"Richard Kuklinski Richard Leonard Kuklinski (; April 11, 1935 – March 5, 2006) was an American hitman and serial killer. He was convicted of murdering six people, but confessed to and is suspected of far more murders. He was associated with members of the American Mafia, namely the DeCavalcante crime family of Newark, New Jersey, and the Five Families of New York City. Kuklinski was given the nickname ""The Iceman"" for his method of freezing a victim to mask the time of death. During his criminal career, fellow mobsters called him ""the one-man army"" or ""the devil himself"" due to"
"the bones, leaving not even a trace. Kuklinski earned the nickname ""The Iceman"" because of his experiments in disguising the time of death of his victims by freezing their corpses in an industrial freezer. Later, he told Carlo that he got the idea from fellow hitman Robert Pronge, nicknamed ""Mister Softee"", who drove a Mister Softee truck to appear inconspicuous. Pronge taught Kuklinski the different methods of using cyanide to kill his victims. Kuklinski also claimed to have purchased remotely detonated hand grenades from Pronge. Pronge allegedly asked him to carry out a hit on Pronge's own wife and child,"
"Stuart M. Kaminsky Stuart M. Kaminsky (September 29, 1934 – October 9, 2009) was an American mystery writer and film professor. He is known for three long-running series of mystery novels featuring the protagonists Toby Peters, a private detective in 1940s Hollywood; Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, a Moscow police inspector; and veteran Chicago police officer Abe Lieberman. A later series followed Lew Fonesca, a process server from Sarasota, Florida. Kaminsky's Inspector Rostnikov novel ""A Cold Red Sunrise"" received the 1989 Edgar Award for Best Novel. He earned six other Edgar nominations, most recently for the 2005 non-fiction book ""Behind the"
"first son. Kuklinski, who was the second son, had a younger sister, Roberta (1942–2010), and a younger brother, Joseph (1944–2003), who in 1970 was convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl and murdering her by throwing her off the top of a five-story building (along with her pet dog). When asked about his brother's crimes, Kuklinski replied: ""We come from the same father."" Before he became a contract killer, Kuklinski worked at a warehouse in New Jersey. He was already married to a woman 9 years older than him named Linda and had two sons (Richard Jr. and David), at the"
"arrival in St. Louis, which made him ineligible for a transplant. He died on October 9, 2009. Stuart M. Kaminsky Stuart M. Kaminsky (September 29, 1934 – October 9, 2009) was an American mystery writer and film professor. He is known for three long-running series of mystery novels featuring the protagonists Toby Peters, a private detective in 1940s Hollywood; Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, a Moscow police inspector; and veteran Chicago police officer Abe Lieberman. A later series followed Lew Fonesca, a process server from Sarasota, Florida. Kaminsky's Inspector Rostnikov novel ""A Cold Red Sunrise"" received the 1989 Edgar Award for"
"""Ice Man:Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer"", Carlo reported that serial killer and Mafia hitman Richard Kuklinski (known as ""IceMan"") was the lone gunman who killed DeMeo while riding in DeMeo's car together. Kuklinski, who had begun taking contract killing work from DeMeo after establishing a mutually beneficial criminal relationship, had been humiliated publicly by DeMeo on a number of occasions and sought revenge. Kuklinski had a first meeting with DeMeo and his men, where they administered a savage beating to Kuklinski, while collecting late payments he had owed to Mob members in his pornography business. DeMeo had thought that"
"his corpse in an industrial freezer for two years. This time, Kuklinski did not allow the body to thaw completely before he dumped it. The Rockland County medical examiner found ice crystals inside the body on a warm September day. Had the body thawed completely before discovery, the medical examiner stated that he probably would have never noticed Kuklinski's trickery. This discovery helped authorities to deduce that Kuklinski used a freezer as part of his ""modus operandi"" and led them to give Kuklinski the nickname ""Iceman"". Eventually, five unsolved homicides, including the deaths of Hoffman, Smith, Deppner, Masgay, and George"
"Alfred Leonard Cline Alfred Leonard Cline (1888 – August 5, 1948), also known as ""Buttermilk Bluebeard"", was an American serial killer responsible for murdering at least nine people. Cline was born on March 12, 1888, in Kansas. He was never convicted of murders, as he never left any trace of evidence. He married women of status, convinced them to will their possessions to his name, and persuaded them to drink a glass of poisoned buttermilk that contained powerful sedatives. After a fatal dose of drugs, a local doctor would issue a death certificate citing the cause of death to be"
