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What did you want them to think as they
died?
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Just see my pretty face.
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I take it to them.
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The last thing they ever saw was me.
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And if they carry that glimpse to
eternity, infinity, or whatever it is,
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going to be thinking of me all that
time.
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Welcome to Very Scary People.
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I'm Donnie Wahlberg.
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He was living a double life.
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He seemed like a quiet husband and
father, but he was a vicious, cold
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killer. Richard Kuklinski was a part
-time hitman and a full -time
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His disturbing collection of murders was
motivated by money, by rage, and
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sometimes by nothing at all.
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He was so skilled at killing and
covering up his crimes that to this day
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true extent of his sins is unknown.
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So how did Kuklinski evade capture for
so long?
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Even I can't believe the story you're
about to hear.
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Here is part one of The Iceman.
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In September of 1983, a fellow that was
working for the road department in
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Orangetown, New York, was cutting grass
on a roadway.
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And he saw a series of plastic bags and
he thought he saw flesh.
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He went over, looked at it, and it was a
body.
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He was brought to the medical examiner's
office and examined.
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Several interesting things came from
that.
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This subject, after he had been killed,
had been methodically wrapped in
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plastic, 27 layers of garbage bags.
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And it looked at first as if perhaps
he'd recently died.
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This turned out to be Louis Mazgay.
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Louis Mazgay disappeared in July 1981.
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Two years before the body was found.
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But he had the same clothes on.
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That he disappeared two years prior.
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They knew that this was pretty strange.
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Even more interesting is they found what
they termed as ice crystal artifacts.
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Which indicated that he, in fact, had
been frozen.
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In the hope that the time of death would
be not known.
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Later, we were able to establish that
Mr. Mazgay had been taken to a garage in
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North Bergen, New Jersey.
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That garage, we believe, was a killing
ground.
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And he was shot once in the back of the
head.
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Then took his body and placed it in a
freezer where it remained for
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approximately two years.
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Until it was dumped.
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That particular crime.
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was the genesis of the name Iceman.
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We knew we were looking for somebody
that had literally frozen a person.
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An evil person.
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Evil to the core.
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One part of my life, I have killed
people for nothing. Just for somebody to
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at me wrong, I would kill them.
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From what we understand, Kuklinski got a
job working in a film lab in New
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York City where he was dealing with
videotapes and making duplicate copies,
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he also segued into making copies of
pornographic films.
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He met a man named Roy DeMille through
the underground pornography industry.
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Roy DeMille was a soldier within the
Gambino crime family.
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And that's known for killing people. He
had a crew of sociopaths, basically,
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who operated out of the Gemini Lounge.
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They used to chop up people in the
Gemini Lounge, just like in The
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where they put them in the bathtubs,
they chopped them up, and then they'd
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rid of the bodies.
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The male saw Kuklinski as someone who
could be an asset for him.
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Kuklinski was a very large fellow.
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very intimidating, so he thought he
could be an enforcer. If he came to you
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asking for money, you would pay.
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But it wasn't long before DeMeo
discovered that Kuklinski was probably
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valuable as a killer.
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As the story goes, Roy DeMeo wanted to
find out what Kuklinski was capable of.
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One day, they were riding in a car, and
Roy DeMeo said, okay, well, kill this
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guy here.
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There was a guy walking his dog.
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Didn't know the man. Couldn't have been
me walking down the street.
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Could have been anybody.
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Richard got out.
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He shot this man.
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And at that point, Roy DeMeo knew that
Richard had essentially
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what it takes.
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And that's how Richard got into the
business of murdering people for profit.
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From that point, from there, he launched
a career being what he represented as
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one of the most prolific mob killers.
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It's interesting because a person like
Kuklinski, the one area of knowledge,
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base foundation of knowledge, was in
killing.
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He really prided himself, it seems, on
the various ways and different ways in
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which he killed people.
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According to Kuklinski, he killed with
firearms, with knives. He also
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He said that he killed an individual.
