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...June 28, New York State troopers spotted a pickup truck without a license plate cruising Long Island's Southern State Parkway. The officers tried to pull the vehicle over, but the driver refused to stop. The ensuing chase ended 15 minutes later when Rifkin, 34, obliged his pursuers by crashing into a utility pole. The troopers opened the door. They removed him from the cab. They cuffed him. And then somebody noticed the odor coming from beneath the tarpaulin in back...
...body of a woman, bloated with decay. She had a purple rose tattooed on her left wrist. Another tattoo, a cross of leaves, adorned her hip. Rifkin admitted to picking up the woman -- a prostitute, he said matter- of-factly -- in Manhattan the previous week. She got into his mother's car. They had sex. He strangled her. Now he was on his way to Republic Airport in East Farmingdale to dispose of her corpse...
During the next 10 hours, Rifkin coolly explained to a group of incredulous officers that scattered throughout the woods, canals and industrial dumps of the New York metropolitan area, lay the bodies of 16 other women he murdered during the past three years. The interrogation ended only when his family hired a lawyer and police were told to stop asking questions...
...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...