Not all of those were mob hits: The quick-tempered Kuklinski would kill anyone who rubbed him the wrong way.
He claims to have murdered between 100 and 250 men-but never any women-before he was arrested in 1986. In this chilling interview, Kuklinski talks at length about his abusive childhood and his many killings. Richard Kuklinski, nicknamed “The Iceman” for his habit of freezing his victims to confuse time of death, was a contract killer for the New York and New Jersey crime families for 30 years. The Iceman Confesses: Secrets of a Mafia Hitman (2001) These five documentaries focus on some of the Italian and Irish gangsters who blazed their way into the history books-and the lengths their rivals and the law went to take them down.
The criminal empire and its most colorful players have played an indelible part in the history of America and Italy. Even if the The Godfather and Goodfellas had never been made and we’d never heard of Tony Soprano, we’d likely still have a perverse fascination with the mob.
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