'American Horror Story's' movie homages from 'The Strangers' to Hannibal Lecter

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The Richard Speck murders

Not a movie homage, but the storyline from 1968 was more than a little similar to the 1966 Richard Speck killing spree, where Speck broke into a women's boarding house and systematically raped and killed eight student nurses.