Exposing the Iceman: Richard Kuklinski | World’s Most Evil Killers | Forensic Files

on December the 17th 1986 51-year-old Richard kinsky left his home in the upmarket neighborhood of Dumont New
Jersey he placed a package of cyanide lace sandwiches in the boot of his car and an automatic pistol under the
driver's seat it was to be a normal day at the office for this seasoned killer he had a family he had
children and uh yet he was able to go out and kill somebody and then come home and wrap Christmas
presents over a 30-year career Richard klinsky had perfected the art of Murder by any means necessary methodical very
cunning and frankly frighteningly efficient in the way he killed he really liked to make sure he was ready for
anything detectives in investigating klinsky knew they needed cold hard evidence to put a stop to his reign of
terror he figured he never get caught out he controlled everything and he controlled you if he could Richard
klinsky known as The Iceman was about to be unmasked as one of the world's most evil killers
[Music] [Music] [Music] Richard cinski is believed to have been one of the United States most prolific
Contract Killers of the 20th century working for New York and New Jersey's Infamous crime families he claimed
responsibility for over a hundred murders Robert Carroll was part of the task force that helped bring klinsky to
Justice No Remorse no conscience in killing and that's the most dangerous criminal you can get klinsky cut down
Associates who dared to cross him as well as wealthy customers who came to him for drugs weapons and pornography
detective Dominic polyone infiltrated klin's crime underworld and eventually got the Killer to confess in a series of
secret recordings he was just brutal he was explaining to me how he murdered people and the joy like on his face make
it he go to sleep this killer Story begins in Jersey City New Jersey Richard Leonard klinsky was born
on April the 11th 1935 the second of four children of Polish and Irish immigrants he grew up
in a home that was violent and chaotic he took beatings from his mother and father sometimes for no reason
whatsoever criminologist and author Jennifer satton has researched klin's life story his father Stanley he was very
aggressive he would come home drunk attack their mother his mother was an orphan she never really
experienced a loving family and I think that was detrimental to the way she was able to be a mother to him in February
1941 when klinsky was just 5 years old his older brother Florian died the official story was that he'd met with a
terrible accident but klinsky would later claim this had been a coverup he believed that Stanley klinsky had beaten
his seven-year-old son to death if you imagine being a 5-year-old and you're subject to that kind of violence you are
utterly powerless you don't have the physicality or the resources to be able to escape from that you have to survive
it in his early teens klinsky began to drift into crime one day he decided that he was
going to steal some wine cuz he wanted to get a bit of money and then he went home and absolutely panicked thought
that the police were going to come for him and then when nothing happened no one came for him that was the turning
point for Richard that was when he realized you know what it really doesn't matter if I do anything good or if I do
anything bad nobody notices according to his own testimony at around the age of 13 klinsky decided
it was time to start facing his problems headon although Richard kinsky was to grow into a very large man as a child he
was comparatively puny and he was bullied relentlessly by a local gang the kids around the block would take
advantage of him until one day he started ruling himself and wound up beating up people and showed that you
know he's the man and he decided to take his revenge on this particular gang leader he got
tired of being abused from him he beat him to death and felt good about it too this was what Richard kinsky later
claimed though prosecutors were never able to prove it the earlier a criminal career starts especially something like
that the less likely it is that it's ever going to end now fully invested in a life outside of the law by his early
20s Richard klinsky had developed a range of moneymaking rackets he formed his own crew he had
several people that were working for him they formed a gang where they would Rob
cars to order they had a place where they could offload the goods that they stole to be sold quickly money
laundering you know a bit of extortion so he started setting up some companies timate companies which he then used to
launder money through Richard kinsky had the perfect physique for the line of work he' chosen he was huge he was about
6'4 about close to 300b Big Man scary looking guy kensy married young and had two sons
but the marriage was not destined to last spooked by a minor theft charge in 1958 klinsky found a job with a trucking
company in North Bergen New Jersey and it was here two years later that he met 19-year-old Barbara padri
