Born To Raise Hell By Richard Speck

Victims of serial killers that survived

Richard Specks 1966 murder spree lasted approximately six hours. After pushing his way into the Chicago home of female student nurses, he methodically robbed, raped, beat, strangled, and stabbed eight of them. The only survivor was Corazon Amurao who had opened the front door to him that unfortunate night. She hid under a bed and played dead. Speck later said he lost count of the women during the carnage because of his intoxication. She escaped the scene and found help. Amurao provided a sketch of the suspect, including details about his "Born to Raise Hell" tattoo, and later testifying against him in court. He was convicted of eight murders and sentenced to death. That sentence was later overturned

He was named The Chessboard killer because caught in 2007 and charged with 48 murders, authorities found a chessboard marked with the dates of his kills. He approached Viricheva in a Moscow metro station and offered her some work. When they arrived at a spot selected by Pichushkin, he pushed her down a 30-foot well. She managed to avoid drowning and climbed her way to the surface where a passerby heard her cries. Although she reported the incident to police, they didn't investigate initially; she was only brought in to identify Pichushkin in 2007 after he had committed several more murders. He was sentenced to life in prison. (Greenwood, 2018).

In 1991 Milwaukee, Wisconsin police officers reported seeing a man running down the street in handcuffs. That man in handcuffs, Tracy Edwards, told them that he had just escaped being murdered by another man, identified as Jeffrey Dahmer. Edwards led police back to Dahmer's home, where they found severed heads in his fridge and freezer, plus other dismembered body parts. Edwards was a key witness in the case against the cannibal and serial killer, who confessed to 17 gruesome murders and was sentenced to 15 life terms. Another inmate killed him in 1994. (Greenwood,

In this phase there is a notable withdrawal from reality and heightening of the senses. The next phase, the Trolling phase, consists of specific behavior patterns used by the killer to target and stalk his victims. The Wooing phase follows and is defined as the time period by which the killer successfully wins the victim’s confidence before baiting them into a trap. The fourth phase, known as the Capture phase, is whereby the victim is rendered helpless by the killer by way of confining them into a locked room or striking them physically. The Murder phase then pursues. This phase is described as the “ritual reenactment of the disastrous experiences of the killer’s childhood, but this time he reverses the roles” (Burkhalter Chmelir, 2018). During the Totem phase, killers sink into a depressive state after committing the murders. To cope with their feelings of anguish, they develop a ritual, keeping parts of victims’ bodies, photos, and newspaper clippings to sanction their “achievements”. The seventh phase experienced by serial killers, is the Depression phase, where there is loss of a sense of self. It is in this final stage that killers may confess their crimes before fantasies begin again. (Burkhalter Chmelir,