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  1. May 22, 1980. Richard Francis Cottingham (born November 25, 1946) is an American serial killer and rapist who murdered at least eighteen young women and girls in New York and New Jersey between 1967 and 1980. [1] He was nicknamed by media as the New York Ripper, the Torso Killer and the Times Square Killer, since he was convicted of three ...

  2. Dec 16, 2021 · Update 2022. On December 5, 2022 Cottingham admitted he also killed five women on Long Island in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The same day, the serial killer, who is currently serving a life sentence, received an additional 25 years to life for the murder of Diane Cusick of Nassau County, New York.

  3. 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.

  4. 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...

  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...

  6. Dec 6, 2022 · Richard Cottingham was sentenced on Monday to 25 years to life for the killing of 23-year-old Diane Cusick, who was killed in February 1968 after buying shoes at the Green Acres Mall in Nassau...

  7. Dec 5, 2022 · December 5, 2022 / 1:04 PM EST / CBS/AP. A serial killer known as the "Torso Killer" admitted Monday to killing a 23-year-old woman outside a Long Island shopping mall in 1968 and four other women...

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