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I would move heaven, hell,
and anything in between

to get to you.

You wouldn't be safe anywhere
if I was mad at you.

And that's not bull.
That's truth.

I've went up
against people.

You could pull a gun on me,
and if I'm mad at you,

I'm coming forward.

You'd have to
shoot me to stop me,

and if you don't kill me,

you're stupid

because the next time
you see me--heh--

I will kill you.

♪

GUARD: Mr. Kuklinski
we're going to conduct
a pat search here.

Put your arm up!

INTERVIEWER: How many
people have you killed?

Approximate guess...

approximate,
well, got to be

more than a hundred.

NARRATOR: After a lifetime
of killing for hire

Kuklinski was finally caught

by an undercover ATF agent
wearing a hidden wire.

MAN: Richard Kuklinski is one
of the most dangerous criminals

we have ever come across
in this state.

He murdered by guns,
he murdered by strangulation,

he murdered by putting poison
on victims' food.

He did all of this
at the same time

while exhibiting
a normal placid
family existence.

His wife, his children
were uninvolved

in criminal activities,
yet we are faced with evidence,

convicting evidence
of numerous grisly murders.

NARRATOR: In l986, the ATF

and the New Jersey
Organized Crime Task Force

set up a road block
outside Kuklinski's home.

It took 5 men to bring down
the 6'5", 300-pound killer

and force handcuffs on him.

The Iceman's career
as a master criminal
was finally over.

♪

Richard Kuklinski knows
he will never get out of Jail.

With nothing left to lose,
Kuklinski reveals

new secrets about the years
he spent as a contract killer

for the Gambino
crime family

and tells what happened
in his life

that turned him into a man

law enforcement called
the Iceman.

♪

I hated my father.

If I could have, I probably
would have killed him.

Probably would have
felt good about it, too.

My father would beat me
just for the--

just if I looked at him.

He gave me this
impersonal feeling I have

to when people die
in front of me,

especially loudmouthed people.

Loudmouthed people
remind me of my father.

Once a loudmouthed person
starts with me, I love it.

That's the only
excuse I need.

NARRATOR: One night
in a bar a loudmouth made

the mistake of insulting
the 18-year-old Kuklinski
in front of people.

A couple of hours later,
the Iceman saw

his chance to get even.

KUKLINSKI: I come
out of this bar,

and I see him sleeping
in his car.

I said, "I got you,
you little sucker.

"Now I got you.

I'm gonna give you a--
I'm gonna light your fire."

And I did.

I got myself a bottle,
some gasoline,

and I threw it
in the car with him.

And he was screaming
and yelling...

and burning,
and the car burned.

And I could smell him.

I walked down the block,
and I could hear him

as I turned the corner.

He was still yelling.

This was a personal thing, yes.

See, this was
a guy I disliked.

INTERVIEWER:
What did he
do to you?

He made me mad.

♪

[Sirens]

NARRATOR: By the age of 25,
Richard Kuklinski had
no problem with murder,

but now he wanted
to get paid for it.

There was money
in contract killing.

To prove himself,
he auditioned

for Mafia Capo Roy DeMeo.

KUKLINSKI: He said, "Well,
I would expect you to, uh--

"if you came with me,
I'd expect you to, uh--

"if I told you
to whack somebody,

"you'd whack him

without any question."

So I says, "Well,
I could probably do that."

He says, "You probably
could do it,

"or could you do it?

Do you do you think
you could do it?"

I said, "Yeah, I think
I could do it."

So he told Freddy
to get the car.

Got the car.

He and I got
in the back seat,

and Freddy was driving.

We drove someplace.

I don't know where it was.

It was someplace
in New York...

[Traffic sounds, dog barking]

and we were sitting
there for a while.

We got to where
we were going.

We were sitting there
for a while,

and a man came
in the distance.

He was walking his dog
it looked like.

So he said, "All right."

"Take this guy down."

I said, "Which--what--which guy
are we talking about here?"

So he says,
"The man walking the dog."

♪

So I got out of the car,
and I started walking

towards the man,
and the man was walking his dog

just like any regular guy.

