Denise Didn't Come Home | 3. The Torso Killer

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Speaker 3 I'll never forget that moment, sitting in the basement of the Hackensack Library, going through the microfilm, and stumbling across all these murders of young women.

Speaker 3 January 24th, 1967, Marianne De La Sala disappears in Hackensack, New Jersey. They find her body in the Passaic River.

Speaker 3 October 28th, 1967, Ridgefield Park, New Jersey. Nancy Vogel, 29 years old, strangled.

Speaker 3 July 17th, 1968. Jacqueline Harp, 13 years old, strangled.

Speaker 3 And then the craziest one. April 8th, 1969, just a few months before Denise Velasco was killed.

Speaker 3 Irene Blace, 18, was found strangled in Saddlebrook, about a mile away from where Denise's body was found.

Speaker 3 The newspapers were drawing connections between these murders. I wondered if the police at the time had too.

Speaker 3 And if they had, why did so many of these murders stay unsolved?

Speaker 4 These unsolved female cases haunted the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office and the homicide for many years.

Speaker 3 This is Alan Greco.

Speaker 4 I'm a retired detective from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office. I was a senior investigator assigned to the homicide squad.

Speaker 3 Greco joined the squad back in 1977, and by that time, these murder cases of young women in Bergen County had already turned cold.

Speaker 4 Although they remained unsolved, they were never not thought of. There was a time connection, there was a location connection, there was the MO connection.

Speaker 4 Why can't we come up with somebody responsible for these cases? What happened here?

Speaker 3 Greco was there at the very beginning, when everything started to change.

Speaker 3 When a routine homicide would lead him to half a dozen others, and ultimately, to a suspect who would make him look at those cold cases with fresh eyes.

Speaker 4 We knew we had a guy that was responsible for a whole bunch of things. A predator, a sexual predator, a serial killer that was out there almost on a daily basis.

Speaker 3 My name is Anthony Scalia from Truth Media and Sony Music Entertainment. This is Denise Didn't Come Home.

Speaker 5 The body of a teenage girl found strangled in Saddlebrook, New Jersey yesterday was identified as that of 15-year-old Denise Velasco.

Speaker 6 There's some new people to look at right under our nose. I think I know who killed her.

Speaker 6 We saw Max making threats up to the window. I heard him say, I will kill you, bitch.

Speaker 6 I saw this really deep gash of a wound on his hand. It was an open, gaping wound on his palm of his hand.

Speaker 6 It's not that I have this wild imagination. I swear to you, I really don't.

Speaker 3 This could be the work of one man. There could be a serial killer roaming the streets of Bergen County that no one has found.

Speaker 3 Chapter 3. The Torso Killer

Speaker 4 You have to understand what I'm going to tell you is something that took place approximately 40 years ago. So forgive me if my memory is not up to snuff, but it has been many years.

Speaker 3 Detective Alan Greco told me that on the morning of December 16th, 1977, he got a call.

Speaker 4 I was contacted by my supervisor, who advised me of a female body that was found behind the Quality Inn Motel in Hasbrokites, New Jersey.

Speaker 4 Uniformed officers were already on the scene, and I was directed to an area in the parking lot near a chain link fence, where I observed the body of a young white female.

Speaker 4 She was clothed in a white top and white bottom, and she was laying on the ground partially on her side.

Speaker 4 A closer examination of her at the scene appeared to show ligature marks on her ankles and some type of residue around her mouth, suggesting that there might have been tape on her mouth.

Speaker 4 The marks on her ankles were caused by a set of handcuffs.

Speaker 4 We identified her as being Mary Ann Carr, a young x-ray technician from Little Ferry, New Jersey.

Speaker 4 An autopsy revealed she died from asphyxiation caused by strangulation.

Speaker 4 she did have a very thin ligature mark, or most likely caused by a chain that was around her neck.

Speaker 3 Greco and his partner interviewed everyone who knew Carr, but no one he spoke to could understand how she ended up dead in a motel parking lot.

Speaker 4 It does become frustrating when you cannot begin to come up with a possible motive for the crime, nor a possible suspect.

Speaker 3 Growing up in New Jersey, I'd heard a lot of stories from my parents about what New York was like in the 70s. Times Square was the city's sleaziest block, ground zero for every vice you can think of.

Speaker 3 42nd Street, known as the Deuce, was lined with porno theaters, strip clubs, and peep shows.

