>> through all of that time, all of these murders, barbara, you didn't know that anything was up? you lived with this man for 25 years, you knew nothing? >> the multi-agency task force launched to make a case against richard kuklinski was dubbed operation iceman. the goal was to get kuklinski comfortable enough with an undercover operative that he would talk about his crimes. the agent, dominick polifrone, would be wearing a wire, a dangerous cat-and-mouse game that could prove fatal in part two of "the iceman." i'm donnie wahlberg. thanks for watching. good night. it was a man who was begging

and pleading, and i told him he could have a half-hour to pray to god, and if god could come down and change the circumstances, he'd have that time. but god never showed up. and that was that. >> welcome to "very scary people". i'm donnie wahlberg. mafia hitman and serial killer richard kuklinski got away with murder for years. he used guns, cyanide, even tire irons to execute his victims,

then skillfully covered his trail, but after he took out two of his crime ring cronies, he was on investigators' radar. now, kuklinski and an undercover agent were about to face off. could the investigator manipulate the notoriously secretive killer to talk about his crimes? here is part two of "the iceman". >> i beat a guy to death one time. i had blood on my shoes -- his blood on my shoes. just goes on that way. had to throw all my clothes away. >> his name was richard kuklinski, also known as the iceman. >> richard kuklinski allegedly killed for profit coldly and without remorse. >> shot a guy one time in his

adam's apple, see how long it would take him to die. >> richard kuklinski was a mafia contract killer, but he was also a freelance killer. >> after making contact with somebody, he would lure them into thinking that he was able to provide a quantity of something that that person was looking for, and he was not gonna just rob them. he was gonna kill them. >> in 1983, the authorities found a body wrapped up in orangetown, new york. this turned out to be louis masgay. >> he was brought to the medical examiner's office and examined. he had the same clothes on that he disappeared in two years prior. >> even more interesting is they found what they termed as ice crystal artifacts. >> which indicated that he in

fact had been frozen. >> in the hope that the time of death would be not known. >> that particular crime was the genesis of the name "iceman". we knew we were looking for somebody that had literally frozen a person. >> kuklinski was also working with a small crime ring. kuklinski knew that they posed a real threat to him. >> and he got rid of them, one by one. >> kuklinski had mixed cyanide in the ketchup that was then brought on a hamburger. >> at least five killings between 1980 and 1983 with handguns and cyanide. >> richard kuklinski was a very low-key individual. he was secretive. he looked to be living a normal suburban life. he married barbara, and they had three children -- two girls and a boy. >> his wife, barbara, told me she really didn't know too much about what he did.

>> you have said of richard, "there were two richards. i never knew who'd be walking in the door. he could be generous to a fault or the meanest man on earth." tell us more about that. >> that's true. he was kind, considerate. you know, he would have done anything for all of us. very generous gifts and flowers and the best dinners and nice wine. but when whatever twisted him, whatever happened, it didn't matter how good those times were, because the bad was so bad. >> and he abused you physically? >> he certainly did. >> what did he do? >> stabbed me, broke my nose. >> he had said that if he ever went too far with mom -- >> killed her. >> right. that i would have to understand that he would have to get rid of all of us because he could leave no witnesses and that it would be hardest. >> he would have to kill you? >> they planned to poison him, barbara and chris, but they realized that if they tried to

do it and it didn't work, that he would kill them. >> this guy was a walking time bomb. you don't listen to him, you die. he feels you betrayed him, you die. you say anything bad about the family, you die. that's his world. >> richard kuklinski claimed to have killed 100, 200 people. we simply have no idea. >> he wasn't the toughest guy on the block. he was the most dangerous animal in the jungle. >> we had acquired a lot of information through various law enforcement sources, which pointed to richard kuklinski. the problem with it was there wasn't enough information to arrest him. >> the idea that was suggested was we could have an undercover pose as another criminal. >> i used the name of dominick michael provenzano. after 18 months in there, i first met kuklinski. he goes, "i hear you have a lot

of connections. can you get pure cyanide?" everybody's sitting at this long table, and my pager goes off. >> this untouchable serial murderer was now seeking dominick out. dom was no longer hunting kuklinski. kuklinski was hunting dom. >> everyone is excited for dom to call back. >> one guy says, "get a tape. i want it recorded. i want this done now." and i said, "i'm not doing that. i'm gonna tell you why. everybody that he dealt with jumped. i'm not jumping for him. he came to me.

he reached out to me." >> gangsters are not prompt. one of the simplest ways to identify an undercover cop, if he's always prompt, if he's always on time. you know who does that? cops do that. >> i waited a day to give him a call back. so, what happened is the following day, we started talking. >> yeah, i got the coke, but the cyanide, ah, i mean, you know, you got to be careful, because, you know, i don't know how you [ bleep ] want to use it, but, ah, that's your business, you know? >> they began talking about doing crimes together, and they began talking about different things. >> i don't intend to resell it to anybody. i'm intending to use it myself. >> yeah, well, don't you take it. >> no, i don't intend to. [ laughter ] i just have a few problems i want to dispose of. i have some rats i want to get rid of. >> yeah. the only [ bleep ] think i don't understand, don't you use a [ bleep ] piece of iron to get rid of these [ bleep ] people?

you use this [ bleep ] cyanide? >> why be messy? you do it nice and calm. >> so, during this conversation, when dom references his use of iron, he opens the door for kuklinski to brag on his technique. >> and you mean to tell me your way is nice and clean and nothing [ bleep ] shows up? >> well, it may show, my friend, but it's quiet. it's not messy. there's even spray mists around, you know? >> yeah? >> yeah, you put that stuff in a mist, you spray it in somebody's face, and they go to sleep. >> fast? or how long does it take? >> about that fast. i mean, i'm not adverse to a little lead. i'm not adverse to steel. i'm not adverse to, you know, whatever. >> as long as he's dead, that's the bottom line. >> well, that's the thing, isn't it? >> your way sounds like a [ bleep ] "james bond" movie, but if it's realistic that way, then [ bleep ] >> i mean, i've done it all ways. as far as you've known or heard.

