Crime history – Joel ‘The Ripper’ sentenced

Published June 6, 2009 4:00am ET



On this day, June 8, in 1994, Long Island serial killer Joel “The Ripper” Rifkin was sentenced for a string of murders committed over a four-year spree.

His first killing was in 1989, a prostitute he dismembered and tossed into the East River.

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