Barbara who was a receptionist at the time and he thought she was absolutely beautiful so he spent as much of his
time as he could trying to woo her they began an affair but Barbara wasn't entirely convinced that this man who
appeared on the surface to be courteous and kind was actually that in reality not just the fact that he was married
and had two children already but also the fact that he had this incredibly violent streak which would sometimes
come to the surface this violent streak emerged just a few months into the affair when
Barbara tried to leave klinski when Barbara told him that perhaps they weren't made for each
other he lost his temper he grabbed her and told her very sternly that if she left him he would
have to kill her and her family because he was the only one for her he stabbed her in the back with the tip of a
hunting knife and he would have killed her if she tried to leave there is absolutely
not a doubt in my mind that he would have done klinsky left his first wife for Barbara then something happened that
made it even harder for the young woman to leave him Barbara discovered she was pregnant
it is quite possible that he forced her to be pregnant because it ties her to him for the rest of her life Barbara
reluctantly agrees to marry Richard klinsky the marriage takes place in early 1962 she's several months
pregnant and then perhaps inevitably tragically klinsky sets about her and beats her very badly so badly in fact
that she miscarries terrified of the consequences if she left Barbara stayed she became pregnant
again and again her husband's violence caused her to lose the baby but in 1964 they had a healthy child together and
Richard kinsky set about creating the image of a wholesome New Jersey family they had three children then he moved to
Dumont New Jersey far as their neighbors were concerned in New Jersey they were an
upright family his children went to nice schools his wife was always dressed beautifully
they had holidays on the outside he looked like this wonderful beautiful husband and family
man this Persona could not have been further from reality violence was now a way of life for Richard kinsky by the
1960s when he was in his early 30s klinsky had begun running a video piracy operation something that Drew him deeper
and deeper into the world of serious organized crime he had a little business called Sunset Studio pirating tapes but
quickly he got into pornography and that was pretty lucrative for him the interesting part of that of course is
pornography involves the mob these tapes were going out to different organized crime people and a fellow by the name of
Roy Deo who was a ruthless individual had his own crew in New York got wind of klin's
activities also heavily involved in the making and distribution of adult movies by the late 1960s Roy Deo had become
unhappy with Richard klinsky encroaching upon his business hearing about klin's willingness to employ violence Deo came
up with a way that this rival pornographer could pay his dues to the family he could take care of their
enemies Roy Deo was known in organized crime circles as a uh vicious vicious killer himself and also an enforcer Deo
immediately recognized that kinsky was evil that he was absolutely heartless they asked him to kill a
homeless person just to prove that he would be able to do it which he obliged shot them broad daylight got back into
the car according to klin's own claims this murder marked the beginning of his relationship with some of New York and
New Jersey's most infamous crime families New Jersey prosecutor Robert Carroll would later try to follow the
trail of Destruction klinsky had left as a killer for hire as we sampled these things unsolved murders we would check
the travel records and you'd see kinsky was there for a day and then something would happen he would go to Switzerland
stay for a day somebody would be killed unsolved murder he went to to Hawaii he went to Maui there was a man thrown out
of a third floor balcony on a hotel he died that night kinsky left the next day this was a man probably with antisocial
personality disorder had never experienced empathy maybe in his life so yeah it was all business to him none of
it was personal to him until Richard cinsky was arrested the extent of his contract killings was
not known in fact until the early 1980s he was not yet on the radar of homicide detectives but in 1985 a newly formed
organized crime and racketeering task force was handed an interesting case File we were brought together as a group
of experienced detectives from different areas in New Jersey and outside of New Jersey Pennsylvania New York to focus on
lostra which is the Mob We were assigned to handle complex and sensitive cases around the state of New Jersey and there
was a series of burglaries car thefts and things that were occurring in the northern part of the state as officers
in the early 80s had investigated the crimes and had begun to chase up their Prime suspects they noticed a Sinister
Patton persons who were involved with those crimes started showing up dead no killer had ever been caught but
