His mother was fond of beating her son with a broomstick, often until it broke in half. He reportedly killed Richard’s older brother by pushing him down the stairs. Kuklinski’s father was a very abusive man. Both his mother and his father were physically abusive towards Richard and his siblings.
Richard Kuklinski was born to Polish and Irish parents on April 11, 1935, in Jersey City, New Jersey. Let’s take a look at the family life the killer escaped to, and what happened to his wife and children after his arrest and death. Kuklinski, while living as a brutal murderer, had a home, a wife, and loving children whom he adored and would do anything for. It was his method of disposing of a body by freezing it to hide the time of the murder that earned Kuklinsky the moniker “The Iceman”. Unlike most serial killers, Kuklinski varied his killing methods and means of body disposal. He thought nothing of killing someone for merely annoying him. With a body count well above 200, Kuklinski was a killer motivated by greed with a hair-trigger temper. Kuklinski earned the moniker "The Iceman" for freezing many of his victims to obfuscate their time of death.Richard Kuklinski earned his place in the serial killer hall of fame by killing for the East Coast Mafia as well as killing as his violent temper urged him on. Kuklinski learned many of these tactics from fellow hitman Robert Pronge, known as "Mister Softee" because he drove an ice cream truck as his cover. His resume for killing included guns, ice picks, hand grenades, crossbows and chainsaws, but his favorite method of murder, he'd later proudly confess, was a nasal-spray bottle filled with cyanide. He also worked for Newark's DeCavalcante crime family and the Gambinos of New York City.Īt a towering 6'5", weighing an eventual 300 pounds, Kuklinski had an imposing and fearsome bearing. He soon became the Genovese crime family's indispensable hitman, known for thoroughly disposing of his victims - removing their teeth and fingers, or dumping them off bridges, in rivers or down mine shafts. He earned Mafia respect at age 18 by efficiently and unquestioningly killing a random man selected for him on the sidewalk. Kuklinski's criminal activities included robbery, hijackings and selling pornographic films, but murder was his forte.
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