This content details Richard Speck's disturbing transformation and survival tactics in prison, where he adopted a "queen bee" persona using feminine characteristics to gain protection and privileges, ultimately suggesting this self-inflicted degradation was a form of penance for his crimes.
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1996 Chicago investigative journalist
Bill Curtis uncovered a grotesque
reminder of Richard spec the disturbing
video in which spec discusses the
murders and shows evidence of his
bizarre Life Behind Bars how do you feel
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it and there sorry let
no more shocking than Spec's lack of
remorse was his change in appearance
apparently through the use of hormones
he had transformed his body to ensure
his survival in one of America's most
dangerous prisons he had the certain
trappings of the female body that made
him very desirable to inmates the
breasts and
the you know Sil feminine
underwear were all part of the
scheme by which he kept himself alive
and not only alive but you know well
supplied with goodies like liquor and
cocaine because he was what's known as a
queen bee in the penitentiary and it
worked he didn't get killed like Tom
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Survivor turn me
loose that's so also what disappointed a
lot of people we wanted him to hurt we
wanted him to be in pain we wanted him to
to
die but spec may have suffered a fate
worse than death 25 years of humiliation and
and
abuse you like being by man absolutely
have you always like being by man sure
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they could have been prostituting him
out too and maybe they were he was
probably punished more the way it went
than had they have executed
him it was a grotesque
transformation the psychiatrist who
became Spec's only Confidant believes
that by forfeiting his manhood spec
found a way to punish himself for his crimes
he felt that somewhere along the line he
had to
experience the same kind of
degradation and humiliation that he had
inflicted on others to feel that he had
taken a woman's place was being used as
he had used
women he was a miserable
person who lived a miserable life I I
think he got his Justice get out of B so
often we create a monster out of Richard
Speck and sometimes it is worthwhile to
back off and say well maybe he wasn't a
monster maybe he was all too human that
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