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Cold Case Files

The Rifkin Murders Part 2

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.18.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Serial killer Joel Rifkin took the lives of 17 women in New York before he was caught red handed in 1993. Almost thirty years later, after interviewing Rifkin for a documentary, a TV producer leverages his relationship with New York’s most prolific serial killer to get information police could use to discover the identities of Rifkin’s two remaining unknown victims. When presented with actionable leads, New York State Police revisit the case and begin a two year search for justice for Victims Six and Nine. 

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0:00.0

This program contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners.

0:04.3

Listener discretion is advised.

0:08.6

There are over 100,000 cold cases in America.

0:12.9

Only 1% are ever solved.

0:16.1

This is one of those rare stories.

0:25.5

Thank you. is one of those rare stories. In 2022, 29 years after the arrest of serial killer Joel Rifkin, investigators Tiffany

0:33.3

Attai and Sean Lammons are searching for the identities of his sixth and ninth victims.

0:39.6

The goal of this investigation, looking into the new leads that Peter had got from Rifkin,

0:44.0

is to hopefully find victim number six and identify her and hopefully identify victim number nine.

0:50.7

Rifkin had given a description of where he dumped the barrel with victim number six.

0:54.6

When I talked to Rifkin on the phone, what he told me was that he used a 55-gallon barrel

0:59.5

to dispose of her body in a waterway around New York that he wasn't sure of which waterway it was.

1:07.1

Now, number six, look for a creep.

1:11.6

It couldn't be more than 15, 20 foot wide.

1:15.6

In 1993, Rifkin had told senior investigator louder that he disposed a victim number six in a 55-gallon drum and dumped her in the Harlem River.

1:26.6

They searched the river, but she's never been found.

1:30.9

But then he told me that that's just kind of what he thought at the time,

1:34.8

but didn't really know it was the Harlem River.

1:37.7

The new information that Rifkin gave about the waterway where he disposed

1:42.1

victim number six did not match the Harlem River at all.

1:46.1

I focused in on the Bronx River because of, you know,

1:49.4

how narrow it is.

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