“A lot of them send pictures. A lot of them women are pretty. Some of them women’s gotta be nuts. 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. It sure gets way out. I give their addresses to my cellmates. I don’t want nothing to do with them women.”
About This Quote
From a 1978 interview with Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene at Statesville Prison in Illinois. It was the only interview that Speck, who hated the media, ever granted.
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