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Edition Felipe van Deursen
CRIMINAL RECORD
Name – Richard Kuklinski (1935-2006)
Local in acting – New Jersey and New York (USA)
Deaths – More in 100
– (Julio Brilha/)
1. Born in New Jersey, Richard was beaten up by his father, Polish immigrant Stanley Kuklinski. Your mother, the daughter in Irish immigrants Anna, also beat her children and supported her husband, even when he killed Florian, the couple’s eldest son. The parents in Richard was told by the police that his brother died when he fell down the stairs.
2. Raised Catholic, Richard was even an altar boy, but in his spare time he amused himself by torturing cats. At age 13, he committed his first murder: he strangled a boy named Charley Lane, who was part of in a gang in neighborhood street. Richard ripped off his shirt and used it to strangle him.
3. Richard became a man in 1.96 m and 122 kg. The size helped him get a job carrying weight in a warehouse. At that time, aged 15, he met Barbara Pedrici, whom he would later marry. Barbara would remember later in a frightening incident: in his youth, during an argument, he would have cut her neck with a knife and warned: «Understand the lesson: never leave me»
4. About in 17 years old, he came into contact with the mafia and became a killer in DeCavalcante family lease, in New Jersey, and the Five Families in New York, who ran the crime in the city. Richard participated in actions in wash in money and kidnapping. He drew attention for not drinking, not gambling or going out with prostitutes.
5. The suburban neighbors in New Jersey, where the Kuklinskis lived, found Richard to be a successful businessman. Barbara said he was a good provider and a man affectionate – despite in he broke her nose several times and tried to run her over in an occasion. Even so, Richard was a loving father to his three children.
6. Richard was once allegedly tested by mobster Roy DeMeo: he took him to a random street and pointed out an old man who was walking his dog. Richard walked to the man and shot him in the back without hesitation. DeMeo and the other mob capos liked the matador’s cool-headedness and understated demeanor.
7. Richard stabbed and strangled his victims. He dumped several bodies in the Hudson River, but he often left the dead where he killed them. He could also light them on burning tires or beat them to death (which he did to keep fit, he said). Richard had the habit in pull out teeth and tip in fingers (many times before in kill) to make it difficult to identify the body
8. Other methods in elimination: blow up cars or throw them in aft against posts, with the victim in the trunk. Once, he would have left the person unconscious in a hole with rats for days, with a camera on. Upon returning, he found only bones and the tape with the record. Richard would also freeze victims in industrial freezers. Hence the nickname Man in Ice
9. In the 70’s and 80’s, working for the Gambino family, Richard was active in the trade in illegal VHS tapes in pornography – real productions in which mobsters used addicted girls to make hardcore scenes that went far beyond traditional porn. Richard even directed some scenes and accompanied in near many recordings
10. The killer ended up arrested in 1986 and sentenced to two life sentences for the death in five people (but possibly killed many more than that). In inside the cell, Richard gave several interviews. The declarations generated legends, such as the in that Jimmy Hoffa, a trade unionist who disappeared in the 1970s, would have been burned in a vat and mixed with recycled metal that would be used to make cars in Japan
WHAT END DID IT TAKE?
He died in prison, aged 70, in natural causes. His interviews resulted in books and films – one of them with Winona Ryder in the role. in Barbarian
SOURCES Book The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer, by Philip Carlo; fmovies The Iceman and the Psychiatristby Arthur Ginsberg, and The Icemanby Ariel Vromen