in 1985 the organized crime task force began to painstakingly reinvestigate the murders in the hopes of proving a link
between them on February the 5th 1980 the mutilated body of 42-year-old George maliban had been discovered in Jersey
City he had last been seen on January the 30th carrying $227,000 in cash he told his family the
money was going to be used to buy a batch of tapes Mr maliban was found with his body
hanging out of a 55 gallon drum he was a big man he was about 63 and 280 you know
85 lbs in order to get him into the drum his tendons and so forth had been sliced
then the drum had been thrown off a ledge area in Jersey City and as it rolled down the hill it reached the
bottom and apparently broke open and then someone noticed the body the businessman man from Pennsylvania had
been shot five times this was the first in the series of unsolved murders that would in 1985 land on the desk of the
task force the only clue that we had at that point was that Mr maliban may be meeting
a subject by the name of Richie or big Richie that's all we had that case remained unsolved 17 months after the
murder of George maliban another Pennsylvania businessman had disappeared on his way to a meeting in approximately
uh July of 1981 a subject by the name of Lewis masg traveled to New Jersey to buy
some videotapes he was a family man he run a business with his son he had like a
convenience store and his plan was to buy a load of blank tapes for recording for people to buy for their VCRs at home
when he arrived in New Jersey he went to a diner and later on he just disappeared
the van that he was driving was found shortly thereafter on a highway in New Jersey but he was gone there was no
evidence nothing indicating foul play at that point but again that was a cold case it had not been solved but by
talking to his family we learned that you know he had been carrying a large sum of money 50-year-old LS masgay had
been carrying $45,000 in Cash when he disappeared his family also gave investigators another
piece of tantalizing information he too was supposed to be meeting a subject by the name of Richie 17 months
after Lewis maz's Disappearance in December 1982 an employee at the York motel in North Bergen New Jersey began
getting complaints from customers there was room 31 that had a terrible smell in it and when they
finally investigated they found a body under the bed and it was secured in a a box-like
structure the body was of an individual by the name of Gary Smith Gary Smith had
been in that room for several days and was pretty far along in terms of decomposition 37-year-old Smith was from
Vernon in the northeast of the state at the time of his death there was a warrant out for his arrest on the
charges of stealing and cashing checks an autopsy revealed ligature marks on his neck he'd been
strangled Smith's skin also had another unexpected feature cyanosis the pink lividity that
it was depicted on the body at the time there's only two things that would cause
that and one is carbon monoxide and the other is cyanide poisoning officers who initially investigated Smith's murder
didn't know what to make of this unusual Discovery but just a few months later in
Main 1983 a cyclist riding through a wooded area in West Milford New Jersey noticed
a large turkey Buzzard hovering over something on the ground 34-year-old Daniel deppner a
known car thief had disappeared 3 months earlier again the autopsy results were intriguing there are suggestions that
there might have been cyanide poisoning involved in his death we found undigested food in the stomach
what that conveyed to the medical examiner was that whatever had been eaten you know was fatal because the
stomach died right away and there was no other indications of trauma to the body
if the victims had really been killed with cyanide it was a truly unusual method of murder cide is not easy to get
if you're in the jewelry business they use it but it's not easily you can't buy it in the drugstore got to have people
who know how to do this as the task force reexamined the murders of Smith and depner in
1985 the same name came up they were connected to him just by a name big Richie or a phone number somebody's wife
would call up and say that my husband went to meet somebody his name was Richie and she never came
home investigators realized there was only one Richie that Gary Smith and Daniel deppner could have been meeting
both men were known to be members of Richard klin's crew four months after Daniel DEA was
found dead the body of missing man Lis masgay turned up in a park near the New York New Jersey border with a single
gunshot wound to the back of the head when they found the body it looked like it was only dead a week two weeks maybe
cuz the body didn't decompose it had the same clothes on from when he disappeared his body had been
methodically wrapped in plastic bags when the medical examiner examined the body it was very well preserved and it
actually had what's called Ice Crystal artifacts present in the body Lis maz's family had been searching for him for
over two years since he'd vanished in July 1981 on his way to meet Richie and they find out that this person allegedly
