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How a retired detective snared his seventh ‘Torso Killer’ confession

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How a retired detective snared his seventh ‘Torso Killer’ confession

Robert Anzilotti retired as Chief of Detectives for the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office in 2021. But, as exclusively revealed in the upcoming A&E documentary “The Torso Killer Confessions,” Anzilotti has now closed his seventh cold-case linked to serial killer Richard Cottingham: the murder of Mary Ann Della Sala, who was 17 when she vanished in … Read more

Cleveland’s serial ‘torso killer’ was even more vicious than Jack the Ripper

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Cleveland’s serial ‘torso killer’ was even more vicious than Jack the Ripper

The first body appeared in September 1934, when a beachcomber on Lake Erie saw a half-buried “rotting slab of human flesh.” It was the lower half of a woman’s torso, its legs chopped off at the knees. Just two weeks earlier, another man found what appeared to be a human vertebrae and ribs on another … Read more