“It was just one of them weird coincidences. I was high on heroin that night. Heroin and whiskey. I’d never shot heroin before. So eight people got killed.”
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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