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687:" sign was hanging from the door latch of the room, which had been rented by "Carl Wilson" since November 29, 1979. Two naked female bodies were discovered by the firefighters on two different beds. Prior to their deaths, the women were brutalised, and their murderer burned their bodies. Both women's hands had been severed, and the killer had also beheaded them. The missing body parts were never found. A later autopsy revealed that both women had been tortured and sexually assaulted while still alive for several days.
812:; she had been beaten about the face and had been strangled with the leather strap from her flag sling. Police believed the attack was sexually motivated despite the fact that she had not been raped since her clothes were in "disarray." Cottingham claimed that he attempted to persuade Harp to get into his car, but she resisted. He then drove his car in front of Harp, stopped, and walked over to her. Cottingham caught up to Harp despite her attempts to flee, dragged her into a cluster of bushes, and killed her.
883:. They were naked and bound to one another at the wrists and ankles while lying facedown next to each other. Both had been beaten and raped; the ligature marks on their necks suggested that they had likely been strangled as well. Both also had cigarette burns on their flesh. Cottingham was convicted of both of their murders on April 27, 2021. In court, Cottingham admitted to kidnapping the girls and then tying them up and raping them both in a motel room. He killed them by drowning them in the bathtub.
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635:. Once she was inside, Cottingham beat, bit, slashed, and raped her. She had been restrained and then strangled with a ligature. Afterward, Cottingham dumped her in the parking lot of the Quality Inn, not far from the Ledgewood Terrace Apartments. Carr exhibited handcuff-related bruises on her wrists, ankles, as well as remnants of
662:. Street had bite marks on her breasts in addition to being bitten all over her body and head. She also had numerous minor knife incisions on her breasts. One fingerprint belonging to Cottingham was recovered from the ratchet mechanism of the handcuffs left behind on Street. He was convicted of her murder on June 12, 1981.
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her, nearly biting off one of her nipples. She later testified that he said, "You have to take it. The other girls did, you have to take it, too. You're a whore and you have to be punished." At one point, O'Dell reached under the bed for a fake gun that
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home, Thomas' body was found by her father the following morning in the woods behind the mall. Thomas was blindfolded with a crimson rag that she had in her purse and her head had been bashed in. Thomas had not been sexually assaulted. On August 26, 2022, Cottingham admitted to killing both her and
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Salerno took over the case in 2021 from the late Detective Bellotti who had preserved all the evidence. The Detectives reviewed the evidence in the case jacket and re-interviewed numerous people involved in the original investigation. They submitted DNA evidence, which matched
627:. She was still wearing her white nurse's uniform but her shoes were missing. Carr was last seen on December 15, in the parking lot of the Ledgewood Terrance Apartments, where Cottingham and his wife had previously resided. Cottingham kidnapped her from the apartment complex and took her to a
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Manhattan. They checked into the Hasbrouck Heights Quality Inn at Room 117. Cottingham offered to give O'Dell a massage and she rolled onto her stomach. Straddling her back, he drew a knife and put it to her throat as he snapped a pair of handcuffs on her wrists. He began
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The victim was identified as Mrs. Sheila Heiman, Her body was found about 1:30 P.M. in the master bathroom, which the police said was covered with so much blood that it was several hours before the police could be certain that Mrs. Heiman had been beaten, and had not struck her head in a
658:. Using an alias, Street checked into Room 132 with Cottingham, who killed her and stuffed her body under the bed for housekeeping to find. Investigators discovered Street handcuffed and with two ligature marks on her throat. They also determined that she had been gagged with white
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and convinced her to join him for a drink. Taking a cab to another location, Cottingham and Blase spent some time together after which
Cottingham offered to bring Blase back to the bus station. He then drove Blase to a remote location against her will before raping and killing
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Cottingham. Near the Green Acres Mall, there was a drive-in theatre that Cottingham frequently visited. Authorities believe Cottingham approached Cusick while pretending to be a mall security
848:. At 11:00 p.m. Denise was scheduled to be back home, but she never arrived. At around 9:00 p.m., witnesses claimed to have seen Denise heading along Old Hook Road in Emerson in the direction of Westwood. Falasca's body was found on the side of Westminster Place in
713:. Investigators discovered that Reyner's attacker had cut her throat and removed both of her breasts. The murderer had left the breasts on the headboard of the bed. Reyner's body had also been set on fire as part of the perpetrator's attempt to get rid of evidence.
561:. According to police and medical reports, Weisenfeld's attacker bit her multiple times. After meeting Cottingham, Pamela had been drugged and brutally beaten, suffering several injuries all over her body. After being found, Teaneck police took her to a hospital.
