"There was just something about her that drew his attention to her, that all the girls were talking to her, she carried herself well, and that's why he picked her out of the group of girls."
"Alys was a vibrant young nursing student who was taken from our community far too soon. While we can never bring her back, I am hopeful that her family can find some peace knowing the person responsible has confessed and can no longer harm anyone else."
"Our family has waited since 1965 for the truth. To receive this news during the holidays and to be able to tell my mother, Alys's sister, that we finally have answers was a moment I never thought would come."
Richard Cottingham, known as the Torso Killer, confessed to killing 18-year-old nursing student Alys Eberhardt in 1965. Eberhardt was found brutally beaten and dead in her family home in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. Cottingham said he met her outside Hackensack hospital two weeks before the murder and claimed he picked her because she stood out among the other girls. Fair Lawn detectives reopened the case in 2021, conducted numerous interviews, and obtained details Cottingham provided that were never publicly known. Cottingham is serving multiple life sentences for other murders and admitted to additional killings during prior prosecutions.
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