How Joel Rifkin got caught

Serial killer Joel Rifkin killed 17 women in the 1990s before the police tried to pull him over for a missing license plate (and discovered his latest victim).

Joel Rifkin (born January 20, 1959) was obsessed with Hitchcock's Frenzy as a young adult and began using prostitutes regularly. In 1989, he killed his first woman. He discarded the bodies of his victims so they could not be identified. But in June 1993, Rifkin was pulled over by the police who discovered a corpse in his car. He was convicted of murder the following year and later pleaded guilty to additional counts of murders. Rifkin an inmate at the Clinton Correctional Facility in New York.