Cade Phillips
Dixon
CJll
October 24, 2017
The Iceman
Richard Kuklinski was born on April 11, 1935 in Jersey City, New Jersey. He was raised in an abusive environment. His father would beat him for no reason at all and all he ever knew was hate because that is all he’s ever known. His father Stanley would beat him with an iron rod and lock him in the basement for hours or days without food. Stanley went so far one night that he killed Richard’s younger brother due to hitting him in the head. His father then abandoned the family when Richard was 16. I believe his upbringing is a large contributing factor of him becoming a serial killer. Richard Kuklinski’s brother, Joseph Michael Kuklinski, was as much abused and mistreated as Richard. His upbringing, I believe, contributed to his criminal mindset and the actions he committed. When he was taken out of his home due to the abuse, he raped and then murdered a 12 year old girl and was convicted for it shortly after. I don’t believe that he would be a serial or contract killer like Richard because he still cared about human life. He was hurt after his brother was killed by his parents. He probably just wanted to rape the girl
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Kuklinski killed over 200 people and did it for money or for revenge. He was a brutal person who didn’t regret any of it and had no remorse for any of his victims. I think he is like Jeffrey Dahmer because they both didn't have a single regret about anything or any of their kills. The only difference between the two is that Dahmer had sex related crimes while Kuklinski didn’t. He is also related to another serial killer, Jack the Ripper. They both got away with their murders for a long period of time before getting caught. They both also have an astronomically high amount of kills. Kuklinski claims to have over 200 and Jack the Ripper has a little over 100
Richard Leonard Kuklinski, known as “The Iceman” was born April 11, 1935. Kuklinski was a contract killer who was convicted of 5 murders. Kuklinski was given the nickname “Iceman” for freezing a body of a victim to mask the time when the victim was murdered. Kuklinski lived with his wife Barbara Kuklinski and 3 children in the suburb of Dumont, New Jersey. Prior to his arrest, his family was apparently unaware of Kuklinski's double life and crimes. Kuklinski was a contract killer for Newark's DeCavalcante crime family and New York City's Five Families of the American Mafia. Kuklinski favored to murder people with sodium cyanide since it killed very quickly and also was hard to detect. With Cyanide, Kuklinski would simply kill the victim by either injecting the cyanide in them, putting it in the victim’s food, aerosol spray or spilling it on the victim’s skin. After killing his victim, he will dispose the body in a 55-gallon oil drum. Other ways Kuklinski would dispose the body were either burying the body or putting the body in the trunk of a car then having it crushed in the junkyard. Kuklinski says that Robert Pronge, nicknamed “Mr. Softee” has taught him different methods to use cyanide to kill his victims. Pronge allegedly asked him to carry out a hit on Pronge's
A poor and abusive childhood for Kemper resulted in an unexpected anger and violence towards women. Like most serial killers, until Kemper was arrested and had time
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Avriel Benjamin Kaplan was born on April 17, 1989, to Michael Kaplan and Shelly Kaplan in Visalia, California. Since Michael Kaplan was Jewish Avriel Benjamin Kaplan’s name was hard to pronounce, so they called him Avi for short. When Avi Kaplan was five years old his sister was born, Esther Kaplan. He went to school at Mt. Whitney High School. In school, Kaplan was bullied because he was part Jewish. As a freshman in high school, he was asked to join a chamber choir primarily made up of junior and senior students. When Kaplan was 15 he taught himself to play guitar, and later in life, he even performed at restaurants and other places. he performed at Visalia, California coffee houses. Kaplan wrote his first song called “Collision” which is very close to his heart.
Dennis Rader murdered 10 people over a 17-year period from 1974 to 1991 in the Wichita, Kansas area (Hickey, 2016). He was called BTK for blind, torture, and kill. He lived a pretty normal life by serving four years in the military. Then he worked for ADT Security Services giving him the knowledge to disarm home alarm systems. He targeted mostly women who he stalked, and often waited for them in their own homes. He referred to the people he killed as projects and bragged about keeping trophies such as rings and lingerie (Tresniowski & Comander, 2005). He also used a squeeze ball in order to strengthen his hand muscles so he could strangle his victims more easily. He kept some of his victims alive longer so he could continue to torment them. He even planned an 11th murder however, he was captured before he could carry it out.