"when it came to his business life and never questioned where Richard was going when he said he was leaving, presumably for work-related activities. Authorities described Kuklinski as unusual amongst both mobsters and killers. Apart from his violent temper, he had none of the vices common among criminals: he was not an abuser of alcohol or other drugs and was not a womanizer, though he did have a serious weakness for high-stakes gambling and lost a great deal of his earnings from contract killing in these regards. His motives for murder were also unusual, not fitting neatly into standard serial"
"murdered Trotsky by striking him in the skull with an ice-axe on August 20, 1940. Zborowski fled to the United States following the Nazi invasion of France. The American Trotskyists David and Lilia Dallin assisted in his emigration and helped him obtain employment at a screw factory in Brooklyn. With money from an unknown source, he rented a fashionable Manhattan apartment in the Dallin's building and once again resumed his former occupation, spying on Trotskyists. His codenames TULIP and KANT appear in nearly two dozen Venona decrypts. He reported to the Soviet controller Jack Soble. Zborowski spied on the Dallins"
"Leonard Lake Leonard Thomas Lake (October 29, 1945June 6, 1985), also known as Leonard Hill and a variety of other aliases, was an American serial killer. During the mid-1980s, he and accomplice Charles Ng raped, tortured and murdered an estimated 11 to 25 victims at a remote cabin in Calaveras County, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills 150 miles east of San Francisco. After his arrest in 1985 on illegal weapons, auto theft, and fraud charges, Lake swallowed cyanide pills that he had sewn into his clothing, and died four days later. Human remains, videotapes, and journals found at the"
"his production. This concerned not just published books and CDs, but deciding between writing music or literature and also selecting themes. The result was a publishing house producing new original books and songs ""on demand"". He was also a miner, metalsmith, and graphic artist. Velinský died of lung cancer in Ústí nad Labem in February 2012, aged 79. Jaroslav Velinský Jaroslav Velinský (December 18, 1932 – February 19, 2012) was a Czech science fiction and detective writer, publisher, songwriter and musician. In the folk arena and among sci-fi friends and fans he was known as Kapitán Kid (other pseudonyms included:"
"Alvin Karpis Alvin Francis Karpis (born Albin Francis Karpavičius; August 10, 1907 – August 26, 1979), a Depression-era gangster nicknamed ""Creepy"" for his sinister smile and called ""Ray"" by his gang members, was a Canadian-born (naturalized American) criminal of Lithuanian descent known for being a leader of the Barker–Karpis gang in the 1930s. Karpis led the gang along with Fred Barker and Arthur ""Doc"" Barker. There were only four ""public enemies"" ever given the title of ""Public Enemy #1"" by the FBI and he was the only one to be taken alive. The other three, John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd,"
"Eddie Leonski Edward Joseph Leonski (December 12, 1917 – November 9, 1942) was an American soldier and serial killer responsible for the strangling murders of three women in Melbourne, Australia. Leonski was known as the Brownout Strangler, given Melbourne's wartime status of keeping low lighting (not as stringent as a wartime blackout). His self-confessed motive for the killings was a twisted fascination with female voices, especially when they were singing, and his claim that he killed the women to ""get at their voices."" Leonski is the first and only citizen of another country to be tried and sentenced to death"
"that he was a serial killer who killed at least several dozen people both at the behest of organized crime bosses and on his own initiative. Three documentaries, two biographies, a feature film starring Michael Shannon, and a play have been produced about Kuklinski, based on his interviews and the results of the task force that brought him to justice. Richard Kuklinski was born in his family's apartment on 4th Street in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Stanisław ""Stanley"" Kukliński (1906–77), a Polish immigrant from Karwacz, Masovian Voivodeship who worked as a brakeman on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad,"
"""modus operandi"": he used guns, knives, explosives, tire irons, fire, poison, asphyxiation, feeding people to cave rats, and even bare-handed beatings ""just for the exercise"". The exact number has never been settled upon by authorities, and Kuklinski himself at various times claimed to have killed more than 200 people. He favored the use of cyanide, since it killed quickly, wasn't blood-messy and was hard to detect in a toxicology test. He would variously administer it by injection, by putting it on a person's food, by aerosol spray, or by simply spilling it on the victim's skin. One of his favorite"
"Lamed Shapiro Levi Yehoshua Shapiro (Yiddish: ל. שאַפּיראָ, born 1878, died 1948), better known as """"Lamed"" Shapiro"", (""lamed"" is the Yiddish name of the letter ל), was an American Yiddish author. His stories are best known for such themes as murder, rape, and cannibalism. He was born on March 10, 1878, in Rzhyshchiv, Ukraine. In 1896, he traveled to Warsaw, struggled to work for two years, then returned to Ukraine. He experienced a pogrom, fell in love and attempted suicide, and was later conscripted into the Imperial Russian Army. These experiences would influence much of his rather dark, fictional themes."
