# 50th anniversay of the murders of eight student nurses

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50th-anniversay-of-the-murders-of-eight-student-nurses/759843>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 13, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50th-anniversay-of-the-murders-of-eight-student-nurses/759843 "2016-07-13T19:53:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50th-anniversay-of-the-murders-of-eight-student-nurses/759843/1 "2016-07-13T19:53:38Z")

</div>

Today is the 50th anniversary of the day when [Richard Speck](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Speck) tortured, raped and murdered eight student nurses in Chicago. I remember when it happened, and it was horrifying how he hunted them down, one by one, and snuffed out their lives.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50th-anniversay-of-the-murders-of-eight-student-nurses/759843/2 "2016-07-13T20:26:41Z")

</div>

I know one phrase of Filipino. “Masakit” means “It hurts”

The reason I know this one phrase is due to the impression those murders made when, as an eleven year old child that year, I was reading about them. A couple of the nurses who were killed were Filipino, and the one nurse who was able to hide said, in an article I read, that she heard those words from one of the women who died.

By then I was reading more than kid’s books I guess.☹