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    Richard Cottingham: The True Story of The Torso Killer
    Richard Cottingham: The True Story of The Torso Killer
    Richard Cottingham: The True Story of The Torso Killer
    Audiobook (abridged)2 hours

    Richard Cottingham: The True Story of The Torso Killer

    Written by Jack Rosewood

    Narrated by Gaius M. Thynne

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The prostitutes working New York City’s Times Square were more than a little bit nervous.





    A deranged serial killer who apparently melted into the crowd was picking up hookers and sadistically torturing them, leaving some girls wondering if there was a real-life Dr. Frankenstein out there attempting to create his own personal plaything from pieces of his dismembered victims.





    Some working girls were butchered in seedy hotel rooms, their heads, hands or breasts sliced off, their remains then set ablaze in an effort to dispose of any incriminating evidence.





    Others narrowly escaped death, but only after enduring hours of terrifying torture that included brutal bite marks, surface knife slashes and stab wounds that all served as bloody foreplay for frenzied sexual assaults.





    Survivors were found bleeding and delirious, unable to remember much due to the cocktail of drugs they’d been given by their assailant. But their bodies told a horrific story that was almost worse than death, and the sadistic calling cards left by the serial killer would eventually tie together victims in this true crime murder spree that crossed two states.





    It wasn’t until one victim’s screams grew loud enough that Richard Cottingham, an American serial killer who was part narcissist, part sadist and all evil, was finally caught by police as he fled his hotel room carrying his bag of torture devices. His capture allowed them to close the books on some of the most horrific murder cases in U.S. history.





    This serial killer biography not only unearths Cottingham’s sick, twisted crime spree, it also delves into the murderer’s psyche, attempting to reveal why an insurance company IT guy’s seemingly normal life would devolve into madness.





    Among true crime stories, Richard Cottingham’s is particularly brutal, and will likely make you look twice at your own coworkers, and wonder what sick secrets they might be keeping.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthor's Republic
    Release dateOct 14, 2016
    ISBN9781518936586
    Richard Cottingham: The True Story of The Torso Killer

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    • 2/5
      The narration is so bad that a 4 star books is utterly ruined.
    • 1/5
      This may have good information but I couldn't listen to the terrible narration. Seriously, it's the worst.
    • 3/5
      The writing is fairly good but the narrator’s lack of skill is distracting. His inflection is uneven - he pronounces the last words in a sentence as if they are in the middle. Also, he mispronounces many words which should have been flagged during production: “epitome” as “epi-toam” and such.
    • 3/5
      Picture Nicholas Cage reading a book to you. That's what the narrator sounds like.
    • 5/5
      With a book born of grisly acts of depravity, it sounds rather cold to think "DAMN, that was GOOD," let alone write it in a review. But, DAMN that was a good book!

      This dude is super•sick, evil and ~ again ~ depraved, so to think about him having a family, let alone loving them, is quite mind-blowing. Not a lot is spent on his youth, nor his adult home life. I felt rather left out. The psychopathology of this one is nothing short of fascinating, I wanted to know more about his upbringing and youth.

      To try and imagine someone who's seen as normal, except for being a loner who's also able to hold down a job is rare indeed for this type of killer.

      Thank you, Jack... I was thinking "more of the same," but not at all. Absolutely fascinating ~ kc