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The Torso Killer Confessions

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  • 2023-2023
  • 1 Season
  • A+E Networks
  • Documentary, Suspense
  • TV-14
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Through a decades long relationship with the killer, Detective Robert Anzilotti has obtained a new confession from Cottingham for the murder of Mary Ann Della Sala, whose death in January 1967 was never solved. Not shared until now, the death of Della Sala is one of the oldest cold cases ever closed and the earliest confirmed killing by Cottingham. In addition to the new confession, the series features in-depth interviews with Anzilotti, never-before-heard audio tapes of the men's conversations, intimate exclusive footage, and multiple confessions from Cottingham regarding his recent headline-making killings never heard on tape.

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Robert Anzilotti
Self - Retired Chief of Detectives, Bergen County Prosecutor's Office
Suzan Mulder
Self - Sister of Jacalyn Harp
Richard Guadagno
Self - Boyfriend of Irene Blase

Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

Part 1

Thu, Mar 9, 202386 mins

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. Anzilotti suspected Cottingham might also be responsible for other unsolved murders of schoolgirls in the late '60s and mid-'70s, across the Hudson River from Manhattan. Anzilotti made it his mission to tie Cottingham to these murders and to get him to confess.

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