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Marina Vlady Biography, Age, Family, Married, Movies, Net Worth

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Marina Vlady ( Marina Catherine de Poliakoff-Baydaroff) is a French actress well known for winning the Best Actress Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival for The Conjugal Bed. She was also a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. [Read more…] about Marina Vlady Biography, Age, Family, Married, Movies, Net Worth

Rick Cosnett Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, Wife, Parents, Vampire Diaries and Net Worth

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Rick Cosnett Biography

Rick Cosnett is a Zimbabwean-Australian actor who was born and brought up in Chegutu, Zimbabwe as Richard James Cosnett. Rick is known for playing the roles of Wes Maxfield in The Vampire Diaries, Elias Harper in Quantico, and Eddie Thawne in The Flash.

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Harry Baron Bio, Wiki, Age, Net Worth, Parents, Girlfriend, Height, Job and Education

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Harry Barron Biography

Harry Barron is a British actor. He is famously known for his role in the series as Sam Thompson’s mate in the series Made in Chelsea. Barron has gone from “from a skateboarder in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire” to a dapper London lad. Currently, he works as a PR manager/club promoter with Mayfair’s Amika London. Before that, he worked as the owner/director of a company called The Best List.

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Joel Rifkin Biography, Age, Mother, Wife, Murder, Downfall and Prison Life.

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Joel Rifkin Biography

Joel Rifkin is an American serial killer. In 1994, he was sentenced to 203 years in prison for the murders of nine women between 1989 and 1993.

10 Quick Facts About Joel Rifkin

    1. Name: Joel Rifkin
    2. Age: 63 years
    3. Birthday: January 20
    4. Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
    5. Height: Not Known
    6. Nationality: American
    7. Occupation: Serial Killer
    8. Marital Status: Married
    9. Salary: Under Review
    10. Net worth: Not Known
Rifkin performed poorly in school due to learning disabilities and was unpopular with classmates due to his poor social skills. He graduated from East Meadow High School in 1977, then attended classes at Nassau Community College and State University of New York’s Brockport and Farmingdale campuses, but left before earning a degree. After leaving college, Rifkin became self-employed as a landscaper. He is believed to have killed up to 17 victims between 1989 and 1993 in New York City and on Long Island, New York. Although he often hired sex workers in Brooklyn and Manhattan, he lived in East Meadow, a suburban hamlet on Long Island.

Joel Rifkin Age

Rifkin was born in New York City, New York, United States on January 20, 1959.

Joel Rifkin Wife

Not much has been said about Joel’s wife. his wife’s name is Jenny Soto.

Joel Rifkin  Parents / Family

Rifkin’s birth mother was a 20-year-old college student, and his biological father was a 24-year-old college student and Army veteran. At three weeks old he was adopted by an upper-middle-class Long Island couple, on February 14, 1959. His adoptive father, Benjamin Rifkin, was of Russian Jewish descent and his adoptive mother, Jeanne, of Spanish descent, converted to Judaism when she married. Joel Rifkin photo

Joel Rifkin Murder

Rifkin committed his first murder in 1989, killing Heidi Balch in his home in East Meadow. He then dismembered her body, removing her teeth and fingertips, putting her head in a paint can and then leaving the paint can in the woods of a golf course in Hopewell, New Jersey, her legs farther north, then dumping her remaining torso and arms into the East River around New York City. Balch’s remains were not identified until 2013. Over the next four years, it is presumed he killed 16 more women. After his final arrest in 1993, he was implicated in Balch’s murder. In 2013, investigators determined this victim, a sex worker named Heidi Balch, was the same woman he described as his first victim. Police finally caught up to Joel Rifkin on June 28, 1993, when New York State Police spotted him driving his Mazda pickup truck without a rear license plate on the Southern State Parkway. A high-speed chase ended in Mineola, New York when he crashed into a utility pole directly in front of the courthouse where he eventually stood trial. Troopers detected a foul odor from the back of the truck. It came from the corpse of his final victim: sex worker and dancer Tiffany Bresciani, 22, the girlfriend of Dave Rubinstein. Joel Rifkin had picked Bresciani up in his pickup truck on June 24, 1993, where she was working on Allen Street in Manhattan, New York City. During his trial, Joel Rifkin was represented by Mineola, New York-based attorney John Lawrence. He was found guilty of nine counts of second-degree murder in 1994, and sentenced to 203 years to life in prison. His first possible parole date is February 26, 2197.

Joel Rifkin In Prison

In early 1994, it was reported that Rifkin had engaged in a jailhouse scuffle with mass murderer Colin Ferguson. The brawl began when Ferguson asked Rifkin to be quiet while Ferguson was using a prison phone. The New York Daily News reported the fight escalated after Ferguson told Rifkin, “I killed six devils and you only killed women,” to which Rifkin responded, “Yeah, but I had more victims.” Ferguson then punched Joel Rifkin. Prison officials decided in 1996 that Rifkin was so notorious, that his presence in the general prison population could be disruptive. He was confined to his cell at the Attica Correctional Facility for 23 hours a day. He spent more than four years in solitary confinement before being transferred to the Clinton Correctional Facility in Clinton County.
Rifkin sued, arguing that his solitary imprisonment was unconstitutional. In 2000, a state appellate court determined that prison officials had not violated Joel Rifkin’s constitutional rights by housing him in isolation. His lawsuit sought $50,000 for each of his 1,540 days in solitary confinement (totaling $77 million). Had he received any money, it would have been subject to state laws that earmark most of the award for the families of his victims. Corrections officials say that Rifkin is now imprisoned with more than 200 other inmates at Clinton who are not allowed into the general prison population.

Joel Rifkin Downfall

His final victim was Joel Rifkin’s undoing. Rifkin strangled Tiffany Bresciani and then drove the body back to his mother’s home to find a tarp and rope. At his home, Rifkin placed the wrapped body in a wheelbarrow in the garage where it festered for three days in the summer heat. He was on his way to dump the corpse when state troopers noticed his truck lacked a rear license plate. Instead of pulling over, Joel Rifkin led authorities on a high-speed chase. When the troopers pulled him over, that was when they noticed the smell. They found Bresciani’s corpse in the back of the truck. Rifkin then confessed to 17 murders. A judge sentenced Joel Rifkin to 203 years in prison. He will be eligible for parole in 2197 at the tender young age of 238. At a sentencing hearing in 1996, the serial killer apologized for the killings and admitted that he is a monster. A look inside Rifkin’s mind is telling as to how he managed to kill 17 women. In a 2011 interview, Joel Rifkin said, “You think of people like–* things.” Rifkin also said he couldn’t stop what he was doing. He also researched how to dispose of bodies to get rid of the evidence. Rifkin chose prostitutes to kill because they live on the margins of society and they travel a lot. No one misses prostitutes if their friends and families don’t know where they are. Sadly, like his victims, no one missed Joel Rifkin’s presence in school or sympathized with his academic troubles. No one thought that the lonely kid would turn into a serial killer. Perhaps Joel Rifkin’s life would have turned out differently if someone recognized that he had difficulty reading instead of having mental problems.

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