New Jersey Serial Killer Admits To Killing 60 Years After The Murder

It's the end of an ordeal that has lasted sixty years, following a grisly murder back in 1965 in New Jersey.

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Serial killer Richard Cottingham, known as the "Torso Killer," is currently serving a life sentence in South Woods State Prison for the deaths of more than a dozen women.

According to a recent Patch report, Cottingham has now confessed to killing a New Jersey Nursing Student 60 years ago in 1965.

According to reports, Cottingham "told Fair Lawn police last month that he had killed Alys Eberhardt, an 18-year-old nursing student from that town, in 1965."

In the report, "During the final interview, Cottingham made a full verbal and later provided a written confession where he admitted to killing Eberhardt," Fair Lawn police said Tuesday. "In these admissions, he provided corroborating details about the circumstances leading up to the crime, the house, and details about the murder which were not publicly known."

As a parent, not knowing what happened to a child would be a nightmare on top of the main nightmare. Even though it doesn't change this horrible crime, it does give the family some closure.

I am in favor of "capital punishment"; however, New Jersey does not have the death penalty. It was abolished in 2007. The most extreme punishment for the state's worst criminals is life without parole.