On July 13, 1966, Richard Speck broke into a Chicago student nurse’s dormitory and murdered eight of the women who lived inside. Only Corazon Amurao managed to survive the ordeal by hiding under a bed long enough for the intruder to forget about her.
Speck was arrested several days later and eventually given the death penalty before his sentence was converted to life in prison in 1972. This horrific crime shocked the world and Speck became one of the first men in history to be known in the press as a mass murderer.
In connection with their patreon coverage of criminal profiler John Douglas and the Netflix series Mindhunter, Jenn and Joe have been exploring cinematic adaptations of crimes described in the show’s first season. In the latest episode of Bloody FM’s Murder Made Fiction podcast, they tackle Kôji Wakamatsu’s 1967 Pink film Violated Angels. This gorgeous yet disturbing “visual haiku” builds on elements of Speck’s crime to create a nuanced exploration of geopolitical strife interwoven with uncomfortable questions about compliance and consent.
Next week, they’ll take a look at a similar adaptation from Ireland, Denis Héroux’s Géza von Radványi’s Born For Hell.
And if you want even more Murder Made Fiction, be sure to check out the pod’s Patreon feed, where Jenn and Joe have ~125 hours of content including episode by episode coverage of Mindhunter season 1.
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