Richard Kuklinski- Iceman
Born in 1935 in New Jersey, Richard Kuklinski suffered a rough upbringing and committed his first murder as a teenager. He eventually found a living as a hitman for the mafia quickly becoming known as "The Iceman" for his method of freezing victims to obscure their time of death. Kuklinski isn’t your average serial killer as most serial killers take lives for sexual desires and pleasure. As Kuklinski didn’t kill for these reasons he didn’t seem to have much remorse or sadness for what he had done. I would not consider him a psychopath though. He clearly has emotion throughout the interview we saw. He would laugh from time to time when telling his stories and he also has a wife and kids. I would view him as a sociopath. Kuklinski stated that he killed over 100 people and he didn’t seem to care one bit. He was considered a contract killer. He got
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He eventually became an enforcer for the Gambino Family, making sure debts were paid through violence. Standing at the monstrous height of 6 feet, 5 inches and weighing in at almost 300 pounds, he was extremely intimidating. Richard continued to do hits for the Gambino Crime Family, killing anyone who crossed them, including witnesses, cops, and rivals. Over the course of his 30-year career, Richard claimed that he had killed over 200 people. Richard was a jack of all trades when it came to killing people; he had no preference for a weapon or style, which made him even harder to catch. He used handguns, crossbows, sawed-off shotguns, blunt objects, knives, and cyanide. Richard would sometimes administer poison to his targets by means of injection, placing it in people’s food, aerosol spray, or by simply spilling it onto the victim’s skin. He earned the nickname, “The Iceman,” because he would occasionally place his victims in freezers after he murdered them and leave them there for years until he dumped the