Joel david rifkin[1]

1. Joel David Rifkin Young Joel Rifkin

2. Childhood Adopted at Three weeks Bullied at school Dyslexic Joined track and ridiculed Joined yearbook and camera stolen

3. 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

4. Motives Very inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s Film Frenzy Frontal Lobe Issues A Few of Rifkin’s Victims

5. 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

6. Victim Characteristics Prostitutes News paper article featuring Joel Rifkin’s murders.

7. 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

8. Sentence 203 years to life in the Clinton correctional facility Clinton Correctional Facility

9. Why are serial killers so hard to spot? Meticulous Careful Unattached Doesn’t show on them

10. Childhood related causes. Bullied Don't fit in well Isolation Forced into Fantasy world rather than reality

11. Most Interesting Facts How serial killers are caught. (Traffic Violations, Loitering, Etc…) Unattached (Not personal)

12. 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