As he passed me,
I turned around and shot him.

[Gunshot]

Freddy and Roy pulled up
in the car,

I got in the car,
and we drove away,

and that is how
I got involved with Roy,

with doing things like that.

[Dog barking]

NARRATOR: Roy DeMeo's hangout
was the Gemini Lounge

in Brooklyn, New York.

It was a house of horrors

where over a hundred people
were murdered, chopped up,

and disposed of
by DeMeo and his gang

of lethal contract killers.

After his proving himself,
Kuklinski quickly became

one of DeMeo's
favorite enforcers.

DeMeo ordered the hits,
and Kuklinski executed
them without question.

KUKLINSKI: He wanted
this guy taken care of,

but he wanted to
talk to him first.

So, uh, when I got
to the place,

I asked the man
for the money.

So the guy says he didn't
have it and Roy would

just have to wait until
he got the money to pay him,

and that was that.

He'd have to wait.

So I said to the man, I said,

"Well, you have to
then talk to him.

He wants to talk to you."

So I dialed the phone number,

and he got on the phone,

and I say, "Here.
He wants to talk to you".

So he was talking to him,
and, uh, I guess they were

acting like everything was
all right because he got

off the phone and he handed
me the phone back.

He says, "See,
I told you he'd wait.

"He's in a better frame of mind.

Don't worry about it.
He wants to talk to you now."

So I picked up the phone,
and he said, "Kill him."

So I shot him.

[Gunshot]

Hung up the phone
and walked away.

I am just a hard-working
expeditor of sorts.

I look at myself as
a person who did something

that somebody wanted done,

and they paid me a good price.

NARRATOR: In the early Eighties,
the Gambinos were feeling

the heat of an intense
investigation

which reached as high
as their boss Paul Castellano.

As the pressure from
law enforcement grew,

the Family began to worry
about potential witnesses.

One, in particular,
presented a major problem.

His name was Peter Calabro.

The Family ordered a hit,

and Kuklinski
was given the contract.

♪

On March 14, 1980,
Kuklinski drove for hours

on a snow-covered road
in Saddle River, New Jersey,

waiting for a call to come
through on his walkie-talkie.

I get a call
that they're on their way,

so now they're coming,

and it's snowing,

and the roads are very bad,

a lot of snow,
slipping and sliding,

and I was in a van,

so what I figured is
at the last moment--

I had a different plan,

but at the last moment,
I decided

"Well, I'm going to
double park this thing."

This will give me
the edge because this

will make him only have
one way to come by,

and that's he has to come
right by this van.

And I go to the back
of the van,

and I go out the back door.

I take the shotgun
with me of course.

So I kneel down,
and I look under the van

so I can see where
he's approximately at.

And so I watch him come up
to where he's almost
in front of the van,

and I stood up...

and as he's going by the van...

I fired.

[Gunshot]

[Glass shatters]

I never knew the man--
you know, what he looked like

or what his job was.

Then I found out
the next day that he was police.

MAN ON RADIO: Description
on the vehicle.

KUKLINSKI: But had I been
told to do him away

and I knew he was police,

I most likely would
have done it anyways.

I don't think
I would have said no.

NARRATOR: Kuklinski had
killed a cop,

a cop who had gone bad,
selling information

to the Gambinos,

a cop who was eliminated
before he could turn

state's witness.

For Kuklinski, contracts
like the Calabro murder
were strictly business.

They gave him the money
he needed for his family.

The Iceman was
leading a double life.

He lived on a quiet street
in Bergen County, New Jersey,

surrounded by neighbors
who had no idea

they were living next door
to a Mafia hitman.

He was determined that no one,
not even his own family,

would ever find out
who he really was.

WOMAN: I never questioned him,
and you just knew don't do it.

If he got up up at 2:00
in the morning or during dinner

and put on his shoes
on and walked out the door,

you said, "Bye."

You didn't say,
"Where are you going?"

or "Why are you going?"

and it was just understood
that that's the way it was.

KUKLINSKI: I was the happiest
when I was with Barbara.

