RICHARD SPECK: Birth of a Monster (True Crime Documentary)
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Read more about the case: https://weirddarkness.com/richard-speck-nurse-murders/
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IN THIS EPISODE: When police found eight nursing students brutally murdered in their Chicago home, they launched one of the largest manhunts in American history to catch the tattooed drifter who would become known as one of the nation's most notorious killers.
ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Lead-In
00:01:28.995 = Show Open & Disclaimer
00:04:08.107 = Part One: Birth of a Monster
00:18:15.619 = Part Two: Ten Months Too Early
00:39:18.200 = Part Three: The Night of July 13th
00:59:08.298 = Part Four: Five Hours of Horror
01:12:03.915 = Part Five: The End of a Monster
01:21:42.928 = Show Close
SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
https://weirddarkness.com/richard-speck-nurse-murders/
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Originally aired: July 02, 2025
NOTE: Some of this content may have been created with assistance from AI tools, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.
EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/RichardSpeck
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
| 0:06.8 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain |
| 0:13.0 | that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching |
| 0:18.7 | their peak in the afternoon. |
| 0:23.0 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
| 0:25.8 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
| 0:28.7 | Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. |
| 0:33.5 | Hold the kaleidoscope to your eye. |
| 0:35.1 | Peer inside. |
| 0:39.3 | One twist changes everything. A woman awakens in a grotesque, human-sized arcade game. |
| 0:44.3 | A mysterious cigar box purchased at a farmer's market releases an ancient gin who demands a replacement |
| 0:52.3 | prisoner. |
| 0:53.3 | An elderly woman possesses the terrifying power to inflict pain through handmade dolls. |
| 1:00.8 | An exclusive restaurant's sinister secret menu includes murder-for-hire and harvested organs. |
| 1:09.5 | With each turn through these 20 tales, Reddit No Sleep favorite |
| 1:14.4 | AP Royal reshapes reality, creating dazzling patterns of horror that entrance as they terrify. |
| 1:23.8 | The kaleidoscope, 20 terrifying tales of horror and the supernatural by AP Royal, narrated by Darren Marler. |
| 1:32.6 | You're a free sample on the audiobooks page at weirddarkness.com. |
| 1:37.5 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a? Biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. |
| 1:46.6 | The night will be wild and untamed. |
| 1:48.8 | Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. |
| 1:52.6 | By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak in the afternoon. |
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