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FAIR LAWN, N.J. — <\/span>One of the New York City area’s most notorious serial killers has confessed to another killing. <\/p>\n Police in New Jersey announced Tuesday that Richard Cottingham, known as the \u201cTorso Killer,”<\/a> admitted killing Alys Eberhardt in 1965. <\/p>\n The 18-year-old was found dead in her family\u2019s home in Fair Lawn, a suburb about 12 miles (19 kilometers) northwest of Manhattan.<\/p>\n Investigators reopened the cold case in 2021, and \u201cthrough countless interviews\u201d over several years, extracted a full confession from Cottingham, \u201cincluding details that were never publicly known,” the department said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fair Lawn Police Chief Joseph Dawicki said Cottingham will not face additional charges as the department closes the case. <\/p>\n The 79-year-old has been imprisoned since his arrest in 1980. He is serving three life sentences at the South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton, New Jersey.<\/p>\n \u201cAlys was a vibrant young nursing student who was taken from our community far too soon,” Dawicki said in a statement. \u201cWhile 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.\u201d<\/p>\n Lawyers in New York and New Jersey who have represented Cottingham over the years didn’t immediately respond to messages seeking comment Tuesday.<\/p>\n Cottingham has claimed responsibility for up to 100 homicides going back to the 1960s, though authorities in New York and New Jersey have officially linked him to about a dozen.<\/p>\n In 2022, he admitting killing five women<\/a> in the New York City suburbs of Long Island in the late 1960s and early 1970s. <\/p>\n