TV SERIES · 2021
Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer
CrimeDocumentaryMystery48 min per episode
In 1970s New York, a serial killer targeting women turns Times Square into the center of a long, unsettling manhunt. Joe Berlinger’s documentary follows the investigation into Richard Cottingham, later known as the Times Square Killer and the Torso Killer, as police struggle to connect a series of brutal murders across the city and into the early 1980s. Interviews with Vernon Geberth and Peter Vronsky sit alongside archival news footage and accounts from people who knew the era firsthand, building a picture of a battered Manhattan where violence, sex work, and media attention crowded the case from every side.
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