The Student Nurse Murders
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🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In the early hours of July 14th, 1966, police were called to a quiet townhouse on Chicago’s South Side. Inside lived a group of student nurses- young women who had moved to the city to train at South Chicago Community Hospital, sharing the home while they studied, worked long shifts, and built lives dedicated to caring for others.
But that morning, the house was eerily silent...
Inside, investigators would uncover one of the most shocking mass murders in American history.
8 young nurses had been brutally killed over the course of a single night. The crime scene was chaotic... But even more incredible was one detail investigators discovered later.
Somehow… one woman inside that house had survived.
For hours, she had hidden silently, under one of the beds. And the testimony she would eventually give would become the key to identifying the man responsible.
The suspect who emerged would soon become one of the most infamous killers in American criminal history: Richard B. Speck.
But as the investigation unfolded, disturbing details about that night began to surface... including what Richard claimed happened inside the house, and the version of events he would later give from prison decades later...
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| 0:00.0 | In the early hours of July 14th, 1966, police were called to a townhouse in Chicago. |
| 0:12.2 | Inside, they would discover eight murdered student nurses and one survivor who had hidden silently under a bed. |
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| 0:35.1 | for photos, information and other facts about the case. |
| 0:41.9 | On a warm late evening in July of 1966, around 10.30pm in Chicago's Southside, a young |
| 0:49.7 | student nurse called Corazon Amaro, known as Cora, is just about to turn the lights off when her |
| 0:56.0 | roommate, another student nurse, a woman called Melita, asks her to leave it on. She wants to do |
| 1:02.1 | her evening prayers before going to sleep. And so Cora climbs into the top bunk and lies down, |
| 1:08.0 | waiting patiently for Melita's prayers to end. This is so the two of them can |
| 1:12.4 | finally go to bed. It's sometime between 10.30 and 11pm, when Cora and Melita decide to settle in. |
| 1:19.8 | They know each other well, they've really connected because they're from the Philippines and |
| 1:23.6 | they're both over here to study in the US. Now, as this is happening, as they're settling down to go to sleep, both Cora and Melita hear something, |
| 1:33.8 | some kind of commotion coming from outside their bedroom door. |
| 1:39.5 | Cora gets out of bed and makes her way to the bedroom door. |
| 1:42.8 | She's only opened the door a little of the way when she can send somethings off. |
| 1:47.0 | The reason she felt like this was because the door was starting to open quite forcefully, |
| 1:52.0 | almost as though someone was trying to get inside, and of course she wasn't expecting this. |
| 1:57.0 | So it's just a few short moments later, and the door is now fully open that standing there in front of her is a man, |
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