the only one to survive unlocked it. 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 . Jordan Morin, who was 15 when Mary Ann died, has never before spoken publicly about her sister's death, and she doesn't talk easily about it now. (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune). The End of Richard Speck: Cora Amurao, dressed as a nurse, entered Speck's hospital room and identified him to police as the killer. For a short time he was a carpenter, but soon he was in trouble again: 65-year-old Virgil Harris was viciously raped and robbed in her own home on April 2, 1966, and on April 13 a barmaid in his local tavern, Mary Kay Pierce, was brutally beaten to death. With Sonny Valicenti, Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, Greg Harpold. "It was almost like he had five boys," said Lori Davy Sivek, who is now 61 and teaches eighth-grade science and technology in a Houston suburb. Gloria Davy jokes around in the South Side townhouse that was used as a dormitory for student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital, circa 1966. ''I`m in here for 1,200 years. Attorney William J. Martin, 79, talks about Corazon Amurao Atienza, the lone survivor of the Richard Speck murders. Two officials at the Consulate General of the Philippines in Chicago, when asked recently about the Filipina nurses, weren't familiar with the crime. "I was just as amazed as everyone that this despicable person landed on my surgical service that evening," Dr. LeRoy Smith said in an email this month. Richard Speck was a murderer notorious for killing eight student nurses in 1966. They laughed their way through Catholic elementary school and on through Fenger High, where Pat was on the Titanette pompom squad. The old hospital is now called Advocate Trinity. Its a typical 1950s school photograph, small, black-and-white, cropped with pinking shears, showing Suzie at about 10, wearing what looks like her Brownie uniform. Susan is 3. Here are the details of the Richard Speck case, explained. In Lori's words, Gloria was driven, independent, intelligent, headstrong, poised, creative and snippy when she didn't like what you were doing. 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. He had pried open the screen of a first-floor window, reached inside for the back-door handle and slipped into the house. She promptly planned a trip to the United States, but passport problems twice forced her to postpone. Many fans can agree that the interview with Richard Speck was high in terms of tension. Half an hour later, she heard four knocks at the bedroom door. Who is Corazon Amurao? In one of John Schmale's slides, Nina poses wearing nothing but a white towel and her nurse's cap, holding a hypodermic needle and pretending she's about to give one of her housemates a shot. ''Dillinger and them guys, that was the Depression, they were robbing banks because that was their only way to survive. Him and Eastwood and Bronson. And did he have any particular feelings about the American people? Here`s half the country down on a person, they call him all kinds of names-and these women are trying to get to meet him.
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