He said he participated in several famous Mafia killings, including the disappearance and presumed murder of Teamsters' president Jimmy Hoffa. Kuklinski also claimed to have worked as a hitman for the Mafia. None of these additional murders have been corroborated. He claimed to have murdered anywhere from 100 to 200 men, often in gruesome fashion. Īfter his murder convictions, Kuklinski gave interviews to writers, prosecutors, criminologists, and psychiatrists.
In 2003, he received an additional 30-year sentence after confessing to the murder of a police officer. In 1988, he was convicted of four murders and sentenced to life imprisonment. An eighteen-month-long undercover operation led to his arrest in December 1986. Eventually, Kuklinski came to the attention of law enforcement when an investigation into his burglary gang linked him to several murders, as he was the last person to have seen five missing men alive. He also killed two associates to prevent them from becoming informants. Kuklinski's modus operandi was to lure men to clandestine meetings with the promise of lucrative business deals, then kill them and steal their money. He was given the moniker Iceman by authorities after they discovered that he had frozen the body of one of his victims in an attempt to disguise the time of death. They stated that they were unaware of his crimes. They knew him as a loving father and husband, although one who also had a violent temper. Kuklinski lived with his wife and children in the New Jersey suburb of Dumont.
Prosecutors described him as killing for profit. He committed at least five murders between 19. Kuklinski was engaged in criminal activities for most of his adult life he ran a burglary ring and distributed pirated pornography. Richard Leonard Kuklinski ( / k ʊ ˈ k l ɪ n s k i/ Ap– March 5, 2006), also known as " The Iceman", was an American criminal and convicted murderer.
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