Bernard and Jeanne Rifkin adopted Joel three weeks after he was born. He was bullied a lot in his younger years of life which ultimately left him by himself most of the time. Joel started to have deep disturbing thoughts about hurting women and unfortunately, he made those thoughts a reality. He ended up murdering 17 women in the New York area even dismembering some of them. Sadly, a couple of them have never been found or identified.
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