Richard Cottingham: The True Story of The Torso Killer: Historical Serial Killers and Murderers (True Crime by Evil Killers Book 20) by Rosewood Jack

Author:Rosewood,Jack
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-09-24T04:00:00+00:00

Attempted murder called consensual

He told officers that the encounter with Leslie was so savage because he was stressed about his divorce hearing, which he’d gone to the courthouse to attend, only to have it postponed.

He said he then went to see a movie – he didn’t remember what theater – and also went to a restaurant to grab a bite to eat.

What restaurant, investigators asked? Cottingham also didn’t remember that.

Afterwards, he told cops he went to a bar on Times Square, the Blarney Stone, and grabbed a drink. He then went to another bar for another drink.

He told them that Leslie Ann had approached him there, and they’d agreed on the sum of $180, and after a few other stops, they went to the hotel, where he registered under the name Caruthers.

He then began referring to Leslie Ann as “the female subject,” something many serial killers do, because they don’t see their victims as humans, but instead as essentially toys.

“When questioned about details as to the location and places that he frequents, and so on, he was evasive and consistently said I cannot recall or I don’t remember,” said Denning.

It was all a game, he said.

“At no time during this period did she object to any of these sexual acts,” Cottingham told police. “I just started playing the game.”

The handcuffs, he said, were for his own sexual pleasure.

The ankle cuffs, “were to keep her from running away if she got panicky,” he told detectives.

As for the knife, “I pointed the knife towards her and told her not to make any noise.”

But threatening? Of course not.

“The handcuffs and other paraphernalia were just something I kept on hand,” he said, matter of fact, as if the items were absolutely normal.

“It was just one of the games I like to play, and I wanted to see how it feels to have someone under control,” he said.

Police knew it was no game for Leslie, however, especially given the damage she’d suffered during her hours of torture.

“He sodomized her, he beat her very, very severely, he bit her breasts, very severely,” said Bergen County District Attorney Dennis Calo.

The evidence was incriminating, and Cottingham had no explanation for it.

So instead of talking, he lawyered up.

When defense attorney Dean Conway first got a good look at his client, he was not impressed by what he saw.

“He was at least average looking, but like I said, kind of stocky. Well built, you might say,” Conway said.

And Conway didn’t appreciate Cottingham’s unwillingness to take responsibility for his actions, giving the giant pile of evidence facing him, from Leslie Ann’s ravaged body to the bag of sadistic toys he’d carried with him as he tried to flee.

“He just flat out denied it,” said Conway. “I found it very difficult to accept. They sort of caught him red handed, one might say.”

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