“Mary Hartman: Oh, poor Davey. Sergeant Dennis Foley: Mary, he's a mass murderer. He murdered the entire Lombardi family, plus their two goats and eight chickens. Mary Hartman: I know, but aside from that he's such a nice boy. I mean, I wish there was something I could do for him. Sergeant Dennis Fol…”— Jerry Adelman, Mary Hartman, Louise Lasser, imdb.com
“Like I always felt...had no feeling. If you're asking me if I felt sorry, no.”— Richard Speck, content.time.com
“It's not like TV...it takes over three minutes and you have to have a lot of strength.”— Richard Speck, content.time.com
“If they only knew how much fun I was having, they'd turn me loose.”— Richard Speck, content.time.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“How am I gonna get in trouble? I’m in here for 1,200 years.”— Richard Speck, articles.chicagotribune.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com