Dark Secrets: Inside the Mind of a Mafia Hitman 2/5

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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[jj1only]

@beer4mebeer4u I love his reply though "apparently. I DID kill them."

[RoadWarroirX]

"You almost made me mad."

[gbond]

@6:35 Scariest shit ever!

[thejen24]

the scary part about him is that hes very likable. he could be your neighbor. he could be your barber. you could have a drink with this guy, having no idea he just beat someones head in and stuck them in an 80 gallon drum behind a dumpster. eeek!!

[thejen24]

@jjj255able wow. you must be exhausted from all that hate!!! it takes so much energy to hate things. especially for no reason other than the fact the these people are different from you. MAYBE. you should do a DNA backround on yourself. i think you would probably wind up committing suicide when you realize how much of what you hate lives in you.

[schmeltingaccident]

This is the scariest fucking guy I have ever seen lol. I would never cross this guy.

[HybridD91]

@jjj255able Sure tough guy.

[rjplamf61]

@Khaos969 I heard Mickey Rourke is going to play him. As far as you watching the doc 48 times I do not think it's weird. This guy tells a story unlike any person I have come across in my fifty years living on this planet. He is pretty fascinating to listen to..

[ronlutes]

parents hated him beat him for no reason non stop . what does somebody expect from an upbringing like this . when you really think about it he did all of us a service. yes i said it . he took out criminals and had a reason for killing and got paid to do it. horrible but he took out the worst of the worst. this saved how many people from being victoms of these people.

[Khaos969]

@Doma111222333 I said the same thing once... hes like "man behind the bar...this guy...ermm u know the line behind a bar" hmmm not so sure about this one...

[Khaos969]

Is it wrong ive watched this guys documentarys like 48 times...fascinating shit! cant wait for the movie they better not fuck it up with some asshole of an actor!