Richard Leonard Kuklinski was born in the Polish section of Jersey City, New Jersey. His mother, Anna McNally was a devout catholic and his father, Stanley Kuklinski, worked on the railroads. His father was an alcoholic who beat Richard regularly. Richard was one of four children and had an older brother who died from his parents abuse. Heather Mitchell and Michael Aamodt (2005) say that, “Childhood abuse has been given varying levels of blame in the development of serial killers. De Baker (1997) quoted Ressler’s research and stated that, ‘100 percent [of serial killers] has been abused as children; either which violence, neglect, or humiliation’ (p.55).’” (p. 40). Kuklinski began killing cats as a child. Research says “Violence is a pattern
Even though he is classified serial killer and contract killer he differs from typical serial killers. Unlike your typical serial killer who targets victims with a specific profile and will only target victims with the same specific profile, Mr. Kuklinski did the opposite and his victims were chosen at random. For Kuklinski, killings were only considered business for him and way for him to make money. At no time did he commit murder purposely to seek some type of sexual arousal. Also, he did not kill because he suffered from any psychological dysfunction. Although someone of his kills did occur during the heat of passion, but for the majority of kills that he has accumulated were all hits. In the documentary called The Iceman Confession peers into the life of Richard "the Iceman" Kuklinski. In the HBO documentary on the Kuklinski, the assistant attorney general who prosecuted the
Serial killers have fascinated the imaginations of people for a long time. One of the most notorious serial killers is Jeffrey Dahmer whose gruesome murders shocked the nation. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer also known as Milwaukee monster was a notorious American serial killer and sexual offender in the 1980s and early 1990s. Between 1978 and 1991 Dahmer had murdered 17 men. His victims were usually raped, tortured, dismembered, and cannibalism was also involved. Jeffrey was a troubled child psychologically and his social skills had a lot to be desired. All the way through his childhood he was ignored and had queer fantasies of cadavers. In his adulthood this psychosocial status quo didn 't change and was in fact aggravated.
Richard Speck, infamous for the brutal murders of eight student nurses, was born on December 6th, 1941 in a small Illinois town called Kirkwood. Speck was number seven out of eight children, so his family was rather large. Margaret Carbaugh Speck, his mom, raised the family under a strict religious regime. The religious ideals that Margaret used to raise the Speck family came from her strict Presbyterian upbringing and her own family’s experience of helping to found a church. A major component of religious ideology that she brought into her household when raising Speck and his siblings was the banishment of alcohol. In fact, she even disallowed her husband, Benjamin Speck, from consuming alcohol. Though
On December 6th, 1941 the world welcomed Richard Benjamin Speck, who would become a well-known mass murderer. Speck, having a rather rough childhood, had an extensive criminal background before committing the unspeakable murders that made him famous. After being found guilty, Speck spent his remaining days in Chicago’s Stateville Penitentiary. One can look at Richard’s personal history, crime and criminal history to try and pin him to one criminological theory, when in reality, none will really fit him to a “T”. He was a psychopath who was in great need of psychological help, among other things.
Speck was a poor student and begin his life of a crime at a young age.Richard Speck is from a big family and he is the seventh of eight children.Richard dad died when he was six years old and his mom remarried.Their family moved to Dallas Texas.Richard stepdad always abuses him.Richard had a hard time living as a child.Speck's childhood was marked by juvenile delinquency and alcohol abuse, which soon led to petty crime.He was arrested for the first time at 14.Speck soon began taking after the stepfather, and was a heavy drinker by 15.By the time he left to go back to Illionis he has at least 40 arrest in his record.Richard has a tatoo in his left forearm and it says ¨Born to raise Hell¨.Speck tried to commit suicide in hotel on July 19,1996,by
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Kendall Francois was an American serial killer who committed murders from 1996 through 1998. He was responsible for the disappearance and murder of a total of eight women, who were all thought to be prostitutes. 1 The names of these eight women were: Wendy Meyers, Gina Barone, Catherine Marsh, Michelle Easton, Kathleen Hurley, Mary Giaccone, Sandra French, and Catina Newmaster. 1 Kendall appeared to have a nice, caring, and stable homelife, and was likely never abused in any way during his childhood. So, then why did he commit these heinous crimes against women?
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