NJ NJ - Richard Cottingham, Torso/Times Square Serial Killer, 1968-1980

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June 23 2022

 

[Betty P]

Breaking News: Richard Cottingham has been charged in a twelfth murder - a case that Jennifer Weiss and I coaxed out of him. This one was in Long Island New York, in Nassau County near the border with Queens off the Sunrise Highway. This is the first case back in New York since the three 1979-1980 murders he stood trial for. His recent confessions were all in New Jersey, but Jennifer and I are circling back with Cottingham to Bergen County and several other jurisdictions in New Jersey. And more to come in New York.

'Torso killer' linked to 1968 cold case murder at NY mall: sources

NEW YORK (PIX11) — More than 50 years after the body of Diane Cusick, 23, was found duct-taped in the back seat of her car at the Green Acres Mall, a notorious serial killer from New Jersey, Richar…

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Great work, Peter! Thank you for your efforts to bring justice for these victims. I hope we see more DNA matches, too.

 

[Caring1]

Dec. 5, 2022, 12:38 PM EST / Updated Dec. 5, 2022, 2:08 PM EST

A New Jersey inmate, dubbed the "Torso Killer" pleaded guilty to a 1968 slaying near New York City, and admitted to four other homicides, prosecutors said Monday.

Richard Cottingham — believed to be one of America’s most prolific serial killers — admitted to strangling 23-year-old Diane Cusick on Feb. 15, 1968, at the Green Acres Mall in Nassau County, officials said.

In addition to Cusick's case, he also confessed to four other Long Island slayings, officials said.

Man admits to killing five women in infamous Long Island 'Torso Killer' slayings - NewsBreak

A New Jersey inmate, dubbed the "Torso Killer" pleaded guilty to a 1968 slaying near New York City, and admitted to four other homicides, prosecutors said...

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[MajorHoople]

Serial killer Richard Cottingham admits to 5 more murders on Long Island

Correction: This story has been updated with the correct spelling of Sheila Heiman’s name. MINEOLA, N.Y. (PIX11) – Richard Cottingham, the jailed serial killer who once claimed he’d killed ab…

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Posted: Dec 5, 2022

"Richard Cottingham, the jailed serial killer who once claimed he’d killed about 100 women, admitted on Monday to five Long Island murders, four of them from 1972 and 1973.

Appearing virtually from South Woods prison in New Jersey, Cottingham, 76, admitted killing five women in Nassau County, four by strangulation.

Cottingham also confessed to the 1972 strangulations of Mary Beth Heinz and Laverne Moye, three months apart. He said he threw the bodies of both women off a bridge in Rockville Centre.

Cottingham also admitted to fatally stabbing Sheila Heiman in 1973 at home in North Woodmere. He admitted to strangling Maritza Rosada Nieves in July 1973."

 

[MajorHoople]

Infamous 'Torso Killer' pleads guilty to killing FIVE more women

Richard Cottingham, 75, confessed to the brutal murders of five women on Monday, but previously struck a plea deal to only be punished for one.

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5 December 2022

"The infamous convicted 'Torso Killer' admitted to killing another five women in the 1970s, including the cold case death of a Long Island dance teacher.

Richard Cottingham, 75, confessed to the brutal murders of five women on Monday, but was only charged with 25 years to life for the slaying of a dance teacher after striking a deal."

"The serial killer has been in prison since 1981 and is already serving a life sentence behind bars in New Jersey after admitting to the murders of six others that died between 1967 and 1980.

Cottingham wasn't charged for four of the murders he admitted to on Monday in exchange for his confession on a 1968 murder case of a dance teacher Diane Cusick, 23. He previously pleaded not guilty to her murder earlier this year, but prosecutors found his DNA at the scene. "

"Cottingham also pleaded guilty to killing Mary Beth Heinz, 21, Sheila Heima, 33, Laverne Moye, 23, and Maria Emerita Rosado Nieves, according to The Rolling Stone. It is unclear how he killed them."

