Richard Speck : The Student Nurse Murders (Part 2)

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

True Crime, Paranormal, Dark History, Comedy, Exhibit C

4.5 • 95.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

After an intense manhunt that lasted several days, investigators arrested Richard Speck, a twenty-four-year-old unemployed drifter with a criminal history. There was a strong amount of evidence that linked Speck directly to the murders, including his own confession, so when he went to trial, his lawyer tried unsuccessfully to argue Speck was not legally sane at the time of the murders. Unfortunately, the truth was something far worse: Speck killed eight women for no reason whatsoever.

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0:00.0	Hey, weirdos, I'm Elena.
0:02.8	I'm Ash.
0:03.6	And this is Morbid.
0:18.0	Yeah, Y'all.
0:19.6	Morbid, it's a part two.
0:22.1	Part two, and we're one day closer to a twilight episode.
0:26.1	Yes, which we will desperately need after this.
0:29.7	I know, actually, that'll be like perfect.
0:31.1	We get a twilight episode, which will be coming out on the 14th.
0:37.1	14th, because you guys said, if you don't do that Twilight episode that you mentioned,
0:42.2	we will revolt in the streets.
0:44.0	You guys said you were going to beat us up and twist us upside down and steal our lunch money.
0:48.3	Exactly.
0:48.9	And we said, don't have to tell me twice.
0:50.7	We said, fine.
0:52.0	I'm very excited for our Twilight bonus.
0:54.3	And it's a bonus episode.
0:55.2	It's a bonus episode. Calm down.
0:57.0	Just in place that wasn't clear. Honestly, I think everybody was excited anyway. Yeah. Well, I'm so excited for that. I can't even say too many things because then I'll just start talking about it and it will just be the episode. We've got to save it all. We also have a super special guest that's going to be on the show next week.
1:10.5	Yeah.
1:10.8	This week.
1:13.1	Thursday.
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