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‘Torso Killer’ Admits Killing 5 Women Decades Ago Near New York City

December 5, 2022
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MINEOLA, N.Y.—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 decades ago. Richard Cottingham was arraigned earlier this year on a second-degree murder charge in connection with Diane Cusick’s death during a trip she made to buy…

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Man Arrested After Body Found in Freezer in New Orleans

January 13, 2022
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NEW ORLEANS—Authorities investigating the disappearance of a woman who was reported missing found a headless human torso in a freezer inside an old bus parked beside a New Orleans home. A man who lived at the house was arrested on an obstruction charge after the remains were found, news outlets reported, but no charges were…

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‘Torso Killer’ Pleads Guilty in 1974 Cold-Case Murders

April 29, 2021
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NEWARK—For years, a savage murderer called the “Torso Killer” dribbled out confessions to a New Jersey detective, closing cold cases into the brutal deaths of four young women that dated back to the late 1960s. But there was one unsolved case the notorious serial killer would never admit to: The slayings of 17-year-old Mary Ann…

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