

He also enjoyed carving up his victims alive utilizing a power saw. The rodents, lured to the smell of blood would gradually consume the unfortunates alive.

This included his own explanation of inducing his victims to bleed, then tying the individuals up in rat infested locations. It was this association that would outline the rest of his life.īrutality would often precede death for a number of of his targets. According to Kuklinski it had been during this time that his connection with Roy DeMeo, a associate of the Gambino Crime Family, was started. After his first murder Richard was scared, believing he would be charged for the crime but he also felt an exhilaration and began to enjoy the feeling of power that he obtained from killing.īarely out of his teens, Kuklinski had garnered the standing of being an explosive tough street thug who would beat or kill anyone who he didn't like or who upset him. In 1949 at the age of fourteen Richard perpetrated his first homicide when he beat a neighborhood bully to death with a club. His alcoholic father ultimately deserted the family, leaving them to fend for themselves. His parents hid the cause of the child's death from the police, saying he had slipped down a flight of stairs. In 1940, the beatings resulted in the fatality of Kuklinski's elder brother, Florian. His parents were physically violent to Richard and to his brothers, beating them constantly.

His father was a brakeman for the railway and his mother labored in a meat packing factory. Richard Kuklinski was born, the second of four children, on April 11, 1935, to Polish/Irish parents in a poor area in Jersey City. Referred to as the "Ice man" and dreaded throughout the criminal underworld, he was for a time a top mafia hit man. Some of the crimes he perpetrated are beyond belief, the embodiment of living nightmares. Richard Kuklinski was in life a true monster and a sadistic murderer.
