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Look for new information on either Speck, Brudos, Rissell, or Berkowitz that was not mentioned in Ch. 7. Give your findings a TITLE, ADD YOUR NAME, and then explain exactly what "new" thing you learned. Then, create a MLA Works Cited entry for documentation. See the sample below.

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Joe Smith demonstrated tendencies highlighted by the Homicidal Triad. There is documentation from his early life of "mangling the neighbor's cat" as well as "terrorizing the family dog" (Anderson).

Anderson, Emily. "Breaking the Silence: The Real Joe Smith." Daily World News, 15 June 2023, www.dailyworldnews.com/articles/urban-wildlife. Accessed 26 Sept. 2024.

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Richard Benjamin Speck was born on December 6, 1941, in the village of Kirkwood, Illinois, about 200 miles west of Chicago. The seventh of eight children, Speck was born into a tumultuous low-income family, and he spent most of his youth growing up in the Dallas, Texas, suburbs where he regularly had run-ins with law enforcement due to his excessive drinking and penchant for public disturbances. Speck received his first major prison sentence in July 1963 at the age 21 when he was convicted of forging a signature on a stolen check and for the robbery of a grocery store. Originally due to serve three years, he was paroled after 16 months only to return to his cell a week later on charges of aggravated assault and a parole violation.

Galvan, JoJo. “The First Mass Murderer : Richard Speck in Chicago “. Chicago History Museum, July 13 2023, https://www.chicagohistory.org/first-mass-murderer-richard-speck/. Accessed 27 Sept. 2024

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Every July 13 marks a grim anniversary in Chicago's history. On an otherwise normal Wednesday night, Jeffery Manor, in South Deering on the Far South Side witnessed what would later come to be called the "crime of the century." In a townhome on 100th Street, mass murderer Richard Speck would torture, sexually assault, and ultimately murder eight nurses in one of the grimmest crimes in US history.

Murder suspect Richard Speck during his criminal court hearing at 2650 S. California Ave., Chicago, August 18, 1966. ST-19110229-0015, Chicago Sun-Times collection, CHM

Richard Benjamin Speck was born on December 6, 1941, in the village of Kirkwood, Illinois, about 200 miles west of Chicago. The seventh of eight children, Speck was born into a tumultuous low-income family, and he spent most of his youth growing up in the Dallas, Texas, suburbs where he regularly had run-ins with law enforcement due to his excessive drinking and penchant for public disturbances. Speck received his first major prison sentence in July 1963 at the age 21 when he was convicted of forging a signature on a stolen check and for the robbery of a grocery store. Originally due to serve three years, he was paroled after 16 months only to return to his cell a week later on charges of aggravated assault and a parole violation.

Speck would continue to add lines to his rap sheet in Texas before moving to Chicago to live with his sister in 1966. It was there that his brother-in-law found him work as an apprentice seaman. As was standard practice at the time, when he didn't have work, Speck would check in at the National Maritime Union hiring hall, in the hopes of receiving an assignment to a vessel. It was a few days with no luck in securing work, on Wednesday, July 13, that Speck began his murderous rampage by sexually assaulting and robbing Ella Mae Hooper, a local woman he met at a bar.

The townhomes at 2319 E. 100th St., Chicago, July 22, 1966. ST-10000417-0010, Chicago Sun-Times collection, CHM

Later that night, around 11 p.m., the then 24-year-old Speck broke into a townhome that served as shared housing for foreign and local nursing students who worked at the local South Chicago Community Hospital. Here, over the course of a few hours he would be responsible for the murder of the eight women who were all inside the premises when Speck broke in. One woman, Corazon Amurao, escaped the death that met her housemates by hiding under the bed until the early morning. It took two days for authorities to apprehend Speck. Chicago Police received a lucky break and arrested Speck when a physician from the Cook County Hospital alerted them that a man they were treating following a failed suicide attempt was believed to be him. The physician had noticed a tattoo on the man's forearm that read "born to raise hell," and they recalled a newspaper description of the suspect that mentioned his ink.

