Best of 2025: Richard Speck: The True Story of the 1966 Chicago Nurse Murders

Best of 2025: Richard Speck: The True Story of the 1966 Chicago Nurse Murders

Published: April 24, 2026

Duration: 1:35:07

Richard Speck and the 1966 Chicago nurse murders remain one of the most horrifying chapters in Chicago true crimehistory. In this Best of 2025 revisit, Terrifying & True returns to one of its most gripping and disturbing deep dives: the night eight young student nurses were terrorized and murdered inside their South Side townhouse, and the long shadow that crime cast over America.

This episode follows the full arc of the case, from Speck’s violent early life and downward spiral into crime, to the sweltering July night that ended in unimaginable br...