Richard Kuklinski: Serial Killers
Richard Kuklinski, a man who has been estimated to have killed over 150 people. However, this is not a man who killed these people in one single act of rage or disparity. No, Richard Kuklinski murdered these 150 people one at a time. Perhaps one of the most famous contract killers in history, Richard Kuklinski, or better known as the Iceman, killed these people during his lifelong career. This paper will delve into Kuklinski’s mind and past to prove that the many circumstances and conditions that Kuklinski was subjected to, led him to become the absolute perfect killing machine. To understand Kuklinski and his actions, it is imperative that one get know him first. Although the famed killer may be dead, it is still possible to examine him through
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Killing animals, like neighbors cats, was a recurring happening. By the time Kuklinski was a ‘Young man’ (anywhere between 14 and 18) he had committed his first murder. It was a neighborhood bully, who had been picking on Kuklinski for some time. Kuklinski ended up beating the boy to death with a metal bar that was used to hang coats on. During an interview he had this to say about his motive, “When I was a young man I found out that if you hurt somebody they’ll leave you alone. Good guys do finish last. When I tried to leave everybody alone and do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day i just decided “Well I’ve had enough of this picking.”’ After that, Kuklinski proceed to fight back with the metal bar. Eventually Kuklinski ended up, without intention, killing the boy. Kuklinski, feeling scared and worried about what he had done, did not kill again for sometime. The next time Kuklinski would would be in a bar fight when he was 18. Kuklinski described the scene, “We got into an argument, a fight. I hit him with a questick… a few too many times, and he died.” After, an interviewer asked Kuklinski how he felt after he had heard the man had died. Kuklinski responded “I felt very bad, very, very bad. I was upset. I didn’t mean to do it actually. But surprisingly I felt sadness, and after awhile I felt something else, I didn’t feel sad. I was sad along with some sort of
Killing animals, like neighbors cats, was a recurring happening. By the time Kuklinski was a ‘Young man’ (anywhere between 14 and 18) he had committed his first murder. It was a neighborhood bully, who had been picking on Kuklinski for some time. Kuklinski ended up beating the boy to death with a metal bar that was used to hang coats on. During an interview he had this to say about his motive, “When I was a young man I found out that if you hurt somebody they’ll leave you alone. Good guys do finish last. When I tried to leave everybody alone and do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day i just decided “Well I’ve had enough of this picking.”’ After that, Kuklinski proceed to fight back with the metal bar. Eventually Kuklinski ended up, without intention, killing the boy. Kuklinski, feeling scared and worried about what he had done, did not kill again for sometime. The next time Kuklinski would would be in a bar fight when he was 18. Kuklinski described the scene, “We got into an argument, a fight. I hit him with a questick… a few too many times, and he died.” After, an interviewer asked Kuklinski how he felt after he had heard the man had died. Kuklinski responded “I felt very bad, very, very bad. I was upset. I didn’t mean to do it actually. But surprisingly I felt sadness, and after awhile I felt something else, I didn’t feel sad. I was sad along with some sort of