Richard Leonard Kuklinski (/ k ʊ ˈ k l ɪ n s k i /: April 11, 1935 – March 5, 2006), also known as the Iceman, was an American criminal and a convicted killer. He was engaged in criminal activities for most of his adult life, he ran a burglary ring and distributed pirated pornography .

Richard Kuklinski, American serial killer, known as ‘The Iceman,’ who was convicted of five murders and who in a series of media interviews later confessed to having killed at least 100 more and to having been a Mafia hit man.

May 22, 2024 · Convicted of five murders in the early 1980s, Richard Kuklinski became known as "The Iceman" because he froze his victims' bodies to disguise their time of death. To his family and neighbors, Richard Kuklinski was the all-American man.

Richard "Iceman" Kuklinski (April 11, 1935 – March 5, 2006) was a convicted murderer and notorious contract killer. He worked for several Italian-American crime families, and claimed to have murdered over 200 people over a career that lasted thirty years.

Sep 29, 2023 · A husband and father living in suburban New Jersey, Richard Kuklinski may have looked like an ordinary family man — but was he really a vicious Mafia killer known as "The Iceman"?

May 26, 2020 · A jury found elusive contract killer Richard “The Iceman” Kuklinski guilty of murder in March 1988 and sentenced him to consecutive life terms. Retired special agent Dominick Polifrone helped nab the murderer in a joint operation by the New Jersey Attorney General’s office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms .

Richard Kuklinski was an American criminal known as the Iceman, an apt nickname for the cold-blooded murderer he was. Though he was convicted of four out of five counts of murder, he claimed to have killed between 100 and 200 men for which authorities couldn’t find proof.

Nov 13, 2009 · Richard Kuklinski, a suspect in several murders, is arrested by undercover agents at a truck stop off the New Jersey Turnpike, marking the culmination of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and...

He earned the nickname, “The Iceman,” because he would occasionally place his victims in freezers after he murdered them and leave them there for years until he dumped the bodies. This confused investigators who could not figure out time of …

Richard Kuklinski, known as "The Iceman," was a notorious contract killer and mafia hitman who claimed to have killed over 100 people. His crimes included murder, extortion, and drug trafficking.