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that was involved in a pornography
business.
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He said that he went there and he rang
the doorbell and the person asked who
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there. And when that person looked
through the peephole, he squeezed the
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and blew the guy's head off.
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On another occasion, he stated that he
had thrown a person off a building in
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Hawaii. In one case, he claimed to have
allowed rats to eat a person alive.
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He talked about how he had some people
beg for mercy.
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Kukunsky was a different breed.
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A different breed.
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Normally when we think of serial murder,
we think of the lust killer, somebody
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who's getting perverse sexual
satisfaction of killing.
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However, there are a number of types of
serial murders.
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We have another type who kills for
profit.
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and a serial killer who killed for power
and control. And those two seem to be
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fused for him in most cases.
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He did it because he liked it.
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He had no remorse whatsoever.
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He loves that stuff.
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He's into it.
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He was a killing machine.
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He could do it on a moment's notice,
with no hesitation, no conscience.
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This guy, I thought, made Richard Amira
the night stalker seem like a quarry boy
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lost in the wood.
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Believe it or not, he was truly a
devoted family man.
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He kept his work life very separate from
his family.
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Richard Kukwinski married Barbara in
1961, and they had three children, two
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girls and a boy.
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He loved them more than anything.
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They were his pride and joy.
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They moved to Dumont, New Jersey, which
is a pretty nice town, and lived a
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suburban lifestyle.
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None of his neighbors.
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had any clue who this guy was who lived
next door.
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He was a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He had
a duality that is very, very, very
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rare. He could be the nicest, sweetest,
giving guy, a good neighbor, somebody
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who wanted to live next door, and the
next minute he could be slowly torturing
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somebody.
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His wife Barbara told me she really
didn't know too much about what he did.
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I think she knew him as a businessman.
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I don't think she knew much more than
that.
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He liked that the victims were looking
directly at him.
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Pleasure from seeing someone terrified
and a sense of power and control.
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Should have got one time in it as soon.
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Adam's app.
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See how long it would take him to die.
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How long did it take?
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A few minutes.
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He drowned, actually.
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Drowned in his blood?
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Mm -hmm.
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I was with somebody else. We had a $50
bet.
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I lost.
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Richard Kuklinski was a mafia contract
killer.
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But he was also a freelance killer.
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He would do jobs on the side.
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He became involved in a series of what
we would call the commercial murders.
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After making contact with somebody, he
would lure them into thinking that he
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able to provide a quantity of something
that that person was looking for,
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whether it be videotapes, whether it be
a pharmaceutical product.
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And he got them to bring cash to
locations.
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With the hope of making a score.
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And all of a sudden they weren't seen
again.
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Nor was the money.
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He didn't just rob them. He would kill
them so they could never come back and
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say anything about him.
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Then the money would dry up in spells.
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And he'd have to go out and hunt again.
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Just like a lion in Africa.
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Trying to select his prey.
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Then come home with the goodies.
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In 1980, Kuklinski met up with a man
named George Malabant.
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Malabant's brother had indicated he was
supposed to meet somebody.
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The purpose was to buy videotapes, and
he had to bring cash.
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We're sitting in a van. I'm in the
driver's seat.
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Georgie Boy was over here in the next
seat, which was, you know, just like
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He was shot by Kukwinski.
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His body was taken and was put in a 50
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Kukwinski couldn't get his body into the
drum because Malaban was a large male.
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And he cut his leg, the ligaments, so he
could bend his legs and stuff them into
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the drum.
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And then he tossed it from a cliff.
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His body was found.
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On February 5th, in a Jersey City
industrial area.
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As the state police and the local
authorities investigated that murder,
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very few leads.
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Case didn't go anywhere at the time.
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Nowhere. They had a body in a barrel.
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They had some ballistics.
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So it was a completely unsolved crime.
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You have said of Richard, there are two
Richards.
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I never knew who'd be walking in the
door. He could be generous to a fault or
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the meanest man on earth. Tell us more
about that. That's true.