Speaker 3 Drugs were bought and sold out in the open,

Speaker 3 and sex workers walked 8th Avenue in fishnets, shivering in the winter cold and turning tricks in fleabag hotel rooms rented by the hour.

Speaker 3 It's December 2nd, 1979, almost two years after the Marianne Carr murder, at the Travel Inn Motor Hotel, just west of Times Square.

Speaker 3 Firefighters are responding to a report of smoke pouring from room 417.

Speaker 3 The firemen break down the door to discover a room set ablaze.

Speaker 3 And that's when they see them:

Speaker 3 two naked female bodies lying on the bed in pools of blood.

Speaker 3 They've been beaten and cut all over, tortured.

Speaker 3 Their heads and hands are cut off.

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Speaker 3 yes it is hi my name is anthony yes yes okay

Speaker 3 this is ellie psych wick so um i don't know if you've ever heard of a podcast if it has to do with computers no oh kind of

Speaker 3 back in 1980 ellie was working as a housekeeper at the Quality Inn in Hasbrook Heights, New Jersey.

Speaker 3 The same quality inn where Mary Ann Carr's body was found in the parking lot.

Speaker 10 When they portray maids on TV,

Speaker 10 they put them in these dresses and they're old chubby lady, you know.

Speaker 10 But, no, I was 29 years old and I had blonde hair. And a lot of us were young that worked there.
We wore jeans and a jacket to work.

Speaker 3 Ellie told me that one night she was out in the parking lot waiting to get a ride home from work.

Speaker 10 And this car pulls up

Speaker 10 and the guy starts smirking and smiling at me asking me questions if I work in there and telling me to come here near the car

Speaker 10 and if I live in the apartments that were there

Speaker 10 and I kept telling him none of your business.

Speaker 10 And then I try to get behind his car so I could run back into the motel and he starts backing the car into me.

Speaker 10 I was like, oh my God. And I ran in and told Delia, there's some crazy guy out there trying to get me.
And we ran back to the door and the car was gone.

Speaker 10 But that stupid, smirky smile.

Speaker 10 So then about a week later, I come into work in the morning and I go upstairs into the office. Start having my coffee.
And next thing you know, Delia comes running up. White as a ghost, shaking.

Speaker 10 Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 I go, why? What? She goes, I saw an arm. I saw an arm.

Speaker 10 I go, what do you mean you saw an arm?

Speaker 2 She goes under the bed. It's in 132.

Speaker 10 I was vacuuming.

Speaker 2 And I saw her an arm.

Speaker 3 Ellie says she ran down to room 132. The motel maintenance man was standing outside the door.

Speaker 10 I go, let me go in and see you. He goes, no.

Speaker 10 He said the police are on their way. I go, why? He goes, it's not just an arm.
I lifted up the bed, but it's a whole body.

Speaker 2 A naked body.

Speaker 3 As Detective Alan Greco pulled his cruiser into the parking lot, he recognized the quality in immediately. He'd been here before, investigating the murder of Mary Ann Carr.

Speaker 3 He opened the door to room 132 to find the body of a young woman shoved under the bed.

Speaker 4 She appeared to be assaulted and

Speaker 4 sexually abused.

Speaker 4 Wrists were bound with a set of handcuffs. Her name was Valerie Street,

Speaker 4 a prostitute who had been working in the area of New York City.

Speaker 4 The circumstances was very different from that of the Marianne Clark case. But naturally, the location and the use of handcuffs was of primary interest to us.

Speaker 3 While Greco processed the crime scene, another detective was talking to Ellie Sykwick.

Speaker 10 And they go, we think this guy might be coming back. Ellie, you got to listen for everything.

Speaker 10 You work in there all day. So you listen for everything.

Speaker 10 I go, okay, listen for everything. We'll get him.

Speaker 10 We were determined to get this guy. If you come back to the Quality Inn, we're going to get you.

Speaker 3 Two women had now been murdered at the Quality Inn. The housekeepers started to work in pairs so that they would never be alone.

Speaker 3 But just two weeks after Valerie Street's body was found, the motel was short-staffed.

Speaker 10 There wasn't enough girls to work two girls together. So I was working by myself.

Speaker 10 I start heading down the hallway to do my room check and

Speaker 10 I was by around room 120 and I hear this commotion coming from 117.

Speaker 10 So I put my ear to the door and I start listening into the room.

Speaker 10 Then I hear this girl, oh my god, oh my god, and then a commotion and something about a gun.

Speaker 2 I go, oh my God.

