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

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Identified! - CT - East Haven, Frontage Rd behind former Bradlees store, WhtFem 18-28, UP10796, Wrapped in Paint-Spotted Tarp, Aug'75 - Patricia Meleady Newsome

Patricia was found 48 years ago today.

www.websleuths.com

Chilling update in murder of teen girl found dead five decades ago

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.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Aug 11 2024

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)

 

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Cross-posting threads with possible victim thread..

Identified! - CT - East Haven, Frontage Rd behind former Bradlees store, WhtFem 18-28, UP10796, Wrapped in Paint-Spotted Tarp, Aug'75 - Patricia Meleady Newsome

Patricia was found 48 years ago today.

www.websleuths.com

Chilling update in murder of teen girl found dead five decades ago

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.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Aug 11 2024
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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)

Woman writes to serial killer for answers in sister’s 1975 murder

In 1975, Patricia Newsom’s slain body was found in a Connecticut drainage ditch, but she wasn’t identified until 2023. What happened to the 18-year-old remains a mystery, but her sister tells Andrea Cavallier she believes a convicted serial killer known as the ‘Torso Killer’ could have the...

www.independent.co.uk

 

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Letter to a killer: Relative of Connecticut cold case victim thinks Richard Cottingham killed her sister

Maryann Collette, the sister of Patricia Newsom, believes the ailing serial killer Richard Cottingham has answers.

www.fox61.com

 

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Peter Vronsky claims that Cottingham admitted to another murder, and that the case has been closed

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Peter Vronsky claims that Cottingham admitted to another murder, and that the case has been closed

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In his latest posts, he reveals that Cottingham also confessed to killing Yvette Valentin, as well as raping two women. (The identity of the victim mentioned back in December still isn’t public, but we now know that she was a nurse and the wife of a prominent New York physician.)

 

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VIDEO.

Long Island DA reacts to serial killer's claims about 1966 cold case killing

The Suffolk County district attorney is responding to an I-Team investigation with new clues from an infamous serial killer about an unsolved murder in 1966. Investigative reporter Sarah Wallace spoke to DA Ray Tierney and the killer once nick-named “The Torso Killer.” NBC New York’s Sarah...

www.nbcnewyork.com

July 7 2025

''Long Island DA reacts to serial killer's claims about 1966 cold case killing​

The Suffolk County district attorney is responding to an I-Team investigation with new clues from an infamous serial killer about an unsolved murder in 1966. Investigative reporter Sarah Wallace spoke to DA Ray Tierney and the killer once nick-named “The Torso Killer.” NBC New York’s Sarah Wallace reports.''

 

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6 July 2025 HUGE article.

How my relationship with a serial killer led me to his victims

He was a married father of three from New Jersey who led a sadistic double life - family man by day, serial killer by night.

www.dailymail.co.uk

''When forensic historian Peter Vronsky speaks about the man who allegedly decapitated and murdered up to 100 victims, he fondly refers to Richard Cottingham as 'my serial killer.'

''Each day at around 2 pm, Vronsky gets a call from Cottingham at the South Woods New Jersey State Prison - the pair have been in contact for years.
They talk about the weather, the news, reminisce about the 'lost New York' of the '60s and '70s, how good the hot dogs were at an NYC institution and where you could get the best pastrami sandwich.''

''It was one of those vivid descriptions that led Vronsky to identify the unsolved murder of Diane Cusick, a 23-year-old dance teacher who went shopping at the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, Long Island, in 1968 and never returned home.

Vronsky passed along the intel from Cottingham to police, and the confession along with preserved DNA led to Cottingham's indictment for Cusick's murder in 2022.

Vronsky explained he also helped identify four other victims for police: Mary Beth Heinz, 21, Laverne Moy, 23, Sheila Haiman, 33, and Maria Nieves, 18.''

 

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Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said his office’s Cold Case Unit has begun a fresh investigation into the 1966 murder of a Selden widow.

But he said it would not be appropriate for him to consider granting immunity to serial killer Richard Cottingham in exchange for information about Marilyn Simons' death until that probe is completed.

Linda Greco of Holbrook, Simons' daughter, asked Tierney’s office to give immunity to Cottingham after Cottingham suggested in correspondence with her that he was involved in the slaying of her mother nearly 60 years ago.

Suffolk DA starts probe of 1966 murder of Selden woman found in car

The slain woman's daughter asked the Suffolk district attorney to give immunity to serial killer Richard Cottingham in exchange for information about her mother's murder.

www.newsday.com