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Behind every legend is a story they tried to hide.
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In 1996, a Chicago news anchor got a videotape in the mail that nobody was supposed to see. It had been filmed in secret inside a maximum security prison eight years earlier. The man on the tape was Richard Speck. In July 1966 he broke into a townhouse on Chicago's South Side and killed eight student nurses in one night. A ninth woman, Corazon Amurao, survived by hiding under a bunk bed and later pointed at him in court. The jury took about 45 minutes to convict him. He was sentenced to death. In 1972 that became life, and he spent the next two decades at Stateville. In the video below, you see what that life looked like. Speck is snorting what looks like cocaine with other inmates and counting a roll of hundred dollar bills. He's wearing women's underwear, and his body looks like he had been taking hormones. Someone off camera asks him if he killed those nurses. "Sure I did," he says. "It just wasn't their night." He calls himself God, and the devil. He says he wants to live forever. Then he laughs and says that if people only knew how much fun he was having in there, they would turn him loose. He had already been dead for five years when the tape came out. He died of a heart attack in 1991, the day before his 50th birthday, after doctors spent four hours trying to save him. Illinois lawmakers held hearings on how a tape like that could be made in a maximum security prison. The families of the nurses had sat through parole hearing after parole hearing, and now they watched him laugh about it. Is life in prison a punishment, if this is what it looks like on the inside?
kuma6,469,082 views • 1 day ago
On January 23, 1989, Ted Bundy had less than 24 hours to live. He had confessed to killing 30 women across seven states. He escaped from custody twice. He defended himself in court, and the judge who sentenced him to death told him he would have made a good lawyer. Outside Florida State Prison, a crowd was already gathering. People were selling T-shirts. Some brought frying pans to bang when the news came. In the video below, the most notorious serial killer in American history sits across from psychologist James Dobson and tries to explain where it all came from. Not with a murder. With a magazine. He said he grew up in a good Christian home. Two loving parents. He called himself a normal person with good friends and a normal life. Then, as a boy, he found pornography. And like an addiction, he said, he kept craving something harder. Something more vivid. Until looking was no longer enough. He speaks calmly. Almost politely. The voice of a former law student who knows how to hold a room. Then he says the line nobody expected from him. "I think society deserves to be protected from me and from others like me." At 7:16 the next morning he was executed in the electric chair. The crowd outside cheered. People still argue about this tape. Some call it the most honest thing he ever said. Others call it his final manipulation, one last story from a man who lied to everyone for 15 years. Was this a real confession, or the last performance of a born liar?
kuma462,332 views • 4 days ago
Every morning in Port Arthur, Texas, a teenage girl walked into high school knowing what was waiting for her. They called her pig and freak. Boys threw pennies at her in the hallway and laughed when she bent down to pick them up. In college a fraternity voted her Ugliest Man on Campus. Seven years later that voice was the biggest sound in rock music. Her name was Janis Joplin. In the summer of 1970 she sat down with Dick Cavett on national television with feathers in her hair and a drink in her hand, laughing louder than anyone in the studio. In the video below, she tells him where she's going next. Home, to her ten year high school reunion. The audience laughs because they think she's joking. She means it. She says they laughed her out of class, out of town and out of the state, and now she's going back. Watch her face when she says it. For a second the laugh slips. She went. She walked into her old school in feather boas and pink sunglasses, with reporters following her down the halls. One of them asked if she went to prom. She smiled and said no. She didn't think anybody wanted to take her. Seven weeks later she was found dead, alone in a Los Angeles hotel room. She was 27. A few months after that, Me and Bobby McGee went to number one. It was the only number one hit of her life, and she never heard it on the radio. In her will she left $2,500 for her friends to throw a party in her honor. Did she go back to prove she'd won, or was she still the girl in that hallway, hoping someone would finally ask her to dance?
kuma52,946 views • 3 days ago
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