Speaker 10 So I go running up the hall and I get Pam.

Speaker 10 And I said, Pam, Pam, 117, the girl's going to be murdered.

Speaker 3 Ellie and Pam ran to get the manager and brought him back to room 117.

Speaker 3 He asked if everything was okay.

Speaker 10 She did go to the door and opened it a little bit. And she stuck her little hand out and moving her eyes like, you know, it's not okay.

Speaker 10 And then he calls the police.

Speaker 3 Back in the office, Ellie and Pam try to think of what to do next.

Speaker 10 Pam's telling me to come back to the room with her to make sure he doesn't get away. And she has a spray bottle of Windnecks.
I go, he comes out with a gun.

Speaker 10 You're not going to get him with Windnecks, that's for sure.

Speaker 10 So we head out of the office, go downstairs, and about to step in the hallway when this guy comes running past us with an attache case and a gun.

Speaker 10 And the guy turns around and points the gun at us. So he's running up the hall.

Speaker 10 I was the first one on the scene, and when I pulled up in front of the Quality Motel, the manager of the hotel came over and he said, there's a man with a gun.

Speaker 3 Stan Mellowick was a patrolman with the Hasbrook Heights Police Department.

Speaker 11 So I took out the shotgun from the police car. I walked into this little lobby.

Speaker 11 I could hear somebody running towards me.

Speaker 11 And I heard some jingling and sound of rattling. So what I did, I just backed up so he couldn't see me where he was going to round the bend.

Speaker 11 So I stood there.

Speaker 11 As he rounded the corner,

Speaker 11 I yelled, police, hold it right there.

Speaker 11 I had the shotgun pointed at his chest at that time.

Speaker 11 And he just stopped dead in his tracks.

Speaker 3 The man in front of Meliwick was white, about 5'10, maybe 35 years old. He was dressed like a businessman in a jacket and tie, holding an attache case in one hand and a gun in the other.

Speaker 2 I told him turn around.

Speaker 11 He turned around and I yanked the gun out of his hand, threw it on the floor away from him.

Speaker 11 He went up against the wall and

Speaker 11 I always distinctly remember he said I didn't do anything. I was with a hooker and got scared.

Speaker 11 Took out my service revolver and went over to him and I patted him down.

Speaker 11 He had a sports jacket on. On one side he had a roll of first aid masking tape

Speaker 11 and then I reached down into his pants pockets and I remember he had a knife which I pulled out about four or five inches long so I took that and I threw that over by the pistol

Speaker 3 then Mellowick opened up the attache case and dumped it on the ground

Speaker 11 and I was for it holy smoke I caught one hell of a guy he had like a ball gag A couple slave collars, you know, studded chrome collars. There were a set of keys attached to a set of handcuffs.

Speaker 11 And then he had two more pair of silver handcuffs there. And that's what was giving us all the jingling sound.

Speaker 11 There were a couple bottles of pills. Weren't even labeled, but they just fell on the ground.

Speaker 11 I remember hearing stories. There had been another murder earlier on at the quality also.

Speaker 11 Somebody had been bound and gagged, and

Speaker 11 he had killed that person

Speaker 11 holy smoke this is the guy that's been causing all these problems these murders in the past

Speaker 3 mellowick looked the guy over he just seemed average

Speaker 11 he was cool as a cucumber very calm there was no conversation or anything he just stood there you know

Speaker 11 While he was standing there in a corner, I asked him for his name.

Speaker 11 He mentioned his name was Richard Cunningham.

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Speaker 4 My partner and I responded to the Hasbrokites Police Department to find out who the person was that they had under arrest and to possibly speak with him.

Speaker 3 Detective Alan Greco got the call early in the morning. Someone had been arrested for trying to murder a woman at the Quality Inn motel.

Speaker 4 We were told that the person gave the name of Richard Cottingham and that he was an employee of Blue Cross Blue Shield of New York as a computer operator.

Speaker 4 We entered the holding cell where Cottingham was.

Speaker 4 He seemed extremely upset, emotionally upset, kept his, you know, his head down, was not very verbal. His eyes were watery,

Speaker 4 just appeared like he was under a great deal of emotional stress, but yet in control.

Speaker 4 A question was posed to him, Richard, do you have a problem with women?

Speaker 4 He put his head down and there was a period of silence where he didn't look at us and he kept his head down and he did well up, tears coming down his cheeks.

