Notorious ‘Torso Killer’ Richard Cottingham confesses to 1965 cold case killing of 18-year-old NJ nursing student

Fuente: New York Post

Notorious serial slayer Richard Cottingham has been linked to yet another vicious murder — confessing to the cold-case killing of an 18-year-old New Jersey nursing student, police said this week. Cottingham, 79, who is known as the “Torso Killer” and is serving a life sentence for a string of murders dating to 1967, has now admitted to butchering teenager Alys Eberhardt in Fair Lawn on Sept. 25, 1965, Fair Lawn Police Chief Joseph Dawicki said in a Facebook post on Tuesday.