“I had no feelings at all that night. They said there was blood all over the place. I can't remember. It felt like nothing.”— Richard Speck, articles.chicagotribune.comTagged: Remorse, Sociopath, Mass Murder, Blood, Bloodbath
“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.”— Richard Speck, articles.chicagotribune.comTagged: Mass Murder, Resistance, Murder Confessions
“We knocked on the girls' door. No one answered. It wasn't planned or nothing. When we got upstairs we seen them all in the bedrooms asleep. There were three or four bedrooms, I don't know how many. Some girls woke up. We said, ‘Stickup! We want your money.’ I told one of them to get the money. She s…”— Richard Speck, articles.chicagotribune.comTagged: Mass Murder, Stool Pigeons, Sitckup, Armed Robbery
“I’m sorry as hell. For those girls, and for their families, and for me. If I had to do it all over again, it would be a simple house burglary.”— Richard Speck, articles.chicagotribune.comTagged: Remorse, Mass Murder, Burglary
“How am I gonna get in trouble? I’m in here for 1,200 years.”— Richard Speck, articles.chicagotribune.comTagged: Mass Murder, Prison Infractions, Life Without Parole
“Just tell ‘em to keep up their hatred for me. I know it keeps up their morale. And I don’t know what I’d do without it.”— Richard Speck, articles.chicagotribune.comTagged: haters, Hatred, Public Opinion, Morale
“I burned that tattoo off with a cigarette. I had that put on me when I was 14 or 15. By the time I was 16 or 17 I knew it was nasty and cheap. I wanted to get rid of it. My mother had an appointment for me at Parkland Hospital, the same place where Kennedy ended up dying. I was gonna get that tattoo…”— Richard Speck, articles.chicagotribune.comTagged: Born to Raise Hell, Tattoos, Tattoo Removal, Mass Murder, Parkland Hospital
“I stay up at night as long as it takes me to fall asleep or pass out from the hooch or from whatever we have at the time.”— Richard Speck, articles.chicagotribune.comTagged: Prison Life, Prison Wine, Insomnia, Sleeping Aids
“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.”— Richard Speck, articles.chicagotribune.comTagged: John Dillinger, Bank Robbers, Outlaws, Great Depression, Freakish
“I like Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson. I watched ‘Magnum Force’ the other night. It was all right. Clint Eastwood, he always plays good. I watch ’60 Minutes,’ the news, keep up on the outside world. And Carol Burnett. I watch her comedy show. What’s that dude who played in ‘Shaft’? Richard Roundtre…”— Richard Speck, articles.chicagotribune.comTagged: clint eastwood, Charles Bronson, Magnum Force, 60 Minutes, Carol Burnett
“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 nothin…”— Richard Speck, articles.chicagotribune.comTagged: Hybristophilia, Prison Brides, Murder Groupies
“Parents ought to be careful about their kids. Because any kid can end up to be like me. I don’t know why it happened to me. But any kid can end up just like me.”— Richard Speck, articles.chicagotribune.comTagged: Mass Murder, killers, Parenting
“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.”— Richard Speck, articles.chicagotribune.comTagged: Mass Murder, Conincidences, Heroin, Whiskey, Diminished Responsibility
“Yeah, I killed them. I stabbed them and I choked them. If that one girl wouldn’t have spit in my face, they’d all be alive today.”— Richard Speck, articles.chicagotribune.comTagged: Mass Murder, Rape, Stabbing