“You’re talking about two different categories of people. Dillinger and them guys, that was the Depression, they were robbing banks because that was their only way to survive. Me, I’m not like Dillinger or anybody else. I’m freakish.”
About This Quote
Speck distinguishes himself from other famous American outlaws. 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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