Joel Rifkin would be another interesting one. When I was in high school in my psychology class we watched this special on Joel Rifkin where they interviewed him. He was quite the interesting character. Rifkin didnt seem like a psycho. He said a majority of the time he was fine and felt normal, he said during his killing streak sometimes months would go by where he didnt have the urge to kill anyone and he would be with prostitutes and be fine and stuff and then all of a sudden it would just come back and he would go on a streak where he would kill, two or three women and then it would stop again for a while. Rifkin actually said this started happening after his adopotive father's death. Despite the fact him and his father never had a real good relationship because his father who was a prominent businessman and school board member on Long Island viewed Joel as a disappointment because of his bad grades and inability to stick to a job for very long. Joel however loved his father deeply despite this. But Joel said shortly after the first anniversary of his father's death he started getting the urges to kill. He said they always happened after major annivesaries of stuff. It was pretty interesting. I remember Joel Rifkin's excuse for the killings was "my brain made me do it." Rifkin actually said that, I think he also cited the fact he was dyslexic as a reason for the killings.
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