534:. The subsequent evening, Cottingham called her and asked her out for a date at midnight. He picked Susan up in his vehicle before plying Susan with a number of drugged drinks. Susan would later awaken covered in her own blood in Room 28 of the Airport Motel in
291:. According to Cottingham, "The whole idea of bondage had aroused and fascinated me since I was very young." Cottingham had a close relationship with his mother growing up, but reportedly had difficulty making friends as a teenager. In 1964 he graduated from
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Mary Beth's body was discovered on May 10, 1972, near a creek in
Rockville Centre. She had been strangled and had abrasions on her neck and face. Mary Beth worked as a live-in nanny and would come home to her family in Mineola on weekends by taking the
852:, on July 14. Falasca, according to Cottingham, was walking down the side of the road in Emerson when he pulled up next to her and offered her a ride. Shortly after, he drove to the parking lot of his former school where he forced Falasca to perform
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February 27, 1970. McGraw had a history of drug and prostitution offences; many of them were listed under false names. McGraw worked in a number of adult establishments. On August 26, 2022, Cottingham confessed to killing
818:, 18, was reported missing on April 7, 1969. On April 8, she was discovered face-down in four feet of water in Saddle River, New Jersey, strangled with the chain from a crucifix she was wearing. Cottingham confessed that he saw Blase shopping in
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murders with agreement from the victims' families and evidence corroborating the confessions, but for several years kept this secret from the public to keep Cottingham talking about other cases. In December 2019, forensic historian and author
699:. In a 2009 interview, Cottingham admitted to the murders and claimed that he severed the heads and hands of the victims to prevent their identification, as he was acquainted with Goodarzi and had been seen with her in a bar the night before.
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and serial killer who lived in New York under the alias "John Berger". Neither man claimed to have been aware of the other, nor is there any evidence they were familiar with each other prior to their respective arrests.
798:. Cottingham met Vogel at the shopping centre and kidnapped her. He took her to a field in Montvale and strangled her there. Vogel and Cottingham were acquaintances and he was convicted of her murder on August 25, 2010.
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in New Jersey prisons. In 2009, decades after his first five murder convictions, Cottingham told a journalist he had committed at least 80 "perfect murders" of women in various regions of the United States.
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immigrant who worked as a prostitute, was identified shortly afterward. The other victim remains unidentified and is estimated to be aged between 16 and 22. She is referred to as
683:, made a call to the nearby fire department on December 2, 1979, at around 9 a.m. The call was made as a result of the personnel discovering significant smoke inside Room 417. A "
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on West 47th Street. Although Susan informed Cottingham that she had reservations for the remainder of the evening, she left him her contact information at the
955:, vanished on May 5th as she boarded a bus to travel to a nearby dance. He claimed to have thrown her body from Rockville Center's Peninsula Boulevard Bridge.
907:, 23, a Long Island dance teacher, was found dead on February 16, 1968, in the back seat of her car, a 1961 Plymouth Valiant, outside the Green Acres Mall in
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1084:"'Torso Killer' Admits to Decades-old Murders of 5 Women in Nassau, Pleads Guilty in Green Acres Mall Killing"
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in New York City and was fined $ 50. On August 21, 1972, he was charged and convicted of
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1714:"'Torso Killer' pleads guilty in 1968 Valley Stream murder, confesses role in 4 others"
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Serial Violence: Analysis of Modus Operandi and Signature Characteristics of Killers
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between 1979 and 1980. Cottingham was convicted of their murders on July 9, 1984.
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1909:"'Torso Killer' Richard Cottingham indicted in 1968 Long Island slaying: report"
1596:"New Jersey's 'Torso Killer' admits murdering 3 teenage girls over 50 years ago"
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1617:"'Darkness Enveloped My Soul': The Final Confessions of the Torso Killer"
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1507:"'Torso Killer' Richard Cottingham to admit to five more NYC-area slays"
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1777:"Legislator Gaynor Honors Detectives Who Solved 50 Year Old Cold Case"
1744:"'Torso Killer' Charged in Strangulation of Long Island Woman in 1968"
1641:"How a retired detective snared his seventh 'Torso Killer' confession"
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1676:"'Torso Killer' Richard Cottingham claims two more Rockland murders"
1265:"First of Three Trials of Jerseyan in Prostitute Slayings Nears End"
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The Prostitute Murders: The People vs. Richard Cottingham
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1209:"'Torso Killer' pleads guilty in 1974 cold-case murders"
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Fenton, Reuven; Fitz-Gibbon, Jorge (December 4, 2022).
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American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years, 1950-2000
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1812:"Mineola Woman's Murder 48 Years Ago Still Unsolved"
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stated that Cottingham was a member of the school's
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1042:The Torso Killer Confessions
1033:People Magazine Investigates
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