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♪♪

Richard: There was a man
who was begging and pleading,

and I told him he could have
a half hour to pray to God,

and if God could come down
and change the circumstances,

he'd have that time.

But God never showed up.

And that was that.

♪♪

♪♪

Welcome to "Very Scary People".

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

Mafia hitman and serial killer
Richard Kuklinski

got away with murder for years.

He used guns, cyanide,
even tire irons

to execute his victims,

then skillfully covered
his trail,

but after he took out
two of his crime ring cronies,

he was on investigators' radar.

Now, Kuklinski and an undercover
agent were about to face off.

Could the investigator
manipulate the notoriously

secretive killer
to talk about his crimes?

Here is part two of
"The Iceman".

♪♪

Richard:
I beat a guy to death one time.

I had blood on my shoes --
his blood on my shoes.

Just goes on that way.

Had to throw
all my clothes away.

His name was Richard Kuklinski,
also known as The Iceman.

Richard Kuklinski allegedly
killed for profit coldly

and without remorse.

Shot a guy one time
in his Adam's apple,

see how long it would
take him to die.

Kane: Richard Kuklinski was
a Mafia contract killer...

[ Dog barks ]

...but he was also
a freelance killer.

Smith: After making contact
with somebody,

he would lure them into thinking
that he was able to provide

a quantity of something that
that person was looking for,

and he was not gonna
just rob them.

He was gonna kill them.

♪♪

Sanderson: In 1983,
the authorities found a body

wrapped up
in Orangetown, New York.

This turned out
to be Louis Masgay.

Carroll: He was brought to the
medical examiner's office

and examined.

He had the same clothes on

that he disappeared
in two years prior.

Smith: Even more interesting
is they found what they termed

as ice crystal artifacts.

Which indicated that he had
in fact been frozen.

In the hope that the time
of death would be not known.

Carroll: That particular crime
was the genesis of the name

"Iceman".

We knew we were looking
for somebody

that had literally
frozen a person.

Sanderson: Kuklinski was also
working with a small crime ring.

Kuklinski knew that they posed
a real threat to him.

And he got rid of them,
one by one.

Kuklinski had mixed cyanide
in the ketchup

that was then
brought on a hamburger.

Man: At least five killings
between 1980 and 1983,

with handguns and cyanide.

Smith: Richard Kuklinski was
a very low-key individual.

He was secretive.

He looked to be living
a normal suburban life.

He married Barbara,
and they had three children --

two girls and a boy.

His wife, Barbara, told me
she really didn't know too much

about what he did.

Roberts: You have said
of Richard,

"There were two Richards.

I never knew who'd
be walking in the door.

He could be generous to a fault
or the meanest man on Earth."

Tell us more about that.

That's true.

He was kind, considerate.

You know, he would have
done anything for all of us.

Very generous --
gifts and flowers

and the best dinners
and nice wine.

But when whatever twisted him,
whatever happened,

it didn't matter how good
those times were,

because the bad was so bad.

And he abused you physically?

He certainly did.
What did he do?

Stabbed me, broke my nose.

Merrick: He had said that if he
ever went too far with mom --

Killed her.
Right.

That I would
have to understand

that he would have to
get rid of all of us

because he could leave
no witnesses

and that it would be hardest.

He'd have to kill you?

Carlo: They planned to poison
him -- Barbara and Chris,

but they realized
that if they tried to do it

and it didn't work,
that he would kill them.

♪♪

Polifrone: This guy was
a walking time bomb.

You don't listen to him,
you die.

He feels you betrayed him,
you die.

You say anything bad
about the family, you die.

That's his world.

Carroll: Richard Kuklinski
claimed to have killed

100, 200 people.

We simply have no idea.

Carlo: He was the toughest guy
on the block.

He was the most dangerous
animal in the jungle.

Smith: We had acquired a lot
of information

through various
law enforcement sources,

which pointed
to Richard Kuklinski.

The problem with it was there
wasn't enough information

to arrest him.

The idea that was suggested was

we could have an undercover
pose as another criminal.

I used the name
of Dominic Michael Provenzano.

After 18 months in there,
I first met Kuklinski.

He goes, "I hear you have
a lot of connections.

Can you get pure cyanide?"

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♪♪

Everybody's sitting
at this long table,

and my pager goes off.

Dobyns:
This untouchable serial murderer

was now seeking Dominick out.

Dom was no longer
hunting Kuklinski.

Kuklinski was hunting Dom.

Everyone is excited
for Dom to call back.

