Always a quiet woman, she grew quieter. Police, cameras, gawkers were everywhere, and someone said something about "the bodies.". It was all right. Why should you be surprised?". In Lori's words, Gloria was driven, independent, intelligent, headstrong, poised, creative and snippy when she didn't like what you were doing. So do their lives. Speck then rounded the nurses up and ordered them to empty their purses, before tying them all up. Lori Davy, center, accepts a nursing school diploma on behalf of her slain sister, Gloria Davy, at a ceremony at McCormick Place in 1966. A doting mother and grandmother, she enjoys baby-sitting her grandchildren about twice a week and the constant companionship of her children. Tina was known as a good cook. After several minutes, they heard a female voice urging them to come out. The judge sentenced Speck to death. He told Greene one of his pleasures in prison was "getting high." When Greene asked him if he compared himself to celebrity . In the spring of 1966, she stepped into an airplane bound for Chicago. 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. It will be available May 10. Everywhere she looked she saw starched white uniforms, starched white caps, the meticulously dressed 1966 graduating class of South Chicago Community Hospital School of Nursing. 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. Around 10:30 p.m., she went upstairs to bed, in the high bunk in the room she shared with Merlita. In the early 1900s, Grace Jordan was a high-ranking surgical nurse at the University of Michigan, and the stories of her accomplishments made Mary Ann think she could be a nurse too. If I had to do it all over again, it would be a simple house burglary. Her experience there whetted her interest in nursing. She laughs to see the pictures Schmale found, like the one of her and Nina dressed up like cats. "I really don't know how to break the news of Tina's death to our parents," one of her sisters sobbed when word reached the Philippines. "She laughs a lot.". They'd see each other Friday, go hang out on Rush Street on the Gold Coast. Opening the box at first meant to me that I was going to reopen her death. Grief will always be tangled in that youthful happiness. "A lot of people will be here shortly. There's another kind of sealed box many of them have carried around as well. He plays a lot of solitaire. According to the New York Times, at least one victim was raped. Michigan authorities also wanted to question him about his whereabouts during the murder of four other females, aged between 7 and 60, as his ship had been in the vicinity at the time. He has never discussed it with them in depth or with his sister Marilyn, who has moved away from Chicago. Student nurses Patricia Matusek, left, and Suzanne Farris, circa 1966. Would Kubasek go with her to the townhouse to get Pat's nursing cap and uniform? Nurse. "I'm in," said Gloria, who phoned her mother every night to say she was back and safe. She liked clothes, and since the family didn't have a lot of money, she made her own. Shes in her nurses uniform, gazing down. 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. That was a good time that we had," she told Martin in a recent email. Student nurses Suzanne Farris, left, and Mary Ann Jordan are shown in their townhouse,circa 1966. She'd bring him water, fluff his pillow, hold his hand, tell him that she loved him. You climbed down to the ledge on 100th Street? Atienza was the states key witness when Martin prosecuted Speck in the 1967 trial. "I'm home.". Richard speck video noorvideo 81 subscribers Subscribe 253 Save 164K views 11 years ago Notice Age-restricted video (based on Community Guidelines) Almost yours: 2 weeks, on us 100+ live channels. Next door was a funeral home, run by Arlene Baskys' dad. 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. Richard Speck was one of the most fiendish mass murderers in American history as his slayings of eight nursing students in a single evening captured the attention of the entire nation. Bottom row from left are Patricia Matusek, Valentina Pasion, Nina Jo Schmale and Pamela Wilkening. It's where Suzie taught him, as a 10-year-old, to play solitaire. After graduating from Glenbard Township High School in Glen Ellyn in 1959, she worked as a secretary but didnt like it. Cora the first of the residents to see Richard Speck that night, and the only one to survive unlocked it. He'll never forget the cards and letters that flooded in from strangers all over the world. Her mother, Bessie, passed away in 2005. Merlita was considered quiet, shy, hardworking, efficient, pretty and blessed with a rich singing voice. Dr. John Schmale found a box of old slides in his waterlogged basement and opened a flood of memories. So did the fact that her brother, John, who was four years older, was studying to be a doctor. "It was just awful," Siouchoff said. 