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The Criminal Makeup

8: Most Deadly Serial Killer In New York’s History - The Twisted World of Joel Rifkin

The Criminal Makeup

The Criminal Makeup

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Hey guys! Today we're going to be heading to New York and talking about the most prolific serial killer in New York's History - Joel Rifkin.

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0:00.0

This is domicile cologne with an urgent appeal for unicef.

0:04.1

Children's lives have been devastated by the floods in Libya.

0:07.9

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0:09.8

They urgently need medical supplies, warm blankets and food.

0:14.5

Please visit unicef.re to donate today and help save a child's life.

0:19.4

Thank you.

0:20.0

Hi everyone, I hope you're all doing well.

0:32.0

I hope you've all had a good week and welcome back to episode number eight of the Criminal

0:37.6

Makeup Podcast.

0:39.0

Each episode we dive into the minds of some of the worst criminals in history and today

0:44.6

we're going to be talking about the case of Joel Rifkin and there's a really good chance

0:48.9

that you've probably never heard of him but oh my god, this man truly terrifies me.

0:55.0

So Joel Rifkin was a serial killer and this is actually the first serial killer that

0:59.3

we're covering on this podcast and Joel Rifkin isn't just any serial killer.

1:04.6

He was the most prolific serial killer in New York's history which is pretty shocking

1:10.6

really because you would think he would be more well known but for some reason the case

1:14.6

of Joel Rifkin isn't really talked about that much and we're talking about a lot of

1:18.5

victims here with Joel Rifkin.

1:20.4

He's the same kind of scale as Geoffrey Dahmer, Richard Ramirez and Arthur Shawcross.

1:25.7

And Joel Rifkin is just one of those people, or should I say criminals, that baffles me

1:31.7

but fascinates me at the same time.

1:34.4

I've watched quite a few interview clips of Joel of him talking about himself, what he

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