Forty miles from home, when they spotted a gas station, they were reluctant to stop for directions because their curlers made them look like creatures from Mars. Who are the victims of the mass murderer? ''A lot of them send pictures,'' Speck told me. Mary Ann was at the Jordan bungalow on the night of July 13, 1966, when Phil and Suzie stopped by. Editor's note: This story was first published on April 28, 2016, and is being republished to mark the 50th anniversary of the murders. Richard Speck murdered eight student nurses in one night in 1966. She has rarely spoken in detail about what happened, not even to her husband. Brownie. It reinforced his sense of mission and its urgency. "I was just as amazed as everyone that this despicable person landed on my surgical service that evening," Dr. LeRoy Smith said in an email this month. Books, documentaries, countless news stories, a 2007 film called "Chicago Massacre: Richard Speck" were dedicated to the so-called crime of the century. So did the fact that her brother, John, who was four years older, was studying to be a doctor. After the death of his father when Speck was six, his mother remarried, moving the family to Dallas, Texas. He was matter-of-fact about. But to this day Atienza suffers nightmares that Speck will come back and kill her. Finding those carousels of slides, in September 2015, may have been a fluke, but it felt like a providential sign. In the spring of 1966, she stepped into an airplane bound for Chicago. On many of those days she walked home crying, yet it was her afternoons with Tommy that made her think she could be a nurse. Kubasek hurried to her car and drove to the townhouse. "It was just awful," Siouchoff said. So do their lives. Opening the box at first meant to me that I was going to reopen her death. So eight people got killed. Many of those people have never spoken at length about what happened, not even to close family members. John and Nina grew up on an acre of land near suburban Wheaton, a remnant of the Schmale family farm. Suzie was lucky. Phil was engaged to one of Mary Ann's classmates, Suzanne Farris, who still lived in the townhouse, and Suzanne was with him that evening. ''Dillinger and them guys, that was the Depression, they were robbing banks because that was their only way to survive. "She is doing very, very well," said William Martin, 79, the former assistant state's attorney who was the lead prosecutor in the case.
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