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  1. May 22, 1980. Richard Francis Cottingham (born November 25, 1946) is an American serial killer who was convicted in New York of six murders committed between 1972 and 1980 and convicted in New Jersey of twelve murders committed between 1967 and 1978. [1] He was nicknamed by media as the Torso Killer and the Times Square Ripper, since some of ...

  2. Dec 16, 2021 · Cottingham claims to have killed up to 100 women. As he lingers in prison, his health declining, investigators are racing against time, hoping to connect the serial killer to similar unsolved murders. In early 2021, he officially confessed to the 1974 abduction, rape and murder of two teenaged girls, bringing closure to one decades-old cold case.

  3. Dec 5, 2022 · Richard Cottingham pleaded guilty to murder in the death of one Long Island woman and admitted under oath to killing four others. Seth Wenig/Associated Press. By Ed Shanahan. Dec. 5, 2022. On a...

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  4. Dec 12, 2021 · Updated November 7, 2023. Richard Cottingham brutally murdered prostitutes he found on the seedy streets of 1970s New York, earning his horrifying legacy as the Times Square Torso Killer. Today, Times Square is a glittering tourist attraction. But it had a much seedier reputation in the latter half of the 20th century.

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  5. Dec 5, 2022 · Ailing serial killer Richard Cottingham — a.k.a. the Torso Killer — pleaded guilty to the 1968 murder of Long Island mother Diane Cusick Monday in front of a Nassau County, New York judge, as...

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  6. Dec 6, 2022 · Cottingham, 76, known in New Jersey as the "Torso Killer" after a string of murders, confessed to the 1968 slaying of Diane Cusick, a 23-year-old dance teacher who was found strangled to death...

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  8. Jun 22, 2022 · The suspect, Richard Cottingham — believed to be one of America's most prolific serial killers — was arraigned Wednesday on a second-degree murder charge in connection with Cusick's 1968...

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