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...classic courtroom line. Yet when Assistant State's Attorney William Martin from Chicago put the question last week in Peoria, 111., the words cast a galvanic spell over the room. In response to the prosecutor's question, Corazon Pieza Amurao, 24, stepped down from the witness stand. The pretty petite (4 ft. 10 in.) Philippine girl, who alone survived the massacre last summer in which eight fellow student nurses were stabbed or strangled to death in a South Side Chicago apartment, walked toward Defendant Richard F. Speck, 25, and raised her hand toward his head. "This," she said...
...with a Gun." Less than three hours after the corpses were discovered, detectives fanning through the neighborhood learned from a service-station operator that a man matching a description given by the lone survivor, Philippine Exchange Nurse Corazon Amurao, had left two bags of clothing there. A National Maritime Union hiring hall is located only a few yards from the nurses town house, and detectives, surmising that the murderer might be a seaman, astutely checked the union office. There, William Neill, local N.M.U. secretary, sifted through the files and came up with a coin-machine photo of Speck...
Despite his systematic savagery, the slayer either miscounted or forgot the one victim-possibly because he had learned that eight girls lived in the house and did not realize that a ninth, Mary Ann Jordan, was spending the night. "While he was out of the room on one trip," Corazon recounted, "I rolled under the bunk bed clear against the wall. I stayed under the bed for hours and hours." Throughout the terror-filled night she lay frozen with fear, not knowing whether the murderer was still in the house or gone. At 5 a.m., an alarm clock went...
...Amurao related, "he took one of the girls out of the room. After a few minutes he came back alone and took another of the girls. He kept this up." One by one, the nurses went like lambs to the slaughter. None uttered more than "a little scream," said Corazon. The windows were open, but a second group of nurses who lived next door was on vacation; the victims' muffled cries were not loud enough to awaken other neighbors...
...shirt, size 34-38, found on the floor of the living room outside the kitchen. Another was a set of "excellent" fingerprints revealed on a vanity mirror, a purse, a water glass, a door and a plate. The third, and not the least important, was Corazon's description of the killer: a white man, approximately 25 years old, 6 ft. tall, weighing 170 Ibs., with crew-cut brownish hair...