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COTTERELL, KEVIN: Real Crime TV -
Janet Sheridan lived in this remote house in East Anglia with her mother Connie and their 27 dogs. It offered them quiet isolation. Real Crime [with Mark Austin] s6e7: A Killer Came Calling, ITV 2007
One of the most horrific double murders they’d ever seen. ibid.
‘There was no reaction at all …’ ibid. rozzer
He’d been working as a door-to-door salesman. ibid.
‘Just a totally senseless killing.’ ibid. rozzer
COTTINGHAM, RICHARD: Born to Kill? TV - The Torso Killer TV - People Magazine Investigates TV - Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer TV -
In the late ’70s a merciless serial killer began to strike in New York and New Jersey. His methods heinous and extreme. He killed with callous confidence. But who was this serial sadist and was he born to kill? Born to Kill s6e6: Richard Cottingham, Really 2017
A successful New York computer operator – Richard Francis Cottingham … A tale of terror and torture had only just begun. ibid.
These young women were being plucked from the city streets and brutally assaulted. The victims were being drugged, beaten and dumped in an area just across the river in New Jersey. ibid.
Each woman’s head and hands had been cut off before the beds were ignited. ibid.
The body of another young working girl was found. Both breasts had been sliced off and taken away. ibid.
One week later the killer would make an uncharacteristic mistake and reveal himself for the first time. ibid.
Despite being virtually caught in the act Richard Cottingham professed his innocence. ibid.
This is Richard Cottingham. By all accounts he’s dying. Perhaps I think he’s like a cockroach and lives for ever. In the world of serial killers I would rank Richard Cottingham up there with the worst of them. It could be up to 100 women he’s killed. The Torso Killer I II, Sky Crime 2023
From 2004 to 2022, New Jersey Detective Robert Anzilotti spent hundreds of hours interrogating serial killer Richard Cottingham about a series of unsolved murders. ibid.
In 1980 Richard Cottingham had been convicted of killing 5 women … 12 cold-case homicides that I’m investigating. ibid.
‘For every one I killed there was ten I let go.’ ibid. Cottingham
A serial killer who earned many names over the years. People Magazine Investigates s7e11: The Times Square Killer, QuestRed 2023
‘There were two dead girls, their heads and hands removed.’ ibid. news
One of the most prolific killers in US history. ibid.
In the late 70s Times Square was considered an atrocity. Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer I: Murder on 42nd Street, Netflix 2021
December 1979, Travel Inn Motor Hotel: There was a fire in Room 417 … They made out the shape of bodies on the twin beds … but she had no head nor hands. ibid. rozzer
How can you behead two women, chop off the hands of two women, and not have gore from one end to the other? ibid.
A room set on fire and another mutilated woman … The crime scene was very neat. No evidence. ibid.
We were dealing with a serial killer, a psychopathic sexual sadist. Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer II: The Perfect Hunting Ground, rozzer
Times Square became a prostitute’s promenade, as they called it. ibid. woman
Richard Cottingham was an average guy, he drove an average car, and had an average home in Lodi, New Jersey. ibid. rozzer
In New Jersey there’s no connection yet to anyone at his point, and both of these cases, they just go dead. ibid.
His wife eventually found out that her husband was going to places in New York to buy sex. And finally she filed for divorce. ibid.
A call came that there was an incident at the Quality Inn at Hasbrouck Heights. Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer III, journalist
The police had discovered what became known as the Trophy Room. ibid.
COULTHURST family murders: People Magazine Investigates TV -
September 6th 1982 Craig Alaska: 8 bodies … Investigators fear the crew and the Coulthurst family has perished in a tragic accident [boat fire] except for one small detail … The bodies had bullet holes in them … Police also discover signs of arson … People Magazine Investigates s2e6: Murder at Sea, Discovery 2017
‘Alaska state troopers have been looking at [John] Peel for quite a few months … taken into custody without incident.’ ibid. television news
The jury finds John Peel not guilty. ibid.