{"id":521554,"date":"2022-12-05T19:32:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T16:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/notorious-torso-killer-admits-to-five-more-slays-on-long-island\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T19:32:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T16:32:41","slug":"notorious-torso-killer-admits-to-five-more-slays-on-long-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/notorious-torso-killer-admits-to-five-more-slays-on-long-island\/","title":{"rendered":"#Notorious &#8216;Torso Killer&#8217; admits to five more slays on Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4d389e9afaa\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4d389e9afaa\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/notorious-torso-killer-admits-to-five-more-slays-on-long-island\/#%E2%80%9CNotorious_%E2%80%98Torso_Killer_admits_to_five_more_slays_on_Long_Island%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Notorious &#8216;Torso Killer&#8217; admits to five more slays on Long Island&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CNotorious_%E2%80%98Torso_Killer_admits_to_five_more_slays_on_Long_Island%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Notorious &#8216;Torso Killer&#8217; admits to five more slays on Long Island&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>The notorious serial murderer known as the \u201cTorso Killer\u201d on Monday admitted to five more slayings on Long Island \u2014 adding to a bloody tally that already has him serving a life sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Cottingham, 76, who earned the chilling nickname because of the way he dismembered some of his victims, pleaded guilty from prison in New Jersey, where he was convicted of killing six other women between 1967 and 1980.<\/p>\n<p>The aging killer wore a green smock as he copped to the slaying via video link at the South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton, NJ, sitting next to his lawyer, Jeffrey Groder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope there is some justice for all of you knowing that for the rest of this defendant\u2019s life you will live and take every breath in a prison cell in New Jersey,\u201d prosecutor Jared Rosenblatt said, weeping as he spoke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I] hope today will bring you the closure that you all sought for the last 50 years,\u201d Rosenblatt told the families of the victims who were gathered in court. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"659\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/062222_diane_cusick_2aa.jpg?w=659\" alt=\"'Torso Killer' victim Diane Cusick.\" class=\"wp-image-24897305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/062222_diane_cusick_2aa.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1318 1318w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/062222_diane_cusick_2aa.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=988 988w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/062222_diane_cusick_2aa.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=659 659w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/062222_diane_cusick_2aa.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=329 329w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/062222_diane_cusick_2aa.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\"\/><figcaption>Richard Cottingham admitted to killing dance teacher Diane Cusick in 1968, one of five Long Island slayings he pleaded guilty to on Monday. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Dennis A. Clark<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cottingham, a former computer programmer and once-married dad of three, admitted 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.<\/p>\n<p>Cusick, 23, was found murdered after failing to return home from a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> to the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream to buy shoes \u2014 with Cottingham linked to her through DNA testing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure she tried to fight this animal off but he was so big and she was so small,\u201d Cusick\u2019s brother, Jim Martin, said at the Mineola courthouse Monday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe punched her face, put tape over her mouth and nose and then raped her,\u201d Martin said, turning his attention to the killer on the screen. \u201cI just wish that my brother Bobby and I had found you in the streets and we would have torn you apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/richard-cottingham-mug-shot-1980.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"'Torso Killer' Richard Cottingham.\" class=\"wp-image-24897321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/richard-cottingham-mug-shot-1980.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/richard-cottingham-mug-shot-1980.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/richard-cottingham-mug-shot-1980.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Richard Cottingham, the notorious \u201cTorso Killer,\u201d has claimed as many as 100 victims, but has only been charged in a handful of slayings. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Bergen County Prosecutor&#8217;s Offi<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The serial killer\u00a0was indicted in Cusick\u2019s death\u00a0in June.<\/p>\n<p>Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly said at the time that she believed it was the oldest DNA hit to lead to a prosecution in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The other murders that Cottingham has been tied to include the killings of two women whose mutilated bodies \u2014 missing their heads and hands \u2014 were\u00a0found at a motel near Times Square\u00a0in December 1979.<\/p>\n<p>One of the beheaded victims was identified as 22-year-old sex worker Deedeh Goodarzi, but the other young woman has never been identified.<\/p>\n<p>He was busted after a maid at a New Jersey motel heard a woman screaming inside his room, and cops found the 18-year-old victim alive. She had been handcuffed and had suffered knife wounds and bite marks to her breasts.<\/p>\n<p>His horrifying exploits were detailed in the Netflix <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> \u201cCrime Scene: The Times Square Killer,\u201d which was released in December 2021.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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