Will Stone Criminal Justice 3 10/23/17 Richard Kuklinski- The Iceman Richard Kuklinski, or the Iceman, arrested for murder on the year of 1986. He had been killing for over 30 years as a hitman for the mafia, and estimates that he had killed over 100 people. With cold calculation, he took the lives of anyone who he deemed wronged him or failed to pay back the mafia. Having a loveless and abusive childhood, he was set up for failure by his parents, and that made him the man he ended up as. Kuklinski was born on April 11th, 1935 in Jersey City, NJ to Anna and Stanley KUklinski. He was raised with no love, and was frequently abused and beaten by both parents. His father would beat him very often, and it didn’t matter if he was drunk or not; he just found pleasure in beating his child. Kuklinski began abusing animals at a young age, and found himself getting in more and more trouble. He was also tormented by bullies, until one day he decided he had had enough. With a blunt weapon in hand, he attacked the bullies and, to his surprise, felt a rush. This was a turning point for him, as he began to go down an extremely violent path. Anyone who wronged him or embarrassed ed him in any way would find themselves st the mercy of Richard. Despite the extreme level of violence he was displaying during this time, he fell short of ever actually killing anyone. …show more content…
They said or did something to make Richard angry, so he did the only thing he had done for so long. Turned to violence. He grabbed a cuestick and began beating him. He beat and beat and beat, not caring about the consequences. When he was done, he realized with horror that he had actually killed his adversary. He felt a sincere feeling of guilt at first, but that feeling was soon replaced with a rush. The petty beatings he had been giving out soon morphed into murders, with him killing anyone who had wronged him. He felt nothing