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…seen here in their teenaged years, even though she said he often beat her up, breaking her nose several times. Speaking of families, Kuklinski claimed to really love his wife Barbara Pedrici. Kuklinski also confessed that he was part of the five man team from the Genovese crime family that kidnapped and killed Teamsters Union Boss Jimmy Hoffa from a restaurant parking lot in Detroit. Kuklinski later claimed that he offed DeMeo, although some say it was members of the Gambino mob. At their initial meeting, DeMeo pistol whipped the Ice man over an unpaid debt, but the two developed a gang-land alliance and Kuklinski started working with DeMeo, becoming his favorite enforcer after Kuklinski shot and killed a man whom DeMeo had randomly fingered while walking his dog. Kuklinski also worked for the Gambino crime family and he had a love-hate relationship with a Gambino solider Roy DeMeo. Another of his favorites: poison, specifically cyanide – by either spraying it in the victim's face or mixing it in the ketchup of a hamburger. The Ice Man's arsenal also included: knives, hand grenades, fire, baseball bats, ropes, screwdrivers, ice picks, tire irons, wire and even his bare hands. He also used a smorgasbord of ways of dispatching victims, using guns, from derringers with dum-dum bullets to 12 gauge shotguns. He took pride in the fact that he never killed women. He gained the attention of Newark's Decavalcante crime family and they put him to work killing people. Richard first committed murder as a 14 year old living in a Jersey City housing project, when he beat a local bully who was 16 with a closet pole.īy the mid 1950's, Kuklinski had a reputation as a pool shark who'd beat or kill people who bothered him. A younger sister Roberta was the only one who seemed to survive the nightmare childhood. Richard later remarked they came from the same father. (The family masked it by saying he fell down a flight of stairs.) A younger brother Joseph was convicted of raping and killing a 12 year old girl. His older brother Florian was abused by Dad and died of his injuries. Anna thought stern discipline and strict religious upbringing went hand in hand and young Richard served as an altar boy in the Catholic Church.

He was born in his family's apartment in Jersey City, New Jersey to Stanley Kuklinski and Anna McNally.ĭad used to beat young Richard regularly and Mom also took broom handles to him. Richard Leonard Kuklinski's life was a horror show from an early age. He was convicted of three murders and died behind bars while serving a life sentence. Richard Kuklinski got his nickname because he'd keep some of his victims in a deep freeze to confuse authorities about their time of death. Sometimes it was business, sometimes it was because of rage. A stone cold killer, believed to be responsible for as many as 100 to 250 deaths. As his nickname suggests, this guy wasn't cool. We also have included the most popular famous deaths.

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