Marketing company apologizes for using photo of nurse killed by Chicago mass murderer

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Nearly 60 years ago, the face of the Chicago mass murderer Richard Speck captivated headlines after he killed multiple women.

A sharp-eyed CBS News Chicago viewer recently spotted something that made her and the family of one of Speck's victims very upset.Those in the Chicago area in the 1960s might have heard the name Pamela Wilkening, one of Speck's victims. Her nephew, Keith Wilkening, said his father thinks about Pamela 'every day.'Georgeann Georges has never met the Wilkening family, but she knows about them.'I was 16 when the murders happened,' Georges said.

'It's just an old picture of a nurse to anyone who doesn't know that happened and who it was, so I was just trying to figure out why out of all the pictures of nurses did you pick this one?' Keith Wilkening said.University of Illinois Chicago communications professor Steve Jones showed CBS News Chicago search terms content creators might use to find free, nostalgic nursing photos online like 'vintage,' 'nurse,' and 'nursing.

 

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