# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-speck
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:21:38.943Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-speck"
name: "Richard Speck"
slug: "richard-speck"
description: "Richard Benjamin Speck was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago, residence by stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 13–14, 1966. Speck also raped one victim before killing her. A ninth potential victim, student nurse Corazon Amurao, survived by hiding beneath a bed."
tagline: "American mass murderer (1941–1991)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Richard_Speck_mugshot_1966.jpeg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1941-12-06"
deathDate: "1991-12-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.86317066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1377299/"
    handle:    "nm1377299"
sources:
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    title: "理查·史派克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريتشارد سبيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Speck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Speck"
    title: "Richard Speck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Speck"
    title: "Richard Speck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ریچارد اسپک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Speck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Speck"
    title: "Richard Speck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ריצ'רד ספק"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Speck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Speck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Speck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Speck"
    title: "Richard Speck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Спек, Ричард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Speck"
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    title: "Richard Speck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Speck"
    title: "Richard Speck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q944350"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3084897"
    title: "Richard Speck"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump