Sadistic Killers: Profiles of Pathological Predators by Carol Anne Davis

Author:Carol Anne Davis [Davis, Carol Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: True Crime, General
ISBN: 9781848395411
Google: -o70CQAAQBAJ
Amazon: B005WZYT5U
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Published: 2006-02-12T00:00:00+00:00

After eventually murdering both women, Cottingham cut off their hands and heads and packed them with the rest of his luggage. The sadist knew that it would be very hard for police to identify bodies which had no facial features and no fingerprints – and if they couldn’t identify the women, they couldn’t trace the murders back to him.

Determined to rid the room of any forensic traces, he poured lighter fluid over the vaginas of both corpses and set them alight. Then, as the flames leapt from the mattress and began to burn the carpet, he calmly left the room.

Carrying a bag which probably held the prostitutes’ heads and hands, he bumped into movie production assistant Peter Vronsky who noticed that the overweight guest with the bad haircut was perspiring slightly. Cottingham ignored Vronsky and seemed lost in thought.

Another girlfriend

From February to May 1980, he was busy dating yet another girlfriend, a 28-year-old nurse. He’d told his colleagues that nurses were often promiscuous so he eagerly sought 188

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them out. It was a gross generalisation but no one picked him up on it.

Several of Richard’s workmates used prostitutes and he would brag about having sex with these girls then departing the motel without paying them. He showed them how to leave via the fire exits of cheap motels.

He also made loans of several thousand dollars to some of his colleagues on the understanding that they paid him interest.

Cottingham used the money from his loan sharking to go gambling and became very good at it. But a night in a casino or in the arms of a loving girlfriend couldn’t compete with the thrill of torturing a girl until she agreed to do anything that he desired.

Valorie Street’s murder

On 4 May 1980, he got into conversation with Valorie Ann Street (who also used the name Shelly Dudley) and she accompanied him to a motel in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey. There they stripped off their clothes and he handcuffed the 19-year-old prostitute’s arms behind her back and gagged her with adhesive tape. He whipped her on the shins and progressed to beating her all over her body, also viciously raping and sodomising her. He cut her stomach and breasts with a knife, biting the latter so savagely that the right nipple was almost torn off.

It’s likely that Valorie was unable to scream loudly enough to alert hotel staff as she’d been given strong tranquillisers and alcohol. Eventually, after at least six hours of extensive and repeated torture, he strangled her to death.

The sadist now found that he’d lost the key to the handcuffs so he left them in situ and stuffed Valorie’s naked corpse under the bed where it was found the following day by an aghast chambermaid.

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Pamela’s ordeal

On 11 May 1980, Cottingham may have struck again.

Pamela Weisenfeld, a 27-year-old prostitute, met with a man answering Cottingham’s description who drugged her, beat her and ferociously bit her breasts. She regained consciousness in a New Jersey car park to find that her handbag and jewellery were missing.

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