The jailed serial murderer known as the “Torso Killer’’ is due to plead guilty Monday to the brutal slayings of five Long Island women.
The infamous serial slayer known as the “Torso Killer’’ because of the way he carved up some of his victims is set to plead guilty Monday in the brutal murders of five Long Island women.
The former computer programmer and once-married dad of three is now expected to admit to the 1968 rape and murder of dance teacher Diane Cusick, as well as the slayings of four other women in Nassau County in 1972 and 1973,Cusick, 23, was found murdered after failing to return home from a trip to the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream to buy shoes. Cottingham was eventually linked to her death through DNA testing.
Serial murderer Richard Cottingham, the notorious “Torso Killer,” claims to have killed as many as 100 women during his bloody spree.The victims of Richard Cottingham, the serial murderer known as the “Torso Killer,” included two women whose mutilated bodies were found at a Times Square motel.
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