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There was a gang of six boys who would often torment and beat Kuklinski. In 1949, aged 14, Kuklinski removed the hanging rail from his wardrobe and followed the gang leader, Charlie Lane. He waited until Lane was on his own and then beat him to death with the metal pole. In an effort to hide his victim’s identity, Kuklinski removed Lane’s teeth and cut off his fingers before throwing his body in a lake. The body was never found. Kuklinski then went to find the other gang members and beat them all close to the point of death with the pole. Years later in an interview, Kuklinski claimed the killing of Lane demonstrated to him that it was “better to give than to receive” and that after the murder, he had felt empowered for the first time in his life.
In 1960, aged 25, Kuklinski met and fell in love with 19-year-old Barbara Pedrici. He wooed her with flowers and gave her his undivided attention. The couple were married on 8th September 1961 and they settled in Dumont, New Jersey. They went on to have two daughters, born in 1964 and 1965, and a son, born in 1969.It was the early 1960s when Kuklinski developed a relationship with mobster Roy DeMeo, a capo for the infamous and powerful Gambino family. DeMeo introduced Kuklinski to the Gambino family and he began on small assignments for the mafia. These included robberies, selling pirate pornographic movies from the film laboratory where he worked, stealing cars and trading in drugs, guns and food.Kuklinski’s imposing stature and growing reputation as a ruthless man meant that the Gambinos decided to test him out with a view to him working as a ‘hired gun’. He was 6’ 4” (1.93 m) tall and tattooed, big (about 300 lb/135kg) and bearded, and took no nonsense from anyone. DeMeo took him out for a drive one day, randomly selected a man walking his dog and told Kuklinski to kill him. With no hesitation, Kuklinski got out of the car, walked towards the man and as soon as he had passed, turned and shot the man in the back of his head. It was 1965 and he was hired as a contract killer for the Mob. DeMeo became his mentor. He was nicknamed ‘The Polack’ due to his Polish heritage and worked with a gang operating from the Gemini Lounge in Brooklyn, New York City. Kuklinski often worked as a debt collector and his brutality brought results. Most people knew they would be killed without hesitation, so usually paid their debts.In 1969 Kuklinski’s younger brother Joseph, 25, was arrested and given a life sentence for the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl. After killing her, he threw her body and her dog off a rooftop. He was sent to Trenton State Penitentiary, New Jersey.
By the 1970s, Kuklinski had built up substantial wealth from his work for the Mafia, reportedly earning $50,000 per hit, and the Kuklinski family had moved to an expensive home in a good neighbourhood. Posing as a successful businessman, the Kuklinskis appeared to neighbours to be a happy family. However, things behind closed doors were very different and Kuklinski had started to treat his wife and children abusively.George Malliband from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, was in the illicit trade of pornographic films with Kuklinski. In early 1980 Malliband owed DeMeo money and had arranged to go with Kuklinski to meet with DeMeo to pay his debt. En route, the two had a disagreement and Kuklinski pulled over to the side of the road and shot Malliband five times with his .38 revolver. He placed the body in a 55-gallon drum and rolled it off a high cliff in the Palisades. On 5th February 1980 the drum and its grisly contents were discovered. When police traced the victim’s identity, they linked Malliband to Kuklinski.
