NY NY - Julie Blackbird, 28, Manhattan, 1990's

[Al Ka]

Julie Blackbird

Birth 29 Mar 1961

Julie Blackbird was originally from Texas. She came to New York in search of career opportunities.

Her life was taken too soon by serial killer Joel Rifkin, who confessed to killing her sometimes in 90's. He was arrested in June 1993 and Julie was his 2nd victim. Her body was never located.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29475793/julie-blackbird

She is not listed in NamUs (she should be) and neither on any of the websites for missing people (yet).

Rifkin 3rd victim was Barbara Jacobs who disappeared on July 13, 1991, therefore Julie Blackbird must have disappeared sometimes prior to that but after 1989.

 

[Al Ka]

Julie's headstone is located at Memorial Oaks Cemetery in Houston Texas.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29475793/julie-blackbird#view-photo=95718080

 

[Al Ka]

Joel waited more than a year to claim his second victim. He was vague on dates, different reports placing the crime 14 months after Susie’s murder, or late in 1990. The victim was prostitute Julie Blackbird, selected for her “pseudo-Madonna look.” Rifkin drove her home to East Meadow when his mother was again out of town, and they spent the night together. At about nine the next morning, Rifkin recalled “completely bugging out,” beating Blackbird with a heavy table leg before he strangled her. When she was dead, he considered raping her corpse in conscious emulation of serial killer Ted Bundy, but the prospect repulsed him.


Determined not to bungle the disposal this time, Rifkin went out to purchase cement and a large mortar pan. He dismembered the corpse as before, placing the head, arms and legs in buckets weighted with concrete; the torso filled a milk crate by itself. Driving into Manhattan, he consigned Blackbird’s head and torso to the East River, then dropped her weighted arms and legs into a Brooklyn barge canal. The remains were never found. We know Blackbird’s fate today only from Rifkin’s confession, and from her diary stashed in his bedroom.

Joel Rifkin | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

 

[Al Ka]

From the book From the Mouth of the Monster: The Joel Rifkin Story by Robert Mladinich

(pages 86 - 88 about Julie Blackird) (click on attachments to enlarge)






From the Mouth of the Monster

 

[sonz82]

Is she still not on any database?

 

[SimsGuy67]

Julie isn't missing. According to this article, her killer led police to her remains. Everyone should be able to see this.

Julie Blackbird remains found. - Newspapers.com

Clipping found in The Sun Times published in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada on 7/11/2000. Julie Blackbird remains found.

www.newspapers.com