

It is said that more than once, she broke a broom handle while beating him with it.īut nearly all of Richard’s hatred hinged on his father’s endless beatings and ritual humiliation. His mother, who worked at a meat-packing plant, was a fanatically devoted Catholic who also frequently beat Richard, often with blunt objects.

When asked why Joey did that, Richard replied, “We come from the same father.” Richard’s younger brother Joey was imprisoned for raping a 12-year-old girl on a tenement rooftop, then throwing her and her dog off the roof to their deaths. One day in 1940 he beat Florian to death and forced the family to tell everyone that his son had accidentally fallen down the stairs. He would also beat Richard and his brother Florian so badly that he’d knock them both out cold. He would routinely beat his wife Anna in front of the children. Kuklinski’s father Stanley, a vicious alcoholic, worked as a brakeman for a local railroad. If that sounds like a weak dodge, maybe you should learn a little bit about his father. Park Dietz did in a 2002 prison interview-he blames it all on his father. If you ask Kuklinski what made him that way-which is exactly what forensic specialist Dr. ( YouTube) Ultraviolent Family: Kuklinski’s Brother Was Murdered By Their Maniac Father But his favorite method of administering cyanide was with liquid spray: “You spray it on someone’s face and they go to sleep,” he explained with his trademark emotionlessness. Often he’d spike their food with cyanide and they’d die right there at the burger joint. More than anything else, though, he loved to take people out with cyanide. Kuklinski killed people with guns, chainsaws, bombs, hand grenades, icepicks, and his bare hands.

In taped interviews recorded in prison, he speculates that he probably killed as many as 100-200 people, and what’s most chilling is that his tone is that of a man who’s estimating how many hot dogs he’s eaten over his lifetime. He was convicted of six murders, but experts seem certain he is responsible for at least dozens more-and possibly as many as 300. Born Richard Leonard Kuklinski in Jersey City, NJ, he started murdering in 1948 at age 13 and didn’t stop until he was arrested in 1986.
