KILLER AND COP -- BOUND TOGETHER BY
FATE
They met in college twenty years ago.
One became a decorated NYPD officer
and a journalist. The other became
New York's most notorious serial killer.
This is the riveting true story of Joel
Rifkin -- the Long Islander convicted of
savagely murdering seventeen young
women -- as told by Rifkin to Robert
Mladinich. The two met as journalism
students on assignment together in
1979; more than two decades later, the
NYPD detective visited Rifkin in prison
to examine what both had made of their
lives. In a chilling series of exchanges,
Rifkin bared his soul to Mladinich,
chronicling his lost years: the missed
opportunities, the failed relationships,
and the terrible details behind his
killings.
But Mladinich probed deeper, forcing Rifkin to confront the horrifying nature of his crimes. Drawn from interviews with
Rifkin and his mother, and conversations with acquaintances and professionals who encountered him, From The
Mouth Of The Monster is an exacting true-crime portrayal and a chilling study of the possible evil within us all.
