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June 23 2022
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Maryann Collette, 59, spoke with DailyMail.com about the murder of her sister, Patricia Newsom, who went missing aged 18 in 1974, and her extraordinary quest for answers ever since.
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Maryann explained to DailyMail.com why she wrote to the man she thinks is responsible for her sister's death - notorious 'Times Square Killer' Richard Cottingham (pictured)
''Maryann described her painstaking search for answers about what happened to her beloved sister - while explaining why she wrote to the man she thinks is responsible -
notorious 'Times Square Killer' Richard Cottingham.
'Writing to a serial killer is not something I saw coming up on my cards,' Maryann told Dailymail.com. 'But I was looking for my sister for 47 years. If I got a confession, it would mean I was done with that chapter of my life.'
'You have to take your emotion out of the situation,' she added. 'I'm a very direct person. He's alive. I wanted to know, did he kill my sister? Does he remember anything about my sister?
'Because he's old and I don't know how much he will remember, I basically explained to him a little bit about who my sister was, why I was writing to him, and why I thought he may have been responsible.'
'Maryann said she believes Cottingham, also known as the 'Torso Killer' is the killer because of similarities between how Patricia was found and several other of the murderer's victims.
'There are some similarities with some of his other crimes: the way the bodies were left, the manner of murder - and the things he didn't do to them,' she told DailyMail.com.
'I have been able to rule out so many other serial killers. I can't rule him out.'