William J. Martin was named Chief Prosecutor in the prosecution of Richard Speck and, with tremendous support from his Office, stayed with every aspect of the case from Speck's arrest through the error-free trial and the successful appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court. William has twin loves: the law and writing. He was editor of all of his school newspapers and founded and was editor of the Loyola Law Times, a journal of opinion at his law school. He has had short stories published in the Chicago Bar Record and a Newberry Library anthology, all dealing with a life in the criminal law which he has practiced from 1970 to the present. He also defends lawyers and judges against disciplinary charges. William is a member of the Order of Coif, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and is regularly named in The Best Lawyers in America. He has lectured nationally on the Speck case and is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He collects first-hand sources from Prohibition-era Chicago murder cases and is writing stories about celebrated cases.
