The notorious “Torso Killer,” who has served decades in prison for the murders of girls and young women, has confessed to the brutal slaying of an 18-year-old Bergen County nursing student in 1965, officials said Tuesday.
Richard Cottingham, 79, admitted last month he murdered Alys Jean Eberhardt in her Fair Lawn home on Sept. 25, 1965, according to Fair Lawn Police Chief Joseph Dawicki.
Eberhardt, who suffered a skull fracture and was stabbed 61 times, was found by her father in their Saddle River Road home, according to news reports at the time…