Infamous ‘Torso Killer' Admits Murdering NY Dance Teacher, 4 Others

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The so-called 'Torso Killer' or 'Times Square Killer' -- who is already behind bars in NJ -- also confessed to four previously unsolved slayings from the 1970s.

-- and confessed to four other slayings, prosecutors announced.

An indictment has been made in the 1968 killing of Diane Cusick, a mother and dance teacher on Long Island. Pei-Sze Cheng reports.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.Cottingham allegedly pretended to be a security guard or police officer to get Cusick to go with him. Investigators long believed he had done the same for other homicide victims.

"It was only through advances in DNA technology that the NCDA and our partners at the Nassau County Police Department, could solve this 54-year-old cold case and identify a suspect in Ms. Cusick’s tragic death," Donnelly added."We make a promise to her surviving daughter today: we will bring her mother’s killer to justice."

 

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The Netflix documentary about this guy is very very good. Well done.

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