12/8/2022
Victims’ kids confront serial ‘Torso’ killer Richard Cottingham: ‘Pure evil’
Moye, 55, stared down serial murderer and rapist Richard Cottingham in a Nassau County courtroom Monday as the 76-year-old notorious “Torso Killer” admitted to five more sadistic slayings decades earlier, bringing his known tally to 17 — although experts believe that figure could be as high as 100 victims.
“Everything that I was taught about evil was evident in his presence, in his demeanor, in the gaze of his eyes,” Moye told The Post. “It was pure evil. I could feel it.”
The body of Laverne Moye, of St. Albans, Queens, was discovered in a Rockville Centre creek on July 20, 1972. Cottingham, a depraved killer already serving more than 200 years in prison, confessed to tossing the 22-year-old mother of two from a bridge — ending her family’s half-century quest for answers.
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