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NEWARK A New Jersey serial killer known as the Torso Killer admitted he kidnapped and raped two teenage girls and murdered them in a hotel room a few days later, closing the mystery of those cold-case deaths from nearly 47 years ago.
Richard Cottingham pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing 17-year-old Mary Ann Pryor and 16-year-old Lorraine Marie Kelly in August 1974.
The two had left their North Bergen homes on Aug. 9, 1974, for a trip 13 miles north to a Paramus mall. They had planned to take a bus there to buy bathing suits for a trip to the Jersey Shore.
The 74-year-old appeared in prison garb at a court appearance Tuesday with his attorney and Bergen County prosecutors in their office.