The Crime of the Century
By Dennis L. Breo, William J. Martin & Bill Kunkle
- Release Date: 2016-05-10
- Genre: True Crime
Description
The story behind the attack that shocked a nation and opened a new chapter in the history of American crime.
On July 14th, 1966, Richard Franklin Speck swept through several student nurses’ townhouse like a summer tornado and changed the landscape of American crime. He broke in as his helpless victims slept, bound them one by one, and then stabbed, assaulted, and strangled all eight in a sadistic sexual frenzy. By morning, only one young nurse had miraculously survived. The killer was captured in seventy-two hours; he was successfully prosecuted in an error-free trial that stood up to appellate scrutiny; and the jury needed only forty-nine minutes to return a death verdict.
Here is the story of Richard Speck by the prosecutor who put him in prison for life with a brand new introduction by Bill Kunkle, the prosecutor of the infamous John Wayne Gacy Jr. In The Crime of the Century, William J. Martin has teamed up with Dennis L. Breo to re-create the blood-soaked night that made American criminal history, offering fascinating behind-the-scenes descriptions of Speck, his innocent victims, the desperate manhunt and massive investigation, and the trial that led to Speck’s successful conviction.
Reviews
Crime of the Century
5By cam4220Excellent read!!excellent
5By JohnmilanThe writing is excellent- I felt like I was right there throughout the whole process -I grew up in Chicago and even though I was very young I remember it. This book is well written and fascinating. It just shows how courageous Corazon truly was..and how purely evil Speck was, and unfortunately he didn’t suffer enough for the horrible thing he did.