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