A serial killer linked to a total of 17 murders in New Jersey and New York has allegedly admitted to killing a woman in New Jersey six decades earlier. In December, “Torso Killer” Richard Cottingham, 79, reportedly confessed to murdering Alys Eberhardt, 18, a nursing student who was found stabbed and bludgeoned at her family’s …
A New Jersey murderer, better known as the “Torso Killer,” has pleaded guilty to killing two victims. The Associated Press reports that Richard Cottingham, 74, admitted in court Tuesday that he murdered Mary Ann Pryor, 17, and Lorraine Marie Kelly, 16. Both girls were killed in August 1974, after Cottingham kidnapped, raped, then drowned them …
An elderly serial killer who is imprisoned in New Jersey for murdering six women has reportedly confessed to strangling three teen girls in the late ’60s. Richard Cottingham, 74, is serving a 200-year sentence for killing six in New York and New Jersey between 1967 and 1980. On Friday, officials with the Bergen County Prosecutor’s …