"anonymously providing the Central Intelligence Agency with Polish and Soviet secrets, by letter. The CIA gave him the code-name 'SNIPER', MI5 gave him 'LAVINIA'. In April 1959, the CIA informed MI5 that SNIPER (his real name was still unknown) had said the Służba Bezpieczeństwa had a British informant inside the Royal Navy. This person was later found to be Harry Houghton. The CIA also told MI5 that Goleniewski had received top secret documents originating from a Soviet mole inside MI6. The mole himself (who later turned out to be George Blake) heard the news that the CIA had a top-level"
"in the 2005 film ""Capote""; and by Lee Pace in the 2006 film ""Infamous"". Richard Hickock Richard Eugene ""Dick"" Hickock (June 6, 1931 – April 14, 1965) was one of two ex-convicts convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, United States, on November 15, 1959, a crime made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel ""In Cold Blood"". Along with Perry Edward Smith, Hickock took part in the burglary of the Clutter family farmhouse. Richard Eugene Hickock was born in Kansas City, Kansas, to farmworker parents, Walter Sr. and Eunice Hickock. He was"
"murdered Andrzej Konzaki, John 'Cowboy' Kissinger serves as Stony Man's weaponsmith. Kissinger first worked for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, the predecessor to the DEA. After the dismantling of the BNDD, Kissinger went freelance, offering his talents to companies like Colt, Beretta, Heckler & Koch, and IMI. Prof. Huntington Wethers A former cybernetics professor at UCLA, Huntington 'Hunt' Wethers was recruited by Aaron Kurtzman for his expertise in computers and cybernetics. While Kurtzman looks at computers as a means of leveraging information, Wethers looks at computers as a science. Akira Tokaido Of Japanese extraction, Akira Tokaido is an"
"Leopold Okulicki General Leopold Okulicki (noms de guerre ""Kobra"", ""Niedźwiadek""; 1898 – 1946) was a General of the Polish Army and the last commander of the anti-German underground Home Army during World War II. He was arrested after the war by the Soviet NKVD and murdered while imprisoned at Butyrka prison. Okulicki was born in November 1898 in Bratucice, Bochnia County in the Austrian section of partitioned Poland (""Galicia""). His exact date of birth is unknown as the birth record was not preserved in Polish archives and Okulicki himself used two dates: 11 November and 13 November. In 1910 he"
"Jim Miller (outlaw) James Brown Miller (October 25, 1861 – April 19, 1909), also known as ""Killin' Jim"", ""Killer Miller"" and ""Deacon Jim"", was an American outlaw and professional killer of the American Old West, said to have killed 12 people during gunfights – perhaps the most known homicides by one man of his era. Miller was referred to by the alias ""Deacon Jim"" by some because he regularly attended the Methodist Church, and he did not smoke or drink. He was lynched in Ada, Oklahoma, in 1909 along with three other men, by a mob of residents angry that"
"James R VanZandt, Pat F. Fickle, Galba E. Branson, J. J. Brown, Charles H. Groom, James K. Polk McHaffie, and possibly Ben Price. During the period of 1865-1882, over thirty murders were committed, none leading to a conviction. The group was called both the ""Citizen's Committee"" and ""The Law and Order League"" by its members. However, because their secret meetings were held atop a ""bald"" mountaintop (in order to keep a lookout for spies), the public began to refer to them as the Bald Knobbers. As their numbers grew into the hundreds, out of a county of only 7,000 people,"
"Tom Clancy Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American novelist best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science storylines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of his novels were bestsellers, and more than 100 million copies of his books are in print. His name was also used on movie scripts written by ghostwriters, nonfiction books on military subjects, and video games. He was a part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles and vice-chairman of their community activities and public affairs committees. Clancy's literary career began in 1984 when he sold ""The Hunt"
"attempts to collect his $50,000 pay for the hit from Leo, but is denied the payment, prompting him to kill the mobster when he threatens his family. Kuklinski's daughter is later seriously injured by a hit-and-run car accident. Kuklinski suspects Pronge and shoots him in a public park. Following an undercover sting operation, Kuklinski is arrested in the year 1986. Neither his wife nor his daughters have ever suspected him of being a cold-blooded killer. Kuklinski admits to having committed over 100 vicious murders, both for personal reasons and for profit, in his 22-year career. After being sentenced to two"
