Yes TCK sure does look like a science experiment that went wrong. :rofl:
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Forensic psychiatrist 'a probing individual'
Developed profile that led to arrest of Richard Speck
By Joan Giangrasse Kates, Special to the Tribune
May 15, 2010
After eight student nurses were brutally tortured, raped and murdered in
a dormitory at South Chicago Community Hospital in Chicago on July 14,
1966, detectives turned to Dr. Meyer Kruglik, a leader in forensic
psychiatry, to develop a psychological and physical profile of the
unknown killer.
With the help of Dr. Kruglik, the chief of psychiatry at Stateville, the
Illinois state penitentiary near Joliet, Chicago police arrested Richard
Speck, an Illinois-born drifter who was raised in Texas and had
committed a series of smaller crimes. Speck later was convicted of the
murders.
"He was one of the first people called when the news of the murders
hit," said his daughter, Sally Bauer, who was in her teens at the time.
Dr. Kruglik provided occasional counseling to Speck, who was sent to
Stateville and died there in 1991. Over the years, he also maintained a
thriving practice on Michigan Avenue, where his patients included people
from all walks of life.
"He was a very probing individual - both professionally and personally,"
recalled his daughter, with a soft laugh. "When I was young, my
boyfriends would beg me to be ready on time. Otherwise they'd sit with
my dad and be interrogated!"
Dr. Kruglik, 95, a former longtime resident of Evanston and Chicago who
provided expert testimony on countless criminal cases, died Sunday, May
9, at his home at Classic Residence by Hyatt at the Glen in Glenview
from complications related to a brain infection.
Dr. Kruglik retired from his practice and as chief of psychiatry at
Stateville in 1994 at age 80.
"He never wrote his professional memoir, in part because of
doctor-patient privilege," his daughter said. "But I think it had more
to do with not wanting to look back - at the horrific crime committed by
Speck or any of the others he'd worked on."
The son of Russian immigrants, Dr. Kruglik was born in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Instead of pursuing plumbing or carpentry as his father wanted, he took
pre-med classes at Buffalo's Canisius College after graduating at age 16
from Hutchinson Tech, a rigorous Buffalo high school.
"From the start, he was one of those students who really lived in his
head," his daughter said. "He was profoundly thoughtful and reflective.
He was curious about everything."
In 1934, Dr. Kruglik moved to Chicago and attended the University of
Illinois Medical School, living with the family of his father's distant
cousin, Harry Ginsburg. He fell in love with Harry's daughter Gertrude,
and the two wed after he graduated medical school in 1938. They were
married for 71 years until Gertrude's death in 2009.
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While serving on a Zuni Indian reservation in New Mexico, Dr. Kruglik
was drafted by the Army after Pearl Harbor and worked for the psychiatry
service at the Veterans Administration hospital in Chillicothe, Ohio,
until 1945. He then returned to Chicago to teach psychiatry at Chicago
Medical School for two years, before embarking on a 47-year career at
Stateville, where he started by conducting interviews with prisoners in
their cells
:rocker: :rocker: Maybe it was the Zuni reservation that Marty was found on and adopted from :rocker: :rocker:
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"He was once taken hostage by an inmate, but was released unharmed," his
daughter said. "That night he got home very, very late."
In his retirement, Dr. Kruglik gained a reputation at the Classic
Residence as a memoir and sonnet writer, singer, and playwright of works
performed by residents.
"Meyer was an extraordinarily gifted and interesting person," said
fellow resident Shelley Bochner. "We were friends for just a short time,
but it was a true privilege to have known him."
Dr. Kruglik is also survived by three sons, Michael, Gerald and Martin;
three grandsons; and two great-grandsons.
Services have been held.
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