A serial killer’s claims about having been involved in two Rockland cold case murders are being scrutinized by local law enforcement. The so-called “Torso Killer,” 75 year-old Richard Cottingham, claims to have killed a woman in South Nyack in 1970 and a Nanuet high school student in ’74. Rockland Sheriff Lou Falco says the Nanuet story so far isn’t holding up, but the South Nyack case seems to be legit…
Cottingham is also known as the “Times Square Killer” and now claims 100 murders. Cottingham has been in a New Jersey State Prison since July 1981, serving a life sentence for multiple murders.