
The Townhouse Massacre
The Unforgettable Crimes of Richard Speck
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Narrated by:
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Steve White
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By:
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Ryan Green
“It just wasn’t their night.” (Richard Speck)
On the evening of July 13, 1966, an intoxicated Richard Speck broke into a townhouse at 2319 East 100th Street in Chicago to rob a group of student nurses. Speck woke the residents and ordered them into a room, calmly requesting money in exchange for their safety. The young women obliged. They believed that he was just going to take the money and leave, but Speck had other plans.
He tied them all up with strips of bed linen and led one of the girls into a separate room to “talk alone”. The situation took a turn for the worse when two more resident nurses burst into the townhouse, surprising Speck in the act. What transpired in the following hours would grip the nation with fear and forever change the perception of society.
The Townhouse Massacre is a chilling and gripping account of one of the most brutal and gruesome true crime stories in American history. Ryan Green’s riveting narrative draws the listener into the real-life horror experienced by the victims and has all the elements of a classic thriller.
Caution: This audiobook contains descriptive accounts of abuse and violence. If you are especially sensitive to this material, it might be advisable not to listen to this book.
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Complete and concise
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Severe drug and alcohol abuse mixed with undiagnosed brain trauma makes a deadly combo
Excellent narration from Steve as always
Always well written and interesting I highly recommend any of ryans audiobooks
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Loved it
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Good Read
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I mention all this because it obviously had a significant impact on my interest in --- and reaction to --- Ryan Green's detailed telling of the Speck story. Because of Speck's out-sized role in my childhood imaginings, I was looking forward to this book more than any new True Crime book in a long time, and my expectations were greater still because one of my favorite True Crime authors was researching and writing the story. Simply put, Green is the perfect writer to handle this kind of subject, and Speck is the perfect subject for his brand of investigative, psychologically-motivated storytelling. So my expectations were ratcheted as high as they could possibly get.
The author, as he often does, exceeded those inordinately high expectations. It's another fascinating deep-dive into the mind and soul of a despicable human being and the people whose lives he destroyed. I really enjoyed listening to the book, but I was actually a little disappointed in Richard Speck the Evil Murdering Monster. He is not Hannibal Lecter. He is in fact a very small, intellectually-stunted failure of a man, suffering from a head trauma inflicted by a despicable step-dad, pathetically self-medicating all his physical and mental pain with a deluge of alcohol and drugs. He is the most mundane kind of evil, tortured by demons he mostly birthed and fed himself. In other words, this turned out to be a very different kind of story than I expected. But by the end of the book, that initial disappointment turned out to be the most interesting aspect of the story, replacing the imaginary monster with a very real, deeply flawed human being. To an adult, that very real descent into mindless, murderous rage is more frightening than any childhood boogeyman. I was provided a copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review, but I would have bought this one the day it came out, both because I enjoy the author's work and because Speck loomed so large in my childhood. Whether you have a preconceived notion of Speck going in or not, "The Townhouse Murders" is a fascinating account of the making of a mass murderer that is well worth listening to.
Deconstructing the Monster Richard Speck
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A Sick Man
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A real monster
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I was familiar with the actual crime in Chicago but learned more about the way the events played out. The actual crime isn't addressed till the last few chapters and hearing a description of what happened was scarier than reading the same words.
I received an ARC of this Audible to listen to and give a fair review. This is well worth listening to. It's less than four hours so I listened to it last night.
Interesting "read'
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Steve White is oddly soothing
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Very powerful true crime book as always.
Narration was spot on.
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Fascinating Look into a Chilling Man
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I do wish more was said about the trial itself and the actual crime but always find it interesting how one gets from being a kid to a monster to the world and how we as a nation or the world failed to see mental health issues.
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Sad story of mental health and a monster.
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