SHOCKING! "Torso Killer" Strikes Again! Confesses to 1965 Cold Case Murder, Nursing Student, 18
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The Torso Killer is back in the news again as Richard Cottingham confesses to the 1965 murder of 18-year-old nursing student, Alys Eberhardt, in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. Cottingham will not be prosecuted for the murder, the admission allows the city of Fair Lawn to close the case, maybe provide an answer for family who have waited decades to know what happened to their loved one. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack dig into the story of the "Torso Killer", the "Time Square Killer" Richard Cottingham. He confesses to a cold case from 1965, will there be more?
Transcribe Highlights
00:00.28 Introduction - Decade, getting older
02:53.32 Deathbed confessions
06:23.91 Will confession aid in healing?
11:38.74 The last woman attacked, survived
16:56.79 Rodney Alcala worked at BCBS at same time
22:56.31 Torso killer - attacked with a knife, but killings were strangling
29:00.70 Heroic woman survived and caused Torso Killer to be caught
35:11.48 Telling tales for benefits in prison
40:03.03 Bodies try to heal
45:16.76 Torture killing
46:02.07 Conclusion
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.7 | Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore. |
| 0:10.6 | There's many ways to describe getting older, I guess. |
| 0:15.4 | You know, people rely upon things like, well, you know, you're in a season of life. You're moving from one to the |
| 0:23.8 | other, you know, everything from spring to summer, to fall to winter. Then there's people that |
| 0:33.8 | talk about it in the sense of them personally. |
| 0:39.1 | I use this turn a lot. |
| 0:43.5 | You know, I can't tolerate too many things any longer like I used to could. |
| 0:48.8 | And I'll always say I'm getting a bit too long in the tooth for that. |
| 0:59.2 | But, you know, that, me saying that is kind of an indicator that I've been down the road for a long long time. |
| 1:00.6 | I look back at my career and I've, you know, I've either been working in the field or |
| 1:07.8 | teaching now for, and get this, y'all, for 41 years. |
| 1:14.7 | It's a long, long time. |
| 1:18.2 | You look back over what you've done and you think, wow, what if I accomplished? |
| 1:23.7 | You look for those benchmarks. |
| 1:24.9 | You think about those things. |
| 1:26.6 | And there are people along the way that maybe you didn't treat the way you should have, or maybe there are people along the way that you treated really good, and you're never acknowledged. And I'm sure that everybody out there can identify with that. But today, I'm going to talk about somebody who, for whatever reason, is trying to maybe purge themselves with something. |
| 1:51.4 | Maybe they're trying to get right with the good Lord above. |
| 1:57.9 | But you know, I believe in mercy, but some things it would seem are just unforgivable. |
| 2:08.1 | Today we're going to delve in to the life of a young lady. |
| 2:15.7 | A young lady who was killed back in 1965. |
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