"Cottingham first revealed in the late 1990s that he had murdered Nancy Vogel in 1967," Vronsky told NJNN.



"A deal was made for his plea but the governor at the time, Christine Todd Whitman vetoed the deal, according to my sources from that time. The case was reopened again by a new team in 2004, and Cottingham pleaded guilty in Vogel’s murder in August 2010 and received an additional life sentence. By then he was under active investigation for other murders and remains so. He confessed to Harp, Blase and Falasca between 2004 and 2019."



In about 18 months, Vronsky said the public can expect "a history book that looks at the life and crimes of Richard Cottingham – the Times Square Torso Killer and the New Jersey Girl Murders, 1963-1980 written with his cooperation."



Vronsky has researched Cottingham's cases and other cases that may eventually be linked to linked to "The Torso Killer," whom he has also profiled as a "werewolf-like killer."



"I have conducted in the last two years approximately 100 hours of one-on-one prison interviews with Richard Cottingham, and reviewed approximately 15,000 pages of investigative files on the closed cases, collected evidence and trial transcripts," Vronsky explained.



"My conclusion is that Cottingham was a ‘lycanthropic’ type of serial killer – 'werewolf-like' – driven by opportunistic uninhibited instinctual aggressive/reproductive impulses – as opposed to obsessive fantasy compulsions. He was a werewolf for whom every night of the month was a full moon. There are hundreds of victims of his abductions and sexual assaults who survived. Five testified at this trial. He claims he would kill maybe only one in every fifteen and it is still unclear why some were killed while the majority were not. I have identified cases in which victims survived going back to February 1968. Typically, many of his sexual assaults, were never reported."



In addition, Vronsky said he believes a childhood accident may have impacted the way Cottingham developed.



"I believe his behavioral disorder is the result of a brain injury when he was hit by a car at the age of four in Dumont, NJ, severely enough for it to be reported in The Record," Vronsky explained. "A neurological injury as opposed to behavioral disorder. Thus, no fantasy – only uninhibited impulses – sometimes called 'injury-induced psychopathy' – he is not a classical psychopath but one who still has many symptoms of psychopathy as a result of the injury – lack of remorse, a need for stimulation, etc."



Despite his heinous acts, Vronsky says ta number of close people to Cottingham stood by him, including family members and his mistresses.



"I think the Cottingham case confirms what we always feared – no two serial killers are exactly alike and there is always a new species to be confronted," Vronsky said.



"He has three younger sisters who adored him and stood by him during his three trials in 1981-1984 (two victims in New Jersey – three victims in New York). He had a stable employment history of fourteen years working in an office in midtown Manhattan as a mainframe computer operator at Blue Cross/Blue Shield Insurance. He had been married for ten years and was raising three children in Lodi, New Jersey. Although a year before he was arrested, his wife sued for divorce on the grounds of abandonment. After his arrest, she reported no unconventional sexual practices, and neither did his two mistresses in New York. Both of them reported he was a romantic lover and testified in his defense."



In about two years, either officials or Vronsky or both will have more to reveal about "The Torso Killer."



For now, Cottingham remains behind bars at New Jersey State Prison.