"Joel David Rifkin (born January 20, 1959) is an American serial killer convicted of the murder of nine women (although it is believed he killed as many as 17), mostly drug addicted prostitutes, between 1989 and 1993 in New York City. Although Rifkin often hired prostitutes in Brooklyn and Manhattan, he lived in East Meadow, a suburban town on Long Island.

Rifkin committed his first murder in 1989, killing a woman and then dismembering her body and tossing it into the East River. Over the next four years, it is presumed he killed 16 more women. Sometimes he would take his victims back to East Meadow, to the house where he lived with his sister and elderly mother. Other times he killed them in his car.[citation needed] Rifkin has also been implicated in the murder of a woman whose severed head was discovered on a Hopewell, New Jersey, golf course on March 5, 1989.

Police finally caught up to Rifkin on June 28, 1993, when state troopers spotted him driving his pickup truck without license plates on the Southern State Parkway. A high-speed chase ended in Mineola, where he crashed into a utility pole that was located directly in front of the courthouse where he would eventually stand trial. Troopers detected a foul odor from the back of the truck. It came from the corpse of prostitute and dancer Tiffany Bresciani, 22, the girlfriend of Dave Rubinstein (a.k.a. Dave Insurgent, a member of the 1980s punk band Reagan Youth), Rifkin's final victim. Rifkin had picked Bresciani up in his Mazda pick-up truck on June 24, 1993, where she was working on Allen Street.

During his trial, Rifkin was represented by Mineola-based attorney John Lawrence. Rifkin was found guilty of nine counts of second degree murder in 1994 and sentenced to 203 years to life. His first possible parole date is February 26, 2197, effectively making this a life sentence."

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[Azimuth]

This guy comes across as a real jerk. Doesn't even try to be charming.

An odd observation, but whatevs.

[synthninja]

Just watched this, it's pretty good. I found his lack of giving a shit quite funny and endearing. He jokes about being a clumsy untidy mechanic. I liked this one. He killed loads of hookers. He seems like quite a happy man, considering.