Rifkin, from Long Island, sat down for his first interview in almost a decade which is set to air as part of A+E s upcoming two-part special titled Cold Case Files: The Rifkin Murders.
New York s most prolific serial killer Joel Rifkin tells how he dismembered a woman s body after hitting his victim 30 times until his arms got tired in never-before-heard tape
Joel Rifkin, 62, killed 17 women between 1989 and 1993, and was sentenced in 1994 to 203 years in prison
In 1999, Rifkin agreed to meet with his former friend and retired cop, Robert Mladinich, and have their conversation recorded
Mladinich, who in 2001 published a book on Rifkin, appears in Oxygen s new special, Rifkin on Rifkin: Private Confessions of a Serial Killer
Rifkin is heard on tape talking about hitting a victim 25-30 times with an artillery shell, then strangling her from panic at his family s home in Long Island