BORN TO RAISE HELL THE UNTOLD STORY OF RICHARD SPECK - THE MAN THE CRIME, THE TRIAL
Language: English
Published by GROVE PRESS, INC., NEW YORK, NY, 1967
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Aah Rare Chicago, Carlsbad, CA, U.S.A.Aah Rare Chicago
AbeBooks seller since February 27, 1999
Condition: Used - Fine
US$ 21.15
Quantity: 1 available
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THIS BOOK IS THE TALE OF A SEVERELY DERANGED YOUNG MAN WHO COMMITTED THE MOST SHOCKING CRIME IN CHICAGO'S LONG LIST OF HORRENDOUS SERIAL MURDERS. IN A SINGLE NIGHT, AN ATTEMPTED BURGLARY TURNED INTO THE MURDER OF EIGHT INNOCENT PHILLAPINE STUDENT NURSES IN THEIR APARTMENT DORNMITORY. THE MAN, RICHARD SPECK, HAD A LONG HISTORY OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR, THE TALE IS TOLD BY A PRISON PSYCHIATRIST, DR. MARVIN ZIPORYN WHO INTERVIEWED SPECKT MULTIPLE TIMES OVER SEVERAL YEARS WHILE SPECK WAS IN PRISON. DR. MARVIN. ZIPORYN TEAMED UP WITH A "TIME" MAGAZINE REPORTER TO PROVIDE THIS ACCOUNT OF SPECK'S PSYCHOLOGICAL ABERRATIONS. SPECK WAS IDENTIFIED BY A SOLE SURVIVING STUDENT NURSE WHO HAD HIDDEN UNDERNEATH A BED AS THE MURDERS WERE COMMITTED OVER SEVERAL HOURS DURING THE NIGHT. THERE ARE 18 B/W PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE MURDERED STUDENTS AND SPECK. SPECK DIED OF A HEART ATTACK AFTER 25 YEARS IN PRISON.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- BORN TO RAISE HELL THE UNTOLD STORY OF RICHARD SPECK - THE MAN THE CRIME, THE TRIAL
- Author
- JACK ALTMAN AND MARVIN ZIPORYN, M. D.
- Publisher
- GROVE PRESS, INC., NEW YORK, NY
- Publication year
- 1967
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- VERY GOOD CONDITION, PRICE CLI
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
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