Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Dismemberment
Number of victims: 9 - 17
Date of murders: 1989 - 1993
Date of arrest: June 28, 1993
Date of birth: January 20, 1959
Victims profile: Susie (never identified) / Julie Blackbird (remains never found) / Barbara Jacobs, 31 / Mary Ellen DeLuca, 22 / Yun Lee, 31 / “Number six” no name, remains never found / Lorraine Orvieto, 28 / Mary Ann Holloman, 39 / “Number nine” remains anonymous / Iris Sanchez, 25 / Anna Lopez, 33 / Violet O’Neill, 21 / Mary Catherine Williams, 31 / Jenny Soto, 23 / Leah Evens, 28 / Lauren Marquez, 28 / Tiffany Bresciani, 22 (mostly drug addicted prostitutes)
Method of murder: Strangulation
Location: New York City, New York, USA
Status: Found guilty of nine murders in 1994 and sentenced to 203 years to life. He would be eligible for parole only in 2197, at the age of 238
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Serial killer Joel Rifkin killed 17 women in the 1990s before the police tried to pull him over for a missing license plate (and discovered his latest victim).
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Synopsis
Joel Rifkin (born January 20, 1959) was obsessed with Hitchcock's Frenzy as a young adult and began using prostitutes regularly. In 1989, he killed his first woman. He discarded the bodies of his victims so they could not be identified. But in June 1993, Rifkin was pulled over by the police who discovered a corpse in his car. He was convicted of murder the following year and later pleaded guilty to additional counts of murders. Rifkin an inmate at the Clinton Correctional Facility in New York.
Troubled Childhood
Serial killer. Born Joel David Rifkin on January 20, 1959, to two unwed college students. New York couple Bernard and Jeanne Rifkin adopted Joel three weeks after his birth, on February 14, 1959. Three years later they also adopted a daughter, Jan. In 1965 the family moved to East Meadow, Long Island, where Joel enrolled in Prospect Avenue Elementary School.
Rifkin had difficulty fitting in with his peers, and became a frequent target of school bullies. He was excluded from team sports and neighborhood games because of his sloping posture and slow gait. Suffering from undiagnosed dyslexia, he also struggled academically despite his 128 IQ.
As Rifkin entered his teens, he desperately tried to fit in. He joined the track team with the hopes of making friend
