He became a valued asset to organized crime. He shot, stabbed, or beat to death anyone who made him feel slighted. He became a widely feared pool shark who constantly smelled blood in the water because he constantly shed it. Still eager to give, Kuklinski tracked down the rest of Lane's gang and beat them within an inch of their lives with an iron rod.įor Kuklinski, murder would be the gift that kept on giving.
He eventually found a living as a hitman for the Genovese, Gambino and DeCavalcante crime families.
Showing an early aptitude for murder, he ripped out Lane's teeth with pliers and hacked off his fingers with a hatchet to make the body harder to identify. Richard Kuklinski suffered a rough upbringing and committed his first murder as a teenager. Unleashing years of pent-up anguish, Kuklinski bludgeoned him to death with a wooden dowel. In the early hours of March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bartender, was stabbed outside the apartment building where she lived in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens in New York City, New York, United States. Kuklinski first decided to give back to gang leader Charley Lane, a bane of his upbringing for years. In 1948, though, he adopted his golden rule. Looking back on his childhood, Richard Kuklinsi said that at the age of 13, he realized "that it was better to give than to receive." Before that, as the Crime Museum describes, Kuklinski had long been on the receiving end of merciless abuse by both his parents and a gang of neighborhood bullies, which he'd "coped" with by slaughtering cats and dogs to feel less helpless.
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