True Crime Journal
At the moment, Instances Sq. is glittering with dazzling neon lights and big digital billboards. It’s massive, vivid, and unforgettable. However within the Nineteen Seventies, “the center of the world” was a looking floor for the American Jack the Ripper, Richard Cottingham.
Incised breasts discovered on the headboard of the mattress.
Between 1967 and 1980, Cottingham brutally murdered and dismembered no less than 6 ladies, and claimed to have killed no less than 80 extra.
A mutilated physique present in a midtown resort. The sufferer had been sadistically tortured over a interval of days. Cottingham purposely severed the pinnacle and fingers to make the sufferer unidentifiable, then set the room on hearth earlier than leaving the resort.
Often called the Torso Killer for his distinctive MO of dismembering the victims and leaving solely their torsos behind, Cottingham continues to be thought-about to be one of the sadistic serial killers in American historical past.
A mutilated physique present in a midtown resort. The sufferer had been sadistically tortured over a interval of days. Cottingham purposely severed the pinnacle and fingers to make the sufferer unidentifiable, then set the room on hearth earlier than leaving the resort.
A sufferer present in New York Metropolis resort. Cottingham had eliminated the breasts and positioned them on the mattress headboard to shock the police. He as soon as once more set the room on hearth, permitting the authorities to instantly hyperlink this killing to the earlier incidents.
This unique picture gallery initially appeared in Behind the Tape Photobook, together with practically a thousand extra unique crime scene images.
WARNING: THE PHOTOBOOK ISN’T FOR THE FAINT OF HEART.
