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Richard Leonard "The Iceman" Kuklinski (April 11, 1935 March 5, 2006) was a convicted murderer and notorious contract killer. The six foot five inch (195 cm), 300 pound (135 kg) hitman worked for several Italian-American crime families, and claimed to have murdered over 250 men over a career that lasted 38 years from 1948 till 1986; he killed his first victim at age 13. He was the older brother of the convicted rapist and murderer Joseph Kuklinski. He spent the last years of his freedom living undetected in the suburban town of Dumont, New Jersey.

Kuklinski earned the nickname "Iceman" following his experiments with disguising the time of death of his victims by freezing their corpses in an industrial freezer. Kuklinski's method was uncovered by the authorities when he failed to let one of his victims properly thaw before disposing of the body on a warm summer's night, and the coroner found chunks of ice in the victim's heart.

Kuklinski died at the age of 70 at 1:15 a.m. on March 5, 2006. He was in a secure wing at St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton, New Jersey at the time, although the timing of his death has been labeled suspicious; Kuklinski was scheduled to testify that former Gambino crime family underboss Sammy Gravano had ordered him to murder New York Police Department Detective Peter Calabro. Kuklinski told family members that he thought "they" were poisoning him. A few days after Kuklinski's death, prosecutors dropped all charges against Gravano, saying that without Kuklinski's testimony there was insufficient evidence to continue. At the request of Kuklinski's family, forensic pathologist Michael Baden examined the results of Kuklinski's autopsy to determine if there was evidence of poisoning.

Baden concluded he died of natural causes.

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[Northern00000Ireland]

You can never tell by lookin or talkin to someone how dangerous they realy are.

[TheSexybeastish]

They should make a movie about Richard, and the actor should be Jack Nicholson.

[mosaicglass]

@26wordy Yes

[26wordy]

Is strangulation really a word? eh??!!

[WatchYoFucknLanguage]

I saw an interview where Richard was talking about his first hitman. He was riding a motorcycle and he saw the guy in a truck and asked about his cigar. The man replied "Fuck you". Richard relied "No, fuck you." and blew his head up with a shotgun.

Stupid gangsters of these days need meet men like this.

[LemonZeppelin]

It's scary to think that there are people like this out there who talk about murder as a matter of fact thing and have no emotion towards their victims at all.

[LemonZeppelin]

@bleah390 yes, look it up

[rabidninja]

@ggalexhutchings hed be good too

[ggalexhutchings]

@TheSexybeastish there is a movie in development right now, and i think it's gonna be vincent d'onofrio

[profanious]

@KiloByte72 It's not a matter of people and having guts. It's a matter of with our laws only a very small amount of people can get their hands on a gun. I don't really have anything against the gun laws in america as to a lot of Americans it probably represents freedom but really it doesn't make you much less free not being able to get your hands on a gun that is primarily to kill or harm humans, like pistols ect.

[KiloByte72]

@profanious

Well, you're partially right. No australian would ever have the balls to pull off what Kuklinski did. But it certanly doesn't mean that murder and crime is non-existantant there.

[bleah390]

Is strangulation really a word?

[irishforeverful]

how did the Toronto St.Patrick's Day Parade bring me here?

[wwechamp7]

my mum has a degree in forensic phycology and i find this stuff really intresting i can tell i am related to her lol

[profanious]

only in america! it's sad but true

[mrraya555]

he said he gambios every penny he got.wat d cops on bt

[TheDujnm]

is he on sedatives. Or just fucked

[ILoveRavenc]

@majesticmaniac people like you are fine example that the need and pleasure for torture is not only a psychotic defect,it's something that is hidden inside every human being no matter how sane or insane.

Just takes the right thing to bring it to the light.

[maskenmakkan]

Kuk in swedish means cock.

[Cyrax181]

This guy seems a likeable type of guy :)

[DeadpoolDeadcool]

I would have thought he was just some Italian grandfather.

[TourettesOrc]

I'm sure he was contracted to kill thru intelligence agencies too.

[Northern00000Ireland]

@Bjo15 Me what?lol

[Bjo15]

@Northern00000Ireland I actually did not read your comment. by saying "mythomaniac" i actually meant the dude in the video ... He is a mythomaniac. ..you ??? ill google it :D

[Northern00000Ireland]

@Bjo15 If you dont believe me, type into google. Mans body found in bins in Belfast.

[Northern00000Ireland]

@Bjo15 Not all the time, a guy i knows older brother was out drinking in a bar and started talkin to another guy, the guy he was talking to is known to be quiet and generaly a nice fela. Anyway this guy he met at the bar asked my Friends brother to go back to his house for a party. My friends brother ended up murderd, the guy choped him up and put him in his Bin outside his house. Hes been caught and is now in Jail but just always be weary of people you just dont no wht ther capable of.

[Bjo15]

@Northern00000Ireland You can see anything in a person , its all in the eyes