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The Criminal Makeup

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

The Criminal Makeup

Danielle Kirsty

History, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.92.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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0:11.0

Hey everyone, welcome back. I hope you're all doing well.

0:17.0

So today we're going to be covering the case of Joel Rifkin and he was a serial

0:22.4

killer. That's right. We're doing a good old serial killer today. It's been a while since we did a

0:26.8

serial killer so I thought it was about time. We did another one unfortunately. And Joel was from New York

0:31.9

and you may or may not have heard of him. I mean he's only like the most prolific serial killer in New York history.

0:40.7

Nothing much or anything. So you may have heard of him. I actually hadn't heard of him before because

0:45.1

he's not very well known, even though yeah, he's New York's most prolific serial killer. You would

0:50.1

think he would be more well known than he is, but he isn't. And we're doing a New York case today. I know, not California, not Florida. We visit those states far too often on this channel, and I don't mean to. I honestly don't. It just so happens that every time I pick a case, I don't even know where it's from, and then I find out that it's California or Florida. And I'm like, oh, crap. Really?

1:11.3

Again, let me guess. Are they a Virgo as well? So we're doing a New York case today. And we've never actually done a dedicated New York case on my channel before, which is crazy. Like, how have I gone this long and not done a New York case? We did do Rodney Alcala. So don't come from me. I know that he did a little bit in New York.

1:28.7

I know, but it wasn't a dedicated New York case. We did do Rodney Alcala, so don't come from me. I know that he did a little bit in New York.

1:28.4

I know, but it wasn't a dedicated New York case. And that is what we're doing today. And Joel Rifkin, like I said, most prolific serial killer in New York history. And I'm talking a lot of victims here. I'm talking like the same kind of level of victims as Jeffrey Dahmer, Richard Bermere's Arthur Shorecross. And I've watched quite a few interviews of Joel now. He likes to do a good old

1:47.7

interview. the same kind of level of victims as Jeffrey Dahmer, Richard Ramirez, Arthur Shawcross.

1:44.4

And I've watched quite a few interviews of Joel now.

1:46.5

He likes to do a good old interview.

1:48.5

And he baffles me.

1:49.9

He does.

1:50.4

Like, I just can't work him out.

1:52.8

Like, I really can't.

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