Speaker 4 Myself and my partner looked at one another as if, you know, wow, maybe this is a point where this guy is going to open up to us and we're going to find out just what he's been up to.

Speaker 4 He picked his head up,

Speaker 4 said,

Speaker 4 I have have a problem with women, but I'd be crazy to speak to you guys about it.

Speaker 4 That was the last time that we had any face-to-face contact with him for a very long period of time.

Speaker 3 Not long after that, Greco executed a search warrant of Cottingham's house in New Jersey, where he lived with his wife and three children.

Speaker 4 We found a locked door which led to a small storage area.

Speaker 4 We found some items related to women and possibly our case.

Speaker 3 There were pieces of jewelry and little trinkets Cottingham had stolen from his victims. A miniature toy koala that belonged to Valerie Street, the woman found under the bed at the Quality Inn.

Speaker 3 And there was a set of keys to the apartment building where Mary Ann Carr lived. She was found dead in the the quality and parking lot.

Speaker 4 And that's when we really began to find out who Richard Cottingham really was.

Speaker 3 Greco and his partner started looking into Cottingham's life. On the surface, he was a husband and a father of three, a family man.

Speaker 3 But Greco found that Cottingham's wife had filed for divorce a year earlier, saying he had abandoned her, staying out all night until the early morning without explanation.

Speaker 3 Hints of what Cottingham was doing on those nights showed up on his arrest record. In 1973 and 74, he was booked for beating, robbing, and unlawfully imprisoning prostitutes.

Speaker 3 But his victims failed to appear in court, and the charges were dropped.

Speaker 4 He was a person that was very much into picking up prostitutes on a nightly basis.

Speaker 4 They described Cunningham's interests in different types of sexual-related entertainment, sadomasochism shows, pornography.

Speaker 4 Through those interviews, we began to get a really different picture of the person

Speaker 4 we originally were told was a family man from New Jersey, but we later learned that he was an extremely active sexual predator.

Speaker 3 But Greco was about to find out just how extensive Cottingham's murder spree had been.

Speaker 15 It was back last December that two carefully decapitated female bodies were found at a Westside motel. The room was then set on fire.
New York police believe it was the work of one man.

Speaker 15 Today, they announce they want a New Jersey man to appear in a lineup here in connection with those murders.

Speaker 3 Witnesses who had seen a man fleeing the scene of the grisly murders at the Travel Inn Motor Hotel near Times Square identified Cottingham in a lineup.

Speaker 3 Suddenly, this was a multi-state investigation, and Cottingham became known as the torso killer.

Speaker 4 The expansion of the case against Cottingham began to grow and grow. A number of victims identified Cottingham through photographs.

Speaker 4 Victims that he had met in New York City, had taken them to Bergen County and had sex with them, assaulted them, drugged them, and then left them for dead alongside the highway or in a motel room.

Speaker 3 On top of the murders, Cottingham would be charged and ultimately convicted of three non-lethal assaults of women in New Jersey.

Speaker 7 Investigators believed there were many, many more.

Speaker 3 In 1981, Cottingham stood trial in Bergen County and was convicted for the murder of Valerie Street. He was sentenced to a minimum of 173 years in prison.

Speaker 3 Later, he went on trial for the murder of Mary Ann Carr.

Speaker 4 I saw Cottingham all during the trial.

Speaker 4 I would say he was somber, quiet, was not very verbal, did not act out in the courtroom.

Speaker 4 During one particular session, we broke for lunch and then after lunch, we would go back upstairs and resume the court proceedings.

Speaker 4 As I opened the door to the courtroom, I heard a commotion coming from near the judge's chambers.

Speaker 4 And it turned out to be one of the court matrons running across the back of the courtroom in a state of panic. The first thing I thought of, oh my God, Cunningham escaped.

Speaker 4 I stopped what I was doing and immediately turned around and ran out the courtroom door.

Speaker 4 I could see Cunningham running across the street near the courthouse. I proceeded to run after him, chasing him.
There was a sheriff's officer that was also now in pursuit.

Speaker 4 Almost simultaneously, we caught up with Cottingham and tackled him to the ground

Speaker 4 and began to put handcuffs on him.

Speaker 4 I recall as we did, he said, just shoot me or something to that effect.

Speaker 3 Cottingham wasn't going to get off that easy. He was brought back to the courthouse and found guilty of the murder of Marianne Carr.
He was sentenced to 25 years to life.

Speaker 3 In New York, he was convicted of the murders at the Travel Inn Motor Hotel near Times Square and another murder at the Seville Hotel. But the investigation wasn't over.

