And a few others, on both sides of the Atlantic; long before Speck was ever born. Newspaper hyperbole is nothing new and while Richard Speck was a monster, he didn't start anything.
I still can't believe I sent my daughter to University of Florida one year after that happened...
..but we thought we had snagged the safest dorm for her.
Found out, girls were still propping the outside door open at night!!(for guys)...in spite of what had happened.
She transferred to another Florida school the next year.....a very safe, very secure, very guarded Florida school.