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

[dotr]

''Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer | Official Trailer | Netflix
Dec 15, 2021''

 

[JrzyGirl70]

''Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer | Official Trailer | Netflix
Dec 15, 2021''

I am having a hard time with this doc.. Strange because I am so familiar with all of the Jersey area's and even know some of the LEO's that worked this case.

 

[MadMcGoo]

Netflix details Times Square torso killer Richard Cottingham who severed limbs and heads of victims | Daily Mail Online

I watched this recently. Good series, awful crimes.

New Jersey Serial Killer 'Torso Killer' Pleads Guilty to 1974 Cold Case Murders of 2 Teenage Friends

 

[JerseyGirl]

I think the ‘Times Square Killer’ who dismembered my mom is my FATHER

 

[dotr]

I think the ‘Times Square Killer’ who dismembered my mom is my FATHER

Well that was a shocking twist! thanks, from link

• Jan 8 2022

''A WOMAN whose mom was killed and decapitated by the Time Square Killer believes there's a possibility he is her father and wants a DNA test to find out the truth.

Jennifer Weiss, 43, has been working with authorities in Bergen County, New Jersey, for years to help identify further victims of Richard Cottingham, who claims to have killed between 80 and 100 people in an 18-year spree.



Jennifer Weiss and Richard Cottingham during a prison visitCredit: YouTube

 

[LunaticFringe]

It would be a cold day in hell before I'd put my arm around a man who had cut the head off of my birth mother and brutally murdered other women.But that's just me.

 

[dotr]

It would be a cold day in hell before I'd put my arm around a man who had cut the head off of my birth mother and brutally murdered other women.But that's just me.

Killing him with kindness?!

 

[dotr]

Hopefully an article will be written (not by the S. news link) that will shed light on how brave the daughter of the murdered woman had to be in order to approach and engage with the killer.
No matter the optics of the pics. the daughter is in control, he is in chains and stuck in prison forever and she gets to leave that place. POWER her b. mom did not have, imo.
Although the headline in the S article suggested that RC was the woman's father, it was only a vague possibility, but no harm in double checking the DNA, you gotta respect that! imo, speculation.

 

[ApotheKaren]

'Darkness Enveloped My Soul': The Final Confessions of the Torso Killer

 

[dotr]

'Darkness Enveloped My Soul': The Final Confessions of the Torso Killer

Welcome to Ws @ApotheKaren, thank you for the link!

''Jennifer Weiss says her life came full-circle in a massive, dreary building in Trenton, New Jersey. In May of 1978, her mother, Deedeh Goodarzi, put her up for adoption at an agency in the shadow of the New Jersey State Prison and its barbed-wire crowned fences. Decades later, she found herself at that same prison, confronting the man who had left her mother dismembered in a flaming hotel room in Times Square: Richard Cottingham, a.k.a. the Torso Killer, a man whose brutality towards his victims shocked even the most seasoned of cops.''

 

[Mrs. Badcrumble]

Netflix has made a true crime documentary series of Richard Cottingham, and Jane Doe is mentioned in this article:

Unfortunately, another woman was killed alongside Goodarzi, and she remains unidentified. She was perhaps 16 at the time of her murder, according to the NY Daily News. It was initially believed that she could be Helen Sikes, a young girl and sex worker who’d gone missing earlier that year. But as far as accounts go, Sikes’ murder is still unsolved and Jane Doe’s true identity is still not known.

Hopefully, this docuseries will give Jane Doe the attention she needs to at least be entered into NamUs, or even better: Set in motion the process for her identification.

 

[MadMcGoo]

Netflix has made a true crime documentary series of Richard Cottingham, and Jane Doe is mentioned in this article:


Hopefully, this docuseries gives Jane Doe the attention she needs to at least be entered into NamUs, or even better: Set in motion the process for her identification.

I saw this recently and forgot to post it here. Thanks!! It was actually a pretty good series. I too hope it helps in identifying her.

 

[Peter Vronsky]

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…

pix11.com

 

[Peter Vronsky]

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…

pix11.com

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Just last year, Cottingham confessed to the 1974 murders of two teens from North Bergen: Mary Ann Pryor and Lorraine Kelly. He had picked them up on their way to the Garden State Mall, he said, and then raped and tortured them at a hotel for three days before drowning them.

