Richard Cottingham | The New York Ripper - Part 2

The Serial Killer Podcast

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🗓️ 31 March 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Richard Francis Cottingham (born November 25, 1946) is an American serial killer from New Jersey operating in New York between 1967 and 1980. Cottingham was given several nicknames including "The Butcher of Times Square", "The Torso Killer", "The New York (city) Ripper", and "The Times Square Torso Ripper" due to his habit of dismembering his victims, usually leaving nothing but a torso behind. Times Square in the 1970s was a seedy environment and Cottingham took full advantage as he searched for prostitutes to satisfy his desires. He was eventually convicted of murder in 1981, after being caught fleeing an attempted murder. Officially Cottingham killed six people but he claims between 85 and 100 murders. Cottingham is incarcerated in New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, New Jersey. Official TSK Online Store - https://theserialkillerpodcast.com/store Patreon – https://www.theserialkillerpodcast.com/donate Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/theskpodcast Twitter – https://twitter.com/serialkillerpod Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/serialkillerpod

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0:25.0	Welcome to the serial killer podcast.
0:28.0	The podcast dedicated to serial killers, who they were, what they did, and how.
0:35.0	I am your Norwegian host, Thomas Vaabogthu.
0:39.0	And tonight, dear listener, we continue our expose of the torso killer, Mr. Richard Cottingham.
0:51.0	We will delve more deeply into his acts as a serial killer, and the events leading up to his eventual arrest and conviction.
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1:55.0	We ended part one of the tale of Richard Cottingham exploring details into how he was a parapheretic and a torture killer.
2:05.0	In other words, Cottingham was sadistic and he enjoyed both causing extreme pain, act out sexual violence and the act of killing itself.
2:18.0	Sometimes, if you lost control over himself, he would kill his victim before being totally sexually satisfied.
2:26.0	For example, his victims would die of shock trauma, they would bleed out, or he would hit them so hard it would cause fatal brain injury.
2:38.0	In these cases, he would be even more enraged and end up mutilating the victim's corpse in various extreme ways.
2:49.0	He got his nickname of torso killer since his victims sometimes were found without both head and hands.
2:59.0	But, if torture murder was not enough, a year after his latest kill, Cottingham would delve even deeper into the property.
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