was meeting with klinsky and he wasn't dead for a week or two he was frozen in a freezer for two
years this unusual tactic to cover the tracks of his killings earn klinsky the nickname The
Iceman now linked to a fourth murder the organized crime task force knew that klinsky had to be
stopped it just seemed that wherever this guy kinsky when people were turning up dead it was time sensitive because we
knew there were other criminal Affiliates so we knew that while the investigation was occurring there's a
possibility other persons could be killed by early 1985 50-year-old Richard klinsky had
been linked with four brutal murders the victims were all known associates of his
or men who wanted to do business with him but with only circumstantial evidence it wasn't enough for the New
Jersey organized crime and racketeering task force to bring him in we did not have evidence that we could charge him
with at that time in the spring of 1985 Robert Carroll and his team launched operation
Iceman we decided that we would introduce an undercover agent into the operation and the undercover agent
though had a very difficult task I get a call from my buddies at the prosecutor's
office there sandam we have an individual that's here in Bergen County area and he's been murdering people with
pure cyanide agent Dominic polyone who'd previously gone undercover to get information on New York's most ruthless
crime families was the obvious choice for the high-risk sting Dominic in my opinion was probably the best undercover
in the country he he just fit the profile he talked the talk he walked the walk he was able to make people feel
comfortable in that world that he was part of that world though detectives suspected klinsky used cyanide in some
of his murders they had no direct proof of this highly unusual method of killing
they needed direct evidence and that's was my mission to meet with him to find out how he murdered these people and get
that direct evidence getting what they needed would be dangerous even for such an experienced
agent risks were very high for Dominic Richard kinsky was a was an evil very capable murderer as they prepared to
send Dominic polyone into the lion's den the team dug deeper into The Disappearance of a fifth man who was now
believed to have done business with their Target on the 29th of April in 1981 a pharmacist called Paul
Hoffman was invited to a meeting with klinsky Hoffman thought that klinsky could Supply him with prescription drugs
at A Cut Rate he was looking for this tagant that he was buying for his Pharmacy when he left to meet Richard
klinsky 51-year-old Hoffman was carrying $225,000 in cash he was never seen again the Cold Case
gave investigators another insight into what appeared to be one of klin's favorite
schemes he would look for opportunistic businessmen businessmen who were looking
for a deal businessmen who were financially were on the rocks and needed some help what kinsky would do was would
put the word out find out what you were interested in okay if you were interested in videotapes cheap but you
had cash money he would hear about that through his criminal Network he would build up a desire an expectation that
this was a good deal and eventually once he was sure that you would come with cash money he would do his thing he
would invite people to a secret meeting he would kill them and he would steal their money this was what detectives
believed to have happened to Paul Hoffman along with George maliban and leis masz now they needed agent Dominic
polyone to get the proof klinsky and his crew were known to base themselves in the city of Patterson New Jersey there
was a location on McBride Avenue they called the store they had a burglary ring where they would go to different
locations Rob them all these different homes in Bergen County area and bring it back to the store and they see what they
have and uh guys would be hanging out just like Good Fellas and there was also gambling and then a
bunch of other illegal activities going on in there and Dominic was able to get into that location and become friendly
with a couple of the guys needing a backstory that would convince the thieves and gangsters who frequented the
store the task force created a fake name a rrap sheet and mug shots for agent polyone I was using the name of Dominic
Michael provenzano and Anthony provenzano was the head of the Union Big Time Union big mafiosa man and they
assumed that I was in blood relationship with Anthony proano and I had card lunch Dom put the word out that he had
access to guns drugs everything that a criminal would advertise for one day he walked into the store with a mysterious
black case I open up the attache and inside is 10 high standard 22 caliber silences no manufacturer
serial number where you can come back to you in addition to that stolen military
plastic explosives with the lottin block numbers still on them when they saw that
they went berser they said holy now word is out at the store that Dominic Michael provano can
