joel david rifkin[1]
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Joel David RifkinYoung Joel Rifkin
Childhood
• Adopted at Three weeks
• Bullied at school
• Dyslexic
• Joined track and ridiculed
• Joined yearbook and camera stolen
Adult
• Finished High School but Dropped Out of College
• Loner moving in and out of his parents house
• Spent most of his money on prostitutes
• Father committed Suicide in 1987
Motives
• Very inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s Film Frenzy
• Frontal Lobe Issues
A Few of Rifkin’s Victims
Methods/Rituals
• Brought them back to the house
• Bludgeoned and strangled them
• Cut them up
• Dispersed the body parts
Rifkin’s Parent’s House where he committed the
murders
Victim Characteristics
• Prostitutes
News paper article featuring Joel Rifkin’s murders.
How was he Caught
• Pulled over for a missing rear license plate with a decaying body in the back of his truck.
Rifkin in Police custody
Sentence
• 203 years to life in the Clinton correctional facility
Clinton Correctional Facility
Why are serial killers so hard to spot?
• Meticulous
• Careful
• Unattached
• Doesn’t show on them
Childhood related causes.
• Bullied
• Don't fit in well
• Isolation
• Forced into Fantasy world rather than reality
Most Interesting Facts
• How serial killers are caught. (Traffic Violations, Loitering, Etc…)
• Unattached (Not personal)
References
• http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/rifkin/1.html
• http://www.biography.com/people/joel-rifkin-11930477
• http://www.personal.psu.edu/mlr247/
• http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/rifkin/4.html
• http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/rifkin/9.html