Drug dealers do illegal acts which are considered high misdemeanors to third degree felonies. Just as drug dealers work hard to make a great amount of money fast, Kuklinski reproduced that strategy by killing. Kuklinski had the ability to kill people easily and without remorse, and so he used this skill to his advantage. He started to kill for money rather than because an innate desire to kill. As he got older, his crime rate slowed down. However, shortly after he left the mafia, he started killing more privately in 1983. 4īecause of the abuse he received as a child and the hard lifestyle he led, hate brewed in him, where if someone rubbed him the wrong way, he’d want to kill that person. For Kuklinski, it was more than just murder - it was the thrill and the strategy to stay in the game of killing. His weapons got more creative with each kill that he was assigned. Over his lifetime, Kuklinski boasted completing over a hundred murders. Despite this preference for cyanide, he killed with many different things, including crossbows, ice picks, hang grenades, and an array of firearms. Kuklinski’s favorite method of killing was cyanide poisoning, which involved him filling up little spray bottles with cyanide and spraying it into his victim’s face. However, the one rule he made for himself was that he refused to kill women. He was a “pool shark” for the mafia, which meant that he went around collecting money from those who owed debts and killing those that needed to be killed. He grew to be 6’5 and 300 pounds, and as he grew older, his lust for blood grew greater. Once affiliated with the mafia at the age of 16, he became a hit man for the Gambino family. Kuklinski started his real crime career by selling pornographic movies to different mafias. 2 Kuklinski’s concoction of cyanide was put into these containers to spray at victims | Courtesy of fdanews All of these decisions led him into thinking that’s how he must live, and so, he killed his first victim at the age of 14. This led him to make choices that were impulsive and thrill-seeking, and he learned to solve his problems with violence instead of using intelligence. 1 Due to this lack of a healthy family and troubled childhood, Kuklinski went down a path of low self-control. When he was growing up, bullies abused him in school, because of his small size, and at home, his parents abused him too. Except, what his family didn’t know was that instead of having an office job he was actually making money through contract killing. Just like any other father, he loved his family with all of his heart - he would take them to the fair, he would take them on vacation, and he would do just about anything for them. With his wife and three kids and his office job, he was living the American dream. Richard Kuklinski appeared to be a stereotypical, suburban dad, mowing the lawn and cooking hot dogs every Saturday. SC 3300 – Special Topics: Public Health.HS 1302 – United States History since 1877.
HS 1301 – United States History to 1877.3 Post-Classical History (600 CE-1492 CE).6 Contemporary Latin America (2000-2030).1 Pre-Columbian Latin America (to 1492).