The Murder Of Joel Rifkin: Serial Killer

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To start with, Joel Rifkin is a serial killer from the New York City and Long Island area who strangled between nine to seventeen prostitutes between the years of 1989 to 1993 but was officially arrested on June 28, 1993. Typically, he would employ prostitutes for the sake of company but when it was "time" and/or when he got tired of them he would strangle them, collect trophies from the event to later reflect on, and finally dump his victims. Before he got apprehended was on his way to dump his victim Tiffany Bresciani, a prostitute, who was initially from Louisiana. He began this lifestyle targeting prostitutes during his teenage years for solicited for the sake of losing his virginity before. From then on, he developed the urge to pick up

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