looked over at barbara and the daughters, and they were all crying, and she said, we didn t know, we didn t know. through all of that time, all of these dozens and dozens and maybe as many as 200 murders, barbara, you didn t know that anything was up? you lived with this man for 25 years, you knew nothing? no. first of all, you never questioned richard. you have said in the past that he would sometimes get up at 2:00 in the morning, leave the house or in the middle of dinner and leave the house, and you d never ask him why. barbara was badly beaten by him. she was not in a position to ever question him about where he was going and whether he was coming back, and he was extremely macho, so she was really put-upon actually, as were her children. barbara, do you think he could have killed 200 people? i think he was capable of anything. to the jury, it was overwhelming evidence. and richard kuklinski was convicted of the murder of gary t. smith and daniel deppner. t
after they first met, dominick polifrone and richard kuklinski had a bunch of different meet-ups and discussions together about how to carry out their crimes. dominick wore something called a negra. it was a little bulkier than the technology they use today, but a negra was state-of-the-art at the time. it is a reel-to-reel tape recorder, about the size of a microwave dinner. so, imagine yourself going to meet an organized crime serial killer with this duct-taped into the small of your back. the margin of error for dom was zero. if richard kuklinski finds out that dom is lying to him, deceiving him, tricking him, he s going to drag a straight razor across his throat.
then skillfully covered his trail, but after he took out two of his crime ring cronies, he was on investigators radar. now, kuklinski and an undercover agent were about to face off. could the investigator manipulate the notoriously secretive killer to talk about his crimes? here is part two of the iceman . i beat a guy to death one time. i had blood on my shoes his blood on my shoes. just goes on that way. had to throw all my clothes away. his name was richard kuklinski, also known as the iceman. richard kuklinski allegedly killed for profit coldly and without remorse. shot a guy one time in his
of connections. can you get pure cyanide? everybody s sitting at this long table, and my pager goes off. this untouchable serial murderer was now seeking dominick out. dom was no longer hunting kuklinski. kuklinski was hunting dom. everyone is excited for dom to call back. one guy says, get a tape. i want it recorded. i want this done now. and i said, i m not doing that. i m gonna tell you why. everybody that he dealt with jumped. i m not jumping for him. he came to me.
adam s apple, see how long it would take him to die. richard kuklinski was a mafia contract killer, but he was also a freelance killer. after making contact with somebody, he would lure them into thinking that he was able to provide a quantity of something that that person was looking for, and he was not gonna just rob them. he was gonna kill them. in 1983, the authorities found a body wrapped up in orangetown, new york. this turned out to be louis masgay. he was brought to the medical examiner s office and examined. he had the same clothes on that he disappeared in two years prior. even more interesting is they found what they termed as ice crystal artifacts. which indicated that he in