Richard Speck
I think my first exposure to Richard Speck was through a show that would be produced after his death in 1991 showing the antics that had been allowed inside the prison system in Illinois. In May of 1996 reporter, Bill Kurtis received a video that had been made in 1988. Eventually the video was complied into one of the many shows that Bill Kurtis would be the host of and showed elicit sex and drug use among the prisoners in a way in which it was clear they were in no fear of being caught. Although the video was not released until several years after it had been taken it still had a wide impact on the Illinois prison system. Within the video Speck was shown and it was clear that one, not just by his own words but by his physical appearance that he had been taking hormones during his prison stay. If I were older I would have known who Richard Speck was considering at the time of his crime of 1966 it was dubbed as The Crime of Century. As we know this term is used rather ...