By Maria Eftimiades
ISBN-10: 1466863129
ISBN-13: 9781466863125
Neighbors knew him because the quiet, unemployed landscaper who tended his mother's appealing backyard. None of them ever suspected that the foul odors coming from his storage was once the stench of loss of life putting over a blood-soaked wheelbarrow, or that the truck he used to hold clean soil and flower bulbs in turned a hearse as soon as evening fell...
By evening, he reaped a bloody harvest...
Rifkin cruised reduce new york rigorously making a choice on his prey of more often than not younger prostitutes. after they have been within his van, the light man who advised them he simply sought after intercourse become a deranged monster who strangled them with savage strength. His lust for killing happy, he then filled his sufferers' damaged our bodies in barrels, trunks and suitcases, dumping them like trash in distant parts throughout 3 states. the one hint they left have been the images, jewellery, and private mementoes their sadistic assassin displayed on his bureau shelf—macabre trophies of his kills.
Until police exposed his...
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The phone rang continuously. Jeanne told Jan not to answer it. The seventy-one-year-old woman got adept, fast, at turning down interviews. When Newsday phoned, shortly after police announced the arrest, Jeanne Rifkin cut off the caller midsentence. “I’m sorry,” she said crisply. ” As the days passed, Jeanne Rifkin found herself looking back on her life. Losing her husband six years earlier had been excruciating. It didn’t compare to the pain she felt now. She attempted to piece together what had gone wrong.
Residents stood on their porch steps. Reporters perused the neighborhood, anxious to interview anyone who knew Joel Rifkin. The Rifkins’ next-door neighbors, Joy and Hal Reiter, spoke well of the family. They insisted Joel was a quiet, polite boy. Never any trouble. He and his sister were sweet, they said. “I know it sounds like the kind of thing you always hear people say about someone who turns out to be a killer,” Joy Reiter said. “But I can only say good things about Joel and his family. ” But even the Reiters confessed that there were unanswered questions about Joel Rifkin.
Watch TV, drink beer, do whatever we wanted. We used him, to be blunt about it. He was easy to make fun of. He would usually laugh, even if we were being really cruel. He didn’t show any sign of feeling the pain. ” * * * In the beginning of his senior year, Joel quit the track team. By then, he’d achieved his goal: he’d earned a varsity letter. Even that was a hollow victory. To earn a letter, a runner had to score at least one point in a varsity track meet. At the last meet of the year, Rifkin’s coach let everyone who hadn’t gotten a letter participate, just to earn the letter.