Nation IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : Landscaper Admits to Killing 17 Women
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Troopers who chased down a pickup truck for a routine traffic violation in Mineola, N.Y., said they found a woman’s decomposing body in the back and a driver who confessed to killing 17 women. Joel Rifkin, 34, a landscaper from East Meadow, was charged with second-degree murder. Police said Rifkin also was linked to the slaying of a woman whose body was found May 9 along a road in the resort community of Southampton.
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