Introduction

This episode of lights out is brought to you by care of stamps dot com and every plate. joel rifkin was born on january twentieth, 19 59 in new york city. He had several learning disabilities that he struggled with throughout the years. His parents were both young college students at the time, and his father was an army veteran. But they soon realized that they couldn't take care of him, so they actually put joel up for adoption. And on february fourteenth, 19 59, when he was only three weeks old, joe was adopted by a middle class couple living on long island. They ended up adopting another daughter a few years later, and