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Rebecca Armitage in Washington DC

The 'Torso Killer' struck terror in New York City in the 1970s. But one detective suspected his secrets went far deeper

It took a detective in the US state of New Jersey almost his entire career to win a game of cat and mouse with serial killer Richard Cottingham. 

WARNING: Readers might find some of the details in this story distressing. 

The then-64-year-old Cottingham was known as the Torso Killer for a spate of horrifying murders in the late 1970s in New York City. 

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