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Nov 2025
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Richard Speck : The Student Nurse Murder...

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart
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In the early morning hours of July 14, 1966, Chicago police responded to a call about a woman screaming for help at a townhouse in Chicago’s Jeffery Manor neighborhood. When they arrived, they found student nurse Cora Amurao outside the home she shared with eight other student nurses, all of whom had been strangled or stabbed that night by an unknown intrude ... Show More
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