'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…

pix11.com

 

[kimmo]

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

More than 50 years after the body of 23-year-old Diane Cusick was found duct-taped in the back seat of her car at a local mall, a notorious serial killer from New Jersey will be charged with her murder, sources told WPIX on Tuesday.

Three sources independently confirmed a sealed indictment against 75-year-old Richard Cottingham for Cusick’s 1968 death. Cottingham has been in various New Jersey prisons since 1980 for five other murders.

Sources told WPIX that DNA was preserved from the crime scene in the Green Acres Mall parking lot in Valley Stream, New York, and a sample from Cottingham linked him to Cusick’s murder. However, Cottingham has retained an attorney and plans to plead not guilty, according to sources.

Criminal historian Peter Vronsky, author of “American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years 1950 to 2000,” said Cottingham told him he’s killed between 85 and 100 women. Vronsky and Jennifer Weiss, the daughter of Deedeh Goodarzi, who was brutally dismembered and set on fire inside a Times Square hotel in 1979, have encouraged Cottingham to come clean on his crimes before he dies.

Cottingham was a married father of three, working at Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance firm in Manhattan, New York, and living in Lodi, New Jersey, when he was arrested.

More at link.

 

[dotr]

'Torso killer' linked to 1968 cold case: sources

More than 50 years after the body of 23-year-old Diane Cusick was found duct-taped in the back seat of her car at a local mall, a notorious serial killer from New Jersey will be charged with her mu…

www.westernslopenow.com

''Just last year, Cottingham confessed to the 1974 murders of two teens from North Bergen, New Jersey: Mary Ann Pryor and Lorraine Kelly. He had picked them up on their way to the Garden State Mall in Paramus, New Jersey, he said, and then raped and tortured them at a hotel for three days before drowning them.

Criminal historian Peter Vronsky, author of “American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years 1950 to 2000,” said Cottingham told him he’s killed between 85 and 100 women. Vronsky and Jennifer Weiss, the daughter of Deedeh Goodarzi, who was brutally dismembered and set on fire inside a Times Square hotel in 1979, have encouraged Cottingham to come clean on his crimes before he dies.''


''Last year, Vronsky said Cottingham “wanted me to locate a particular drive-in. He wanted to know whether that drive-in was in Nassau or Queens.” The Sunrise Drive-In was a popular outdoor movie theatre located next to the Green Acres Mall on Sunrise Highway in the 1960s and 1970s.

Cusick, a dance teacher and divorced mom, was suffocated by a 2-inch-wide adhesive tape that was wrapped around her mouth and neck. She was dressed in a black leotard, a skirt, a red blouse, and white boots. She told her family she was stopping at the mall after work to buy shoes.

Her body was found on Feb. 17, 1968, in the back seat of her car in the mall parking lot. She had been raped before she was killed.''

Diane Cusick murder - Google Search

 

[shastagirl]

has he ever been interviewed for any part in the Oxford Valley Mall 1974 / Patty Bartlett case?

 

[madamx]

'Torso Killer' pleads not guilty to 1968 cold case murder on LI

The notorious “Torso Killer,” currently serving life sentences in a New Jersey prison, was indicted on Wednesday for the 1968 murder of a 23-year-old woman in Valley Stream.

www.audacy.com

A 1968 RC victim named Diane Cusick was identified. I really hope this girl gets identified soon too.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Richard Cottingham was indicted by a grand jury in the February 1968 killing of Diane Cusick, prosecutors said Wednesday. Cusick was a 23-year-old dance teacher and mother of one when she was found beaten, raped and duct-taped in her car in Valley Stream's Green Acres Mall parking lot that year. It was two days after Valentine's Day.

Cottingham allegedly pretended to be a security guard or police officer to get Cusick -- and others -- to go with him, Det. Captain Steven Fitzpatrick said at a news briefing. Fitzpatrick said authorities had reviewed all homicides of women in the area at the time Cusick was killed and may have found other cases linked to Cottingham.

They have at least five open cases they have submitted for DNA testing, he added.

Cottingham pleaded not guilty to a second-degree murder charge in Cusick's case on Wednesday and was remanded. He faces another life sentence if convicted.

Infamous Serial Killer Indicted in Brutal 1968 Mall Murder of Long Island Dance Teacher

Richard Cottingham has claimed to be responsible for up to 100 murders. Prosecutors say Diane Cusick was one of them.

www.nbcnewyork.com