He had two sons (the elder was Richard Jr.) with his first wife. He married a good Catholic girl, Barbara Pedrici, in 1962. Yet he continued to live in low-income housing in Jersey City, thanks to his penchant for gambling.
He was such a skilled, trusted hitman by 1960 that he began doing work for the New York crime families, earning up to five figures per job. He was soon working as an enforcer and contract killer for New Jersey’s DeCavalcante crime family, which would later serve as the model for the fictional DiMeo crime family in The Sopranos.Īt 6’4″ and 250 pounds, with a hair-trigger temper and an array of weapons, Kuklinski was an incredibly deadly force. He experimented with different killing techniques, as he would throughout his life. He claimed he killed at least 50 men just for the pleasure it gave him.
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I’ve had Richard “Ice Man” Kuklinski’s claims on my mind for some time now, and with the FBI recently scouring Detroit for Jimmy Hoffa and a movie starring Michael Shannon as Kuklinski being released in May, this seems as good a time as any to examine what the notorious hitman had to say prior to his death in 2006.īorn in 1935 to an alcoholic, abusive railroad brakeman and a fanatically Catholic mother who also administered beatings freely, Richard Leonard Kuklinski dropped out of the eighth grade to become a full-time hoodlum, stealing cars and robbing houses in Jersey City and Hoboken.Īt 19 he became a serial killer, murdering homeless men in the alleys of New York, Newark and Hoboken.
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Was Mafia assassin Richard Kuklinski full of sh**?
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