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Case Richard Benjamin Speck The case I’m going to be talking about is Richard Benjamin Speck. I will be explaining to you how I see and feel about this case. First, we’ll talk about early his childhood and why that could of caused him to do what he did. Then, well talk about his midlife that lead to the case. Lastly, we will talk about the case and what he did. Richard Benjamin Speck grew up in a large religious family he was the seventh child of eight. He lost his father at a very young age, but his mother got remarried, and moved the family to Dallas, Texas. The kids suffered from considerable abuse because their step father was a drunk. Speck’s childhood was marked by juvenile delinquency and alcoholism. Speck started drinking at age 12. At the age of 13 he got arrested for trespassing and was followed by other misdemeanors over he’s year. Now that we talked about his childhood, I have strong feeling there were a lot of things that went wrong in the family setting. I would love know what his feelings, about his family lifestyle was and what convinced him to commit …show more content…

This case was obviously a valid case. We learned Richard’s family at the beginning was religious, then went downhill to a drunk step farther. In his teenage years, he started to get drunk by the age of 12 but a year later he got arrested for the first time for trespassing. Later in life, he got married at the age of 18 and his wife was only 15 years old and was pregnant with their daughter Robbie Lynn Speck. Then we found out that he got arrested at 25 years old with 20 other arrest on his record. Afterwards his life just jumped off the wagon, He took 9 nurses and raped and silt their throat and left other wounds on the nurses. Luckily one of the nurses got out and gave the police a description of Richard so they could arrest

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