Occult Numbers in the Richard Speck Murders

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Whether organic, or strategically inserted, these numbers crop up throughout the crime narrative:

• Richard Speck came from a family of eight children, as did surviving witness Corazon Amurao.
• Eight nurses were murdered.
• Eight family members testified at trial on Speck's behalf; one of his sisters was born October 26, (8) and died on October 26 (8) on her 88th birthday.
• Speck was scheduled to die in the electric chair exactly 88 days after sentencing.
• The date of the murders, July 13, adds up to 11; July 13, 1966 adds up to 66; when flipped 713 spells out L-I-E.
• The trial concluded on the eighth day of the prosecution's presentation and in its eighth week.
• 33 prints were reportedly found in the nurses' townhouse, three of which, although badly smudged, were attributed to Speck.
• The townhouse was broken into at 11:00 PM and the killer allegedly left at 3:30 PM = 11 and 33. A reconstruction of the surviving nurse's timeline places the time of departure somewhere after 4 AM, but 3:30 was still the official time given in the narrative.
• Richard Speck said that he awoke in a disoriented state at 11:00 AM on the morning after the murders. 11 again.

There's much more to the occult symbology in this case which you can read about in Desperate Rites: Astrology and the Occult in the Richard Speck Murders. Available at all online book retailers.