The Times Square Ripper returned to the scene of an earlier murder on May 22, 1980. On that date, police in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, responded to horrific screams coming out of Room 117 at the Quality Inn.
At 9:30 AM, police entered the room and found 18-year-old Leslie O’Dell, a known runaway and prostitute. On May 21, O’Dell had been picked up by a john in Manhattan. From there, the pair had driven to the Quality Inn. O’Dell told the responding officers that the john had tortured her for hours before she finally managed to cry out.
The fast-acting officers caught up with O’Dell’s abuser as he tried to run down the motel’s hallway. He turned out to be a 33-year-old computer technician named Richard Cottingham. Cottingham did not fit the profile of an abusive john; the cops noted that he was married, had three young children, and lived in a nice suburban house in Lodi, New Jersey. However, it did not take police long to realize that Cottingham was guilty of worse things than assault.
(Listverse)
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