New Jersey Woman Befriends A Man Who Committed a Horrific Crime Against Her

10 Years Later

It took Weiss 10 years to convince herself to write to him. She was feeling fearless after overcoming a battle with breast cancer and she knew writing him was the right decision. She wanted answers and, finally, to feel peace. Most importantly, she wanted to know where her mother’s skull was. That was the one thing that the police couldn’t recover, and Cottingham never gave up the information on his victims’ body parts.