She Screamed Through the Motel Wall. He Had a Handcuff Key.
New Jersey knew him as a computer operator. Married. Three kids in Lodi. A man who said the night shifts were work. In Times Square hotel rooms, he was the Torso Killer.
For more than a decade Richard Cottingham abducted and murdered women in North Jersey and midtown Manhattan, then drove home. Firefighters found two women without heads or hands. A fingerprint turned up under a motel bed. He is still confessing. The number he claims is not the number a court has proved.
This episode is the scream a maid heard in room 117, the survivor who ended the alibi, and the names that took decades to…
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