wind up getting everything with stunts like this Dominic built relationships with Associates of
Richard klinsky he got the reputation of a man who could get his hands on anything no matter how
nefarious but more than a year went by without the target showing his face at the
store Richie was avoiding the place because it was kind of hot with the cops and everything cuz he met people there
and they disappeared so so he was keeping his distance then one day in late summer
1986 out of the blue a bite from the Iceman phone rings and said the big guy wants to know if he can meet with you at
the donut shop which is around the block I said when he says in about a half hour that was the make maker break
meeting between Dominic and kinsky I pull up in my Lincoln he pulls up in his Camaro and here comes the Jolly Green
Giant man big big dude he gets out of the car I get out of the car and I'm looking him grow man he's just growing
he looked at me with these orange Ting glasses I tell you he was taking my soul out but he I didn't budge he looked and
it was the longest like 5 Seconds you can think of kinsky tested him and Dominic tested him right back and turned
out that he wanted to do business with him then he says I could have fell off the chair he goes can you get pure
cyanide I said yeah I can get it the task force had their first solid evidence tying klinsky to the use of
cyanide the suspected cause of death in the cases of Gary Smith and Daniel depner it was the Breakthrough they'd
been waiting for but they needed more they needed to hear Richard klinsky admitting killing all five victims malib
band mazg Hoffman Smith and deppner Dominic began wearing a secret recording device for every meeting Dominic used
the lore of obtaining cyanide for kinsky and during that time he was also talking
to him and trying to get him to talk about how he would kill somebody we had a huge number of surveillance
teams that were always in place and we had a quick response team in the event something would happen the fear of
something happening to Dominic was uppermost in the minds of his handlers the fact that he was skilled at using
cyanide created a high risk the highest risk situation he can have in an undercover operation because he was
capable of killing in a matter of seconds he loved to use a nasal spray that he said he used put in cyanide pure
Cyanide and squeeze it and then watch you die you know if you C you off guard you're history I always had my
leather jacket and I always had a a 380 pistol in my pocket always pointed at him I said if you pulled out a spray
I'm killing him I'm telling you right now prepared for anything by September 1986 agent polyone had his fish on the
the Hulk over the next four months he secretly taped his meetings with klinsky today Saturday on the meeting with
Richard kinsky at the Lombardi service station Dominic himself was posing as a murderer that he was a hitman and he had
ways of killing so they were at least in kin's mind a murderer talking to a murderer the two men would meet at a
service area off a busy intersection where Dominic would turn the conversation to methods of killing when
they got to the topic of cyanide Dominic was able to say well how do you use that
I never used cyanide I'm I'm a gun and steel guy is the way Dom used to put it he goes listen my friend it's nice and
easy simple used to say a little boost little squirt you watch him kill over looks like they died of a heart
attack wearing a hidden recording device agent polyone got the killer on tape explaining exactly how to lace a victim
food with cyanide powder what I'm saying is that if I took a guy out we talking business people tell me they want to
take care they want him gone no M what they want him gone so you got to be very careful you got to wait for an
opportunity if let me tell you this way if you're working it out and you're in a
restaurant with a guy oh ha little Spritz thr little cter over there on his plate right hopefully he's got gravy or
something he comes back in need his meal somewhere along the line he's going to go byby over the next four months
through the Autumn and early winter of 1986 Richard klinsky described to Dominic in graphic detail how his
victims had met their deaths under the guise of looking for tips on killing his enemies agent polyone encouraged his
Target to boast about poisoning his victims with deadly cyanide one guy was watch I couldn't
believe it he almost consume the whole must had ation must have been hungry with the
help of crew member Daniel deppner klinsky had used cyanide to murder their colleague Gary Smith at the hotel in
North Bergen Gary and Danny were being hidden out because the police were looking for
them and kinsky was basically h in them in different hotels now we know now that
he was doing that eventually to kill them in Gary's case he brought food in and he brought a hamburger in with
cyanide on it he didn't die completely right away so kinsky ripped a light cord off and then wrapped it around his neck
and finished it by a Garing him he had Danny do that so then they put the body under the bed and then they left Dominic