I never involved her
in anything I ever did,

never told her
anything I did.

If I did, I probably would have
shocked the pants off her.

She knew I had
a violent temper,

and I did have
a violent temper,

but I don't think she thought
I would go as far as I did go.

♪

NARRATOR: Richard's time
with his family was sacred,

and any interference
would throw him into a rage.

It made him even more angry
if it happened

during the holidays.

This fella, he owed me
about $1,600,

So here we come Christmas Eve.

And I go there, and he says,
"Eh, come with me.

"We'll go out,
we'll have a good time,

"we'll party,
we'll meet some broads

with this, that,
and the other thing."

I said, "No, I got to--
I would really like the money.

I got to buy something,"

and, you know, he gave me a...

a story, a bull story.

So I left there.

I was a little bit upset,
got on a bus, went home.

♪

I was putting the toys
together for the kids,

and this thing was
really bugging me.

It was annoying me.

It was just making my whole
disposition bad.

Thought just occurred
to me "This is bullshit."

NARRATOR: It was Christmas Eve
after midnight.

His family was sleeping.

Kuklinski got in his car
and drove to New York City.

KUKLINSKI: I went to the bar.

They told me he just left

and he was parked
a couple of blocks down

in the parking lot.

The parking lot was closed,
but he was parked in there.

I saw his car,
and his car was running,

but it had snow on it.

So I knocked on the door,
and he says,

"Hey. How are you?
Glad to see you.

Come on. Sit down."

So I go walk
around the passenger side,

sit down,
and I'm talking to him.

I said, "Look.
I really need the money."

I says, "You know,
it's not right.

You've been you've
just been playing me
like a fool here."

I had this pistol
in my hand,

and he just was
annoying me to no end

with this babbling,

and he was just going
on and on...

and I fired.

[Gunshots]

[Car alarm blaring]

And I couldn't see
a damn thing

because there was snow
on the windows.

When that flash went off...

I just had spots
before my eyes.

My ears were ringing because
the noise inside the car

when the gun went off.

I couldn't hear, couldn't see.

Then I panicked

because now I don't know
what's going on.

Anyway, I caught the guy
in the temple,

and as he moved back,

the second shot caught him
in under the chin.

Long about the time I could see,

I reached in the man's pocket,
and he had a roll of money.

I took my $1,600
off of him,

put the rest of the money that
was his in his pocket,

got out of the car,
and walked away.

And that's...

what happened one Christmas Eve
in New York City.

♪

NARRATOR: The Iceman had
killed by gun, by knife,

by Molotov cocktail,
and cyanide,

but he also liked
to experiment.

KUKLINSKI: Crossbow--
I just popped the guy

in the forehead with it.

Actually it was just seeing
if it would work.

INTERVIEWER:
What was he doing
at the time?

Looking at me.

Well, was he
sitting down,

or were
you standing
over him, or--

No. He actually bent down
to look in the car window

like I was asking
him directions.

I didn't know the man.

♪

Was this
a contract murder,

or was it something
out of anger,

or was it
a personal thing?

Neither.

What was it?

I just wanted to see
if this thing would work.

You mean, you were
experimenting
on somebody?

Right.

Did it work?

It sure did.

It went halfway
into his head.

NARRATOR: Kuklinski was
always looking for new ways

to get away with murder.

In the Eighties, a man who was
nicknamed Mr. Softee

teamed up with Kuklinski.

This harmless-looking
ice cream vendor was

in reality an army-trained
demolitions expert

who was a violent
and vicious killer.

MAN: Mr. Softee was
an individual by the name

of Robert Prongay.

He used to operate
a Mr. Softee truck.

That's why he got
the name Mr. Softee.

He became friendly
with Kuklinski,

very friendly with him.

And it is our opinion
that that friendship led

to Richard Kuklinski
learning a lot

about killing with
different types of chemicals

including cyanide.

[Children chattering]

KUKLINSKI: He taught me
a lot basically,

but he was extremely crazy...

but he would read all kinds
of books on destruction

and all kinds of ways to--
to destroy somebody.

