
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. 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.

Was Mafia assassin Richard Kuklinski full of sh**?