polyone had hit the jackpot it was the next crucial step in building a watertight case against their killer to
silence Daniel deppner kinsky went after him too Danny depner then was one night
was brought food by kinsky we believe it was was beans because that's what was found in his stomach he ingested the
beans and then died from cyanide during one of their meetings klinsky boasted to
agent polyone about why the body of Lewis mazg had been discovered so well preserved in 1983 more than two years
after he'd vanished he G said he was dead two weeks and actuality he was Dead 2 and a
half years the freezer maintained everything you made have tell me this guy was de for two years and his
features and everything was the same believe he had the same pair of pants on the same shoes same shirt same sweer
everything was the same in this case no the recordings revealed to detectives klin's willingness to use
a range of methods to kill his victims wasn't just limited to cyanide he also killed by shooting people and stabbing
people he admitted to shooting George maliban who'd been found in a barrel in Jersey City in 1980 the motive klinsky
admitted was the $45,000 he' bought with him to buy tapes in my opinion why Richard killed all
these people for monies he didn't do it just at random he would really set him up perfectly and
they'd bring him large sums of money and they would disappear greed was not his only
motivation kinsky loved killing he says cuz I own them he was Absol absolutely sist brutal
son of a gun I think we need to remember that klinsky started life with zero power and was routinely beaten and
humiliated and I don't think he was ever ever going to be in that position ever again he was going to have all the power
he was going to control absolutely everything in his life and everyone in it have collected admissions on tape of
all five of the murders the final stage of the task Force's plan was to catch Richard cinsky in the ACT Bobby Carol
came up with an idea about having someone set up to be killed we would tell kinsky that there was a a kid we
called him the rich kid who was coming up from Florida with a lot of money to buy drugs the kid would bring the money
they'd set up the meat and the kid would be killed and the money would be taken detective Paul Smith would pose as the
target agent polyone put the idea to klinsky at one of their service station meetings you know he's Rich here but I
think it' be a quick score if you want he's all along yeah well he comes all along all the time you take care I take
care he'll bring the breath all right you see what I'm saying then you're going to have to get me the C if you
want Dominic polyone assured klinsky that the cyanide he'd long been promising to supply would finally be in
the Killer's hands just in time to take out the so called rich kid so we had the
uh State Police lab rig up a fake Cyanide and the idea was that he would put it on one sandwich and a rich kid
would eat it just like Gary Smith was killed on the morning of the 17th of December 1986 undercover agent Dominic
polyone waited at the Vince Lombardi service station in Ridgefield New Jersey klinsky meets that
morning I give him the cyanide and the three egg sand whiches the plan was that once the rich kid arrived Dominic would
distract him while klinsky doctored one of the sandwiches with what he belied to
be real cyanide the rich kid would bite it and then we would go into the room and
arrest him the problem with it is Dominic what happens if he pulls out a gun and shoots you both or shoots the
rich kid fearing the thing could get out of hand and end with a bloody shootout the task force took advantage of a
change in klin's plans as he was leaving to lace the sandwiches he told the undercover detectives to wait because
he'd be a little while when he got home he had to take his wife to a doctor's appointment klinsky then drove the nine
miles to his home in Dumont New Jersey 2 hours later he and his wife emerged from
the house and got into their car and a waiting Tactical Team took their chance we sprung and we executed the arrest and
search warrants and at the time he tried to get away he started to drive he went
up a little grassy area jumped a curb realized he was surrounded once we had him handcuffed his wife started
screaming and he had there was about six of us on top of him he just went berserk
and he actually pushed us right off was mad because he was caught we found a loaded gun under his seat so that
basically was the end of Richard kinsky and when officers examined the sandwiches klinsky had put in the boot
they found fake cyanide not just on the sandwich intended for the rich kid but also on the one Dominic would have
eaten he was going to kill Dominic so the witness was going to be Mur agent polyone heard a different
version of how klinsky was planning to kill him so make sure that when I bring Dom to to a location that his hands are
on a steering wheel so I can blow his brains out 51-year-old Richard klinsky was charged with five murders one count
