(Farris family). 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. "I think there was somebody up there who was hiding me from him. "I just would have liked her to see the kids," he said, and he cried. By the time Nina entered nursing school, she was three or four years older than most of her classmates and worried that she was over the hill. After it was aired on TV, Wilkening obtained a copy of the video. "Time is moving on," he said one afternoon, sitting in his peaceful yard under the old, low-hanging trees. Start each day with Chicago Tribune editors' top story picks, delivered to your inbox. Corazon Amurao, center, the nurse who survived the massacre of eight of her fellow student nurses, walks between another nurse and William Ruddel, Bridewell jail superintendent, from Bridewell's Cermak Memorial Hospital after a second visit to the building where Richard Speck was being held on July 19, 1966. By the time he left, around 3:30 a.m., eight women were dead, some stabbed, some strangled, some both. After several minutes, they heard a female voice urging them to come out. Forty miles from home, when they spotted a gas station, they were reluctant to stop for directions because their curlers made them look like creatures from Mars. In one of the slides that her brother recovered from the basement, a young man crouches next to the Bel Air, washing the whitewalls, smiling for the camera. "Life is looking good for Suzie.". She had the guts to move (under the bed), which saved her life," Martin said. The End of Richard Speck: Cora Amurao, dressed as a nurse, entered Speck's hospital room and identified him to police as the killer. Mary Ann Jordanin her nursing uniform in an undated photo. Speck, however, seemed to have a knack for making a quick escape and keeping police forces guessing. Murder made Richard Speck famous. In March of 1978, during an interview I had with him inside the walls of Stateville, Speck confessed for the first time to murdering the eight young women in 1966. There's no question that Richard Speck lived a very troubled life from an early age. It was small and nothing fancy: One bathroom and three bedrooms upstairs. It's a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible painted in Colonial Cream. He remembers that after she died, when the mourners came, their father wept and moaned, Cooky, Cooky, Cooky., Suzanne Farris, left, and Gloria Davy pose at the dinner table, circa 1966.

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