richard kuklinsky was a part-time hitman and a full-time psychopath. he was so skilled at killing and covering up his crimes that to this day, the true extent of his sins is unknown. so how did kuklinsky evade capture for so long, even i can t believe the story you re about to hear. here is part one of the ice man. in september of 1983, a fellow that was working for the road department in orange town, new york, was cutting grass on a roadway and he saw a series of
$28,000. and i said, well, then, you should go with your guy. he goes, you know, he says, i know it s a good price, but i don t know if i can trust him. i look at him, i said, you re a [bleep] idiot. you don t trust him? you don t deal with somebody you don t trust. dom makes a pretty bold move in challenging kuklinski. he s calling out one of the most dangerous men on the planet, and he s basically saying, you re a fool. you re crazy. you re doing narcotics deals with someone you don t trust? well, let me tell you something, for five seconds, he looked at me like he was grabbing my soul and saying, i m gonna rip your heart out. nobody talks to me that way. and he s looking at me and i m looking at him. it was the longest five seconds you can imagine. he could send fear through somebody s body without saying a word, just looking at them. i said, this is the devil. i m telling you, i m sitting
connection to implicate richard kuklinski. kuklinski knew that deppner and smith posed a real threat to him. they could possibly talk and give him up. building on his lifelong evolution of a killer, these were risks that for him, were unacceptable. and he got rid of them. one by one. kuklinski took gary and danny off the street and moved them to a series of motels. eventually, they were put into the york motel. richard would visit them, bring them food, tell them not to leave the room under any circumstances. on december 23rd, kuklinski decided that he was gonna kill gary smith. kuklinski got together with deppner and smith for a meal. they ordered hamburgers.
the impact i think stayed with him his whole life. i asked him, do you have any regrets, richard? and he said, yeah, i regret not killing my father. he hated his father. the question is often raised, is killing genetic? particularly, if an individual comes from a violent home. if the child is genetically at risk, if that child is raised in a violent home, it s likely the combination of both, and in richard s case, from what we know, it was likely both. what s particularly odd in this case is that richard was not the only killer in the family. richard kuklinski had a brother by the name of joseph. in 1970, he was charged in the rape and killing of a 12-year-old girl. he had lured her onto the roof of a building, where he
which indicated he in fact had been frozen. the hope that the time of death would be not known. later we were able to establish that mr. mazgay had been taken to a garage in north jersey. that garage we believe was a killing ground. and he was shot once in the back of the head. then took his body and placed it in a freezer where it remained for approximately two years. until it was dumped. that particular crime was the genesis of the name ice man. we knew we were looking for somebody who had literally frozen a person. an evil person. evil to the core. one part of my life i killed people for nothing, just for someone to look at me wrong i would kill him.