Lauren Marquez, 28, a Hispanic/Latina woman, came to New York looking for a way forward, but her last night in the city unfolded in the orbit of a man who was already leaving a trail of women behind him. On April 2, 1993, she was working along Second Avenue in Manhattan when Joel David Rifkin approached and picked her up.
They drove through the city and ended up near the Manhattan Bridge, where the encounter turned violent. Accounts of the killing describe strangulation, a desperate stru
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