Police photograph of the open two-blade knife recovered from the Calumet River. The blades are long enough and sharp enough to have been the instrumentalities of Speck’s brutal murders.

Photograph of the same deadly knife showing its two lethal blades.

100th Street Bridge over Calumet River that Speck had to cross going to and coming from the nurse’s town house. Eddie Willow and Byron Carlile dragged the bottom of the river with a magnet and recovered a knife that the police and prosecuters believed was the murder weapon. Not used in evidence because no human blood stains could be detected and no witness could positively identify it.

Screen pushed out of window in Cora’s own bedroom which she pushed out to climb on the second-floor deck to scream for help.

Speck’s Coast Guard inked finger prints that matched the three latent fingerprints on the south bedroom door. Flown in from Washington, D.C. by a pilot during an airline strike and given to Lieutenant Emil Giese, who made the positive identification.

Back bedroom depicting the closet where three Filipino girls ran and hid from Speck until the American nurses talked them into coming out. Two of the three bunk beds are visible in the front of the closet door.

South bedroom bunk bed where Corazon first hid by wiggling underneath the bottom bunk.

Aerial photo of 2319 East 100th Street (far left with crowd in front) and five other adjoining town houses facing East 100th Street. The National Maritime Union hiring hall is clearly visible across the street from 2319. Speck had several opportunities to observe the nurses in 2319 before July 14, 1966.

FBI model of two stories of the 2319 East 100th Street town house. Back bedroom in upper left corner of picture shows the three bunk beds, including the two Corazon hid under.

Speck carved his initials in a tree outside the house of his sister and brother-in-law, Martha and Eugene Thornton, who lived on the North Side of Chicago.

The rear of the town house. Speck entered by jimmying open the window screen and unlocking the back door.

Interior of the south bedroom. The nurses lived in cramped quarters.

The northwest bedroom. The poster on the wall reads: “Sleep well tonight … your National Guard is awake!”

Scale model used at the trial showing the upstairs of the town house where Speck held six bound nurses.

Scale model showing positions of the victims’ bodies upstairs. The eighth victim was found on the living room sofa downstairs.

Actual photo of Richard Speck on file with the U.S. Coast Guard.

Police artist’s sketch of Speck based on Cora’s description.

Speck’s room at the Raleigh Hotel where he stayed the first night after the murders.

Police Superintendent O.W. Wilson holding up a photo of Richard Speck, whom he identified publicly as the killer before Speck had even been arrested. © AP/Wide World Photo

Claude Lunsford, Starr Hotel resident. After the murders, Lunsford testified, Speck repeatedly asked Lunsford to show him how to jump a freight train to get out of Chicago.

The Starr Hotel, where Speck spent the second night after the murders during the intensive manhunt.

Speck on his hospital cot recovering from a suicide attempt. His serpent tattoo is visible under his right sleeve. © Chicago Sun-Times

Cora, in nurse’s uniform, leaving the Cermak jail infirmary. She positively identified Speck in his hospital room. © Chicago Tribune

Mrs. Lena Wilkening, mother of the slain Pamela Wilkening, leaving South Chicago Community Hospital on July 14, 1966, the date of the murders. © APAVide World Photo

Six student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital at the graveside of their classmate Gloria Jean Davy. © APAVide World Photo

Corazon Amurao with her police protector, Jack Wallenda.

Cora recuperated at the Moraine-on-the-Lake Hotel, where she was safe from reporters and unwelcome visitors.

TEAM SPECK:
Back row, from left to right: John Glenville, Mike Lambesis, Eddie Wielosinski, Byron Carlile, Jack Wallenda, Bill Nellis. Front row, from left to right: George Murtaugh, State’s Attorney John J. Stamos, Chief Prosecutor Bill Martin, Frank Lassandrella Jim Zagel.

Judge Herbert Paschen.

State’s Attorney John Stamos and Bill Martin confer outside the Peoria Courthouse.

Burton Buhrke, Jack Wallenda, and Byron Carlile head to court with a drawerful of files. Courtesy of Bill Scanlon

Relatives of Speck arriving at the courthouse to testify for the defense. From the left: Speck’s sister Shirley Jensen, brother-in-law Eugene Thornton, sister Martha Thornton, and brother Howard Speck. © APAVide World Photos

Speck being led through the crowd of reporters gathered outside the Peoria County Courthouse on his way to the first day of the trial. © APAVide World Photos

The door from the south bedroom and the beer can Gerald Getty claimed was the real source of Speck’s fingerprint found on the door, under the theory that Speck had been framed by police. Courtesy of Bill Scanlon

Speck, omnipresent cigarette in hand, sitting with his attorney, Public Defender Gerald Getty. © Chicago Tribune

Speck’s jail cell during the trial. He carved his name on the inside of the door. © Chicago Sun-Times

Speck, wearing handcuffs and dressed for court, smokes a cigarette during a break in the trial. © Chicago Tribune

A picture of Bambi drawn and signed by Richard Speck. Psychiatrist Marvin Ziporyn introduced him to painting and drawing. © Chicago Sun-Times

Richard Speck in Stateville Prison in Joliet, Illinois, on November 6, 1991, a month before he died of a heart attack at the age of forty-nine. © Lloyd DeGrane