Rifkin on Rifkin: Private Confessions of a Serial Killer

Disturbing serial killers, cold cases solved at last, unfiltered looks at life behind bars, and more await you on NBCUniversal's streaming platform Peacock.

Rifkin, who murdered 17 women in a four-year period, would sometimes bring his victims to the Long Island house he shared with his mother and sister.

 Joel Rifkin murdered 17 women and was sentenced to 203 years in prison. In “Rifkin on Rikfin: Private Confessions of a Serial Killer,” he reveals all.

Infamous New York mass murderer Joel Rifkin was caught in June 1993. Five months later, “Seinfeld” mined his crimes for material.

Over a five-year period, Joel Rifkin said he murdered 17 sex workers and disposed of their bodies all over New York.

“As much as I say I wanted to stop, there probably would’ve been others,” Joel Rifkin said of the likelihood he would have continued to kill if he hadn’t been caught in 1993.

Joel Rifkin murdered 17 women, making him New York's deadliest serial killer. But his eventual capture was a total accident as the serial killer wasn't even on police's radar. Why not?