Richard Kuklinski

Richard Kuklinski

Richard Leonard "The Iceman" Kuklinski (April 11, 1935 – March 5, 2006) was an American serial killer and contract killer. The 6'5" (196 cm), 300 pound (135 kg) Kuklinski worked for Newark's DeCavalcante crime family and New York City's Five Families. He claimed to have murdered over 100, or possibly 250 men (his recollections varied) between 1948 and 1986. Kuklinski claimed to have committed his first murder at the age of 13. He lived with his wife and children in the suburb of Dumont, New Jersey prior to his arrest.

Read more about Richard Kuklinski:  Early Life, First Murder, Criminal Career, Murders, Gambinos and Roy DeMeo, State and Federal Manhunt, Arrest, Incarceration and Death, Films

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