Kuklinski called them "the all-American family." They lived a suburban, relatively affluent life of backyard barbecuing in Dumont, N.J. He longed to translate his love of killing into a living, he said, but Mafia kingpins, suspicious of his zeal, first limited him to lesser crimes. His crime career began after he took a job at a film lab and sold pornographic movies to the Gambinos. He killed neighborhood cats as a youth and said he committed his first murder at 14, after which, he said, he felt "empowered." He was an altar boy and dropped out of school in eighth grade. Richard Kuklinski was born on April 11, 1935, in Jersey City.
In an interview for "The Iceman: The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer" (1993) written by Anthony Bruno, he said he had killed Roy DeMeo, a particularly murderous member of the Gambino crime family, but Jerry Capeci, a well-known authority on the Mafia who has written extensively about it, doubted this. In the first documentary, in 1992, he said he had killed up to 100 people. Kuklinski disclosed the killing of Detective Calabro on the second HBO documentary on his life, in 2001. In 2003, his guilty plea in the 1980 slaying of Peter Calabro, a New York City police detective, added a meaningless 30 years: he was already ineligible for parole until the age of 110.
The authorities also impugned his claim of storing a corpse in the freezer of a Mister Softee truck for two years.īut enough of the truth emerged in a New Jersey courtroom in 1988 to convict him of five murders, for which he was serving consecutive life sentences. Kuklinski - a 6-foot-5, 300-pound, tattooed, bearded man - took his public act a step too far and told specious stories, like the dramatic role he claimed in the killing of the Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa.
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