On June 28, 1993 at midnight, New York police officers noticed a vehicle with no number plate during routine patrolling. They followed the pick-up driver and blinked the headlights as a signal to the driver to stop but he didn’t and accelerated the vehicle instead. After half an hour chase, he was arrested by the police when his pick-up collided with a phone booth. He did not resist and cooperated with the officers. The search revealed a knife in his custody. His license showed that he is “Joel David Rifkin”. He was quite untidy with a rusty outlook. A strange smell was all over his clothes. Police accused him of the traffic violation as his truck had no number plate but he clarified that he assumed that the number plate was at its place. But he couldn’t give any explanation why he tried to run away so wildly. He couldn’t give any good reason for his take off. On his doubtful response, Police searched his van more rigorously and they found the corpse of a naked woman. The body had the foul smell due to decomposition. The body seemed to be many days old and he used Noxema in order to conceal the bad odor. The trick had been used in the movie “Silence of the Lambs”. During the investigation he confessed the murder and told that the woman was a prostitute. He had sex with her and killed her after some conflict. During a long interrogation by a team of detectives, the most horrible aspect of the offender came to the surface when he confessed that Tiffany Bresciani (the woman killed) was not his first victim but the “seventeenth” one. He was a serial killer who had a history of killing women. A lot of ‘female paraphernalia” was discovered from Joel Rifkin’s residence including jewelry, make-up boxes, ID card etc.
Joel Rifkin
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