Kuklinski admits to having committed over 100 murders, both for personal reasons and for profit, in his 22-year career. Neither his wife nor his daughters had ever suspected him of being a killer.
Both Kuklinski and Freezy have to go on the run to escape DeMeo, but Kuklinski kills Freezy for insisting they kill each others families to prevent them from talking to the police.įollowing an undercover sting operation, Kuklinski is arrested in 1986. Kuklinski's daughter is hospitalized after a hit and run by DeMeo. He refuses to pay anything, prompting Kuklinski to shoot him dead. Kuklinski then goes to Leo Merks to collect the bounty money, but Leo is furious that the job was not untraceable. DeMeo finds out about the hits Kuklinski has been doing behind his back and threatens to kill his family if they ever cross paths again. DeMeo's boss Leo Merks hires Freezy to kill one of DeMeo's associates, which Kuklinski does by poisoning him with cyanide. He starts becoming incapable of hiding his inner rage and shows bursts of anger towards his wife and strangers. Kuklinski home life is beginning to unravel. Needing money, he makes a deal with Freezy to carry out his murder contracts for him in return for half the bounties. DeMeo, already involved in a dispute with the Cali Cartel, is furious when he learns what happened and decommissions Kuklinski indefinitely. Freezy, a freelance hitman also hired by DeMeo, almost kills her, but is stopped by Kuklinski. He is ordered to kill a man who betrayed DeMeo, but finds a teenage girl in the closet afterwards. In 1975, Kuklinski moves his family into a nice suburban home and starts telling people he works at a currency trading company. DeMeo tests Kuklinski by having him kill a homeless man then hires him as an enforcer and contract killer. The mob-backed company he works for is shut down by Roy DeMeo, a powerful New York City gangster. Kuklinski works dubbing pornographic films, but tells his wife he dubs cartoons. His brother is serving a life sentence in prison for raping and murdering a 12-year old girl. As a boy he and his younger brother were the subject of brutal beatings from their immigrant Polish father, shaping the boys into emotionally disturbed, sadistic young men. Kuklinski presents himself to everyone as a normal working man, but he has a dark, violent side that he hides.
Kuklinski marries Deborah in 1964 and the couple have two daughters. This film offers extraordinary insight into the cold-heart of a killer.When a man insults Richard Kuklinski's fiancé during a game of pool, he follows the man to his car and murders him by slashing his throat. Kuklinski tells first hand how he brutally murdered men at close range dismembered and disposed of them before returning home to his family. While leading the life of a happy family man in the New Jersey suburbs Richard Kuklinski was also living a bizarre double-life as a Mafia hit man. Fascinating as a firsthand record of Mafia killing, these otherwise unsavory interviews serve little purpose beyond morbid exploitation.
A vicious product of child abuse, Kuklinski was visited again by HBO in 2001, but this shameless redundancy was an obvious attempt to capitalize on the Sopranos phenomenon. He describes numerous killings in graphic detail, expressing nearly tearful regret only when lamenting the deception of his family. Specializing in the tidy use of cyanide, Kuklinski lived a double life, like the fictional hitmen in The Sopranos and Road to Perdition, passing as a “businessman” and devoted husband and father. Speaking in the monotonous drone of a man who has numbed himself with remorseless brutality, Kuklinski was first interviewed in 1991, five years after receiving consecutive life sentences for multiple murders. The Iceman is an appropriate title for this documentary, because the words of former Mafia enforcer Richard Kuklinski will chill you to the bone.
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