Police close murder case of Alys Eberhardt after confession from Richard Cottingham, known as the ‘Torso Killer’
Richard Cottingham, a US serial killer widely known as the “Torso Killer”, has confessed to the 1965 killing of an 18-year-old woman in New Jersey.
On Tuesday, New Jersey police announced the closure of the murder case of Alys Eberhardt after Cottingham, 79, admitted to killing her nearly six decades ago. Eberhardt, then a nursing student, was found brutally beaten and dead in her family home in Fair Lawn.
Recalling his interview with Cottingham, Fair Lawn detective Brian Rypkema told PIX11 that Cottingham had met Eberhardt outside Hackensack hospital in New Jersey two weeks before her murder.
Rypkema told the outlet that Cottingham said: “There was just something about her that drew his attention to her, that all the girls were talking to her, she carried herself well, and that’s why he picked her out of the group of girls.”
