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Barbara Jacobs was a 31-year-old White woman from New York City who disappeared into the warm, unsettled hours of July 13, 1991, in a city where people can brush past one another and never be seen again. That night, she crossed paths with Joel Rifkin, a Long Island man who drove the streets looking for women to take home, and Jacobs got into his car in Manhattan believing the ride would end the way so many brief transactions did—quick, forgettable, and over.

Instead, Rifkin brought her ...Read More
Victim Details

Barbara Jacobs

Female

White / Caucasian

New York City

NY

1991-07-13

31

Barbara

Jacobs

01/12/2026