That man, Richard Cottingham, had been convicted of crimes that seemed to bear little resemblance to the murders of the girls. His search for a killer led him to a man already locked away, in New Jersey State Prison, 75 miles from his office. But he carried those cold cases with him - literally, his thick files in cardboard boxes that he moved from office to office - chipping away at the false leads, seeking similarities in the victims and in the crime scenes. With an uncomplicated enthusiasm for his work, Detective Anzilotti rose through the ranks, eventually becoming the chief of detectives with a busy office to lead. There were at least five unsolved killings of girls, each an open wound for families seeking resolution. In 2000, as a young detective in the Bergen County prosecutor’s office, Robert Anzilotti was tasked with looking into the murders, along with a few other similar cold cases from the 1960s and 1970s. Over time, though, one investigator was slowly developing a theory.
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