Speaker 4 We began to explore what he could have been responsible for before he was ever arrested. We had a number of homicides of young females that were never solved.

Speaker 3 Greco looked back at the Bergen County cold cases from the 1960s. A string of murders of young girls like Jacqueline Harp, Irene Blaise, and Denise Falaska.

Speaker 4 I felt strongly that he had connections to several of those other victims because of the locations of where they were found and the way in which they were killed by strangulation primarily.

Speaker 4 There was not a great deal of physical evidence in any of these cases. Fingerprints, blood, semen, saliva, hairs, things of that nature.

Speaker 4 Nothing that connected Cunningham to these open cases in Burden County.

Speaker 4 We simply had our beliefs or gut feelings that it could be him.

Speaker 3 Greco and his partner started visiting Cottingham in prison, hoping he would tell them about his other murders.

Speaker 3 Cottingham toyed toyed with them for a while, but ultimately he didn't give him anything.

Speaker 4 And that was a degree of frustration that we couldn't push this case forward without his cooperation. And he just wouldn't give it to us.

Speaker 3 Then, in 1996, when Cottingham had been in prison for 16 years, Greco received a letter from him. Cottingham was in trouble.

Speaker 3 He'd been running a massive gambling operation in the prison, and he'd been caught.

Speaker 4 Prison authorities told us that he was the biggest bookmaker in Trenton State Prison. Now he was willing to give us specific information if we would help him.
It was exciting.

Speaker 4 When we first went into the cell,

Speaker 4 we said to him, Hey, Rich, how are you doing? You've been down here for quite a while now. I don't know if you remember us.

Speaker 4 He responds by saying, Oh, yeah, I certainly remember you guys.

Speaker 4 He said, I have to say, you guys did a really good job on my case,

Speaker 4 but you missed one thing.

Speaker 4 I was

Speaker 4 involved in things

Speaker 4 long before you were aware of.

Speaker 4 He didn't go back far enough.

Speaker 7 Didn't go back far enough.

Speaker 4 He's telling us that he was active long before the date of the first crime that we became aware of, which was Mary Ann Carr in 1977.

Speaker 4 And he says

Speaker 4 in 1967,

Speaker 4 he took his first victim.

Speaker 3 1967.

Speaker 3 Cottingham was killing women two years before the murder of Denise Velasca.

Speaker 4 1967. Oh my God.
This guy goes back 13 years before we actually arrested him.

Speaker 4 13 years he's out on the street. Nobody even knows who he is.
He could be responsible for hundreds of victims.

Speaker 3 Now, Cottingham had Greco right where he wanted him. Cottingham wanted to make a deal.
He would give Greco information on his unsolved murders, but he wanted something in return.

Speaker 4 We had to provide him with certain foods that he wanted to have brought in from the outside, and he gave us a list of these things.

Speaker 4 The little bits of information he continued to give us, we'd come back for more and more and more. And he could ask for more and more and more.

Speaker 4 He acknowledged he was going to string us along as long as he possibly could.

Speaker 3 Greco left empty-handed that day, but he was hopeful that finally he might be able to get closure for the families of Cottingham's victims.

Speaker 3 He submitted a request with the New Jersey Attorney General to formalize his deal with Cottingham.

Speaker 4 My hopes was that

Speaker 4 this was a home run. This was a done deal.

Speaker 4 Much to my surprise, they would not approve our request. They did not want to get involved in a situation where they were giving special treatment to a prisoner.

Speaker 4 We were advised to terminate our contact with Cunningham.

Speaker 3 Not long after that, Greco retired. And with the end of his career, the unsolved cases of the murdered women of Bergen County would go cold once again.

Speaker 3 Cottingham would sit in prison for almost a decade before another detective would visit him.

Speaker 7 So what was the thrill?

Speaker 2 Control?

Speaker 2 It was the game.

Speaker 4 The stalking.

Speaker 7 I'd done this to 30 other girls.

Speaker 4 I was out there every night, like an animal.

Speaker 3 Denise Didn't Come Home is a production of Truth Media in partnership with Sony Music Entertainment. I'm your host, Anthony Scalia.
The show is produced by Ryan Swikert and me.

Speaker 3 Story editing by Mark Smerling. Kevin Shepard is our associate producer.
Scott Curtis is our production manager. From Sony, our executive producers are Jonathan Hirsch and Catherine St.
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