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  1. 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 the murders he ...

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  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 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 · 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 · Richard Cottingham, 76, pleaded guilty to one count of murder in the second degree for the 1968 killing of Diane Cusick, and told the court he caused the deaths of four other women decades ago:...

  8. 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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