The so-called 'Torso Killer' or 'Times Square Killer' also confessed to four previously unsolved slayings from the 1970s.
-- and confessed to four other slayings, prosecutors announced.
The so-called"Torso Killer" or"Times Square Killer" also confessed to four previously unsolved slayings from the 1970s. Those include the May 1972 and July 1972 killings of Mary Beth Heinz and Laverne Moy as well as the 1970s murders of Sheila Hyman and Marita Rosado Nieves. He won't be prosecuted additionally for those cases but will have another 25-year sentence added to his current life sentence as part of the plea deal unveiled Monday.
Though he has been behind bars for decades, prosecutors say they continue to work to bring closure to families.
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