More of this in the (near) future on this channel. A mind made for murder: Richard Leonard "The Iceman" Kuklinski (1935 - 2006) was a Polish American contract killer. Kuklinski claimed to have murdered over 250 men between 1948 and 1986. His first murder at the age of 13. His father was an alcoholic who frequently abused his wife and children and once beat one of his sons to death. Kuklinski spent the remainder of his life fantasizing about murdering his father. His mother was also abusive to Richard, hitting him with broom handles and other household objects. In 1949, Kuklinski ambushed and beat the leader of a small gang of teenagers who had bullied him for some time. Following a particularly bad beating Kuklinski sought revenge, eventually beating him to death. Kuklinski then dumped his body off a bridge in South Jersey after removing his teeth and chopping off his finger tips in an effort to prevent identification. He then went on to savagely beat the remaining six boys. Eventually, his criminal acumen brought him to the attention of Newark's DeCavalcante crime family, who employed him in his first gangland slayings. In 1954, Kuklinski began prowling Hell's Kitchen in a search for victims. He came to Manhattan numerous times to kill men, always someone who rubbed him the wrong way, for some imagined or extremely slight reason. He dumped some into Hudson River. Murder became sport. The New York police came to believe that the bums were attacking and killing one another ...