His parents suffered abuse in their childhood. This is evident in the life of Kuklinski. This is an inflammation of the blood vessels leading to heart attacks. His death was caused by complications from Kawasaki disease. Kuklinski died in prison on March 5, 2006, in New Jersey. He never missed mass and served as a committed altar boy. In the local church community, Kuklinski was a devout Catholic. Due to his abusive nature, the couple divorced after a while. With her, he became a father to three children. The formerly married Linda was nine years his senior and had two children. Kuklinski was married and divorced twice. Two years later in 1988, he was committed to two life terms in jail. The 1986 arrest closed a six-year goose chase investigation. When the police were certain of his identity and history, Kuklinski was arrested. Working together with the policeman, they tracked an imaginary victim. He was approached by an undercover investigator who offered him a hit job. After several leads, the police managed to close on him. Kuklinski, now known as the Iceman, was on the run. The ensuing investigation took the police over six years. He later claimed to have killed Paul Hoffman, but the body was never located. The same happened to Daniel Deppner in the same year. His first gang member Gary Smith became the third victim. Kuklinski then turned to his own ring members he considered a sellout. Both bodies had bullet wounds and were stuffed in ice to conceal evidence. The following year he took his second victim Louis Masgay.
Five of his murders were profiled by the police and led to his arrest. In the following years, he executed fatal attacks to his victims. Kuklinski gained the respect of the streets as a highly efficient and ruthless killer. They used him to eliminate any threat to their interests. As an apprentice of Roy DeMeo, his links with Gambino mafia took root. With the peddling of pornographic videos giving him a crime exposure, Kuklinski started working with the Gambino family. Lane was street gang bully who had accosted Kuklinski on several occasions. In 1949, at the age of 14, he killed his first human victim. The little Catholic altar boy was slowly turning into a killer. To deal with his anger, he resorted to killing the cats in the neighborhood.
Having inherited a life of abuse from his parents, Kuklinski was full of pent-up anger. He dropped out of education in the eighth grade. Stanislaw abandoned his family after killing his son and lying to the police.
Thus, she believed in the strict religious discipline to help her children be upright citizens. Kuklinski’s mother was also said to have been assaulted by a priest while she was young.
His younger brother was later convicted of raping and the murder of his 12-year-old victim. One of Kuklinski’s brothers died of beatings received from his father.Ĭrime seemed to have been the order of the family. His father was an abusive alcoholic, while his strict mother was a notorious disciplinarian. The second born in a family of four siblings, Kuklinski was prone to violence from an early age. His father Stanislaw was Polish, while his mother Anne was Irish. His parents were of mixed European ancestry. Richard Leonard Kuklinski was born on April 11, 1935, in New Jersey. His services were well sought by the mafia family gangs in the USA.
Richard Kuklinski was an American serial hitman who offered his services to the highest bidder.