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He was kind, considerate. You know, he
would have done anything for all of us.
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Very generous gifts and flowers and the
best dinners and nice wine.
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But when whatever twisted him, whatever
happened, it didn't matter how good
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those times were.
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Because the bad was so bad. And he
abused you physically.
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He certainly did. What did he do?
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Stabbed me.
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Broke my nose.
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Lost consciousness many times. Strangled
me.
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Would wake up, you know, 2 o 'clock in
the morning with a pillow over my face.
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And he would tell me that he decided
that was the day I die.
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So the idea that he may have killed you
was not outside of the realm of
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possibility. Absolutely not. Mary, he
talked to you about that. What did he
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He had said that if he ever went too far
with Mom.
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Killed her.
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Right.
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that I would have to understand that he
would have to take care, you know, get
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rid of all of us because he could leave
no witnesses and that it would be hard.
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He'd have to kill you?
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And how old were you when he told you
this?
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That was probably about 14.
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Your father said, if I accidentally kill
your mother in a fit of rage, I'm going
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to have to kill you too.
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But that could have happened at any time
during the rages that he could have
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slipped and killed any of us, all of us.
And you accepted that?
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Well, at times that that might have been
easier.
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There was no choice. What was the
choice?
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What did you think of your father?
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Merrick and him were very close. I was
not close with him. I was more, I
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protected my mother, and that was where
my alliance laid.
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Merrick, you made excuses for him?
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For his behavior at home.
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I don't know if it was excuses per se,
but I
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think that I tried to make him see
different,
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to try to calm him.
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And so my role was to try to keep him
happy, to keep him calm so that the
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outbursts were less.
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Good dad was always overshadowed, but
bad dad could be there any second.
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We had to be the perfect family,
smiling.
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That's the difference. When he was
around, we had to smile.
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We were born into this, and this was
normal life for us. This is what home
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was all about. We didn't know that our
friends didn't live like this.
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In his own sick, weird way, he loved
them more than anything.
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They were his pride and joy.
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The only time I ever got any emotion out
of him during all the many hours I
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spoke to him was when he spoke about his
family, his dear, profound, twisted,
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sick love for them.
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Probably the smartest thing that Richard
Kuklinski did as a hitman or as a
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killer was to leave very little trace of
what he had done.
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One of the methods Richard used to kill
and actually preferred was cyanide.
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Cyanide is a toxin that can work very
fast on the body.
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It's a really potent...
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Toxin, meaning that it doesn't take much
in the way of milligrams to cause
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toxicity.
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Kuklinski used a number of different
means of delivery of cyanide. He talked
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about putting it on food.
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There's also injection.
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He could walk into a bar, bump elbows
with the guy.
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He's got cyanide in the drink.
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Spill the drink on them.
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And leave.
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Everybody just looks around and thinks
you were drunk or that you just had an
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accident or something.
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Meanwhile,
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it's soaking through their clothes into
their pores and into their system.
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And eventually, they'll die.
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Then there's the sprain in the face that
he talked about.
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You can put it into a spray bottle.
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This guy takes
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five, no more than ten steps, falls to
the ground.
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There's no turning around from that at
all.
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Not at all.
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Once they ingest that into their system,
it's going to kill you.
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As a murderer, I can see where Cook
-Clemson thought this was a good method
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because there's always the problem of
the body.
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He wants to take somebody out. They
suddenly look like they're having a
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attack.
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No one thinks it's cyanide.
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Chris, did you ever wonder why your mom
didn't take you and flee the situation?
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Oh, many times.
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I begged her. Please, let's get out of
here. Let's leave. Let's go someplace.
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There wasn't anywhere to go.
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They planned to poison him, Barbara and
Chris.
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They actually were planning to kill him,
but they realized that if they tried to
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do that and it didn't work, that he
would kill them.
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Paul Hoffman was a pharmacist in New
Jersey.
