Joel David Rifkin (born January 20, 1959) is an American serial killer, who was sentenced to 203 years in prison for the murders of nine women between 1989 and 1993, though it is believed he killed as many as 17 people.

Oct 3, 2023 · American serial killer Joel Rifkin killed 17 women in the 1990s before the police pulled him over for a missing license plate and discovered his latest victim in his trunk.

Sep 30, 2023 · A&E’s ‘Cold Case Files: The Rifkin Murders’ chronicles how convicted serial Joel Rifkin killed over a dozen women in New York during the 1990s. He operated between 1989 to 1993 before the former landscaper was apprehended and convicted of killing nine women and sentenced to over two centuries in prison.

Aug 30, 2023 · Joel Rifkin, a serial killer who lived in Long Island, New York, had murdered a sex worker named “Susie” in 1989 and then dismembered her body. To conceal his crime, he placed her head in a paint can and left it in the woods of the New Jersey golf course.

Sep 30, 2023 · Dubbed “Joel the Ripper,” Joel Rifkin instilled fear among sex workers during the early 1990s, ultimately earning the grim distinction of being the most prolific serial killer in New York’s history.

Joel David Rifkin (born January 20, 1959) is an American serial killer convicted of the murder of 9 women (although it is believed he killed as many as 17), mostly drug addicted prostitutes, between 1989 and 1993 in New York City.

Jul 25, 2023 · In 1989, in his family home in Long Island, Joel Rifkin’s murderous impulse bubbled up for the first time. Using a diffused artillery shell he bought at a flea market, a then-24-year-old Rifkin bludgeoned a sex worker he knew as “Susie” after having sex with her.

Dec 16, 2024 · Joel Rifkin is a notorious serial killer who terrorized New York in the late 1980s and early 1990s, ultimately claiming the lives of 17 women, primarily targeting prostitutes. He was born on January 20, 1959, to unwed college students, but was adopted shortly after birth by Bernard and Jeanne Rifkin.

Mar 29, 2021 · Joel Rifkin was an unemployed New York landscaper living a dark double life as a prolific serial killer — claiming the lives of 17 women, a staggering total.

Jun 27, 2019 · The man behind the wheel of the truck was Joel Rifkin, and a lifetime filled with disappointment and rage had reportedly contributed to turning him into the most prolific serial killer in New York’s history.