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. He watched it once and hurled it into a corner. After his killing spree in 1966, a manhunt ensued and he was captured two days later. A photo shows four of the eight slain student nurses at South Chicago Community Hospital, circa 1966. Meanwhile, the women he murdered were relegated to the role of victims, their names largely forgotten except by the people who loved them and cannot forget. 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. At South Chicago Community Hospital she earned $350 a month, much of which she sent back to the Philippines, and, like the other exchange nurses, she wrote a lot of letters. (Farris family). Pat and Arlene Kubasek could hardly stop laughing on the night, during their high school sophomore year, that they went to the drive-in with four other girls, then sat in the car eating popcorn and rolling their hair on giant curlers. 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. 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. What the camera couldn't catch were the girl's thoughts, the confusion she felt at the spectacle of all these other graduates. He was in need of surgery to repair his severed artery, and was watched over by a dozen policemen who were determined to ensure that his days of making lucky escapes were over. Speck is in jail for murdering and raping a group of women. Atienza was one of three Filipina exchange nurses who lived there, too, and worked at the hospital. Nina Jo Schmale appears in an undated photo. Richard Speck captured the nation's attention during the summer of 1966 after murdering eight female students who lived together on Chicago's South Side. Despite fears that Cora, in one doctor's words, would "lapse into a psychosis" and never be able to discuss the murders, she testified boldly at Speck's trial. The American student nurses and the exchange nurses never grew close, but from the outset they were friendly. `60 Minutes,` the news, keep up on the outside world. 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. I watch. She loved swimming, ice skating and softball. He has found another way as well to hang on to his sister's hopeful spirit. Stewardess. On many of those days she walked home crying, yet it was her afternoons with Tommy that made her think she could be a nurse. 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. Pamela Wilkening, left, Mary Ann Jordan, right, and Suzanne Farris, second from right, are shown with other student nurses having fun with a South Chicago Community Hospital School of Nursing banner, circa 1966. "A lot of us never locked our doors but the Speck case changed all that.". Having been paroled in January 1965, he lasted only four weeks outside, before being arrested again for aggravated assault, and he was jailed for a further 16 months, of which he served 6 months. Eight thousand miles from home, they could earn decent money and many, like Tina, sent much of it back to their families. 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. She rang the bell. Speck was captured two days later when an emergency room doctor at Cook County Hospital thought a patient he was treating for self-inflicted gashes looked familiar. On the way back, they got lost. Kubasek is 71, Baskys 68. Losing his parking spot as he carted all that food here and there. The real-life Speck who tortured, raped, and murdered eight Chicago student nurses in a. A total of eight woman, between ages 19 and 24, were systematically bound, robbed, beaten, strangled and stabbed during Speck's frenzy. Repacking it. The following stories, accompanied by Schmale's photos and a few others, are a glimpse of who they were and how their deaths have marked the people who remain to remember them. She accepted an assignment at South Chicago Community Hospital and landed at O'Hare airport on May 1, 1966. Student nurses Suzanne Farris, left, and Mary Ann Jordan are shown in their townhouse,circa 1966. ''Because any kid can end up to be like me. According to a 1966 Life magazine story, Tina often mentioned money in her letters. They were excited. She displayed uncommon ease with the dying and never balked at the mess that came with tending to the human body. Then I screamed for help. Among the mourners standing in the drizzle was an older, bareheaded man from Mindoro. For her to discuss an event she calls "still unbelievable" is an act of faith, one she commits only because she'd like the world to pause and think about Mary Ann and her friends. As the 50th anniversary of the murders approaches, that's what he wants for himself and the other families to reopen the lives of the women whose names have been overshadowed by their killer's. Through the end of spring and on into summer, Tina and her Filipina friends were sometimes spotted walking to a nearby shopping center, and they took occasional field trips, but they spent a lot of their nonworking time in the townhouse, frequently writing letters home. Mary Ann was the fourth of the six kids of Philip and Mary Jordan. "Don't hate," she told them. ''Look at this.'' 