‘Torso Killer’ Admits to 1965 Murder of Teen Nursing Student Found Stabbed 61 Times

A serial killer linked to a total of 17 murders in New Jersey and New York has allegedly admitted to killing a woman in New Jersey six decades earlier. In December, “Torso Killer” Richard Cottingham, 79, reportedly confessed to murdering Alys Eberhardt, 18, a nursing student who was found stabbed and bludgeoned at her family’s …