# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-cottingham
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:50:59.677Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-cottingham"
name: "Richard Cottingham"
slug: "richard-cottingham"
description: "Richard Francis Cottingham is an American serial killer who committed ten murders in New York State between 1972 and 1980, plus a further ten murders in New Jersey between 1965 and 1980. He was nicknamed by media as the Torso Killer and the Times Square Ripper, since some of the murders he was convicted of included acts of mutilation and dismemberment."
tagline: "American serial killer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Francis_Cottingham_Mug_Shot%2C_1980%2C_Bergen_County_Prosecutor's_Office%2C_New_Jersey.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1946-11-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.662602098091588
  historical:           11.084608
  currentAttention:     8.68
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cottingham"
    title: "Richard Cottingham"
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    title: "Richard Cottingham"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cottingham"
    title: "Richard Cottingham"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cottingham"
    title: "Richard Cottingham"
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    title: "Richard Cottingham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Коттингем, Ричард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump