Why Is Richard Kuklinski Described As A Killer

Marcos Fregoso

Crim 2200 Criminology

Lauri Shultis

Lexington Campus

Richard Kuklinski

“I would move Heaven, Hell, and anything in between to get to you” (YouTube.) Richard Kuklinski was an ordinary man to the people that knew him. But to those who were really close to him, knew that he was a hardcore killer and did crazy things to people. He was known as the Iceman, he would kill people for the mafia and would make a good living off of it. Richard was born on April 11, 1935 in Jersey City, New Jersey. He was born to Stanley and Hanna Kuklinski, who were a poor family. They lived in the projects and struggled to make ends meet. His father was a railroad worker and his mother worked in a meat packing plant. While growing up Richard started

He beat up his neighborhood bully to death with a steel clothing rod. After his first kill he was afraid of being caught and even got sick from all the stress. Later he got over the fear and beat the other six bullies to near death as well. Richard was always in the illegal business he would steal cars, sell drugs and be around guns. Eventually Richard met Roy Demeo who was an assassin for the Gambino family. Soon Richard started taking over his mentors work and doing hits for the Gambino family himself. People were really afraid of him; because he would make sure people paid back their debts either with money or their lives. In the basement of the Gemini Lounge he would kill people, hack up their bodies, wrap them in plastic and dispose of them. By 1970 he had done well as a hit man, he lived in an expensive middle-class home in a good neighborhood. He charged fifty thousand dollars per hit to the Gambino family. He worked as a hit man and his family and neighbors never suspected a thing. Richard did most of the dirty work in an apartment rented by Demeo’s cousin who was known to people as Dracula. Richard killed people in many types of ways. The different types of ways people disappeared varied, but most of them involved stabbing the heart repeatedly to stop the blood from gushing out. They used to hang the bodies over the tub to drain the blood. They would then proceed to carve the body up into small

Police believe that Richard was killed because the mafia didn’t want to much information to be said. Richard Kuklinski would grow up to be the most horrific person anybody had heard of. If you knew him you thought he was just a regular Joe. On the other had if you didn’t know him and you saw him then he would have made you wish that you would have ran away from him. He was the type of person to make people suffer. Richard was a hit man for the mafia and made a good living off of it, in which he used to live in a big fancy house and support his wife and three kids. Richard grew up in a rough house and was always being beat by both parents. No wonder he grew up to be criminal anyone growing up and being beaten all the time for no reason would have a breaking point. In conclusion the Iceman’s life shows us how a person could go into the life of crime simply because they are biologically capable of handling the