I did not know this about Rifkin.....
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In an exclusive 2011 interview with CBS-2's Mary Calvi, Rifkin talked about his killing spree."Certain things are very hard to stop," Rifkin said. "You think of people as things."
He said he disposed of the bodies in threes."There were mini clusters, little sets of three," Rifkin said. "Three were dismembered. Three were in oil drums. Some were in water. Some were on land. It's like my own little nightmare scenarios."
Rifkin painstakingly covered up his crimes. He researched past crimes for details."Water is harder to investigate than land because it washes everything," he said.
Throughout his trial and incarceration, Rifkin still could not explain one thing: why."I don't know. Why do people try to quit smoking for their entire lives?" Rifkin said. "As much as I say I wanted to stop, there probably would've been others."
Joel Rifkin, 34, is transferred to District Court 29 June, 1993 in Farmingdale, NY after police said he confessed to killing as many as 17 women./ BOB STRONG/AFP/Getty Images