Corazon Amurao, witness in the Richard Speck trial, entering the Peoria County Courthouse with her mother, 324 Main St., Peoria, Illinois. ST-19110250-0002, Chicago Sun-Times collection, CHM

After being deemed competent enough to stand trial by a panel of medical professionals, Speck's trial began in early April 1967 at the Peoria County Courthouse. The evidence against him was damning. In addition to the eyewitness testimony of Amurao, the lone survivor, fingerprints recovered at the scene matched Speck's. The high-profile trial lasted less than two weeks, and after deliberating for less than an hour, on April 15, the jury found Speck guilty and recommended that he be served the death penalty. In June, a judge upheld the jury's recommendation and sentenced Speck to death by electric chair. When the media referenced the trial, they often referred to Speck as a "mass murderer." While today the term is part of everyday vernacular, referring to someone as a mass murderer in the 1960s was a new phenomenon.

Onlookers watch as police remove eight student nurses slain at 2319 E. 100th St., Chicago, July 14, 1966. ST-17500750-E1, Chicago Sun-Times collection, CHM

On June 29, 1972, the Supreme Court ruled in the case Furman v. Georgia, thereby declaring the death penalty unconstitutional, which forced a resentencing for Speck. He received his new sentence in November of that year, ordered to serve from 400 to 1,200 years in prison through eight consecutive sentences. It would later be reduced to a sentence of 100 to 300 years. He would serve his sentence at the Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, Illinois. While imprisoned, Speck unsuccessfully petitioned to be paroled no less than seven times. He died due to what is largely believed to have been a heart attack on December 5, 1991, in a hospital in the nearby town of Joliet, one day before what would have been his fiftieth birthday. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered in an undisclosed area.

The gruesomeness of Speck's murders captured the fear and imagination of an entire generation, and has been retold in countless films, television episodes, and books. In the decades following the Speck murders, often referred to now as the Chicago Massacre, he only granted one interview to the media when he spoke to a Chicago Tribune columnist in 1978. In that interview, he admitted to being under the effects of alcohol and drugs, and further claimed to have had an accomplice, whom Speck murdered in fear that he would turn him in. No such proof of an accomplice has ever been found.

The names of Speck's victims were Gloria Davy, Patricia Matusek, Nina Jo Schmale, Pamela Wilkening, Suzanne Farris, Mary Ann Jordan, Merlita Gargullo, and Valentina Pasion. All of them were in their early twenties and were robbed of their promising futures as caregivers and medical professionals. Pasion and Gargullo were both exchange students from the Phillipines. Their bodies were repatriated after a mass was held in their honor in Chicago.

Cell at the Stateville Correctional Center that housed Richard Speck, Crest Hill, Illinois, May 1, 1967. ST-19110222-0044, Chicago Sun-Times collection, CHM

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The First Mass Murderer: Richard Speck in Chicago - Chicago History Museum

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Berkowitz was see a “difficult and violent child”, his erratic behaviors beginning after the death of his adopted mother, and worsening after his adoptive father remarried and moved to Florida, abandoning him (Jenkins).

Jenkins, John Philip. "David Berkowitz". Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Jul. 2024, https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Berkowitz. Accessed 27 September 2024.

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Police interview students about the murders, where one of the students reportedly went out with a strange man claiming to be a veteran looking for a date, during the date, the man referenced the dead women found in the river, police told her to set up a meeting with him if he calls again, where the police would be waiting for him. That’s when they were able to get a search warrant on him and saw many pieces of evidence in his home, concluding Brudos was the killer.

Biography.com Editors, "Jerome Brudos Biography" The Biography.com, April 2, 2014. A&E; Television Networks, https://www.biography.com/crime/jerome-brudos Accessed 27 Sept. 2024

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Richard Speck’s mother was very religious and his father worked as a packer at Western Stoneware in Monmouth. In 1947, when Speck was six years old, his father passed away due to a heart attack. Speck was reported as very close with his father so his loss affected him greatly.

