so-called iceman. richard had an unusual reaction to dominick. he i think in his own way respected dominick, because dominic was able to get oh on him. today in court the iceman greeted him with a hello dominick. he seems to be cheery about saying hello to you. i reciprocated. the only difference is i m going home and he s going into a different environment at the time. after kuklinski was sentenced to new jersey state prison, we got a christmas card from him, which was a very sick, odd number of drawings with jesus and the devil and skulls, and it was just bizarre. and that was kuklinski, sending us a message, merry christmas.
in october, he calls. he says, i have your assassination kit for you. we meet at the vince lombardi service station that he suggests. inside the trunk, a beautiful, high-standard .22 caliber silencer affixed to the weapon. you want me to show it to you, or you want let me just look, huh? huh? yeah. just don t use it on me, heh? you [ bleep ]. you should have three pieces. you have the clip, the gun, and the silencer. so, i take the gun, and i give him $1,100. it was a clean criminal deal that just further enhanced dom s credibility in the eyes of kuklinski. he goes, i can t stay that long. he says, but you have your source for the pure cyanide? i said, absolutely. he says, okay, let s stay in touch. as the investigation proceeded, we decided to come up
agent polifrone to meet richard kuklinski regarding the jewish kid murder. kuklinski and dominick met up on december 17th, 1986, at the vince lombardi rest area. dom gives kuklinski the egg sandwiches and what is allegedly a vial of cyanide. he brought tape with him and rubber gloves that he had, so he was ready for this. kuklinski then says, listen, my wife wasn t feeling that good, but i m gonna head home, but i ll be back. now, what happened was kuklinski didn t come back right away. surveillance indicated he was at his house, and the decision was made then by the upper echelon, just take him down. and they did.
people up close and personal. definitely. i wanted to tell them just before they left. i wanted to say goodbye. would you like to look them in the eye? i wanted them looking straight at me. he spoke about his life. he talked about the murders that he commit. he talked about his mindset and when he committed these murders. what did you want them to see as they died? just see my pretty face. last thing they ever saw was me. and if they carry that glimpse to eternity infinity they re going to be thinking of me all that time. career hit man s confession the iceman saying one victim was a new york city police detective. one of the kings that
there was a lot of physical evidence, a lot of testimony from medical examiners about how these people had died. one of the witnesses was gary smith s wife. she testified that her husband left the hotel where richard was having them stay. when gary came home, she said, don t go back. you know, don t go back, and he said, i have to. he ll kill the whole family if i don t. he goes back, and richie kills him. in court, kuklinski himself continued with his continence of intimidation, would yell out every now and then at people on the stand. when witnesses testified against him, he would mouth, you re dead , or he would go like this to scratch his head, and he d go like this and make it like a gun pointing at them.