Polifrone:
One guy says, "Get a tape.

I want it recorded.

I want this done now,"
and I said, "I'm not doing that.

I'm gonna tell you why.

Everybody that he dealt
with jumped.

I'm not jumping for him.

He came to me.

He reached out to me."

Dobyns: Gangsters are
not prompt.

One of the simplest ways
to identify an undercover cop,

if he's always prompt,

if he's always on time,
you know who does that?

Cops do that.

Polifrone: I waited a day
to give him a call back.

So, what happened is
the following day,

we started talking.
[ Telephone rings ]

They began talking about
doing crimes together,

and they began talking
about different things.

Richard: [ Laughs ]

Dobyns: So, during
the conversation,

when Dom references
his use of iron,

he opens the door for Kuklinski
to brag on his technique.

Dominick Polifrone
told Kuklinski

that he was interested
in purchasing weapons,

and in fact,
he was looking for a hit kit.

Hit kit is a .22
with a silencer on it.

Kuklinski told him, "Yes,
I can deliver that to you,

but I'm looking for cyanide."

I said, "You're gonna give me
an assassination kit,

and I'm gonna
pay you $1,100.

After you do that,
you come and see me.

Now we'll talk business
for your pure cyanide."

Kane: It was like the ultimate
chess game.

You got to make a move and hope
it's not the wrong move.

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Woman: Did you ever murder
anyone you liked?

All my friends are dead.

At one point in time,
I'm sure I liked them.

Kane: In the 1980s,

Richard Kuklinski met a fellow
named Robert Prongay.

He was also a hitman,
it appears,

and so they had a lot in common.

Prongay was
a self-taught chemist,

and he had an adjacent garage
to Kuklinski's.

Where Richard Kuklinski killed
several individuals.

Sanderson: Interestingly, to me,
Prongay ran a Mr. Softee truck,

and Kuklinski used to call him

Mr. Softee.

Richard: He sold ice cream to
the kids in the neighborhood.

He'd go into these neighborhoods
and sell ice cream to the kids

and maybe kill
one of their fathers.

Robert Prongay killed
in different ways.

I heard a story once where
he liked explosions,

and he developed a method to
put it in a remote control car,

and he drove that
under another car of a target...

[ Explosion, glass shatters ]

...and he exploded it.

Heide: Now, Robert taught
Richard some "sophisticated"

ways of killing,
including cyanide.

Smith: He showed him how
he could put it in a liquid

and put it in a drink.

He taught him how he could
put it on gravy.

He could also put it
in a spray mist.

Sanderson: And Mr. Softee
helped him obtain

some of the cyanide
he needed for his homicides.

Schumacher: The relationship
between Kuklinski and Prongay

went swimmingly for a while,

but before long,
they had a falling out.

Smith: Apparently, Kuklinski
realized that this guy

could be a liability,
and "I don't need him anymore.

He's taught me everything
he needed to.

He's got to go."

And he killed him.

[ Gunshots ]

On August 8th, 1984,
Robert Prongay's body

was found shot to death
in his Mr. Softee truck.

Kane: Poor Bobby Prongay.

Five in the chest.

Schumacher: But one
negative side effect

of Prongay being dead

is that Kuklinski no longer
has a source for his cyanide,

which has become his new passion
as a way to kill people.

So, now he's looking for other
ways of acquiring cyanide.

And so, I was his man.
I was his connection.

♪♪

Sanderson: After they first met,

Dominick Polifrone
and Richard Kuklinski

had a bunch of different
meet-ups and discussions

together about how
to carry out their crimes.

Dominick wore something
called a Nagra.

It was a little bulkier than
the technology they use today,

but a Nagra was state-of-the-art
at the time.

It is a reel-to-reel
tape recorder,

about the size
of a microwave dinner.

So, imagine yourself
going to meet

an organized crime serial killer

with this duct-taped
into the small of your back.

The margin of error
for Dom was zero.

If Richard Kuklinski finds out
that Dom is lying to him,

deceiving him, tricking him,

he's going to drag a straight
razor across his throat.

In October, he calls.

He says, "I have your
assassination kit for you."

We meet at the Vince Lombardi
Service Station

that he suggests.

Inside the trunk, a beautiful,

high-standard
.22 caliber silencer

affixed to the weapon.

So, I take the gun,
and I give him $1,100.

Dobyns: It was a clean
criminal deal

that just further enhanced
Dom's credibility

in the eyes of Kuklinski.

Polifrone: He goes,
"I can't stay that long."

