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It was around this time that he quit his lab job and began distributing and financing porn. In 1971, he murdered a bouncer at the Peppermint Lounge for showing him disrespect. When a union representative confronted him about this, he killed the man and disguised his death as a hanging in a public park. He worked long hours, often staying in the lab through the night. They weren’t aware that he was actually copying porn movies in a lab controlled by a member of the Gambino crime family. So far as his family knew, though, Kuklinski’s only job was copying cartoons in a Hell’s Kitchen lab. He shot two men in a fit of road rage, killed four others when a buyer who tried to renegotiate the price of a stolen load of wristwatches, and tortured and killed two men who attempted to steal a load of stolen goods from his crew. Then, with two other guys, he reverted to stealing truckloads of merchandise. The closest he came to organized crime was bootlegging copies of cartoons and X-rated movies while working in a film lab. THE ICEMAN KILLER NET WORTH SERIESHe worked a series of low-paying, menial “straight” jobs. Though Barbara had three miscarriages and a difficult fourth pregnancy in 1962 and ’63, and the couple had no money, Kuklinski didn’t take a single contract during this period. He claims he sliced off his first wife’s nipples when he found her in bed with another man, but didn’t officially separate from her until the eve of his marriage to Barbara. 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. THE ICEMAN KILLER NET WORTH MOVIEI’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. THE ICEMAN KILLER NET WORTH FULLWas Mafia assassin Richard Kuklinski full of sh**?
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