How Did One Nurse Survive Richard Speck by Hiding Under a Bed for Six Hours?

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · Jun 16, 2026 · 14m

Richard Speck killed eight student nurses in a Chicago townhouse on July 13, 1966. He strangled five and stabbed three over the course of five hours. He used nautical knots from his time on Great Lakes cargo boats to bind them with bedsheets. And he lost count. Nine women were in that house. He killed eight. The ninth — Corazon Amurao, a twenty-three-year-old exchange nurse from the Philippines — rolled under a bunk bed and did not move for six hours.What made it possible wasn't luck. It was discipline. The ability to override every survival instinct screaming at you to run and instead become…