“It's not like TV...it takes over three minutes and you have to have a lot of strength.”
About This Quote
Speck explains that strangling someone to death isn't as easy as they make it look on TV. From an infamous videotaped jailhouse interview from 1988 featuring a shirtless Speck sporting his surgically enhanced jailhouse breasts. Originally printed in TIME, cited here on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Speck#Murder_of_eight_student_nurses
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