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At the time, the drug tagament.
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was very popular, and was being ordered
in large quantities by a lot of the
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populace. It was a very expensive drug.
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Hoffman wanted this drug that Kuklinski
said he had.
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I don't know what the price was going
back then, but let's just say if the
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price for the medicine was $5, he was
going to buy it for under a dollar.
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He was going to make a ton of money.
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Richard Kukwinski told Hoffman that
somebody was going to deliver a van
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with tagament for him. And Hoffman
emptied out his bank account.
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He had, I believe it was $20 ,000 or $25
,000 in cash.
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Kukwinski had Paul Hoffman come to his
garage on New Kirk Avenue.
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And he closed the door.
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He says, how am I going to get this
merchandise?
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I put the gun under his chin, and I
said, there is no merchandise.
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And I shot him.
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Paul Hoffman did not die.
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He was struggling and gurgling, and
Richard tried to shoot him again, and
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gun malfunctioned.
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Took a tire iron out.
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And beat him to death.
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He then took his body and he put it in a
50 -gallon drum.
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And he placed concrete on top of the
body and he sealed the drum.
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And that's how Paul Hoffman met his
demise.
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The murder seems.
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Pretty cruel.
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Callous.
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No feeling.
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No remorse at all.
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Welcome back to Very Scary People. By
1982.
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Police say Richard Kuklinski had killed
three men in New Jersey, George
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Malaband, Louis Mazgay, and Paul
Hoffman, as part of what was dubbed his
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commercial murders.
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The murders were committed and the
bodies dumped in three different
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jurisdictions. And though Kuklinski was
thought to be the last person to see
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each of them alive, these killings were
unsolved and unlinked for a long time.
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But all that was about to change.
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In the 1980s, Kuklinski began working
with a small crime ring in the northern
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part of New Jersey.
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They were doing house burglaries and
stolen cars and stuff like that.
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Richard Kuklinski was the boss.
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Underneath him was Percy House.
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Two of the more productive of his crew,
if you call it that, were Gary Smith and
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Danny Deppner.
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I had 40 house burglaries in a three
-county area.
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And I had an informant with me. That was
part of the crew.
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I said to him, where's all these
proceeds going to?
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He says, you don't want to know.
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I said, why don't I want to know? He
says, because the guy running this whole
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thing, if he finds out that you're on to
him, he's coming after you.
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He said, he is the most vicious person
I've ever seen, I've ever heard of. All
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he has to do is look at you, and you
feel like running for the hills.
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I said, give me his name.
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I want his name.
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He gave me the name Richard Kuklinski.
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After time, there was enough evidence to
indict several of those individuals on
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several charges regarding stolen
property, including Gary Smith and Danny
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Deppner.
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Although there was not enough connection
to implicate Richard Kuklinski.
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Kuklinski knew that Deppner and Smith
posed a real threat to him.
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They could possibly talk.
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and give him up.
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Building on his lifelong evolution of a
killer, these were risks that for him
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were unacceptable.
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And he got rid of them, one by one.
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Kuklinski took Gary and Danny off the
street and moved them to a series of
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motels.
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Eventually, they were put into the York
Motel, which he would visit them, bring
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them food.
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told him not to leave the room under any
circumstances.
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On December 23rd, Kukwinski decided that
he was going to kill Gary Smith.
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Kukwinski got together with Deppner and
Smith for a meal.
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They ordered hamburgers.
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Kukwinski decided he would kill Smith by
poisoning him with cyanide.
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Cyanide looks just like salt, table
salt.
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So Kuklinski had mixed cyanide in the
ketchup that was then brought on a
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hamburger to Gary Smith.
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Gary Smith started to eat the hamburger.
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Gary, about halfway through, his eyes
went goofy and rolled back in his head,
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and he fell back on the bed.
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He was gagging and trying to breathe.
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Kuklinski went next to the bed.
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ripped the lamp cord off of the lamp,
threw it to Danny.
