Forensic historian and author Peter Vronsky and his late investigative partner Jennifer Weiss, the daughter of a serial killer victim, relentlessly worked in 2020-2022 on identifying and solving the 1970 murder of Lorrain Montalvo
McGraw by serial killer Richard Cottingham. In May 2022 Vronsky and Weiss, along with help from
Sonia Ruiz, Lorraine's grand-daughter, assisted and facilitated Richard Cottingham's confession to detective Conor Fitzgerald of the Rockland County NY District Attorney's Office, and the District Attorney made an exceptional closure of the case
in June 2022, but disregarded Ruiz's demand she be present for the confession and declined to host a press conference announcing the case closure at which
Sonia Ruiz had wished to make a statement on her mother's behalf and her own. Peter Vronsky and Jennifer Weiss organized a press conference for Ruiz in New York City in August 2022 and ensured Sonia could make her statement and that the murder of her grandmother was entered into the public record. The story of how the case was closed is told in Peter Vronsky's forthcoming new book, American Werewolf: The True Story of the Torso Serial Killer Confessions.
