Kuklinski then married Barbara and had two daughters and a son. Kuklinski told her, "That is an object lesson: never leave me." She claimed he stabbed her. She claimed in a later interview that once, during an argument in a car, she told Richard she did not want to stay in the car, felt a pain in her neck and, when she touched it, felt and saw blood. He was married with two sons when he met Barbara Pedrici. When asked about his brother's crimes, Richard replied: "We come from the same father." Marriage and childrenīefore he became a contract killer, Kuklinski worked in a warehouse in New Jersey. He had a younger sister, Roberta, and a younger brother, Joseph, who was convicted of raping and murdering a 12-year-old girl. The family lied to the police, saying that he had fallen down a flight of steps. His older brother Florian died of injuries suffered from abuse by his father. She believed that stern discipline should be accompanied by a strict religious upbringing, and raised her son in the Roman Catholic Church, where he became an altar boy.
His mother also beat him with broom handles (sometimes breaking the handle) and other household objects. Richard was constantly abused by his parents, especially by his father, who repeatedly beat him. Kuklinski earned the moniker "The Iceman" for freezing many of his victims to obfuscate their time of death.Richard Kuklinski was born in the family apartment on 4th Street in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Stanley Kuklinski, a Polish immigrant from Karwacz, Masovian Voivodeship and brakeman on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, and Anna McNally from Harsimus, a daughter of Catholic Irish immigrants from Dublin, who worked in a meat-packing plant during Richard's childhood. Kuklinski learned many of these tactics from fellow hitman Robert Pronge, known as "Mister Softee" because he drove an ice cream truck as his cover. His resume for killing included guns, ice picks, hand grenades, crossbows and chainsaws, but his favorite method of murder, he'd later proudly confess, was a nasal-spray bottle filled with cyanide. He also worked for Newark's DeCavalcante crime family and the Gambinos of New York City.Īt a towering 6'5", weighing an eventual 300 pounds, Kuklinski had an imposing and fearsome bearing. He soon became the Genovese crime family's indispensable hitman, known for thoroughly disposing of his victims - removing their teeth and fingers, or dumping them off bridges, in rivers or down mine shafts. He earned Mafia respect at age 18 by efficiently and unquestioningly killing a random man selected for him on the sidewalk. Kuklinski's criminal activities included robbery, hijackings and selling pornographic films, but murder was his forte.
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