Doorey, M. (2024, September 3). Richard Speck | Serial killer, murderer of 8 nurses. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Speck

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While Monte Ralph Rissel, he wrote a 461 page handwritten manuscript detailing all his murders. He became eligible for parole in 1995 but never succeeded. He was held in two different prisons; currently incarcerated at Augusta Correctional Center, and is currently incarcerated at Pocahontas State Correctional Center in Virginia.

Wikipedia Contributors. “Montie Rissell.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 31 July 2024, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montie_Rissell. Accessed 27 Sept. 2024.

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Rissell was a sexual deviant at a very early age(committed his first rapes at the young age of only 14.)

Arrested for one of his crimes while still in High School, Rissell was sent to an institution. He was extremely smart with an IQ of 120 so he could trick the psychiatrists in to believing he was getting better.

He is currently serving five life sentences.

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Brudos was believed to have killed a woman in 1967. In may of that year he has stalked and followed the girl because he liked the way she was dressed and way heavily infatuated with her shoes in particular. Brudos broke into her house after she went to sleep and began to strangle her to the point of unconsciousness. He then raped her. He got up after and took the shoes and left. He wasn’t connected to this crime till much later.

MLA: Author: Biography.com Editors, “Jerome Brudos”, The Biography Website https://www.biography.com/crime/jerome-brudos. Publisher: A&E; Television Networks, Original Published Date: April 2, 2014, Access date: 9-27-24

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Until he was 7 his life was “normal” and he was in a loving home. But after his parents split his mother moved them to California and remarried which led to him and his siblings being neglected and payed little attention to. He had a deep hatred for his father and his stepfather so he didn’t have any role models or people to teach him right from wrong or discipline him for all of the bad things he got into from such s young age. This probably affected the whole course of his life and can most likely contribute to what made him into the killer he was.

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Rissell was a sexual deviant at a very early age(committed his first rapes at the young age of only 14.)

Arrested for one of his crimes while still in High School, Rissell was sent to an institution. He was extremely smart with an IQ of 120 so he could trick the psychiatrists in to believing he was getting better.

He is currently serving five life sentences.

Blanco, Juan Ignacio, Murderpedia, https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rissell-monte.htm

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Jerome Brudos violence against women ( Aleena Rodriguez )

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Jerome Brudos violence against women ( Aleena Rodriguez )

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Jerome Brudos started at an early age with the interest of women’s shoes. At the age of 5 he had found a pair of heels which then lead to his high interest. He enjoyed taking his victims dressing them up and then keep certain parts of the body. He would make his victims get naked and then try to take pictures. He hated any rejection. He grew with this fantasy of “ violence against women“

Biography.com Editors. “Jerome Brudos - Victims, Family & Facts.” Biography, 16 June 2020, www.biography.com/crime/jerome-brudos.

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Brudos escalated his crimes slowly at first, he began with a cooling off period of a year but slowly devolved into only 4 weeks. By the end he had mutilated the body more than usual escalating his level of violence

Biography.com editors, biography.com, June 16 2020, Acessed 9/27

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Professors studied his IQ learning that it was one of the highest IQ scores of all serial killers. He had an IQ of 120.

An IQ of 120 means they have exceptional cognitive ability’s.

Gritt, E. (2017, November 3). The horrific story of Monte Rissell, the rapist and serial killer with a genius IQ who had killed FIVE. . . The Sun. https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/4836943/the-horrific-story-of-monte-rissell-the-rapist-and-serial-killer-with-a-genius-iq-who-had-killed-five-people-by-his-teens/

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Richard Speck was suspected to be involved in multiple other crimes after being jailed for theft and check fraud. When Speck found work in carpentry, a 65-year-old woman named Virgil Harris was raped and robbed in her home, and a couple days later a local barmaid was found bested to death in Speck’s local cavern. Speck continuously got out of questioning before police found some of Harris’s items in his hotel room. Later on, Speck found work on a ship, and wherever Speck was on the boat, bodies would turn up. In Indiana 3 girls went missing and once again Speck avoided all confrontations with the police. Then in Michigan Speck was thought to be tied to the murders of 4 other females between the ages of 7 and 60 years old.

