Word: rifkin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is the dawn of the eugenics era," declared Jeremy Rifkin, founder of the Foundation on Economic Trends, a biotechnology-watchdog group in Washington. Painting a dark picture of "standardized human beings produced in whatever quantity you want, in an assembly-line procedure," Rifkin organized protests last week outside George Washington University and other reproductive-research institutions...
...week's end, based on his own testimony, investigators connected Rifkin with the murders of at least 13 women. The bodies of Leah Evens, Anna Lopez and two others had been dumped in remote areas off highways on Long Island and in upstate New York. Three more unidentified women had been jammed into 55- gal. oil drums and submerged in local canals. The skeletal remains of another was found stuffed beneath a rotting mattress near Kennedy Airport. (Investigators located the remains only after Rifkin told them where to look.) Suddenly, a perpetrator had emerged for unsolved mysteries -- a body found...
...women Rifkin preyed on came from New York City's estimated 5,000 streetwalkers. For them murder is only one of many occupational hazards. About half have AIDS. Still more are addicted to drugs. Most have lost contact with their families and quietly slipped through the cracks; their disappearances tend to draw little attention and even less concern...
...Rifkin, though, wanted to remember them. From each, it seems, he kept some souvenir. In his cluttered bedroom police found credit cards and driver's licenses. Other items were more poignant -- and pitiable. A shoe. An earring. A bra. A brooch...
After New Yorker Joel Rifkin (yearbook photo, left) confessed last week to murdering 17 prostitutes, a high school classmate said he was "quiet, shy, not the kind of guy who would do something like this." It's the quiet ones you've got to watch...