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And he then ordered Danny Deppner to
finish him off with the cord, which
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Deppner did.
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He got behind him, put the cord around
his neck, and choked off his Airstream.
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Gary Smith's body was then laced under
the mattress in the bedroom of the
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and it remained there for a number of
days.
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The room was rented out to several
guests several times. They had no idea
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this guy's corpse was underneath it
before the odor finally got the hotel
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to find it and call the cops.
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There was decay that had occurred. So
the body had actually turned the skin
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in color to the point that they thought
it was an African -American male
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initially.
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Kuklinski knows that there's someone
else who has to be eliminated from the
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case, and that's Mr. Deppner.
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May? Of 1983, Danny Deppner's body was
found by a reservoir in the woods and
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wrapped in multiple layers of garbage
bags.
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When I got to the scene, I remember
saying to myself, you son of a bitch,
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going to get you now.
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Come hell or high water, I'm going to
get you.
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And that's when I started to zero in on
him.
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We found three reports.
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They were sitting in like a dead file,
going nowhere.
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Hoffman. Nascay and Malibu.
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The police made the connection that
Richard Kuklinski appeared to be the
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person who had been seen by these three
men who subsequently were murdered.
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When I discovered that, I go, oh, wow.
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How many people did this guy kill?
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They didn't have anything that linked
Kuklinski to these cases.
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For sure.
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Given that Kuklinski was pretty
experienced as having been a mob hitman,
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how to cover his tracks. He was very
careful about making sure nobody would
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find out what he had done.
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They had a lot of disparate crimes.
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And because Kuklinski was actively
working to eliminate evidence, it was
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lacking with proof beyond a reasonable
doubt.
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They needed to find a way to link
Kuklinski to all these different
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They needed direct evidence. They needed
to hear from Kuklinski himself.
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how he murdered these individuals.
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I am what you call the person's
nightmare.
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Because of the way I project myself,
people think they can get by.
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And then all of a sudden, when they wake
up, it's too late.
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One of the dynamics we look at is how
did Richard get into this business of
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being a killer?
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What was the template upon which this
mass murderer was formed?
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Well, basically, Richard was a severely
abused child.
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Richard Kuklinski was born April 11,
1935, in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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Kuklinski had three siblings. They were
Florian, Roberta, and Joseph.
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His family was not well off.
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Richard had a very difficult upbringing.
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His father, according to Richard, was
physically abusive, beat him, beat other
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members of the family.
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He wrapped a garrison belt around his
fist and he hit them in the head and
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knocked them out.
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And his mother was verbally abusive,
very strict, and at times would
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also beat him with a broom.
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There's a lack of love in that family
and quite a bit of what I would call
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brutality.
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So that's really not a very good
environment, I would say.
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Richard's brother, Florian, died at
approximately age eight.
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Initially, it was believed that he had
fallen down the stairs and sustained
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injuries from that fall.
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Richard has said that actually what
happened was that Florian was beaten to
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death by his father.
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The impact, I think, stayed with him his
whole life.
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I asked him, do you have any regrets,
Richard?
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And he said, yeah, I regret not killing
my father. He hated his father.
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The question is often raised, is killing
genetic, particularly if an individual
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comes from a violent home?
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If the child is genetically at risk, if
that child is raised in a violent home,
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it's likely the combination of both.
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And in Richard's case, from what we
know, it was likely both.
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What's particularly odd in this case is
that Richard was not the only killer in
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the family.
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Richard Kuklinski had a brother by the
name of Joseph.
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In 1970, he was charged.
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in the rape and killing of a 12 -year
-old girl.
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He had lured her onto the roof of a
building where he sexually assaulted
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and afterwards he threw her body off the
building and killed her. He was
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convicted of murder.
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When you have violence in the home, it
can create the dynamics that can lead to
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violent behavior, and in a very small
percentage of cases, It can also lead
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to killing. In this case, clearly that
rage could propel someone to kill
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or to explode under certain
circumstances.