He says, "But you have your
source for the pure cyanide?"

I said, "Absolutely."

He says, "Okay,
let's stay in touch."

♪♪

Smith: As the investigation
proceeded, we decided to come up

with a plan to lure Kuklinski
in to kill somebody.

We knew he needed money
and he needed cyanide,

so it was our idea
to join him in a murder plot,

and of course,
it wasn't really a murder plot.

Smith: Dominick proposed
to Kuklinski

that he had this rich kid
that was wealthy

and always had
a lot of money on him

that he was dealing drugs with
and he wanted to get rid of.

Dobyns: When Dom talks to
Kuklinski about the fake murder,

what he's doing
is opening the door

for Kuklinski to talk about his
own assassinations and murders.

Heide: Over time, as he began
to trust Dom,

he then made some
very incriminating statements.

Polifrone: He told me how
he killed people

with firearms and with knives

and sometimes with chainsaws.

He had to cut the limbs
to get them into the barrel.

Smith: One of
the conversations --

Kuklinski went into detail

on how you can throw
law enforcement off

by killing somebody,
freezing the body,

and them disposing of it
a couple years later.

♪♪

Polifrone: He told me that
he murdered an individual,

that he throws the body
for two years,

and he made the cops
looks like jerks.

I said, "What do you mean?"

♪♪

Kuklinski is now bragging
on the murders he's done.

He's letting his guard down.

Polifrone: He said, "When you do
something like this,

use Glad bags."

He said, "They last
a couple of years."

This is his sense of humor.

♪♪

He talked about slipping cyanide
into someone's hamburgers.

Not only is he not shying away
from it, he's bragging on it.

Polifrone:
Richie's telling me -- he says,

"We're laughing at him.
Get one of the lamp cords,

strangle him,

and then we throw him
under the bed.

And then we leave him there,
and off we go."

♪♪

Dobyns:
Each time he offers a detail,

it's back-checked
against the real murder,

and all of them dovetail.

♪♪

Kane: At a certain point
in time,

it was believed
that Richard Kuklinski

could tell Dominick

just about anything he wanted

because he had plans to kill him
and take all the money.

I always kept that in my mind.

"He who hesitates, lost."

I got it right at the top
of my head.

♪♪

Man: Did you think of yourself
as an assassin?

Assassin.

Sounds so exotic.

[ Laughs ]

I was just a murderer.

Dominick Polifrone
was undercover for months.

Four months that I was able
to extract the information.

All of his conversations --
they're on tape.

Schumacher: So, after Polifrone
had established

with his audio recordings
that showed Kuklinski

admitting to committing murders,
he helps set up the fake hit,

and this would be
the final proof

that was needed to put
Kuklinski behind bars.

They were fully engaged
in Dom's plan to murder

the rich kid under
the ruse of a cocaine deal.

Polifrone: A rich kid comes with
cash, and I give him cocaine.

We were gonna get him
into the van,

and Rich was gonna give him
the egg sandwiches.

♪♪

They were gonna put cyanide
on the one sandwich

that the kid
was supposed to eat.

Polifrone: And he's gonna
chop the body

and put it into the barrel,

and he would
dump it somewhere,

and we'd each make
$40,000 a piece.

Dom certainly didn't want
to give Kuklinski cyanide

as an ATF agent
who's undercover.

Polifrone: We had
a simulated cyanide

that smelled like cyanide,

that looked like cyanide,
that was made up from the lab.

Dom, instead of cyanide,
gave quinine.

Now, the reason to do that --

quinine, if that's administered
to somebody,

you can then detect that,

which would then show
that it was given,

and that they attempted
to murder somebody.

So, it was really
quite brilliant.

♪♪

Kuklinski and Dominic met up
on December 17th, 1986,

at the Vince Lombardi Rest Area.

Dom gives Kuklinski
the egg sandwiches

and what is allegedly
a vial of cyanide.

Polifrone: He brought tape
with him

and rubber gloves that he had,

so he was ready for this.

Kuklinski then says,

"Listen, my wife
wasn't feeling that good,

but I'm gonna head home,
but I'll be back."

Kane: Now, what happened was
Kuklinski didn't come back

right away.

Surveillance indicated he was
at his house,

and the decision was made
then by the upper echelon,

"Just take him down."

And they did.

Smith:
He was extremely animated.

Screaming, cursing.

"I'm gonna kill you.
I'm gonna kill your families."

I mean, he was off the wall.

[ Car door shuts ]
This is unwarranted.