of attempted murder murder and a number of weapons charges this is unwarranted unnecessary these guys watch too many
movies never showed the badge never Me My Rights nothing they think their gang musters 37
guys to pick up one little guy it's ridiculous in February 1987 district attorney Robert Carroll
confirmed the severity of Richard klinsky Alle crimes at a bail hearing before judge
chelino total he has 10 complaints uh which cover approximately 19 different charges uh he is facing uh roughly 300
years uh in custodial time exposure uh hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars of fines and obviously the most
serious penalty of all the death penalty bail was set at two million and kinsky was detained at Bergen County Jail to
await trial on January 25th 1988 52-year-old Richard klinsky stood trial at the Bergen County
Courthouse for the murders of Gary Smith and Daniel deppner he pled not guilty it was loaded with press I mean
you couldn't even walk in the courtroom it was so packed it was mindboggling agent Dominic polyone testified in court
about the audacious undercover sting but it was his covert tape recordings that provided the most shocking
testimony once you get this into your system there's no way to get it out like that he has got
about possibly 3 to five seconds then he's gone the tapes conveyed a story of a cold-hearted
murderer that was in the prime of his murderous career and was highly skilled with many methods of
killing klin's trial was attended by his victim's relatives for the families Left
Behind it's devastating absolutely devastating you've got some of those details coming straight from the mouth
of the person who did it on a tape and they're a person given to bragging I can't imagine what that would do
to a family after only 4 hours of deliberation on March the 16th 1988 52-year-old Richard klinsky was
convicted of the murders of Gary Smith and Daniel deppner he later pled guilty to killing
George maliban and leis masgay and as part of the deal he finally admitted what had happened to pharmacist Paul
Hoffman invited him to a garage and then proceeded to try and shoot him but the gun jammed so klinsky without a moment's
hesitation beat him to death with a tire iron his body was then cut up and put into a 55 gallon drum and he put uh a
small layer of concrete on it on the top to seal it up he took the 55-gallon drum
and he dropped it off at a roadside coffee shop that oil drum with Hoffman inside it disappeared
Hoffman's body has never been found so there's really no closure and that's a very tough thing for to tell a family
member on April the 22nd 1988 Richard klinsky was given two life sentences for the murders of Gary Smith and Daniel
deppner with a minimum term of 30 years he later received the same sentences for
killing George maliban and leis masgay he was sent to Trenton State Prison in New Jersey where he remained until his
death in March 2006 press interest in the Iceman serial killer continued for decades after his
trial fueled by klinsky claims that during his lifetime he had killed over a hundred people there were no barriers
for him violence was was violence and he was quite happy for the violence to be extreme that's what makes kinsky so d
dangerous he wasn't driven by sex he wasn't driven by uncontrollable urges he was driven solely by greed and evil I
call him the Devil Himself that was actually the devil walking on Earth Richard kinsky claims to have
killed his first victim at just 13 years old throughout his life he continued to
demonstrate that life was cheap and that almost everyone who crossed his path was
nothing more than a potential victim after a killing spree that by his own testimony lasted at least 30 years
Richard klinsky will be remembered as one of the world's most evil killers [Music]

New Jersey native Richard Kuklinski ran a burglary ring, distributed adult content and dealt in the illegal arms trade. He also claimed to have murdered over 100 people while operating as a hitman for New York and New Jersey’s infamous crime families.

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Brief Summary

Richard Klinsky, The Iceman, was a notorious contract killer linked to over a hundred murders, captured through undercover investigations.

Key points

The Iceman Unmasked. Richard Klinsky, known as The Iceman, was one of the world's most notorious killers.
A Chaotic Childhood. Klinsky's violent upbringing shaped his future as a criminal.
The Birth of a Killer. At a young age, Klinsky began to drift into crime, marking the start of his dark path.
The Undercover Operation. Detectives launched Operation Iceman to gather evidence against Klinsky.
The Disappearance of Paul Hoffman. Pharmacist Paul Hoffman vanished after meeting Klinsky, believed to be another victim.
Undercover Operation. Agent Polyone posed as a hitman to gather evidence against Klinsky.

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No remorse, no conscience in killing.

Robert Carroll's insight into the danger of Klinsky's character.

2:10WatchJul 4, 2024

Tension

85/ 100High tension

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