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We had acquired a lot of information
through various law enforcement sources
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which pointed to Richard Kukwinski.
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The problem with it was there wasn't
enough information to arrest him.
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The idea that was suggested was maybe,
just maybe, we could have an undercover
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pose as another criminal to build
evidence that would support a
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When the investigation of Richard
Kuklinski needed an undercover
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went and got Dom Polifrone.
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If there was a Mount Rushmore for
undercover agent, Dom's face would
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be carved in the granite.
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Dominic Polifrone was a decorated
federal agent that has successfully
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infiltrated major mob families in New
York.
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I worked all organized crime, five
families in New York before I came over
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New Jersey. I had a lot of experience. I
spent 15 years in the streets.
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You could talk the talk, walk the walk.
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I didn't play a different part. I was
myself.
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That's who I am, and that's who I'm
going to die as, okay?
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He had the look. He had the dialect.
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He was the person, if anyone, that could
get close to Richard Kuklinski.
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So I read the information about
Kuklinski. They had a huge folder on
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he lived, his family, his associates.
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And they alleged that he committed five
murders.
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There was this poison that was involved.
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And it cut into your skin there. There's
no way an antidote would work
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there.
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Headquarters called me and says, are you
sure you want to do this?
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This is a case that is totally, totally
like a Twilight Zone case.
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So I said, yeah, I want to do it.
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I used the name of Dominic Michael
Provenzano.
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So to make this false persona character
real, Michael Dominic
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Provenzano had fake IDs, fake criminal
histories, mugshots on file.
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a fake apartment, all which were
available and accessible and verifiable
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solidify his credibility if anybody was
trying to look at him from the outside
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in. The main function of this
investigation was get the information
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Kuklinski murdered them people. Bottom
line, we have to meet Richard Kuklinski.
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He was very unpredictable.
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He was very cunning.
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He was very...
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wary of outside people.
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And we knew it would be very difficult
to get an undercover into him.
468
00:34:05,230 --> 00:34:09,989
The way Dominic sort of integrated
himself into this world was there was a
469
00:34:09,989 --> 00:34:10,989
store.
470
00:34:12,290 --> 00:34:16,409
This is a place where guys like Kukinski
used to hang out.
471
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:22,860
I guess you could describe the store as
a combination of a social club and a
472
00:34:22,860 --> 00:34:27,760
location where different criminal
elements would meet to discuss and to
473
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,199
stolen property and other criminal
activities.
474
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:37,340
Dom's generic persona, cover story, was
that he was a guy that could
475
00:34:37,340 --> 00:34:38,679
obtain contraband.
476
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:40,860
Dom was a black market guy.
477
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:45,420
that knew all the people in all the dark
alleys and all the hidden corners, and
478
00:34:45,420 --> 00:34:48,860
he could go find what you needed,
regardless of how exotic it was.
479
00:34:50,060 --> 00:34:54,600
So I started hanging out at the store,
and I'm developing my rapport with these
480
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:55,598
bad guys.
481
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:59,200
Dominic had to dedicate himself for a
long time to do things that would
482
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:00,200
establish his credibility.
483
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:06,960
I go in one day, and I walk in with this
suitcase, and they go, what's that? I
484
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,320
said, it's for people in New York who
don't want to know about it.
485
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:14,160
And I knew they were going to ask, Tom,
what's in there? So I go in the back
486
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:18,980
room, I open the attaché case, and
inside I have 10 blocks of plastic
487
00:35:18,980 --> 00:35:23,600
explosives from the military. I have 10
high -standard .22 caliber silencers
488
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:25,360
with no manufacturer's serial number.
489
00:35:25,980 --> 00:35:30,100
They went berserk. They said, man,
listen, we can use this. I said, look,
490
00:35:30,100 --> 00:35:32,940
another time, but these are for people
from New York.
491
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:36,000
I knew word was going to get out that I
can get anything.
