When asked about his brother's crimes, Kuklinski replied: "We come from the same father." Īccording to Kuklinski, his father was a violent alcoholic who beat his children regularly and sometimes beat his wife. Kuklinski's younger brother, Joseph Michael Kuklinski (– September 22, 2003), was convicted in 1970 of raping 12-year-old Pamela Dial and murdering her by throwing her and her dog off the top of a five-story building. His mother was Anna Cecilia McNally (Janu– March 21, 1972) from Harsimus, a devoutly Catholic first-generation Irish American who worked in a meat-packing plant. His father worked as a brakeman on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. Richard Kuklinski was born on April 11, 1935, in his family's apartment on 4th Street in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Stanley Kuklinski ( né Stanisław Kukliński Decem– January 6, 1977), a Polish immigrant from Karwacz, Masovian Voivodeship. He was the subject of three HBO documentaries aired in 1992, 20 several biographies, and a 2012 feature film The Iceman. Law enforcement and organized crime experts have expressed skepticism about Kuklinski's claimed Mafia ties. He said he participated in several famous Mafia killings, including the disappearance and presumed murder of Teamsters' president Jimmy Hoffa. Kuklinski also claimed to have worked as a hitman for the Mafia. None of these additional murders have been corroborated. He claimed to have murdered anywhere from 100 to 200 men, often in gruesome fashion. Īfter his murder convictions, Kuklinski gave interviews to writers, prosecutors, criminologists, and psychiatrists. In 2003, he received an additional 30-year sentence after confessing to the murder of a police officer. In 1988, he was convicted of four murders and sentenced to life imprisonment. An eighteen-month-long undercover operation led to his arrest in December 1986. Eventually, Kuklinski came to the attention of law enforcement when an investigation into his burglary gang linked him to several murders, as he was the last person to have seen five missing men alive. He also killed two associates to prevent them from becoming informants. Kuklinski's modus operandi was to lure men to clandestine meetings with the promise of lucrative business deals, then kill them and steal their money.
He was given the moniker Iceman by authorities after they discovered that he had frozen the body of one of his victims in an attempt to disguise the time of death. They stated that they were unaware of his crimes. They knew him as a loving father and husband, although one who also had a violent temper. Kuklinski lived with his wife and children in the New Jersey suburb of Dumont. Prosecutors described him as killing for profit. He committed at least five murders between 19. Kuklinski was engaged in criminal activities for most of his adult life he ran a burglary ring and distributed pirated pornography. Richard Leonard Kuklinski ( / k ʊ ˈ k l ɪ n s k i/ Ap– March 5, 2006), also known as " The Iceman", was an American criminal and convicted murderer.
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