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Richard Leonard Kuklinski (/ k ʊ ˈ k l ɪ n s k i /; April 11, 1935 – March 5, 2006), also known as "The Iceman", was an American criminal and a convicted murderer. He was engaged in criminal activities for most of his adult life; he ran a burglary ring and distributed pirated pornography .
Richard Kuklinski, American serial killer, known as ‘The Iceman,’ who was convicted of five murders and who in a series of media interviews later confessed to having killed at least 100 more and to having been a Mafia hit man. Learn more about his life and the murders for which he was convicted.
Richard Kuklinski, better known as “The Iceman,” was convicted of murdering five people, but he claimed to have killed hundreds. But was the Iceman killer an inveterate liar or one of the worst mass murderers in history? This is the chilling story of Richard Kuklinski. How Richard Kuklinski’s Harsh Early Life Put Him On The Path To Crime
Richard not only killed George Malliband during a meeting to sell him tapes in 1980, but he also slew Louis Masgay in mid-1981 and pharmacist Paul Hoffman in early 1982 for blank tapes and drug-related reasons, respectively.
A jury found elusive contract killer Richard “The Iceman” Kuklinski guilty of murder in March 1988 and sentenced him to consecutive life terms. Retired special agent Dominick Polifrone helped nab the murderer in a joint operation by the New Jersey Attorney General’s office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
This cold-blooded killer allegedly murdered dozens, if not hundreds of people in gruesome ways — sometimes for the mob, sometimes for fun — then froze the bodies to obscure the victim’s time of death and throw off police. After he was finally arrested in 1986, Kuklinski wasn’t shy about bragging.
He earned the nickname, “The Iceman,” because he would occasionally place his victims in freezers after he murdered them and leave them there for years until he dumped the bodies. This confused investigators who could not figure out time of death because the victims had been frozen.
