"Tommy Joe" <
jo...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
You are cheating when you include Kuklinski on any mass murderer list.
He is still alive and full of boast, much of which cannot be verified.
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Umm, he died March 5, 2006... Are posting from the year 2006?
Sometimes, it seems so. Perhaps even earlier.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/09/nyregion/09kuklinski.html?_r=0
Published: March 9, 2006
Richard Kuklinski, whose lust for publicity nearly matched the blood
lust he displayed in claiming to have killed more than 100 people as a
Mafia hit man, died on Sunday in the prison wing of St. Francis Hospital
in Trenton. He was 70.
Mr. Kuklinski promoted his own notoriety by appearing in two HBO
documentaries as well as meeting with writers, psychiatrists and
criminologists. He became known as the Iceman because he sometimes froze
corpses to disguise the time of death.
Richard Kuklinski was born on April 11, 1935, in Jersey City. He killed
neighborhood cats as a youth and said he committed his first murder at
14, after which, he said, he felt "empowered." He was an altar boy and
dropped out of school in eighth grade.
His crime career began after he took a job at a film lab and sold
pornographic movies to the Gambinos. He longed to translate his love of
killing into a living, he said, but Mafia kingpins, suspicious of his
zeal, first limited him to lesser crimes.
He married his wife, Barbara, in 1961. They lived a suburban, relatively
affluent life of backyard barbecuing in Dumont, N.J. In the second
documentary, Mrs. Kuklinski called them "the all-American family."
The Bruno book quoted her as disclosing that Mr. Kuklinski tried to
smother her with a pillow, pointed a gun at her, tried to run her over
with a car and three times hit her so hard that he broke her nose.
In a 1992 column in The Washington Post about the first documentary, Tom
Shales called Mr. Kuklinski "the ultimate misanthrope, unapologetic and
irredeemable," then mentioned a promise in the prologue to penetrate his
mind.
"After watching, you may feel some minds are better left unpenetrated,"
Mr. Shales wrote.