DeMeo's boss Leo Merks hires Freezy to kill one of DeMeo's associates, which Kuklinski does by poisoning him with cyanide. He starts becoming incapable of hiding his inner rage and shows bursts of anger towards his wife and strangers. Kuklinski home life is beginning to unravel. Needing money, he makes a deal with Freezy to carry out his murder contracts for him in return for half the bounties. DeMeo, already involved in a dispute with the Cali Cartel, is furious when he learns what happened and decommissions Kuklinski indefinitely. Freezy, a freelance hitman also hired by DeMeo, almost kills her, but is stopped by Kuklinski. He is ordered to kill a man who betrayed DeMeo, but finds a teenage girl in the closet afterwards.
In 1975, Kuklinski moves his family into a nice suburban home and starts telling people he works at a currency trading company. DeMeo tests Kuklinski by having him kill a homeless man then hires him as an enforcer and contract killer. The mob-backed company he works for is shut down by Roy DeMeo, a powerful New York City gangster. Kuklinski works dubbing pornographic films, but tells his wife he dubs cartoons. His brother is serving a life sentence in prison for raping and murdering a 12-year old girl. As a boy he and his younger brother were the subject of brutal beatings from their immigrant Polish father, shaping the boys into emotionally disturbed, sadistic young men. Kuklinski presents himself to everyone as a normal working man, but he has a dark, violent side that he hides. Kuklinski marries Deborah in 1964 and the couple have two daughters.
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If you are brave enough, I highly recommend this little gem from the early HBO days and just be thankful that Kuklinski isn't on the streets anymore because this is more real than any reality TV show.When a man insults Richard Kuklinski's fiancé during a game of pool, he follows the man to his car and murders him by slashing his throat. I can personally say that no matter how many times I watch this, it never fails to send shivers down my spine, especially with the good use of some creepy music. The filmmakers are able to capture all of this to give us an unprecedented look into one of the darkest souls of human existence that very few other filmmakers have been able to do with other killers mainly because of Kuklinski's nonchalant speaking tone that he uses throughout the show. Listen as Kuklinski talks about dismembering and leaving body parts on park benches, how he used cyanide to make it look like his victims died of heart attacks, how he blew someone's head off with a shotgun without a second thought, and how he did all this and then went home to be a father and husband to his wife and three children. In the "The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer", you'll hear all about it from those in law enforcement who brought him down, from the medical examiner, from his wife, and from the man himself, the last part being what makes this documentary what it is. He killed for money, to cover up his own crimes, out of anger, and sometimes just because he could. He was also one of America's most cold blooded, intelligent, and proficient killers. Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski was a husband, father, and loving family man.