NO SH!T SHERLOCK! SERIAL KILLER SAYS GETTING AWAY WITH CRIMES USED TO BE EASIER!

DANNEMORA, N.Y. - Long Island serial killer Joel Rifkin says he's not impressed by the fiendish handiwork of a murderer who dumped the bodies of four women near Oak Beach.
With the air of a veteran schooling an amateur, Rifkin said the sicko being hunted by cops and the FBI should never have left all the corpses in one place.

"I dumped them hundreds of miles apart," Rifkin proudly told the Daily News Wednesday in a 70-minute interview at the upstate prison where he will spend the rest of his life.

Rifkin killed 17 prostitutes in a four-year spree - and took pains to dispose of the bodies.

His victims were scattered in rivers and wooded areas from the east end of Long Island to upstate. Three were never found.

In Oak Beach, four decomposing bodies were found within a quarter-mile area just off a remote highway - and cops believe one killer is responsible.

Rifkin suggested the killer was sloppy for picking a single dumping ground because it alerted cops to the likelihood of a serial killer and brought more heat to the case.

Rifkin, who once lived in East Meadow, L.I., said he was always more frightened about dumping his bodies than strangling or dismembering his victims.

"I was surprised I didn't get caught sooner," said Rifkin, who was busted in 1993 with his final victim's body in the back of his mother's pickup truck.

He said his arrest was the result of "a 25-cent mistake" - a missing license plate.

Rifkin, 51, said cops looking for the Oak Beach killer should probably focus on white men, aged 18 to 45, but acknowledged the magnitude of that challenge.

"That's like half the country," he said.

He speculated that the suspect would have shared some of his experiences: growing up lonely in the suburbs, being mocked and bullied, grappling with anger.

"America breeds serial killers," Rifkin said. "You don't see any from Europe."

Police have not identified the Oak Beach victims, but they are investigating possible links to two missing hookers - which did not surprise Rifkin.

He said prostitutes are obvious targets for serial slayers.

"No family," he explained, occasionally breaking into laughter as he discussed his bloody history. "They can be gone six or eight months, and no one is looking."

The two missing women in the Suffolk County probe advertised their services on craigslist, which didn't exist when Rifkin was hunting for victims.

He focused on anonymous street hookers, not expensive escorts.

"Girls advertise for $1,000 a night - most guys who are serial killers can't afford that," Rifkin said.

Hookers made for easy targets because they were often on their backs, making it easy to overpower them, Rifkin recounted as cartoons played on the visiting room TV.

He said he paid the prostitutes as much for their temporary friendship as for sex - and never just to kill them.

"I became addicted to sex and companionship," said Rifkin, a long, gray ponytail hanging down his back.

There was no sentimentality as he described what he did to the women after they were beaten and strangled. "You carve 'em like a turkey," he said.

He said the slayings were a "primal urge" that he justified by reminding himself the women were drug-addicted hookers with no self-respect.

Rifkin says he regrets his rampage, but he sounded bizarrely nostalgic as he spoke about how much easier it was to kill his in his day.

He said technology like GPS in cell phones has given police a tremendous advantage in tracking victims.

Law enforcement is a lot more sophisticated now than it was when he was picking up prostitutes in Manhattan and spreading their remains across nine counties.

"They pull up the Jane Does and compare notes," he said.


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