“I can’t tell you if the girls put up any resistance or not. I killed seven of them; the other guy killed one. We left, he was frantic. He says he doesn't want any of the money at all. He’s dead now—I know he’s dead because I shot him six times.”
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. Police dismissed Speck's claims that he had an accomplice.
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