He used to go around
in this Mr. Softee truck.

That's how he used
to spot people and...

get the outlay of
the land, you know,

where they were
and easy ways,

and sometimes he'd do it
right from the truck.

And he sold
ice cream?

Yes, he did.
Sold Mr. Softee.

He had one of those
Mr. Softee trucks--

Right--
Did you ever see them?

That's what he sold.

And he sold
ice cream to
the little kids

in the neighborhood?

Yes, he did.
and that's what he did.

He sold--he'd go
into these neighborhoods

and sell ice cream
to the kids

and maybe kill
one of their fathers.

♪

NARRATOR: On August 9, 1984,
Mr. Softee was found dead,

hanging out
of the driver's side seat

in his Mr. Softee
ice cream truck.

He had been killed by multiple
gunshot wounds to the head.

♪

SMITH: I think Kuklinski
killed him because he used him

for his information,

he used him
for his knowledge.

He probably brought
him around,

brought him with him
on certain jobs that he did,

and it was--it was time
for the boss to make

the decision that he didn't
want any more loose ends.

He may have said something
the wrong way to Richie.

Who knows?

Whatever it was, Kuklinski
in my opinion,

made the decision
to kill him.

♪

NARRATOR: After Prongay's
murder, Kuklinski was hired

for a dangerous contract
no one else would touch.

It was here in
a crowded discotheque that

the cyanide killing techniques

learned from
Mr. Softee paid off.

KUKLINSKI: I couldn't
get to this person

because he was at a disco.

So...I was really
in a bad way

because there was
a time schedule involved,

and I happened to be
watching these people,

and there was a couple
of gay people dancing
and whatever,

and nobody was paying
them no mind whatsoever.

They would walk in anywhere,
go anywhere

because people basically
don't look at gay people,

but the idea came to me,
"Yeah, try to act gay,

"but how in the hell am
I going to get by?

A 300-pound gay man."

I mean, you know, that's
a little bit farfetched.

So I went to
the extreme of farfetched.

I got this loudest costume
you'd ever want to see on.

I mean, I went
full-blown gay person.

Of course, maybe now
the gay people are going to

pissed off at me,
but I'm not saying

anything bad about them.

But I got this
canary yellow sweater

and these bright pants,

and I got these
elevated shoes,

which I'm tall
to begin with.

Now I got these thing--
shoes on,

and I acted like
a full-blown gay person, I mean,

and I got on this thing,
and I'm doing,

this, like, dancing bit,

and I get on to this thing,
and they got these lights.

And I hate those lights,
by the way,

those strobe lights.

Man, I hate those lights.

You can't see good
with them lights,

and it messes up my eyes.

So, anyway, I'm trying
to get close to this guy.

So I'm doing this
crazy thing,

I'm acting real swishy.

I guess that's what
you would call it,

and I get up close
to this guy,

and I bump into him,

but everybody's
bumping into everybody...

and he had a heart attack

because I had
a hypodermic needle.

When I bumped into him,
I--I popped him with the needle.

♪

What was
in the needle?

In his case?

Heart attack.

NARRATOR: There was no doubt
that Richard Kuklinski

was a stone-cold killer,

and most people thought
that's why he was
called the Iceman,

but law enforcement had
another reason for pinning

this name on him.

They called him
the Iceman because

to confuse the time of death,
he would take his victims

and put them in a freezer
for long periods of time.

One such victim was
a man named Louis Masgay.

He did too good a job
on this body.

After leaving the body
in a freezer for over two years,

He then took the body out
and dumped it where it was

found before it had thawed out.

So when the medical examiner
does the autopsy

and opens the body up,

he finds ice inside the body
on a warm summer's day.

The medical examiner says,
"There's something wrong here.

This guy couldn't have
died in the past few days."

NARRATOR: After the discovery
of the half frozen body

of Louis Masgay,
the noose began to

tighten around Kuklinski
and his boss Roy DeMeo.

Under pressure
from law enforcement,

DeMeo began to act erratically,

and the Family felt
he was about to crack

and testify against them.

