The Iceman

The true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man.



The story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man. When finally arrested in 1986, neither his wife nor daughters had any clue about his real profession.




In the 1960s, Richard Kuklinski is working as a porn film lab tech until his mob bosses persuade him to change his career into that of a contract killer. For years, Kuklinski gains a reputation for cold blooded professionalism even as he raises a family who are kept in the dark about his true career. Unfortunately, mob politics ultimately forces him to secretly work independently with the psychopathic Robert 'Mr. Freezy' Pronge. As much as Kuklinski tries to keep his lives separate, circumstances and his own weaknesses threaten a terrible collision as the consequences of his choices finally catch up to him.
—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)



In 1964, Richard Kuklinski dates Deborah Pellicotti and kills a man that made an offensive comment about her during a game of pool. The violent Kuklinski works dubbing porn films but he tells to Deborah that he dubs Disney cartoons. Soon they get married and have two daughters. When his boss Roy Demeo closes the laboratory where Kuklinski works, he is invited to work as contract hit man after a test killing a homeless man. Along the years he works for Roy but he falls in disgrace when he lets a teenager hooker that witnessed a killing freely go, since he does not kill children. Kuklinski begins to work independently as a free-lancer irritating Roy who threatens his family and him. In 1986, Kuklinski is arrested by the police after committing more than one hundred murders.
—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil




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