The Torso Killer

Criminology

Emash Digital

True Crime

4.7 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Serial killer Richard Cottingham earned the moniker of "The Torso Killer" for his crimes. To the outside world, Richard seemed like a professional and a family man. But, he was unfaithful to his wife and he had urges deep inside that eventually resulted in a number of murders.

Join Mike and Morf as they discuss serial killer Richard Cottingham. He operated in his home state of New Jersey but also ventured into New York to select his victims. Papers began calling him "The Torso Killer" when two victims were found missing their heads and hands. Richard targeted sex workers and later said that violence was the only thing that aroused him. After he was caught, he began confessing to murders that he committed in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

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0:00.0	Criminology is a true crime podcast that may contain discussion about violent or disturbing topics.
0:05.9	Listener Discussion is advised.
0:35.9	Hello everyone and welcome to episode 159 of the Criminology podcast on Mike Ferguson.
0:43.2	And this is Mike Morford. Mr. Morford what's going on with you?
0:47.2	Not a whole lot of a lot. How about you what's new?
0:49.9	No I'm doing pretty good. I recently taped an episode of SNAPT. I'm pretty excited about that.
0:57.3	I have no idea when it will air but that was my first time ever doing something like that and it
1:02.2	was actually pretty cool. So you're becoming a TV star or abandoning the podcast?
1:06.7	No I definitely wouldn't say a TV star but you know how it is they'll use three four five
1:13.4	minutes or whatever it is of the three hours that you spent talking about the case but it's
1:19.8	pretty neat. That's very cool. Look forward to watching it. Yeah and when I get more information
1:25.2	I'll let everybody know when it is set to air. I assume it takes a while for them to put those
1:31.5	together. We continue to see some really good Patreon support. Let's give our shout outs. We had
1:38.3	Beth Jones, Gracie Poppick, Melissa Foxtrot, Christine Cohen jumped out at our highest level.
1:46.1	We had Roy Fulton and Carlos Elver. So that's a lot of great new support. We really appreciate it.
1:54.6	Yeah I thank you to everyone that made the decision to support criminology. We can't thank you
1:59.2	enough. If anyone out there would like to help support the show they can go to patreon.com slash
2:04.2	criminology. All right more if it's time to jump into this case and in this episode we're talking
2:11.1	about a killer who had a few different monikers the Ripper the Times Square torso killer and I think
2:19.8	as he was known to most the torso killer we're talking about serial killer Richard Coddingham.
2:27.9	Coddingham earned the moniker the torso killer due to his mo of dismembering his victims and leaving
2:36.4	nothing but a torso behind for years Coddingham is rotted in jail after being convicted of several
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