The Body in the Truck: How a Missing License Plate Caught Joel the Ripper
It’s 3:15 a.m. A routine traffic stop for a missing license plate turns into a high-speed chase… and ends with a decomposing body wrapped in a tarp.
The driver? A quiet Long Island landscaper named Joel Rifkin. By sunrise he had confessed to murdering 17 women.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson uncovers the five-year killing spree that police almost never connected — until one ordinary traffic stop exposed New York’s most prolific serial killer.
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