492
00:35:40,010 --> 00:35:46,390
One day, in September of 86, the phone
rings at the store in Patterson. And
493
00:35:46,390 --> 00:35:47,810
say the big guy wants to see you.
494
00:35:48,550 --> 00:35:50,530
It was Big Richie.
495
00:35:50,910 --> 00:35:54,350
And he wanted to meet Dominic at a local
donut shop.
496
00:36:04,170 --> 00:36:08,530
Richie Kikonski claimed to have killed
100, 200 people. We simply have no idea.
497
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:14,500
It's been very difficult for
investigators and journalists and
498
00:36:14,500 --> 00:36:18,280
down the actual evidence to support a
lot of those claims.
499
00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:27,460
Did you ever let anyone go for whatever
reason? Did you ever decide to let
500
00:36:27,460 --> 00:36:28,460
someone go?
501
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,220
Yes. But then I thought better of the
idea and shot him anyway.
502
00:36:38,190 --> 00:36:44,590
After 18 months undercover, it was
September 2nd, 1986, when the call came
503
00:36:44,590 --> 00:36:46,050
at the store.
504
00:36:46,410 --> 00:36:50,810
And that's when I first met Kuklinski at
the Dunkin' Donuts in Patterson, New
505
00:36:50,810 --> 00:36:51,810
Jersey.
506
00:36:52,530 --> 00:36:58,870
If you were going to put this on a scale
of 1 to 10, with 10 being the most
507
00:36:58,870 --> 00:37:00,850
dangerous, it was an 11.
508
00:37:01,690 --> 00:37:04,910
Dom's going to meet a serial killer.
509
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,680
We didn't know what was going to happen.
We don't know if Kuklinski has already
510
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:13,140
figured out that we're onto him. If
Dominic said something wrong, it could
511
00:37:13,140 --> 00:37:17,080
him off. And he had the capability of
killing very quickly.
512
00:37:18,380 --> 00:37:23,220
Dominic had a lot of pressure. The
entire investigation hinged on whether
513
00:37:23,220 --> 00:37:27,560
could at least entice Kuklinski to
participate in something with him.
514
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:35,380
And... Just the added subliminal hidden
pressure of knowing that the public's
515
00:37:35,380 --> 00:37:41,920
safety rests in your hands. What Dom did
was going to depend on if innocent
516
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,360
civilians lived or died.
517
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:49,300
He pulls up.
518
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:52,600
This son of a bitch.
519
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:54,740
He was like the Jolly Green Giant.
520
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,940
He was a big guy. He was about 6 '4".
521
00:37:59,210 --> 00:38:03,230
maybe 260, 265, and he wore these orange
-tinged glasses.
522
00:38:06,810 --> 00:38:12,070
We go into Dunkin' Donuts, and we sit
down, and we're just talking
523
00:38:12,610 --> 00:38:16,110
Dom knew what the reputation of
Kuklinski was.
524
00:38:16,610 --> 00:38:18,890
Kuklinski believed he knew.
525
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:25,560
what Dom's reputation was. There was no
purpose in Dom creating an intimidating
526
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:27,000
presence for Kuklinski.
527
00:38:27,220 --> 00:38:30,200
He's trying to warm the guy up, not
drive him away.
528
00:38:30,820 --> 00:38:36,540
But how do you do that and still
maintain your credibility and not be a
529
00:38:36,540 --> 00:38:37,540
for this guy?
530
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:47,180
Richard was trying to likely size
Dominic up and to see if he was someone
531
00:38:47,180 --> 00:38:48,180
could be trusted,
532
00:38:52,299 --> 00:38:53,660
He says, you do coke.
533
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:55,240
I said, no, I don't do coke.
534
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:56,760
He says, no, no.
535
00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:58,600
What do you get a kilo for?
536
00:38:59,580 --> 00:39:02,980
I said, probably at that time it was
about $30 ,000 a kilo.
537
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,200
He says, well, I can get it for $28
,000.
