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?
When authorities searched John Wayne Gacy's home in 1978 in connection with the disappearance of 15-year-old Rob Piest, they came across shackles, a high school class ring and a pair of driver's licenses that didn't belong to Gacy.
Author Elon Green paints sincere portraits of serial killer victims Peter Anderson, Thomas Mulcahy, Anthony Marrero, and Michael Sakara while largely ignoring their murderer.
Jillian Lauren, who has written at length about her time as a sex worker, confronted serial killer Samuel Little before his death about the women he killed.
As a child spending her summers in Cape Cod, Liza Rodman and her younger sister were sometimes looked after by Tony Costa, who was later suspected of killing at least four women.
Roger Kibbe — who was often known to cut pieces of his victims' hair or clothing for a souvenir — was linked to the rapes and murders of at least seven women and had been serving a life sentence.
