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Oct 12, 2022 · Stabbings, robberies, muggings, graffiti, arson and rape began to strike a wider and wider portion of the population. Burglaries made people feel vulnerable, even in their once-safe homes and apartments. It wasn’t just the reality of crime and sense of broadening disorder that hurt.
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In October 1967, 29-year-old Nancy Vogel told her family she was heading down to the local church for a game of bingo with friends. The married mother of two would be found three days later, bound and strangled to death in her own car. Her murder remained unsolved for 43 years until Cottingham confessed. Prosecutors cannot be sure, but assume that ...
Over the next few years, Cottingham would slowly reveal to Anzilotti that he was responsible for the deaths of three more people. First, in 2014, he casually mentioned that he had strangled to death an 18-year-old woman in the spring of 1969. Her name was Irene Blase, and she had vanished one evening while waiting for a bus to take her back to her ...
By March last year, Anzilotti was ready to move on with his life. He had been a police officer for nearly three decades, half of which he had spent locked in a psychological game with a serial killer. He went to Cottingham and broke the news. Cottingham, who had spent half of his life in a high-security penitentiary with only the detective's occasi...
By the time Cottingham was arrested in 1980, his crimes had developed into frenzied, ghoulish violence. His murders, which by then involved torture and dismemberment, earned him the nickname the Torso Killer and the New York Ripper. He was finally caught when a maid in Manhattan heard the screams of an 18-year-old woman in a motel room and called p...
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May 5, 2017 · When Mr. Tan bought the Golden Cicada Tavern in 1986, Jersey City had been a blasted landscape for years, the result of the collapse of the local railroad industry in the 1960s and 1970s.
Jun 27, 2020 · Windows were broken around them by a crowd of Black youth making its way towards a police barricade. It was July 7, 1970 and the fourth day of rioting in Asbury Park, New Jersey — a seaside...
Feb 16, 2024 · In an effort to baffle the police, he cleaned the crime scene and used scissors to remove his face from every photo in the mansion. He canceled all deliveries and contacted his children’s schools to let their teachers know the family would be on vacation for a few weeks.
May 15, 2019 · A trove of “lost” New York City crime-scene photos, taken by legendary photographer Weegee, have been unearthed after 82 years. Seventy-three prints were stashed in a kitchen cupboard and...
However, poverty and crime were significant issues in many of these neighborhoods. The city had a high crime rate, with many violent and property crimes reported. The city’s economy was struggling, with many factories closing or moving out of the city and high unemployment rates.
