Joseph Kuklinski

Sort By:
Page 1 of 50 - About 500 essays
  • Decent Essays

    Kevin Janusky Richard Kuklinski Essay Many people describe Richard ‘Iceman’ Kuklinski as a serial killer. In my belief he is not a serial killer.There are some characteristics that you could consider him being a serial killer but many lead to that he just killed to just kill. He did kill some people that just pissed him off and others that reminded him of his father. Loudmouth people and people who just are rude and disrespectful to others. Richard did have a childhood that most parents would not

    • 710 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Criminal Justice 3, 7th period 24 October 2017 IceMan Essay The “IceMan,” also known as Richard Kuklinski, is a different breed of killer. While he portrayed many similar traits as the other killers we have learned about such as John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer, the iceman had a certain trait that set him apart: no heart or conscience. When watching the interview by American Justice I realized that Kuklinski was aware of what he had done but was neither mad nor disappointed by the things he had done

    • 895 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The Iceman: Richard Kuklinski Richard Kuklinski was an incredibly cold-blooded man. He had at least 100 confirmed kills, and claims to have around 200 total. Richard has a very horrible childhood. Richard liked to torture and kill animals as a little boy. His father abused him and his brothers, one of which was killed from the abuse received from Stanley. Stanley’s brother, Joseph, was pretty messed up, too. He probably would’ve turned out to be a serial killer himself. Kuklinski himself wasn’t like

    • 1005 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Richard Kuklinski, known as the “ The Iceman” was an American contract killer and serial killer. He was born in 1935 in New Jersey and suffered a rough childhood leading him to commit his first murder at the age of 14. Because of his lack of education he was forced to find a living as a hitman for the Genovese, Gambino and DeCavalcante families. He got his nickname, "The Iceman", for his method of freezing victims to obscure their time of death. Richard Kuklinski was convicted of two murders but

    • 816 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Abby Simms Dixon Criminal Justice III 23 October 2017 Richard Kuklinski - Iceman Richard Kuklinski is unique in many ways, one of which being his devotion to his job. However, it was nothing worthy of praise. Kuklinski’s death count reached nearly 200 people, with his first kill as just a teenager. To most, this sounds like a very extreme example of a serial killer; however, Kuklinski was not a serial killer. Every serial killer, or mostly every serial killer, is going to exhibit the same characteristics

    • 982 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Criminal Justice III 7th period 23 October 2017 Richard Kuklinski - Iceman Richard Kuklinski was a convicted murderer and contract killer who was born on April 11 in 1935. Kuklinski claims to have killed over 200 people over the course of his “career” during 1949 to 1986. At first, he would simply kill people who annoyed him, got on his nerves, or who he ‘needed’ to kill. When the mob caught wind of a man who killed as frivolously as Kuklinski, they began to hire him out as a contract killer. He

    • 909 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Richard Kuklinski Essay

    • 1741 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Richard Kuklinski When a man is a product of his environment and the environment is filled with violence and hatred, the possibilities are horrifying. Richard kuklinski is a prime example of just that. His childhood was something no human, let alone a child should go through. His anger built up and his life eventually was overcome by it. He then progressed to a cold-blooded killer, starting small, and then ending with the mob until his capture. Richard Kuklinski was born on April 11, 1935,

    • 1741 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Good Essays

    Richard Kuklinski: Two Different Men, or a Born Killer? In the biography “The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer” By Philip Carlo, Richard Kuklinski can be considered a man-made psychopath, as there are thoughts that he was made to be who he was through nurture; such as his family, rather than being born this way. It was often thought Richard could be two different people, the “good Richard” and “bad Richard”. The book explains how Richard lived his life as a contract killer that could

    • 1894 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Introduction: In 1948, Richard Kuklinski, at the age 13, was ambushed and beat up by Charley Lane, the leader of a small gang of teenagers popularly known as "The Project Boys," who had bullied him for some time. Following a particularly bad beating young Richard sought revenge, attacking Charley Lane with a thick wooden rod eventually beating him to death. Although he denied wanting to kill Lane, the bully did not wake up. Kuklinski then dumped Lane's body off a bridge in South Jersey after removing

    • 954 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Good Essays

    based on the true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer known as The Ice Man who is serving multiple life sentences for over 100 confirmed murder. Throughout the film a number of murders, drug sales, extortions, and corrupt police investigations are shown to the viewer. Consequently, murder is where the film and they main character got their names. According to a documentary The Iceman Tapes - Inside the Mind of A Mafia Hitman Richard Kuklinski Has over 150 confirmed kills and

    • 1950 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Good Essays
Previous
Page12345678950