Unnecessary.
[ Car door shuts ]

These guys watch
too many movies.

Never showed their badge, never
read me my rights, nothing.

They think they're gangbusters.

37 guys to pick up
one little guy.

That's ridiculous.

Kuklinski was charged
with five murders --

Paul Hoffman, Louis Masgay,

Daniel Deppner, Gary Smith,
and George Malliband.

Smith:
At the time of the arrest,

the car was searched
for any evidence,

and in the trunk was found
the egg sandwiches,

and on the egg sandwiches,

two of them had
the fake cyanide on them.

So, in fact, not only was
the rich kid gonna die,

but Dominick was gonna die.

Rich, in your spirit,
he who hesitates is lost.

♪♪

♪♪

Welcome back to
"Very Scary People".

When investigators
finally arrested

Richard Kuklinski in 1986,

it seemed like
the end of the road,

but the twists and turns
of The Iceman's evil legacy

were far from over.

A search of the home turned up
shocking information

about one of his killings,
and a late-in-life confession

uncovers what could
yet be another.

Law enforcement authorities
have arrested one of

the most notorious contract
killers in state history.

A self-employed Bergen County
man is behind bars,

charged with five murders,

and prosecutors are
investigating his involvement

in dozens more.

On the day of his arrest,
his home was searched.

And they found a knife,
and it had eight notches

carved into the handle
on one side,

and I believe three
on the other side,

indicating that he killed
11 people with that knife.

We also talked to an individual

by the name
of Richard Patterson.

Patterson was engaged to one
of Richard's daughters, Merrick.

Richard Patterson opened up
another whole door for us

in regards to what
Richard Kuklinski had done.

One day, Patterson
had been sleeping over,

and Kuklinski got him up early
in the morning and said,

"Listen, I need you to help me
move this package, this thing."

Carroll: And they get in the car
and they go,

and he says to Richard,
you know,

"Jump behind the wheel."

He gets out of the car,
and he goes around the back.

He opens the trunk,
and Richard looks in the mirror,

and he sees him taking a body
out of the trunk,

walking into the woods,
and he dumps the body,

and he gets in
and he tells Richard,

"What you saw here,
you'll never repeat to anyone."

It was ultimately determined
that the body was Danny Deppner,

who was in Richard's circle
of criminal friends.

Kuklinski decided Deppner would
possibly talk and give him up.

He had brought Deppner baked
beans and some other food,

and Danny Deppner
ate the baked beans,

and they were loaded
with cyanide.

He was wrapped
in plastic garbage bags,

and he was taken up
to West Milford,

where the body
was dumped in the woods.

His body was not found until
approximately five months later,

and an autopsy showed
that he had an undigested amount

of baked beans
in his stomach.

They found these baked beans
that were so intact,

they could tell they were
even burned a little bit.

That indicated that the person
was eating when they had died.

♪♪

Heide: The path that led
to Kuklinski

becoming a killer
likely began in his childhood.

Richard had a very difficult
upbringing.

His father,
according to Richard,

was physically abusive --

beat him, beat other
members of the family.

When you have violence
in the home,

it can create the dynamics that
can lead to violent behavior.

Carlo:
By the time he was 10 years old,

he had a host
of personality problems.

He turned his rage
on animals early on,

started beating dogs to death,
setting cats on fire.

Carroll:
Richard Kuklinski was raised

in a hardscrabble section
of Jersey City.

He was of mixed ethnic decent.

He was part-Polish, part-Irish,

and because of that,
he later said

that he was often picked on
and taken advantage of.

Ultimately, he says leading
to the murder

of a neighborhood bully
when he was a teenager.

Kane: Richard was about
13 years of age,

and he got sick and tired
of being bullied.

He picked out the big bully.

His name was Charlie Lane.

Polifrone: Finally, he's not
taking shit no more

from the guy,
and did what he had to do.

And he went into one of
the closets in his apartment,

and he took all
the clothes off the rod.

And he says he waited outside
for the boy to come by.

Kane: And then he beat him
to death with that rod.

Heide:
After he killed Charlie Lane,

Richard was worried
that he would get caught.

When he didn't, he learned
that he might be able

to get away
with other acts of violence.

After that,
if he was humiliated,

he would respond
with savage violence.

Heide: He learned clearly then
that violence was the solution

to his problem.

I was no longer
taking the beating.

I was giving it.

And that's when I learned
that it was better

to give than to receive.

♪♪

♪♪

They ripped me apart
like I'm some sort of fool.

Never resisted.

