A New Jersey inmate, dubbed the 'Torso Killer,' pleaded guilty to a 1968 killing near New York City and admitted to four other homicides, prosecutors say.
Richard Cottingham — believed to be— admitted to strangling 23-year-old Diane Cusick on Feb. 15, 1968, at the Green Acres Mall in Nassau County, officials said.
“Today is one is one the most emotional days we've ever had the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office,”Cusick had left her job at a children’s dance school and then stopped at the mall to buy a pair of shoes when she was strangled in her car, authorities said.
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