Who is Richard Speck in Mindhunter?

The subject who breaks the script · The Subjects

Richard Speck (The subject who breaks the script) is a character in Mindhunter, part of The Subjects. Richard Speck — eight student nurses, one night in Chicago, a name that frightened the country — meets the project as pure hostility: profane, taunting, contemptuous of the suits and their tape recorder. Holden gets him talking with a gambit so ugly the transcript itself becomes a problem: language the Bureau cannot un-hear once it's typed. Speck delivers data and detonates the unit's first scandal in the same hour.

When does Richard Speck first appear?

Richard Speck first appears in Season 1, Episode 9 of Mindhunter (2017–2019, Netflix).

Who is Richard Speck connected to?

Relationships already established when Richard Speck first appears — nothing from later episodes.

• Holden Ford — The gambit that worked too well

Which group does Richard Speck belong to?

By the time Richard Speck appears, The Subjects also includes Ed Kemper, Jerry Brudos.

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