Smith: The first time
that Kuklinski was brought

into the courtroom,

he had an aura about him,
a threatening aura.

Polifrone: He had them damn
orange-tinged glasses on,

and I was saying,
"Jesus, how can they let

this guy have
these glasses, you know?

Get him a different pair."

Kuklinski's trial started
on January 25th, 1988.

Smith: The prosecution began
with the murders

of Gary Smith
and Danny Deppner.

They were the two best cases
we had out of all five.

We had so much.

We tried the Smith and Deppner
cases over several weeks.

There was a lot of
physical evidence,

a lot of testimony
from medical examiners

about how these people had died.

One of the witnesses
was Gary Smith's wife.

She testified that her husband
left the hotel

where Richard
was having them stay.

♪♪

Carroll: When Gary came home,
she said, "Don't go back,"

you know, "Don't go back,"

and he said, "I have to.

He'll kill the whole family
if I don't."

He goes back,
and Richie kills him.

Carroll:
In court, Kuklinski himself

continued with his continence
of intimidation,

would yell out every now
and then at people on the stand.

Smith: When witnesses testified
against him, he would mouth,

"You're dead",

or he would go
like this to scratch his head,

and he'd go like this with it

and make it like
a gun pointing at them.

Sanderson: I think that
the key evidence

was Dominick Polifrone's
testimony.

It laid out who Kuklinski was.

It laid out what he did.

It laid out the way
he carried out his crimes.

The chief attorney's
asking me questions,

and then they played a tape.

You could hear a pin drop,
and then I can see

some of the faces were like,
"This is hard to believe.

Is this reality?"

There's a talk about cyanide
and how to kill with cyanide.

Must've sent chills through
some of the people on the jury.

The tapes killed him.

The tapes were devastating.

Devastating.

It gave the jurors
a very clear picture

of what kind of guy he was.

Carroll: All up until the time
that Dominick took the sand,

Kuklinski's wife
and his daughters were in court.

You could see his wife and
his daughters were disbelieving.

They just couldn't believe
that he had done

these type of things.

Smith: But when they heard
their husband and father's voice

explaining how to kill people

and how cold
and calculated he was,

I think that really
hit home with them,

and their whole demeanor
changed.

Carroll: We played one of the
most explosive tapes early on,

and we took a break after that,

and I looked over at Barbara
and the daughters,

and they were all crying,
and she said, "We didn't know.

We didn't know."

Through all of that time,
all of these dozens and dozens

and maybe as many
as 200 murders, Barbara,

you didn't know
that anything was up?

You lived with this man
for 25 years, you knew nothing?

Barbara: No.

First of all,
you never questioned Richard.

You have said in the past
that he would sometimes get up

at two o'clock in the morning,
leave the house --

Or in the middle of dinner
and leave the house,

and you'd never ask him why.

Carlo: Barbara was battered
beaten by him.

She was not in a position
to ever question him

about where he was going
and whether he was coming back,

and he was extremely macho,

so she was really put-upon
actually, as were her children.

Barbara, do you think
he could have killed 200 people?

I think he was capable
of anything.

To the jury, it was
overwhelming evidence.

And Richard Kuklinski
was convicted

of the murder of Gary T. Smith
and Daniel Deppner.

Sanderson:
This was what the judge said.

He said, "Words are inadequate
to describe

the depths of depravity
reached this defendant.

The lives of others
have no meaning to this man.

No remorse, no conscience,
no regrets.

Cold, calculated,
pre-meditated murders."

After being convicted
of two murders,

he confessed to two others
in court today.

Polifrone: Richard Kuklinski
later pled guilty

to the Malliband
and Masgay murders.

I shot George Malliband
five times.

The judge says to Kuklinski,
"Can you tell me why?"

And he says --
It was due to business.

Sanderson: When they got him on
the other murders, that was it.

They had effectively
thrown away the key.

He received four consecutive
life sentences.

He was going away
for a long, long time.

He wasn't getting out.

Reporter: And so, it seemed
to bring to an end

the long pursuit
of the so-called Iceman.

Smith: Richard had an unusual
reaction to Dominick.

He, I think in his own sick way,
respected Dominick

because Dominick was able
to get over on him,

just like he got over on
so many other people.

Reporter: Today in court,
The Iceman greeted the agent

with a smiling,
"Hello, Dominick."

Hello.

Reporter: He seemed to be quite
cheery about hello to you.

Well, I reciprocated.

The only thing is,
I'm going home,

and he's going to a different
environment at the present time.

