What's on TV? Tuesday, April 20, 1993

Oprah Winfrey's guest today is Corazon Atienza, who is described as having "evaded a 1966 mass murder by hiding under a bed." That's a pretty ordinary description, but there was still something in that "hiding under a bed" bit that rang a bell, and as it turns out, that description really undersells the story. In 1966, Corazon Atienza was a student nurse in Chicago, and the "mass murder" that the listing so blandly refers to was, in fact, the gruesome murder of eight student nurses by Richard Speck, at the time called one of the "Crimes of the Century"; to this day it remains one of the most infamous crimes in American history. Although Atienza later returned to the Philippines, the connection to Winfrey's show is no surprise, given that she did her show in Chicago. In 1993, Speck's name would still have been familiar to most Americans, who would have remembered the murders; unfortunately, the listing in this week's New York City Metro edition fails to provide any historical…

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