Paul Hoffman, a pharmacist, was involved in a prescription drug deal with Kuklinski when he disappeared in the spring of 1982. A year later, his car was found in the rented warehouse that Kuklinski used for his car theft racket. Hoffman’s body was never found. Kuklinski later confessed to this murder, saying he first shot Hoffman but he didn’t die immediately, so Kuklinski knocked him out using a tire iron. He then shoved Hoffman’s body into a 55-gallon drum, cemented closed the lid and left it next to a hot dog stand in Little Ferry, New Jersey. He periodically checked on the drum to see if had been discovered and eventually it disappeared.On 27th December 1982, the decomposing body of Gary Smith was found under the bed in a room at the York Motor Hotel. Smith had worked with Kuklinski stealing cars but the police were investigating him and there was a warrant out for his arrest. He was apparently a weak man and Kuklinski was afraid he would talk. The autopsy showed Smith had been poisoned with cyanide and strangled. It later emerged that the car meant for the removal of the corpse had never arrived and Kuklinski had left the body under the bed. Due to the noxious odour of decomposition, the body was discovered by guests a few days later.Daniel Deppner was a fellow car thief who had aided Kuklinski in the murder of Smith. There was a warrant out for his arrest, which bothered Kuklinski, in case he was picked up by the police and would begin talking. He was murdered, dismembered and decapitated and found on 14th May 1983 by a man out cycling in the Clinton road area of New Jersey, near the Blazing Bucks Ranch. The body parts had been wrapped in two large green rubbish bags, taped together.
In the early 1980s, Kuklinski had met and befriended Robert Pronge, known as ‘Mister Softee’; a military-trained demolitions expert turned hit man. Pronge taught Kuklinski how to kill with cyanide and shared his theories about freezing a victim’s body to confuse medical examiners about the time of death, thereby eliminating the need for alibis. Kuklinksi warmed to the idea and decided to try it out for himself. On 1st July 1981 Loius Masgay had gone to meet Kuklinski about a deal involving the sale of videotapes. Instead he was poisoned with cyanide and then shot. Kuklinski kept the corpse frozen in an industrial freezer for two years before wrapping it in green plastic bags and dumping it in Rockland County, New York, where it was discovered on 25th September 1983. Police were faced with some puzzling initial observations. Whilst Masgay had been missing for two years, he was found wearing the same clothes he had been when he had disappeared but the time of death seemed fairly recent.
Kuklinski had slipped up this time and, due to the fact that it was wrapped in plastic bags and had been discovered sooner than Kuklinski had planned, the body had not had enough time to thaw completely. During autopsy, the medical examiner discovered ice in the muscle tissue, and it became clear what had happened. Police linked Masgay to Kuklinski, who became their chief suspect in his murder, and began calling him the ‘Iceman’.In 1984, Pronge threatened Kuklinski’s family, which was enough to incite Kuklinski to kill. Pronge was found shot to death in his Mister Softee ice-cream van in his North Bergen garage, directly across the road from Kuklinski’s garage. Many believed it was Kuklinski who killed him, although a killer was never found.
In the early 1980s, Kuklinski had met and befriended Robert Pronge, known as ‘Mister Softee’; a military-trained demolitions expert turned hit man. Pronge taught Kuklinski how to kill with cyanide and shared his theories about freezing a victim’s body to confuse medical examiners about the time of death, thereby eliminating the need for alibis. Kuklinksi warmed to the idea and decided to try it out for himself. On 1st July 1981 Loius Masgay had gone to meet Kuklinski about a deal involving the sale of videotapes. Instead he was poisoned with cyanide and then shot. Kuklinski kept the corpse frozen in an industrial freezer for two years before wrapping it in green plastic bags and dumping it in Rockland County, New York, where it was discovered on 25th September 1983. Police were faced with some puzzling initial observations. Whilst Masgay had been missing for two years, he was found wearing the same clothes he had been when he had disappeared but the time of death seemed fairly recent.
Kuklinski had slipped up this time and, due to the fact that it was wrapped in plastic bags and had been discovered sooner than Kuklinski had planned, the body had not had enough time to thaw completely. During autopsy, the medical examiner discovered ice in the muscle tissue, and it became clear what had happened. Police linked Masgay to Kuklinski, who became their chief suspect in his murder, and began calling him the ‘Iceman’.In 1984, Pronge threatened Kuklinski’s family, which was enough to incite Kuklinski to kill. Pronge was found shot to death in his Mister Softee ice-cream van in his North Bergen garage, directly across the road from Kuklinski’s garage. Many believed it was Kuklinski who killed him, although a killer was never found.
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