This day in history: American criminal and convicted contract killer, Richard Kuklinski, was born on this day (April 11) in 1935. He was given the moniker Iceman by authorities after they discovered that he had frozen the body of one of his victims in an attempt to disguise the time of death. Kuklinski was engaged in criminal activities for most of his adult life; he ran a burglary ring and distributed pirated pornography. He committed at least five murders between 1980 and 1984. Prosecutors described him as someone who killed for profit. Kuklinski lived with his wife and children in the New Jersey suburb of Dumont. They knew him as a loving father and husband, although one who also had a violent temper. They stated that they were unaware of his crimes.
Kuklinski's modus operandi was to lure men to clandestine meetings with the promise of lucrative business deals, then kill them and steal their money. He also killed two associates to prevent them from becoming informants. Eventually, Kuklinski came to the attention of law enforcement when an investigation into his burglary gang linked him to several murders, as he was the last person to have seen five missing men alive. An eighteen-month-long undercover operation led to his arrest in December 1986. In 1988, he was convicted of four murders and sentenced to life imprisonment. In 2003, he received an additional 30-year sentence after confessing to the murder of a police officer named Peter Calabro.
After his murder convictions, Kuklinski gave interviews to writers, prosecutors, criminologists, and psychiatrists. He claimed to have murdered anywhere from 100 to 200 men, often in gruesome fashion. None of these additional murders have been corroborated.
As to whether he was a sociopath or psychopath, I found this comment on Quora: "I believe he might have been a primary psychopath with strong secondary traits. Genetics and environment. He had a really rough childhood with both his parents being abusive.
He didn't kill for the hell of it, he wasn't sadistic, he just did what he was supposed to do. To earn a living, to support his family. He had a purpose, he had several reasons to why he chose that life. And it was easy for him. He didn't feel anything about it, it was a job, he did his job and that was that.
This is methodical, calculating, callous, ruthless, goal oriented, he immediately got rid of potential problems, it wasn't emotional nor dramatic. He even used cyanide sometimes to make it less messy. He just wanted it done.
He wasn't apathetic like sociopaths seem to be. He felt loyalty to his family. Sociopaths would sell their mother if they got a good offer, they don't have a sense of loyalty, nor friendships etc. He seemed to have low emotional empathy, but really high cognitive empathy.
Also very violent and paranoid. A typical low functioning primary psychopath." Source
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