There was no question
in their minds he had to go.

♪

NARRATOR: In l983,
DeMeo's body was found

in a trunk of a car.

He had been shot 5 times
and had been dead a week.

There were some
who thought Kuklinski
might be responsible.

Do you know anything
about his murder?

Who? DeMeo?

Yeah.

He outlived his usefulness,

and he was, uh...

running the wrong way.

Apparently everybody
thought he was gonna
run to the law.

What did you feel
when he was killed?

What did you feel
about it?

I was all broken up
over it.

I've got a bridge for you, too,
I want to sell you.

What? I didn't
hear you.

I got a bridge
for you, too.

I want to sell you
a bridge.

I wasn't broken up
over him.

That was a--
my attempt at levity,

but I thought at the time
it couldn't have happened

to a nicer person.

If somebody had
to die that day,

it was a good day
for him to die.

♪

NARRATOR: Over the next 3 years,

The New Jersey Organized Crime
Task Force concentrated

on closing in on Kuklinski.

When Kuklinski began
to feel cornered,

he started eliminating anyone
who could implicate him

in his criminal activities.

If he called you friend,
you had a problem.

Yesterday's friend soon became
tomorrow's enemy.

One of those friends
turned enemy was a man

who had been
Kuklinski's partner.

His name was George Malliband.

KUKLINSKI: Georgie Boy?
Yeah.

Yeah. Liked him.

Actually, yeah,
really liked him.

One of the few people
I ever really liked.

♪

NARRATOR: But Malliband had
developed some bad habits.

He racked up thousands
of dollars in gambling debts

to loan sharks.

Kuklinski had vouched
for him and told Malliband

he'd better pay up.

Then Malliband made
a fatal mistake.

He told Kuklinski that
if he didn't back off

he would hurt his family.

KUKLINSKI: Which really
struck a nerve with me.

It upset me,
but I was trying

not to get upset
with it at that time

because I figured
he was just nervous maybe

and was just spouting off,
but apparently he wasn't

NARRATOR: But the Iceman
couldn't forget that

Malliband had threatened
his family,

and several weeks later,
he began to plan his murder.

♪

KUKLINSKI: We got in the van,

and I said, "George,
were you really sincere

"with the fact that
you would hurt my family

to get back at me?"

And he said, "That's
the only way I could get you--

"I could get over on you,
get you to do

what I wanted you to do
is to hurt your family."

I said, "But that's
a stupid thing to say, George."

I said, "Knowing how badly--
how sincere I am

about my family."

I said, "For you to say
something like that,

you must realize
you're gonna make me mad."

He says, "No, you
won't be mad."

He says, "Because you'd be
afraid that something

would happen to your family."

I said "Well, you're
very wrong about that George."

I said, "Because I'm gonna
put a stop to that.

"As a matter of fact,
I'm gonna put a stop

to that right now."

And I shot him 5 times.

[Gunshots]

I could see them entering
because he was right here.

We're sitting in the van.

I'm in the driver's seat,
Georgie Boy was over here...

in the next seat, which was,
you know, just like that.

And I went, "Pop, pop, pop,"

and I went "pop, pop."

And I could see
the material moving

on his jacket
as these things--

actually, they made
little marks on it,
on the jacket.

I guess they were burn marks
or something.

NARRATOR: Kuklinski's
favorite way of disposing

of bodies was putting them
in barrels,

but with the 6-foot,
300-hundred pound
George Malliband,

it wasn't easy.

KUKLINSKI: So when I got him in,
I had a problem with one leg.

I had a hell
of a problem with the leg,

I'll tell you.

No matter what I did, I couldn't
get that leg in there.

So I had to cut it.

Put the top on.

And I drove down
to Jersey City,

where I dumped him.

NARRATOR: The next morning,
a passerby noticed

a dented steel drum
turned over on its side.

When he walked over
to get a closer look,

he saw a pair of legs,
one of them bloody and hacked.

The body was
George Malliband.

Police knew Kuklinski
was the last person
to see him alive.