 

[Caring1]

Dec. 5, 2022, 12:38 PM EST / Updated Dec. 5, 2022, 2:08 PM EST

“Today is one is one the most emotional days we've ever had the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office,” District Attorney Anne Donnelly told reporters in Mineola.

Cusick had left her job at a children’s dance school and then stopped at the mall to buy a pair of dance shoes when the New Hyde Park woman was strangled by Cottingham, authorities said.

“In the case of Diane Cusick, her family has waited nearly 55 years for someone to be held accountable for her death," said Donnelly, who fought back tears at points of a 40-minute meeting with reporters.

Man admits to killing five women in infamous Long Island 'Torso Killer' slayings - NewsBreak

A New Jersey inmate, dubbed the "Torso Killer" pleaded guilty to a 1968 slaying near New York City, and admitted to four other homicides, prosecutors said...

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[Betty P]

Here's a 2020 article about Mary Beth Heinz, including an interview with her sister. Their father was a detective and worked to solve her murder. She was 21, an epileptic, worked as a live-in nanny and would take the bus home on Friday nights to visit her family for the weekend. She disappeared one night in 1972 after she boarded the bus home, but never arrived. RIP Mary Beth. I'm glad her family finally has some answers.

The article also states that Mary Beth's body was found near a creek at Rockville Center, but the article about Cottingham says he claims he threw her body off a bridge in that city.

Nassau Illustrated News - Anton Media Group

Local News serving Westbury, Mineola, Garden City, New Hyde Park, Floral Park, Albertson, Williston Park, East Williston, Carle Place.

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[Betty P]

@Peter Vronsky , Welcome, thank you for your work, and how do you think he was able to kill so many women, yet avoid being caught?

'Times Square killer' pleads guilty to 1 woman's murder and admits killing 4 others | CNN

A man known as the "Times Square Killer" -- already serving life for murder -- admitted five additional cold-case killings Monday in a New York court.

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Heinz’s body was found in 1972 in Rockville Centre on Long Island. Her body was found floating face down in a muddy stream, also strangled. She was 21 at the time.

Laverne Moye, then 23, was found in the same area later that year, also strangled to death. She was the mother of two children, authorities said.

In 1973, Sheila Heiman’s body was found bludgeoned to death in her home on Long Island. Her husband had left the house that morning to go to a department store, and when he came back, he found her dead in the bathroom. Her kids were away at summer camp.

In the winter of 1973, Nieves was discovered in a weeded area of Jones Beach. Nieves, 18 at the time, had also been strangled to death. Park maintenance workers found her covered in plastic bags and wrapped in a gray blanket.

More photos of the victims at this link. RIP to all of them.

Infamous 'Torso Killer' pleads guilty to killing FIVE more women

Richard Cottingham, 75, confessed to the brutal murders of five women on Monday, but previously struck a plea deal to only be punished for one.

www.dailymail.co.uk

He was first arrested in 1980 for the attempted murder and rape of an 18-year-old prostitute Leslie Ann O'Dell at a Quality Inn motel in Hasbrouck Heights.

A motel maid heard a woman screaming inside his room. Authorities found her alive but bound with handcuffs and suffering from bite marks and knife wounds.

O'Dell later testified at trial that Cottingham told her during the attack, 'You have to take it. The other girls did, you have to take it too. You’re a *advertiser censored* and you have to be punished.'

That explains some of it. What makes these guys so confused and messed up when it comes to sex? Most of the women weren't sex workers, just victims he stalked and attacked.

 

[SolVic]

Does anyone here have more information on Marita Emerita Rosado Nieves? I can’t find her in newspapers.

 

[dotr]

Does anyone here have more information on Marita Emerita Rosado Nieves? I can’t find her in newspapers.

Very little info so far, wish there was a photo of Marita. rbbm.

‘Times Square Killer’ Richard Cottingham admits to murdering five L.I. women 50 years ago, families lash out in court

A convicted serial murderer known as the “Times Square Killer” whose savage string of sexually charged murders stretched from New Jersey to Manhattan for nearly 15 years confessed Monda…

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''Cottingham also admitted to strangling Marita Emerita Rosado Nieves, 18, two days after Christmas in 1973. Her body was found covered in plastic bags and wrapped in a gray blanket near a bus stop on Ocean Parkway by Jones Beach.''