538
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,100
I said, well, then you should go with
your guy.
539
00:39:09,100 --> 00:39:12,480
He goes, you know, he says, I know it's
a good price, but I don't know if I can
540
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:13,480
trust him.
541
00:39:14,220 --> 00:39:16,780
I look at him. I said, you're an idiot.
542
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:21,020
You don't trust somebody. You don't deal
with somebody you don't trust.
543
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:29,960
Dom makes a pretty bold move in
challenging Kuklinski. He's calling out
544
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:34,760
the most dangerous men on the planet.
And he's basically saying, you're a
545
00:39:34,980 --> 00:39:35,980
You're crazy.
546
00:39:36,180 --> 00:39:39,380
You're doing narcotics deals with
someone you don't trust?
547
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,240
Well, let me tell you something for five
seconds.
548
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:47,320
He looked at me like he was grabbing my
soul and say, I'm going to rip your
549
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:48,118
heart out.
550
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:51,800
Nobody talks to me that way. And he's
looking at me and I'm looking at him.
551
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:54,420
It was the longest five seconds you can
imagine.
552
00:39:55,220 --> 00:39:59,500
He could send fear through somebody's
body without saying a word. Just looking
553
00:39:59,500 --> 00:40:00,500
at him.
554
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:04,720
I said, this is the devil. I'm telling
you, I'm sitting down with the devil.
555
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,920
Points his finger and he goes, you're
right.
556
00:40:13,230 --> 00:40:15,270
I said, you're damn right I'm right.
557
00:40:15,630 --> 00:40:17,230
You don't deal with people you don't
trust.
558
00:40:18,210 --> 00:40:20,490
Then he goes, I hear you have a lot of
connections.
559
00:40:20,690 --> 00:40:21,690
I said, yeah.
560
00:40:21,710 --> 00:40:24,130
He said, can you get pure cyanide?
561
00:40:25,070 --> 00:40:26,290
I could have fell off the chair.
562
00:40:29,250 --> 00:40:31,410
There is a sense of urgency.
563
00:40:32,050 --> 00:40:34,250
I just have a few problems I want to
dispose of.
564
00:40:34,570 --> 00:40:36,310
I have some rats I want to get rid of.
565
00:40:37,070 --> 00:40:38,990
The scale of danger is off the charts.
566
00:40:39,670 --> 00:40:41,290
It was like the ultimate chess game.
567
00:40:41,930 --> 00:40:45,530
You've got to make a move and hope it's
not the wrong move during this
568
00:40:45,530 --> 00:40:46,530
investigation.
569
00:40:48,830 --> 00:40:49,390
When
570
00:40:49,390 --> 00:40:57,110
they
571
00:40:57,110 --> 00:41:02,550
heard their husband and father's voice
explaining how to kill people and how
572
00:41:02,550 --> 00:41:06,010
cold and calculated he was, their whole
demeanor changed.
573
00:41:06,490 --> 00:41:10,870
Through all of that time, all of these
murders, Barbara, you didn't know that
574
00:41:10,870 --> 00:41:11,870
anything was up.
575
00:41:11,900 --> 00:41:14,340
You lived with this man for 25 years,
you knew nothing.
576
00:41:17,220 --> 00:41:21,860
The multi -agency task force launched to
make a case against Richard Kuklinski
577
00:41:21,860 --> 00:41:24,140
was dubbed Operation Iceman.
578
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:28,800
The goal was to get Kuklinski
comfortable enough with an undercover
579
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:30,500
that he would talk about his crimes.
580
00:41:30,820 --> 00:41:36,480
The agent, Dominic Polifrone, would be
wearing a wire, a dangerous cat and
581
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:40,540
game that could prove fatal in part two
of The Iceman.
582
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:42,100
I'm Donnie Wahlberg.
583
00:41:42,300 --> 00:41:43,500
Thanks for watching.
584
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:44,760
Good night.
585
00:41:44,810 --> 00:41:49,360
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