Word: specked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said the theory first appeared in 1965 when Patricia Jacobs found a higher than expected number of XYY males in a Scotch institution for the criminally insane. He said the idea spread when Richard Speck killed eight student nurses in Chicago in 1966, and the press incorrectly reported that...
...Mitchell-Stans jurors have already been sequestered. But "in this instance it's like locking the barn door after the horse walked out whistling Yankee-Doodle," says Donald Albanito, a dean at Illinois' Bradley University, who was sequestered in the 1967 trial of Murderer Richard Speck. Moreover, Albanito wonders "whether being immersed every day in questions of alleged political intrigues may not so depress the jurors that they would be willing to believe anything evil about everyone involved. I think people get a better view of the world sitting at home than they do locked up with eleven...
Clearly, such an object would have caused far more cataclysmic damage than the Siberian explosion. But in recent years several scientists have proposed the existence of tiny black holes even smaller than a speck of dust. Some of these may have been formed in the so-called "big bang"-the great explosion that cosmologists believe marked the birth of the universe some 10 to 15 billion years ago. Others could be fragments from collisions between larger black holes...
Still other experts believe that certain physical abnormalities play an important role in producing a mass murderer. Among them: chromosome irregularities, hormonal imbalances and brain damage. Charles Whitman, for instance, was found to have a brain tumor. Another mass murderer, Richard Speck, who killed eight student nurses in Chicago in 1966, suffered severe head injuries as a child. The psychiatrist who examined him prior to trial, Dr. Marvin Ziporyn, believes that he became a killer because of ensuing brain damage...
Ziporyn, who has since written a book on Speck and examined more than 300 other murderers, also contends that they seem "normal" until that "moment when the brakes go"-when the right combination of chemical, physical, psychic and social factors sends them out of control. "In a serial crime like Houston," Ziporyn says, "it's probably safe to say that after the first murder Corll saw it was easy to kill, and the rest of his victims were not people to him, they were like dolls...