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. 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. Betty Jo, whose married name was Purvis, died in 2015. Editor's note: This story was first published on April 28, 2016, and is being republished to mark the 50th anniversary of the murders. Had Pat gotten in OK the night before? She was home on the night of July 13, when her brother Phil stopped by. She worked her regular shift. Finding those carousels of slides, in September 2015, may have been a fluke, but it felt like a providential sign. The kitchen was the townhouse social hub, a place where Nina and her roommates congregated to eat, study and listen to the record player from the nearby living room. Childhood friends of Patricia Matusek share memories with Matuseks niece, who never met her. Nursing school, as one former student describes it, was like a cross between a convent and boot camp. Jewelry, makeup and nail polish were forbidden on duty. I was high on heroin that night. The video's release caused a major scandal within the Illinois Department of Corrections, and was widely cited as justification for the reintroduction of death penalty. The End of Richard Speck: Cora Amurao, dressed as a nurse, entered Speck's hospital room and identified him to police as the killer. When Farris thinks about growing up with Suzie, he thinks about the kitchen. One of eight young nurses killed in a Chicago townhouse on July 14, 1966, by a man who became notorious: Richard Speck. I stabbed them and I choked them. Richard Speck, in full Richard Benjamin Speck, (born December 6, 1941, Kirkwood, Illinois, U.S.died December 5, 1991, Joliet), American mass murderer known for killing eight female nursing students in a Chicago town house in 1966. The first floor consisted of a living room, a powder room and a kitchen. 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. Guarded by detectives, Corazon Amurao arrives at the courthouse in Peoria to testify as the state's chief witness against Richard Speck on April 5, 1967. But to this day Atienza suffers nightmares that Speck will come back and kill her. Attorney William J. Martin, 79, talks about Corazon Amurao Atienza, the lone survivor of the Richard Speck murders. I screamed for about 20 minutes. Pamela Wilkening, left, Mary Ann Jordan, right, and Suzanne Farris, second from right, are shown with other student nurses having fun with a South Chicago Community Hospital School of Nursing banner, circa 1966. On July 13, 1966, Speck unleashed his terror on Chicago by breaking into a building in the neighborhood of South Deering. Merlita Gargullo, left, one of eight nurses slain by Richard Speck, gets a goodbye kiss from her aunt, Ancia Anyayahan, as she left Manila for the United States. Dr. John Schmale found a box of old slides in his waterlogged basement and opened a flood of memories. Law- enforcement officials familiar with the 1966 mass murder said there was no chance an accomplice existed. Only one of her siblings, a brother, is still alive. Gloria's brother and three of her sisters are still alive. He instantly recognized his mother's cursive handwriting. "She found the thing she loved doing, she meets a guy that she says 'yes' to about being married," he said. According to news accounts published at the time, Merlita, 23, was quiet, shy, hardworking, efficient, pretty and blessed with a rich singing voice. On this day, Amurao personally identified Speck as the killer. Between their second-floor apartments stretched a low, flat roof, and Pat and Arlene often ran across it to tap on each other's windows, looking for a playmate. For those girls, and for their families, and for me. Phil taught public school, had a sailboat and was nice to him, the kid brother. Why he did what he did in the next few hours will never be known. A few days before she died, Pam called her mother to say she couldn't come visit that weekend. After the murders, the nursing students in the nearby townhouses moved back into the dorms connected to the hospital. Holden's methods during a disturbing interview with mass murderer Richard Speck create dissension among the team and kick off an internal FBI probe. I don`t know why it happened to me. ''I`m in here for 1,200 years. Her family her father, John, a pipe fitter; her mother, Lena, a homemaker born in Germany; and her only sibling, Jack lived in a small, one-story brick Cape Cod on Commercial Avenue. "Time is moving on," he said one afternoon, sitting in his peaceful yard under the old, low-hanging trees. Then one day last fall, she found a voicemail from John Schmale. 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. He told me that he drank moonshine and took barbiturates in his prison cell. Her graduation from nursing school was less than a month away, exams were coming up and she needed to stay at her townhouse in the city to study. It was small and nothing fancy: One bathroom and three bedrooms upstairs. Would she still love water ballet?