Who is Richard Cottingham ( Notorious ‘Torso Killer’ ) Wiki, Bio, Age, Crime, Arrest, Incident details, Investigations and More Facts
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The notorious serial killer, known as the "Torso Killer," admitted to committing five other murders on Long Island on Monday, adding to a bloody indictment that already sentenced him to life in prison.
Richard Cottingham, 76, who earned the chilling nickname for the way he dismembered some of his victims, pleaded guilty to serving time in prison in New Jersey, where he was found guilty of killing six other women between 1967 and 1980 to have. A Half Century of waiting for Justice. Families of victims in court as notorious serial killer Richard Cottingham admits to murdering 5 Nassau County women in 60s & 70s. @CBSNewYork pic.twitter.com/bbKlOc3T0b — Carolyn Gusoff (@GusoffTV) December 5, 2022 The elderly killer wore a green lab coat as he addressed the murder via video link at South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton, NJ alongside his attorney, Jeffrey Groder. "I hope there is all justice for you, knowing that for the rest of this defendant's life you will live and breathe in a New Jersey jail cell," prosecutor Jared Rosenblatt said, crying as he spoke. . " today brings you the closure you've all been seeking for the last 50 years," Rosenblatt told the victims' families gathered in court. Cottingham, a former computer programmer and married father of three, admitted to the 1968 r*pe and murder of dance teacher Diane Cusick and the murders of four other women in Nassau County in 1972 and 1973.
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23-year-old Cusick was found murdered after failing to return home to shop for shoes from a trip to the Green Acres mall in Valley Stream. Cottingham has been linked to her through DNA testing. "I'm sure he tried to fight that animal, but he was so big and she was so small," Cusick's brother Jim Martin said Monday outside the Mineola courthouse. "He punched her in the face, taped her mouth and nose, and then r*ped her," Martin said, turning his attention to the on-screen killer. "I just wish my brother Bobby and I had found you on the street and dismembered you." The serial killer was charged in June in Cusick's death. Nassau County Prosecutor Anne Donnelly said at the time she believed it was the oldest DNA breach to lead to a prosecution in the United States. Other Cottingham-related murders include the murders of two women whose mutilated bodies - without heads or hands - were found in a motel near Times Square in December 1979. One of the decapitated victims was identified as 22-year-old prostitute Deedeh Goodarzi, but the other young woman was never identified. He was arrested after a waitress at a New Jersey motel heard a woman scream in her room and officers found the 18-year-old victim alive, but she was handcuffed and suffered chest wounds, knife marks and bite marks on her breasts. His gruesome exploits were detailed in the Netflix series Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer, which was released in December 2021. Read the full article