“Richard Speck.” Biography, 1 Dec. 2021, www.biography.com/crime/richard-speck.

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ARichard Speck was born into a large, religious family where he was the seventh of eight children. His father died when he was 6 and his mother moved them to Dallas, they bounced house to house living in poorer neighborhoods. He refused to wear glasses that he needed and would not speak in class due to anxiety. He had to repeat his eighth grade year and dropped out of his first year in high school. While in Dallas, Speck had 37 arrests for drunk and disorderly behavior.

Silverman, Leah. “Richard Speck and the Grisly Story of the Chicago Massacre.” All That’s Interesting, 18 June 2024, allthatsinteresting.com/richard-speck. Accessed 26 Sept. 2024.

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Jerry was known as the “Lust Killer”. He committed several murders, attempted abductions, as well as other assaults. When Jerry was spending time at the psychiatric ward he was still allowed to attend school. Unfortunately, this didn’t help as his bizarre obsessions got him discharged from the military. He was arrested because he was setup by the police and a student at Oregon State University. The student called Brudos and set up a meeting at her dorm, he agreed. But when he arrived the police were waiting for him. He only confessed to 3 or the 4 murders because one of the bodies was never found.

“Jerome Brudos” The Biography; https://www.biography.com/crime/jerome-brudos

Published Date: 16, Jun 2020

Access Date: 27 Sept. 2024

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Jerome Henry Brudos was born on January 31, 1939 in South Dakota. His family moved around a few times while he was growing up spending time in Oregon, California and South Dakota. Brudos had a strained relationship with his overbearing mother. Brudos discovered a pair of high heels when he was five years old marking the beginning of fascination with women’s footwear. When his mother found him wearing the shoes she took them away and destroyed them. His fetish for women’s shoes continued to grow and he later stole women’s underwear from neighboring homes. As he grew he developed a dark fantasy life which involved violence against women. Brudos began acting on these disturbed thoughts.

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While Berkowitz was an intellectual child he often got into trouble, which showed early signs of Violent behavior. “Berkowitz got involved in petty larceny and pyromania.” Pyromania would be a major indicator from the McDonald triad, which indicates Berkowitz could’ve became a serial offender or a character of violent nature. It only became worse after his adoptive mother died , as a result Berkowitz grew distanced from his adoptive father and stepmother. Berkowitz then proceeded to Joint the army. He became an excellent marksman, which would later aid him in his killings.

Article Title: David Berkowitz Biography

Author: Biography.com Editors

Website Name: The Biography.com website

Url: https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/david-berkowitz

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Publisher: A&E Television Networks

Last Updated: May 26, 2021

Original Published Date: April 2, 2014

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It appears that Brudos passed away of natural causes on March 26th, 2006. At the time of his imprisonment, Brudos was the longest incarcerated inmate in the history of the Oregon Department of Corrections.

Biography.com Editors. “Jerome Brudos Biography.” A&E; Television Networks, June 16, 2020, https://www.biography.com/crime/jerome-brudos. Accessed September 27, 2024

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Richard Speck was born into a very large and religious family. He was the seventh child out of eight, and they lived on a very low income. Speck's father died when he was six, which then led to the remarriage of Speck's mother with his stepfather and their move to Dallas, Texas. Speck's stepfather was an alcoholic, and would often abuse all eight children by laying his hands on them. This drove Speck down a troubled path, leading him to juvenile delinquency and alcohol abuse.

“Richard Speck.” Biography, 2021, https://www.biography.com/crime/richard-speck. Accessed 27 September 2024.