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Nice Young Jewish Boy
Joel David Rifkin, grew up on Garden Street in East
Meadow, Long Island.
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Just A Good Quiet Family
Benjamin Rifkin Sr, Rachel Jean the mother, and Naomi the sister.
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He Went To East Meadow High School
According to Elie Sorkin, the school principal, Rifkin had a 128 IQ,
but he was considered strange even by his fellow Zionists standards. He
was found in the girl's locker with his pants to his ankles going
through the underwear. He said some school bullies threw him in the
dressing room. His nickname was "The Turtle," because of his constant
erections.
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Joel Goes To NY State University
Rifkin goes from a panty-sniffing nerd to a honor student on a
scholarship.
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Rifkin Meets a Girl
Joel was given an internship at the prestigious Planting Fields
Arboretum in Oyster Bay, New York. The appointment was an honor, and
it had an unexpected bonus. Joel found himself strongly attracted to
one of the other interns, a pretty blond gentile, but while he
shadowed her at every opportunity, she found him objectionable.
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Rifkin Starts His Killing Spree In 1989.
He went to Manhattan's East Village, picked up a hooker, brought
her to his house, and beat her to death with a howitzer shell.
Upon waking, he dragged Susie down to the basement, draped her body
across the washer and dryer, then used that makeshift operating table
to dismember her corpse with an X-acto knife. In his mind, the grim
task was "reduced to biology class." To foil identification, Rifkin
severed Susie's fingertips and pulled her teeth with pliers, then
jammed her severed head into an old paint can. The other parts went
into garbage bags and then into his mother's car.
Rifkin drove the body parts across the state line to New Jersey,
dropping the head and legs in the woods near Hopewell.
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From 1989 To 1993
Rifkin killed, and dismembered, 19 women.
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Momma Says She Knew Nothing
The house stunk, the garage reeked, and Momma drove around with
rotting corpses in the trunk. His latest victim, Angela
Bresciani, lay sprawled in the backseat of his mother's car. By the
time he got home, she was swaddled in tarp and concealed in the trunk.
Rifkin had just arrived home when his mother demanded her car keys
and embarked on a 30-minute shopping trip, with the corpse still in
the trunk.
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After Three Days He Transports The Body
He was on his way to dump the corpse near Melville's Republic
Airport, some 15 miles north of his house, when Troopers Ruane and
Spaargaren noted his lack of a rear license plate. They pulled back
the tarp, there was a rotting corpse, and Joel was arrested.
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Investigators Explore The Rifkin House
In Rifkin's cluttered garage, detectives followed their noses
to a reeking wheelbarrow, extracting three ounces of human blood.
A pair of women's panties lay on the floor, near a stockpile of
rope and tarp. A chainsaw found in the garage was stained with
blood and bits of human flesh.
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Conveniently, He Had Bungling Lawyers
Arraigned for the Bresciani homicide on July 15, 1993,
Rifkin repeated his plea of not guilty. He fired his first
lawyer, and stalled for time. Zionists pulled out all stops,
District Attorney Fred Klein offered Rifkin 46 years to life
on all 17 murders, in return for a blanket guilty plea. Rifkin
fired his second set of lawyers,
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His Trial And Judge Ira Wexner
Jury selection for Rifkin's first trial, before Wexner, began on
April 11, 1994. A panel of seven men and five women was seated nine
days later, with opening arguments begun on April 20. Rifkin, for his
part, snored through much of the prosecution's case, a performance
Lawrence blamed on allergies to the bologna sandwiches he ate in jail.
Long Island psychiatrist 'Babs' Kirwin deemed Rifkin's psychological
test results "the most pathological" she had seen in 20 years of
practice.
Wexner gave Rifkin 25 years to life for murder, plus two and
one-third to seven years on the lesser charge.
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