The most infamous “ripper” of them all, England’s Jack the Ripper, is shrouded by a darkly romantic mystique. The unknown killer stalked the crime-ridden
Confessed serial killer Richard Cottingham targeted innocent women across the New York area, and there may be many more he's claimed responsibility for scores of additional murders.
For 13 years, insurance worker Richard Cottingham stalked his female victims in New Jersey and Manhattan. By the end, the man known as the “Times Square Killer” was butchering prostitutes and setting their decapitated bodies afire, earning a second tabloid alias: “The Torso Killer.”