♪♪

After Kuklinski was sentenced
to New Jersey State Prison,

we got a Christmas card
from him,

which was a very sick,

odd number of drawings
with Jesus

and the devil and skulls,
and it was just bizarre.

And that was Kuklinski,
sending us a message --

"Merry Christmas."

♪♪

♪♪

Schumacher: After Kuklinski was
convicted and received life

without parole sentences
for all of those murders,

there was no chance he was ever
getting out of prison,

and he agreed to sit down for
a series of interviews with HBO.

Woman: You tended to shoot
people up close and personal.

Definitely.

I wanted to tell them
just before they left.

I wanted to say goodbye.

Did you like to look
them in the eye?

I wanted them looking
straight at me.

He spoke about his life.

He talked about the murders
that he committed.

He talked about his mindset
when he committed these murders.

What did you want them
to think as they died?

Just see my pretty face.

I'll take it to them.

The last thing they ever saw
was me,

and if they carry that glimpse
to eternity, infinity,

or whatever it is, they're gonna
be thinking of me all that time.

The career hitman's confessions
are a stunner.

The Iceman saying one of his
many victims

was a New York City
police detective.

Schumacher: One of the killings
that Kuklinski claimed

to have committed was that
of a New York City detective

named Peter Calabro in 1980.

Kane: There was a snowstorm
on that day.

Calabro was coming down a road
in Saddle River, New Jersey,

and Kuklinski knew the route
he was gonna take,

and he blocked the road off
with a van

so Calabro would
have to slow down

and go slowly around the van.

And I go to the back of the van,
and I go out the back door.

I take the shotgun with me.

And as he's going by the van,

I fired.

[ Glass shatters ]

Kane: Kuklinski stepped out
with a shotgun

and shotgunned him to death.

The so-called Iceman
has nothing to lose.

Today, more than 20 years
after the crime,

he pled guilty
to the cold-blooded murder

of a New York City
police officer.

Man: Did you cause his death?
Yes.

And how did you do that?

Prosecutors are asking for
another 30-year prison sentence

in the Calabro case.

The Iceman is 67 years old now.

He actually laughed out loud
when the judge said

there would be
no need to set bail.

♪♪

When the police came
to interview him

about his statement
that he was involved

in the killing
of Peter Calabro,

Richard said he was hired by
"Sammy the Bull" Gravano,

who was associated
with the Gambino family.

Schumacher: Now, it's not clear
whether Sammy the Bull

was involved,
he has denied it.

There are other theories about

what exactly happened there

and who was responsible, but it
led to Gravano being indicted.

Kane: And Kuklinski was ready
to testify against him.

But then Kuklinski dies
all of a sudden.

Amazing.

♪♪

Richard Kuklinski died March 5th
in 2006 of a heart attack.

♪♪

Allegations are maybe
he was poisoned.

Well, payback's a bitch
if he was.

So, without his testimony,

the state does not have
a good case against him,

and the charges against
Sammy were dropped.

Smith: I don't believe that
Richard Kuklinski was involved

in the killing
of Peter Calabro.

Bullshit.

There might have been
other agendas

that Kuklinski was serving
at the time,

because the person he said
he committed the crime with

was then a major witness
in a federal case,

and if Kuklinski
had been believed,

then that would have
affected his credibility.

Smith: We know that for sure,

he killed five people.

We also assume that
he was involved

in numerous other homicides.

Polifrone: Was it possible it
could have happened?

Absolutely.

He's capable of doing things
like that.

♪♪

Kane:
What a vicious, bloodthirsty,

non-caring,
apathetic person he was.

Cold-blooded killer.

Richard Kuklinski
was an evil person.

Evil to the core.

He did what he wanted...
[ Gunshots ]

...when he wanted
to whomever he wanted.

Period. End of story.

He met his maker,
and I hope it's the devil.

Man: Is that all you've
got left, is hate?

It's all I've got left.

Everything that I ever cared for
is gone.

Everything I ever liked is gone.

Everything that meant
anything to me is gone.

So, hate.

That's all you
started with, too.

Then I've come full circle.

It's time for me to die.

♪♪

Richard Kuklinski made
many dubious claims

to famous
mob-related killings,

including the death
of Jimmy Hoffa.

But without definitive proof,
we may never know.

Kuklinski's wife, Barbara,

said that neither
his imprisonment nor his death

relieve the ongoing terror
she felt

as a result
of being married to him,

saying he still haunted her
in her dreams.

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

Thanks for watching.

Good night.