“Torso Killer” Pleads Guilty to Killing Five Women in the ’60s

A New Jersey inmate dubbed the “Torso Killer” pleaded guilty to a 1968 slaying near New York City and admitted to four other homicides, prosecutors said Monday.

Richard Cottingham — believed to be one of America’s most prolific serial killers — admitted to strangling 23-year-old Diane Cusick on Feb. 15, 1968, at the Green Acres Mall in Nassau County, officials said.

In addition to Cusick’s case, he also confessed to four other Long Island slayings, officials said.

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