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The Torso Killer Confessions: With Adam Daniel Mezei, Katherine Ramsland, Richard Cottingham, Vernon Geberth. Delves into the decades long journey of Detective Robert Anzilotti as he works to bring justice to cold case victims linked to serial killer Richard Cottingham.
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- 2023-03-08
- Documentary, Crime
“The Torso Killer Confessions” delves into the decades long journey of Detective Robert Anzilotti as he works to bring justice to cold case victims linked to serial killer Richard Cottingham.
- “Remorse Wasn’T A Part of My Thought Process”
- “I Was Upset For A Decade”
- “He Has A Weird Pride in Me”
- “What Are You Gonna Do For Me?”
It was December of 1979, and a young Peter Vronsky found himself stranded in New York Cityfor a few days. Low on cash, he decided to bunk at a sleazy hotel on 42nd Street, where he had a strange encounter with a man on the elevator who had been holding up the car on another floor — a sandy-haired, pale man holding a bulky duffle bag. When Vronsky e...
While Cottingham rotted in prison and Vronsky plumbed the depths of killers’ psyches, Jennifer Weiss wondered who, exactly, she was. Growing up 20 miles from Trenton in suburban Spotswood, New Jersey, Weiss had a Brady Bunch-esque upbringing. In an old photo, dark-haired Jennifer grins between her fairer parents, bangs teased high, teal dress puffy...
Former Bergen County Chief of Police Robert Anzilotti — a fast-talking silver-haired archetype of the word “cop” who has been on Cottingham’s case for about 17 years — first met Weiss and Vronsky in 2017. Weiss contacted the Fort Lee Police Department in 2017 to report that Cottingham had told her where Goodarzi’s head was located: under a prominen...
Over the last few months, Cottingham’s health has been on the decline, as he’s been shuttled from the prison infirmary to the hospital to what Weiss calls a “retirement home for criminals,” South Woods Prison in Cumberland County, New Jersey, more than 60 miles from Trenton. Currently, Vronsky and Weiss claim, they’ve gotten at least eight more con...
- Brenna Ehrlich
1 h 26 min. TV-14. Bergen County (NJ) Chief of Detectives Robert Anzilotti continues his mission to tie Cottingham to additional murders and to get him to confess to more cold case homicides. Free trial of A&E Crime Central or buy.
Mar 9, 2023 · Bergen County (NJ) Chief of Detectives Robert Anzilotti elicited murder confessions from a vicious but relatively unknown serial killer–Richard Cottingham, nicknamed the Torso Killer. He was serving five life sentences for targeting prostitutes in 1980 in New York City.
The Torso Killer Confessions. Bergen County, N.J., Chief of Detectives Robert Anzilotti elicited murder confessions from the Torso Killer, a vicious but relatively unknown serial killer.
Bergen County, N.J., Chief of Detectives Robert Anzilotti elicited murder confessions from the Torso Killer, a vicious but relatively unknown serial killer.
