Marzilla Blogs: The Ice Man

Richard Leonard Kuklinski was born on April 11th, 1935 in Jersey City NJ. His parents were extremely abusive. His mother, Anna McNally, used to beat her three children with broomsticks. As for his father, Stanley Kuklinski, he was so abusive that Richard's older brother, Florian Kuklinski, was beaten to death by his father in 1940. The family was forced to say it was an accident and that he had just fallen down the stairs. In 1970, Richard's younger brother, Joseph Kuklinski, raped and murdered a 12year old girl and attempted to kill her dog. Stanley later literally stabbed Anna in the back.
At the age of 10, Richard started torturing animals. One of the terrible things he would do is tie two cats tails together and throw them over a clothesline so they would claw each other to death. By the age of 14, he had committed his first known of many murders. He had beaten Charley Chase, the leader of a local teenage gang, to death, then pulled out his teeth and cut off his finger tips to prevent identification. In the mid 1950s, Richard became affiliated with the Gambino crime family in New York City, carrying out hits for them, as well as committing robberies and other crimes. In 1960, he met a beautiful woman named Barbara Pedrici, whom he later married and had three children with. Two daughters and one son. His household, as you've probably guessed, had quite a bit of domestic abuse. He claims the only people he ever cared for we're his wife and children. Barbara and the children had no knowledge of his crimes until he was caught. They were led believe he was a normal businessman.
Richard killed in many ways. He shot, he used cyanide, he bludgeoned, he stabbed, he strangled, he dismembered people, etc. He says none of it made him feel any type of guilt or remorse. However, when he tied/taped/bound people up, put them in a rat infested cave, and watched them get eaten alive on the video camera that he had set up in the cave by the rats, he claims that was the only thing that made him feel an emotion he was not fond of. He said he doesn't know what feeling it was, but many believe it was disgust and some kind of guilt. He gained his nickname, "Ice Man," by freezing some of his victims in an industrial sized freezer, to make it more difficult to determine time of death.
He was caught on December 17th, 1986, in a sting operation. He was charged with murder, attempted murder, firearms violations, robbery and attempted robbery. He was also tied to 5 other murders. Thanks to a deal he made with police, he only got 2 life sentences. Though he was only charged with 7 murders, he claims to have killed over 200 people.
He died in a secured wing of Saint Francis Medical Center of natural causes on March 5th, 2006 at the age of 70.

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