BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)

39th year  -  N° 307                 Saturday, 2 November 2024         Antwerpen		
Bleu, Bleu, l'Amour est Bleu
Mass murderer
Richard Benjamin Speck
aka Born to Raise Hell


  • 6 December 1941 (+) is born in Kirkwood, United States.

  • 19 January 1962 (x) marries 15-year-old Shirley Annette Malone in Dallas, United States.

  • 10 November 1962 (x) is arrested for ‘howling and yelling’ in Dallas, United States.

  • 9 April 1966 (-) beaten to death Mary Pierce in Monmouth, United States.

  • 14 July 1966 (x) 21-year-old Gloria Davy, 20-year-old Pamela Wilkening, 20-year-old Mary Ann Jordan, 21-year-old Suzanne Farris, 24-year-old Nina Schmale, 23-year-old Valentina Pasion, 22-year-old Marlita Gargullo and 20-year-old Patricia Matusek are raped and killed by Speck in Chicago, United States.

  • 16 July 1966 (x) tries to commit suicide by slashing his wrists in Chicago, United States.

  • 20 September 1972 (x) has his death-sentence voided by the Supreme Court in Chicago, United States.

  • 21 November 1972 (x) has his death sentence commuted to 400 years imprisonment in Chicago, United States.

  • 5 December 1991 (-) dies of a heart attack in Joliet, United States.


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