"time he met Barbara Pedrici who worked as a secretary in the same business as Richard. She claimed in an interview with ""The Telegraph""s Adam Higginbotham that once, during an argument in a car, during which Pedrici told Richard she wanted to see other people, ""Kuklinski responded by silently jabbing her from behind with a hunting knife so sharp she didn't even feel the blade go in. 'I felt the blood running down my back,' she says. He told her that she belonged to him, and that if she tried to leave he would kill her entire family; when Barbara"
"Grim Sleeper Grim Sleeper is the nickname for convicted serial killer Lonnie David Franklin Jr., responsible for at least ten murders and one attempted murder in Los Angeles, California. The attacker was dubbed the ""Grim Sleeper"" because he appeared to have taken a 14-year break from his crimes, from 1988 to 2002. In July 2010, Franklin was arrested as a suspect, and, after many delays, his trial began in February 2016. On May 5, 2016, the jury convicted him of killing nine women and one teenage girl. On June 6, 2016, the jury recommended the death penalty, and on August"
"many years was a paid agent of the Soviet secret service agency NKVD. The file documents indicate that for his greed, his handlers gave him a code name ""crook"" (in Russian -""zhulik""). On August 12, after five days at the Consulate, Kasenkina fell from a high third floor window to the building's concrete fenced yard. Miraculously she survived and was taken to the hospital. In Lomakin's version, she had jumped in suicidal despair. Four inspectors of the New York Police headed by Deputy Chief Inspector Conrad Rotingast were allowed by Lomakin to enter the Consulate building and inspect the teacher's"
"years. Jim Miller (outlaw) James Brown Miller (October 25, 1861 – April 19, 1909), also known as ""Killin' Jim"", ""Killer Miller"" and ""Deacon Jim"", was an American outlaw and professional killer of the American Old West, said to have killed 12 people during gunfights – perhaps the most known homicides by one man of his era. Miller was referred to by the alias ""Deacon Jim"" by some because he regularly attended the Methodist Church, and he did not smoke or drink. He was lynched in Ada, Oklahoma, in 1909 along with three other men, by a mob of residents angry"
"Nighttime Killers The Nighttime Killers (Нічний Серійник) is the media epithet for the killers responsible for a string of brutal murders in Kiev, Ukraine between 1991 and 1997. Two men, Vladyslav Volkovich (Владислав Волкович) and Volodymyr Kondratenko (Володимир Кондратенко) were arrested and charged with 16 murders. Most victims were shot with a .22 sporting rifle and stabbed or bludgeoned with a wide variety of weapons ranging from stitching awls to bricks and iron bars. The killers claimed that they began the murder spree in order to prepare themselves for an eventual career as contract killers, practicing on the homeless, and"
"right of way were six postal inspectors, three railroad special agents and two deputy sheriffs. An inspector commanded them to halt. In the bright moonlight the officers saw Kennedy and Logan reach for their weapons. Several of them opened fire and the robbers fell dead, still clutching their revolvers. The stolen mail, about 100 registered letters, was recovered. Jack Kennedy (train robber) John F. ""Jack"" Kennedy (""ca."" 1870 – November 3, 1922) was an American outlaw, described as ""the West's last notorious train robber"". Kennedy, nicknamed ""the Quail Hunter"", was from Missouri. He had a record of seven train robberies"
"Fedora (KGB agent) Fedora was the codename for Aleksy Isidorovich Kulak (1923–1983), a KGB-agent who infiltrated the United Nations during the Cold War. While working in New York, Kulak contacted the FBI and offered his services. Kulak told his American handlers there was a KGB mole working at the FBI, leading to a decades-long mole hunt that seriously disrupted the agency. It's not clear whether Kulak was acting as a double agent supplying false information or whether his information was legitimate. Kulak was a Soviet war hero, who prior to his work with the Americans was awarded Hero of the"
"commonly in the sources. Several sources, such as Gluchowski, use an alternative spelling - Fleichfarb. Piotrowski and several other sources also list one or two other name variants, namely: Licht and Lichtstein. Józef Światło Józef Światło, born Izaak Fleischfarb (1 January 1915 – 2 September 1994), was a high-ranking official in the Ministry of Public Security of Poland (""MBP"") who served as deputy director of the 10th Department run by Anatol Fejgin. Known for supervising the torture of prisoners, he was nicknamed ""the Butcher"" by ""MBP"" prisoners. After the 1953 death of Joseph Stalin and arrest of Lavrentiy Beria, Światło"