The Missing Plate: Joel Rifkin’s Quiet Reign of Terror
In June 1993, New York State Troopers pulled over a landscaper on Long Island for a missing license plate. What they found under a tarp in his pickup truck ended a four-year killing spree no one had connected.
Joel Rifkin, an adopted kid from East Meadow living with his mother, confessed to murdering 17 women—mostly sex workers struggling with addiction—between 1989 and 1993. Convicted of nine murders and sentenced to 203 years to life, he dumped bodies in rivers, woods, and oil drums while remaining undetected.
Host Alexander’s Lawson unpacks how Rifkin operated in plain sight, the women he…
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