Richard Francis Cottingham is an American serial killer from New Jersey perpetrating murders in New York and New Jersey between 1967 and 1980. He was nicknamed The Torso Killer and Times Square Torso Ripper after his dismemberment and decapitation of two victims on December 2, 1979 in a Travel Inn hotel on West 42nd Street and Tenth Avenue in the vicinity of Times Square. He tortured and murdered sex workers Deedeh Goodarzi, age 22, and a still unidentified teenage victim, severed their heads and hands, and set their torsos on fire. Cottingham fled the scene with the severed heads and hands, which were never recovered. He was eventually apprehended on May 22, 1980 in a New Jersey motel in the act of torturing a teenage sex worker he had lured and driven to the location from New York City.
| Born | Richard Francis Cottingham, November 25, 1946, Bronx, New York, U.S. |
| Other names | The New York Ripper, The Torso Killer |
| Occupation | Computer operator |
| Criminal penalty | Life |
| Children | 3 |
Criminal Richard Cottingham was born in New York, United States on November 25, 1946. He's 77 years old today.
He was dubbed"The Torso Killer" because he frequently left his victims' torsos behind.
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Richard Cottingham was born in the Zodiac sign Sagittarius (The Centaur/Archer), and 1946 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Dog (狗).
He was a native of New Jersey who was well-known for assaulting his wife.
He was convicted of killing six people, but he claimed to have killed up to 100.
His wife filed for divorce one month before his imprisonment in 1980.
In New York, he, like"Son of Sam" Movie Actor David Berkowitz, claimed victims.
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