Carter Hendry Mrs.Dixon Criminal Justice III-7 23 October 2017 Kuklinski Richard Leonard Kuklinski was born on April 11, 1935 in Jersey City, New Jersey of 1935, and suffered from a tough childhood upbringing. His mother Anna Mcnally was an extremely strict catholic, and regularly hit her son for any “non religious” acts that he committed. His father, Stanley, worked on the railroads and was a deadbeat alcoholic who regularly beat his son. In Kuklinski’s interviews he often contributed his insanity and love for violence to his father. Kuklinski was not only beaten by his father but he was regularly bullied at school which led to his feelings of anger and less power. These feelings never left him as he is said to have killed over 100 people for his job as a hitman. His killings began as a kid when he would brutally torture dogs and cats. This torture gave him a feeling of “empowerment”, and the feelings eventually led to his first kill as a teenager. His first murder was the killing of a local bully. Kuklinski got rid of the …show more content…
One, he was a contract killer for the mafia, this led him to committing crimes he might not have wanted to, however with his 8th grade level education he struggled to get a job. In order to support his family this was the only way, and he already had a reputation of a prolific killer on the streets. Two, Kuklinski had a unique ability to feel no remorse, no sadness, no pain, he didn’t even care when he would slice the flesh off of people. His ability to feel zero connection to the victims is one of the scariest and unique things about him. He would kill men for zero reason at all simply because of their challenge to his power or they angered him. Kuklinski though never killed a woman or a child, not even for the mafia, his consciousness wouldn’t allow him. This ability to feel such sympathy to the women and children is one of the things that was so amazing to his