He confessed to Paul HoffmanвЂ™s homicide around the same time, but nothing related to that could be done, so he was only sentenced to two life terms in prison. Image Credit: HBO/The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a KillerДЄfter being found guilty of the charges against him in connection to the deaths of Gary Smith and Daniel Deppner, Richard pleaded guilty to George Malliband and Louis MasgayвЂ™s murders in 1988. The Paul Hoffman case indictments were later dropped. Richard was thus apprehended in December 1986 and charged with five counts of murder, six weapon violations, attempted murder, robbery, and attempted theft. They wanted to positively identify him as the Iceman through this process and ensure that they had enough evidence for not just his arrest but even his conviction. The investigation into his burglary gang linked Richard Kuklinski to the five murders - he was the last one to see each victim alive - leading officials to execute an 18-month long undercover operation. Only then, in the fall of 1983, were LouisвЂ™ remains recovered from a local park, where heвЂ™d been dumped after being stored in a freezer for two years, giving rise to вЂњThe IcemanвЂќ moniker. Moreover, he murdered two of his burglary ring associates - Gary Smith (in late 1982) and Daniel Deppner (in 1983) - to save himself from getting on the authoritiesвЂ™ radar. Richard not only killed George Malliband during a meeting to sell him tapes in 1980, but he also slew Louis Masgay in mid-1981 and pharmacist Paul Hoffman in early 1982 for blank tapes and drug-related reasons, respectively.

From there, though, the outlaw began to head a burglary ring with a few others before allegedly becoming connected with organized crime, ultimately driving him to commit murders as well. He reportedly did get arrested for passing a bad check around this time, but the charge was dropped without any drawn-out legal proceedings once he agreed to pay back the money he owed.

In the mid-1960s, Richard began making bootleg copies of movies while working at a film lab, which is when he realized that trafficking x-rated ones, along with drugs, would be pretty lucrative. ThatвЂ™s partly why he left school after the eighth grade and went on to pursue a career in menial jobs before stepping into the world of criminality for good with theft and pirating. His parents were both violently abusive, as per Anthony BrunoвЂ™s вЂThe Iceman: True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer,вЂ™ with Richard going as far as to deem his mother a вЂњcancerвЂќ who destroyed everything she touched. Born on April 11, 1935, as the second of four children to StanisЕ‚aw вЂњStanleyвЂќ Kuklinski and Anna McNally, Richard Kuklinski grew up in a highly religious yet unstable household in New Jersey.

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