Head found in '89 IDed, linked to serial killer
Posted: March 28, 2013 - 4:01am

In this Dec. 17, 1993 file photo, Joel Rifkin, right, is led to the Nassau County Courthouse in Mineola, N.Y., for a suppression hearing. New Jersey State Police said Wednesday, March 27, 2013, that 25-year-old Heidi Balch likely was the first victim of Rifkin, who is in prison in New York after admitting he killed 17 women in the early 1990s. Balch’s severed head was found on a golf course in Hopewell Township, near Trenton, N.J., in March 1989. (AP Photo/Mike Albans, File)
Almost 25 years after her severed head was found on a golf course, the woman New Jersey police believe was the first victim of a notorious serial...