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the North Shore in 1960s, 1970s

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It was determined that Cusick died from asphyxiation due to strangulation.

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On May, 10, 1972, police found the body of Mary Beth Heinz, a Mineola native, floating face down in a stream near Maine Avenue in Rockville Centre. It was determined she died by asphyxiation due to strangulation and suffered contusions and abrasions to the face and neck, police said. She was working as a mother’s helper in Bellmore at the time of her murder.

Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly said at the time of Cottingham’s guilty plea that DNA technology advancements allowed evidence from the scenes to be retested, which created a profile matching Cottingham’s.

Cottingham has murdered at least 11 young women in New Jersey and New York between 1967 and 1980 while claiming he is responsible for over 100 homicides, according to CBS News.

On May 22, 1980, Cottingham was arrested at the Hasbrouck Heights Quality Inn while he was torturing an 18-year-old sex worker Leslie Ann O’Dell after motel staff called the police, according to the NY Daily News.

He was convicted of murder in 1981, 1982 and three murders in 1984.

Stream mall to buy dancing shoes on Feb. 15, 1968, Nassau County police previously said. When she did not return home, Cusick’s par- ents drove to the mall where they found their daughter’s body, hands bound and mouth taped shut, in the back of her Plymouth Valiant, police

The documentary premiered on Thursday night at 9 p.m. and will run again Friday at the same time.

The documentary can be streamed online on A&E’s website.

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