The Rifkin Murders Part 3
Cold Case Files
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4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
After 30 years, serial killer Joel Rifkin is providing clues to New York State Police in order to identify two of his 17 victims--the only victims that remain nameless. The information he’s given has brought investigators closer than ever before to naming Victims Six and Nine. But when they visit him in prison, Rifkin throws them a curveball. In an effort to bring about justice, TV producer Peter Reiss follows up with his own on camera sit down with Rifkin to get answers once and for all.
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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. |
| 0:08.5 | There are over 100,000 cold cases in America. |
| 0:12.8 | Only 1% are ever solved. |
| 0:15.9 | This is one of those rare stories. |
| 0:29.3 | It's May 22 in Danamora, New York. |
| 0:32.9 | Cold case investigators Tiffany Attai and Sean Lammons have been working for 11 months |
| 0:35.3 | to identify the sixth and ninth victims of serial killer Joel Rifkin. |
| 0:40.3 | This case in these new leads, it's been a little bit of a roller coaster ride. |
| 0:45.3 | That's brought us in different directions, but we are one step closer from where we were in 1993. |
| 0:52.3 | During the course of their investigation, |
| 0:55.1 | a tie and lamins have performed DNA analysis on jewelry found on the victims. |
| 1:01.1 | We had obtained a partial DNA profile in the pair of earrings |
| 1:04.1 | that could belong to victim number six. |
| 1:07.3 | Investigators have also searched by helicopter, |
| 1:10.1 | areas described by Rifkin as dump sites for the bodies. |
| 1:14.7 | Where it turns, I think there was like a freight railroad line. |
| 1:19.9 | Starlight Park matched the description he was giving of where he dumped victim number six. |
| 1:26.1 | We were going to interview Rifkin. |
| 1:28.3 | But then Peter had mentioned that Rifkin kind of went radio silent and wasn't talking to him. |
| 1:33.3 | So I was a little nervous that maybe he was getting cold feet. |
| 1:36.3 | A tie in Lamens have arranged to sit down with Rifkin with the help of TV producer Peter Rice. |
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