DNA evidence linked Richard Cottingham to the killing of Diane Cusick, prompting Nassau County prosecutors to review 13 years of unsolved murders of women.
Source: New York Times
‘Torso Killer’ Charged in Strangulation of Long Island Woman in 1968
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