Man admits to killing five women in infamous Long Island 'Torso Killer' slayings

Richard Cottingham pleaded guilty to a 1968 killing and confessed to four other homicides.

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''Police and prosecutors appealed for the public's help in finding relatives of Marita Rosado Nieves, an 18-year-old from Puerto Rico who strangled on or about Dec. 27, 1973. Her body was found on Jones Beach. Authorities haven't been able to locate living loved ones to share this news. The victim's mother once lived Bayamón, Puerto Rico''

'Torso Killer' Admits 5 More Long Island Killings, Pleads Guilty To 1

On Monday, Richard Cottingham admitted to 4 more killings on Long Island, and pleaded guilty in 1968 murder of a young Nassau mother.

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'' He said he strangled Nieves, leaving her body near a Jones Beach bus stop, also in 1973.
Prosecutors have been unable to locate Nieves' family, Donnelly said.''

 

[JerseyGirl]

Richard Cottingham confesses to 1968 killing of Diane Cusick, 4 other murders on Long Island

The admitted serial killer's grisly crimes are detailed in the Netflix documentary "The Times Square Killer."

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The judge called Cottingham purely evil and sentenced him to 25 years to life running consecutively with the 179 years he is already serving.

"There is no sentence I can impose that would truly be enough," said Judge Caryn Fink.

 

[dotr]

‘Times Square Serial Killer’ Richard Cottingham charged with cold case 1968 murder, ‘Never thought I’d see this day,’ victim’s daughter says

A 54-year-old DNA match led to new murder charges Wednesday against a notorious serial killer already jailed for 11 homicides, with authorities alleging he sexually assaulted and killed an innocent Long Island mom. The daughter of 1968 murder victim Diane Cusick and other relatives attended the...

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''A 54-year-old DNA match led to new murder charges Wednesday against a notorious serial killer already jailed for 11 homicides, with authorities alleging he sexually assaulted and killed an innocent Long Island mom.

The daughter of 1968 murder victim Diane Cusick and other relatives attended the Nassau County court hearing where “Times Square Killer” Richard Cottingham pleaded not guilty via video link to murder in the dance teacher’s brutal strangling inside a parked car on Feb. 16, 1968.

“That evening, she told her parents that she was going to purchase a pair of shoes at the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream,” said Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly. “She never returned home.”

 

[LadyL]

Very little info so far, wish there was a photo of Marita. rbbm.

‘Times Square Killer’ Richard Cottingham admits to murdering five L.I. women 50 years ago, families lash out in court

A convicted serial murderer known as the “Times Square Killer” whose savage string of sexually charged murders stretched from New Jersey to Manhattan for nearly 15 years confessed Monda…

www.nydailynews.com

''Cottingham also admitted to strangling Marita Emerita Rosado Nieves, 18, two days after Christmas in 1973. Her body was found covered in plastic bags and wrapped in a gray blanket near a bus stop on Ocean Parkway by Jones Beach.''

Man admits to killing five women in infamous Long Island 'Torso Killer' slayings

Richard Cottingham pleaded guilty to a 1968 killing and confessed to four other homicides.

www.nbcnews.com

''Police and prosecutors appealed for the public's help in finding relatives of Marita Rosado Nieves, an 18-year-old from Puerto Rico who strangled on or about Dec. 27, 1973. Her body was found on Jones Beach. Authorities haven't been able to locate living loved ones to share this news. The victim's mother once lived Bayamón, Puerto Rico''

'Torso Killer' Admits 5 More Long Island Killings, Pleads Guilty To 1

On Monday, Richard Cottingham admitted to 4 more killings on Long Island, and pleaded guilty in 1968 murder of a young Nassau mother.

patch.com

'' He said he strangled Nieves, leaving her body near a Jones Beach bus stop, also in 1973.
Prosecutors have been unable to locate Nieves' family, Donnelly said.''

very sad that her family doesn't know what happened to her