Mr. Rifkin, a 34-year-old unemployed landscaper, was arrested after a high-speed chase that began when troopers tried to stop him for a routine traffic violation.

Mr. Rifkin, 35, is an unemployed landscaper from East Meadow, L.I., who has told authorities he killed at least 17 women.

It is also important that they gain more than one conviction, they say, to make it virtually certain that Mr. Rifkin, a 34-year-old unemployed landscaper, will never be paroled.

Mr. Kogut, then an unemployed landscaper, was one of three men who were convicted, based on his videotaped confession.

One, Mark Vernon Brindell, an unemployed landscaper from Wake Forest, was sentenced last year to five years in Federal prison for holding up seven banks near Raleigh.

Mr. Rifkin is the unemployed landscaper who the New York State Police say has admitted killing 17 women.

Another man, Arthur Weigand, 20, an unemployed landscaper, was charged with setting three of the fires in January that caused $750,000 in damage.

Mr. Rifkin, a 34-year-old unemployed landscaper, has admitted to killing 17 women, most of them prostitutes.

Prosecutors from nine New York counties met here today to discuss jurisdiction in the case of Joel Rifkin, the unemployed landscaper who has admitted to killing 17 women.

As the sun set on June 24, something snapped in Kris J. Lieberman, an unemployed landscaper who lived a few miles from this quiet town.