The New Jersey
Organized Crime Task Force

now had just one mission,

to gather the evidence
to arrest and convict
Richard Kuklinski.

CARROLL: The final method
that was used was, in fact,

the introduction
of an undercover federal agent,

Dominick Polifrone,

who was able to win
Mr. Kuklinski's confidence

and was able to record
conversations where he

detailed his participation
in these murders.

I portrayed myself
as a hitman,

told him I worked for
the wiseguys downtown New York

and my brother was
a goodfella downtown,

and I went by the name
of Dominick Michael Provenzano.

NARRATOR: The tapes made
by the undercover agent

had nailed Richard Kuklinski,

and his career as
a contract killer
was finally over.

At his trial, his family
learned for the first time

that they really didn't
know the Richard Kuklinski

who was also capable
of being the deadly Iceman.

♪

Richard Kuklinski is now
serving multiple life sentences

in New Jersey State
Maximum Security Prison.

Ironically his younger
brother Joey is also

serving a life sentence
in the same prison.

When Joey was 25,
he was convicted

of raping and murdering
a 12-year-old girl.

After he strangled the girl,
he dragged her body

over two adjoining rooftops
and threw her

and her pet dog
to the street 40 feet below.

Do do you want
to talk about
your brother, or--

What do you
want to talk about?

There's nothing
to talk about.

Because we
never brought up
your brother

in the first show,
and--

You want to talk
about him,

we'll talk about him.

He's been here
for 25, 27 years,
something like that.

He's been here
a long time.

25 years, I think.

Don't hold me
to that exactly,

but I'm pretty sure
that's c--pretty close.

And he's here
for murder.

Yes.

What happened--
how old was
he when--

He was a young man.

He was in his
20s, I believe.

And what went wrong
in his case?

Do you think he was
a product, also,

of what you
went through?

We come
from the same father.

Do you see him,
Richard?

I pass him.

What do you say,
just "Hello"

and keep on
walking?

"How you doing, Joe?"

"How you?"

"Take care."

That's it?

I told you I have--
do all short stories.

That's being overfriendly
with my brother.

Does he try
to talk to you?

He says less to me,
as a matter of fact.

Sometimes he doesn't
even answer me, I don't think,

thinking about it.

That's too bad.

Depends on how
you look at it.

♪

If by some miracle,
Richard, you got

out of here
tomorrow,

let's say...

Hmm.

for the sake
of argument,

what would you do?

Would you go back
to that life,

or would you
do something else?

No. It's passed me now.

I have 10 years
without violence.

I don't really look forward
to violence anymore.

I don't even think I could
play the game anymore.

Probably get myself shot
the first time out.

I wouldn't do it anyway.

I'd look to retire
in a nice, quiet
place someplace.

no banging doors,
no people yelling
and screaming.

Somewhere if I wanted to
think I could just sit
there and think.

Is there anything
you wouldn't do,
Richard,

for a contract
murder?

Yes.

What wouldn't
you do?

I wouldn't kill a child...

and most likely
wouldn't kill a woman.

Did you ever
let anyone go?

For whatever reason
did you ever decide
to let someone go?

Yes.

But then I thought
better of the idea

and shot him anyway.

Did you ever murder
anyone you liked?

All my friends are dead.

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

But not
at the moment
of killing them.

I might have even
liked them then.

Honor among thieves--
there's no such thing.

You see, because
I was put in prison

by a man I knew 30 years,

and I liked him.

Big mistake.

I had one friend too many.

I am now serving multi
life sentences because

of my one friend,

and he's the only
friend I didn't kill.

♪

Hoffa?

Yeah.

I don't know anything
about Hoff, Jimmy Hoffa.

Or the scuttlebutt,
let's say--let's
put it that way.

Scuttlebutt?
He's in a Japanese car.

Supposedly, he was picked up,
put in a drum,

put in the trunk of a car,

put in a crusher
with other cars,

crushed,
and shipped overseas.

That's what I heard.

Don't know.

I think
the last time
I asked you that

you thought he was
a Toyota.

Could be a Toyota.

Some little
Japanese car.

♪

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