This would eventually be Kuklinski's undoing.
He would freeze his dead victims in an industrial freezer, sometimes for years, before thawing and dumping them, completely obscuring their actual date of death. Kuklinski also employed an additional process to thwart investigators. His methods were diverse and included stabbing, shooting, blunt force trauma, and even employing cyanide from a spray bottle, an especially difficult method to use. Kuklinski quickly became involved in Gambino pornography bootlegging, collections, and, occasionally, contract murders. As a young man, he began stalking and killing derelicts on Manhattan's West Side. At 6-feet-5-inches and nearly 300 pounds, Kuklinski was also physically well suited to his chosen vocation. Richard Kuklinski was known as the "Ice Man," the perfect nickname for a Mafia contract killer who murdered several dozen victims in any number of ingenious ways. The boxes would be included with refuse intended for a large local landfill. Otherwise, blood would eventually be washed down the drain and DeMeo, a trained butcher, would supervise a quick and efficient dismemberment, with body parts packed in plastic and stuffed in cardboard boxes. If a victim was murdered to send a message, they would dump the body publicly for all to see. Then the body would be deposited in a bathtub where it would bleed out as much as possible. As quickly as possible, a confederate would stab the victim in the heart to minimize excessive bleeding. After a point blank shot in the back of the head, DeMeo would carefully wrap the towel around the wound to prevent too much blood from spilling. Those slated to die would be lured to DeMeo's headquarters, the Gemini Lounge, through the promise of a meeting, drugs, or some other inducement for them to enter the apartment area behind the bar itself.ĭeMeo would be surreptitiously waiting for them with a silenced pistol in one hand and a towel in the other. This particular group of thugs specialized in murder and contract killings that typically involved dismemberment and the ultimate disappearance of any trace of the victim. Roy DeMeo was a New York-based member of the Gambino crime family who ran his own crew of criminals in Brooklyn.
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