0:03 1996 Chicago investigative journalist
0:05 Bill Curtis uncovered a grotesque
0:08 reminder of Richard spec the disturbing
0:10 video in which spec discusses the
0:12 murders and shows evidence of his
0:15 bizarre Life Behind Bars how do you feel
0:16 K made [Music]
0:32 it and there sorry let
0:34 no more shocking than Spec's lack of
0:37 remorse was his change in appearance
0:39 apparently through the use of hormones
0:42 he had transformed his body to ensure
0:44 his survival in one of America's most
0:48 dangerous prisons he had the certain
0:50 trappings of the female body that made
0:53 him very desirable to inmates the
0:55 breasts and
0:58 the you know Sil feminine
1:01 underwear were all part of the
1:04 scheme by which he kept himself alive
1:07 and not only alive but you know well
1:10 supplied with goodies like liquor and
1:14 cocaine because he was what's known as a
1:16 queen bee in the penitentiary and it
1:18 worked he didn't get killed like Tom
1:20 absolutely [ __ ] [Music]
1:25 [Music]
1:28 Survivor turn me
1:31 loose that's so also what disappointed a
1:33 lot of people we wanted him to hurt we
1:36 wanted him to be in pain we wanted him to
1:36 to
1:39 die but spec may have suffered a fate
1:43 worse than death 25 years of humiliation and
1:44 and
1:49 abuse you like being by man absolutely
1:52 have you always like being by man sure
1:55 sure [Music]
1:57 [Music]
2:04 they could have been prostituting him
2:08 out too and maybe they were he was
2:12 probably punished more the way it went
2:14 than had they have executed
2:18 him it was a grotesque
2:20 transformation the psychiatrist who
2:23 became Spec's only Confidant believes
2:25 that by forfeiting his manhood spec
2:28 found a way to punish himself for his crimes
2:34 he felt that somewhere along the line he
2:35 had to
2:39 experience the same kind of
2:42 degradation and humiliation that he had
2:45 inflicted on others to feel that he had
2:49 taken a woman's place was being used as
2:50 he had used
2:52 women he was a miserable
2:56 person who lived a miserable life I I
3:00 think he got his Justice get out of B so
3:03 often we create a monster out of Richard
3:09 Speck and sometimes it is worthwhile to
3:11 back off and say well maybe he wasn't a
3:15 monster maybe he was all too human that
