Born To Raise Hell: Richard Speck
I Could Murder A Podcast
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🗓️ 19 April 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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A late summer’s night in 1960’s Chicago is the scene for Tom and Ben, this week; as they unpick the astonishing life (and prison “afterlife”) of Richard Speck. A man believing himself to be so bad, that he had the words “Born To Raise Hell” inked and etched into his skin.
How did Richard Speck manage to continually evade the police? What pushed him to become a heavy alcoholic by the age of 15? Did he plan all 8 murders, or was it simply “not their night”? What surprising act of kindness did Speck carry out in his later years? And what gradually appeared on Richard’s body after his conviction?
Tune in and all will be revealed!
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Written & presented by Tom Norris & Ben Carter | @nozzer89 @thisiscarts
Produced by Dan Lambert at Boston Sound | @bstnsnd
Additional voice-over by Tom Turner & Christopher Ragland
Additional research by Danielle St Romaine
Artwork & animation by Phil Whitton | @philwhitz
Opening theme by Alfie Indra | @alfieindra
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| 0:19.7 | Warning. |
| 0:27.8 | The following episode contains subject matter and scenes that some viewers may find upsetting, disturbing or unnerving. |
| 0:31.5 | Please note, viewer discretion is advised at all times. |
| 0:43.3 | Sit back and enjoy. Anyway. Chicago, |
| 0:45.3 | 1966. |
| 0:46.3 | Late, one summer's night, |
| 0:49.3 | nine young student nurses |
| 0:51.3 | are viciously attacked and bound |
| 0:53.3 | by a lone intruder who entered their accommodation. |
| 0:57.0 | Eight would be tortured, brutalized and murdered before sunrise. |
| 1:03.0 | A ninth woman, Miss Corazon Amarow, escaped death as she crawled and hid under a bed while the assailant conducted unimaginable |
| 1:13.8 | atrocities just next door. Amarau stayed hidden until 6 a.m. the only survivor, the only witness |
| 1:22.8 | to the crimes. Providing vividly accurate detail on the assailant's appearance, composites are made, |
| 1:30.3 | and the hunt for the man responsible for the crime of the century kicks into overdrive. |
| 1:37.3 | Most notably, the individual in question bears an extremely distinct and astonishingly appropriate tattoo. |
| 1:47.0 | Cut into the very same forearm that cut into eight lives that night are the haunting words |
| 1:54.0 | born to raise hell. And that he most certainly did. Hello and welcome back to I could Murder a Podcast episode number five. |
| 2:37.0 | I'm Tom Norris, of course I am, and he's Ben Carter, of course he is. |
| 2:41.3 | Of course I am. |
| 2:42.0 | Of course you are. |
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