there isn't too many things i haven't tried. >> it sounds interesting. we gotta go [ bleep ] for coffee, break bread over this thing. it sounds good, it sounds much easier. >> i'm just saying, you know, there's more than one way to skin something. >> yeah, i hear ya. i hear ya. >> it all depends on how determined you are to get it done. >> dominick polifrone told kuklinski that he was interested in purchasing weapons, and in fact, he was looking for a hit kit. hit kit is a .22 with a silencer on it. kuklinski told him, "yes, i can deliver that to you, but i'm looking for cyanide." >> i said, "you're gonna give me an assassination kit, and i'm gonna pay you $1,100. after you do that, you come and see me. now we'll talk business for your pure cyanide." >> it was like the ultimate chess game. you got to make a move and hope it's not the wrong move.

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kuklinski used to call him mr. softee. >> he sold ice cream to the kids in the neighborhood. >> he'd go into these neighborhoods and sell ice cream to the kids and maybe kill one of their fathers. >> robert kill in the different methods. >> now, robert taught richard some sophisticated ways of killing, including cyanide. >> he showed him how he could put it in a liquid and put it in a drink. he taught him how he could put it on gravy. he could also put it in a spray mist. >> and mr. softee helped him obtain some of the cyanide he needed for his homicides.

>> the relationship between kuklinski and prongay went swimmingly for a while, but before long, they had a falling out. >> apparently, kuklinski realized that this guy could be a liability, and i don't need him anymore. he's taught he everything he needed to. he's got to go. and he killed him. >> on august 8th, 1984, robert prongay's body was found shot to death in his mr. softee truck. >> poor bobby prongay. five in the chest. >> but one negative side effect of prongay being dead is that kuklinski no longer has a source for his cyanide, which has become his new passion as a way to kill people. so, now he's looking for other ways of acquiring cyanide. >> and so, i was his man. i was his connection.

>> after they first met, dominick polifrone and richard kuklinski had a bunch of different meet-ups and discussions together about how to carry out their crimes. dominick wore something called a negra. it was a little bulkier than the technology they use today, but a negra was state-of-the-art at the time. >> it is a reel-to-reel tape recorder, about the size of a microwave dinner. so, imagine yourself going to meet an organized crime serial killer with this duct-taped into the small of your back. the margin of error for dom was zero. if richard kuklinski finds out that dom is lying to him, deceiving him, tricking him, he's going to drag a straight razor across his throat.

>> in october, he calls. he says, "i have your assassination kit for you." we meet at the vince lombardi service station that he suggests. inside the trunk, a beautiful, high-standard .22 caliber silencer affixed to the weapon. >> you want me to show it to you, or you want -- >> let me just look, huh? >> huh? >> yeah. just don't use it on me, heh? you [ bleep ]. >> you should have three pieces. you have the clip, the gun, and the silencer. >> so, i take the gun, and i give him $1,100. >> it was a clean criminal deal that just further enhanced dom's credibility in the eyes of kuklinski. >> he goes, "i can't stay that long." he says, "but you have your source for the pure cyanide?" i said, "absolutely." he says, "okay, let's stay in touch." >> as the investigation proceeded, we decided to come up

with a plan to lure kuklinski in to kill somebody. >> we knew he needed money and he needed cyanide, so it was our idea to join him in a murder plot, and of course, it wasn't really a murder plot. >> dominick proposed to kuklinski that he had this rich kid that was wealthy and always had a lot of money on him that he was dealing drugs with and he wanted to get rid of. >> i got this [ bleep ] rich jewish kid, all right? i'm supplying him with a lot of coke. get him of my [ bleep ] back, but i want him gone. you think we can [ bleep ] dupe up the coke? >> definitely. >> i figure it'd be a quick score if you want. >> he's all alone? >> yeah, he came all alone all the time. >> and he's got the [ bleep ]? >> yeah. >> when dom talks to kuklinski about the fake murder, what he's doing is opening the door for kuklinski to talk about his own assassinations and murders. >> there's more than one way to

do it. >> i want it to look like he's a [ bleep ] cokehead. >> you want him to o.d. >> o.d. that's exactly what i want. >> well, we can always give him some pure [ bleep ] and make him o.d. >> i want it to look like with the cyanide [ bleep ], the squirt, whatever the [ bleep ] you're gonna do. or how we gonna do it? you tell me. >> over time, as he began to trust dom, he then made some very incriminating statements. >> he told me how he killed people with firearms and with knives and sometimes chainsaws. he had to cut the limbs to get them into the barrel. >> one of the conversations, kuklinski went into detail on how you can throw law enforcement off by killing somebody, freezing the body, and them disposing of it a couple years later. >> he told me that he murdered

an individual, that he throws froze the body for two years, and he made the cops looks like jerks. i said, "what do you mean?" >> the coroner said he'd been dead for two weeks. and in actuality, he was dead two and a half years. >> yeah, but wait a minute, what about the body, the features? >> they're in a freezer. nothing changes. >> the freezer maintains -- >> everything. >> you mean to tell me this guy's been dead for two years and his features and everything was the same? >> believe me, that's true. he has the same pair of pants on, same shoes, same shirt, same sweater. everything was the same. >> kuklinski is now bragging on the murders he's done. he's letting his guard down. >> he said, "when you do something like this, use glad bags." he said, "they last a couple of years." this is his sense of humor. >> he talked about slipping

cyanide into someone's hamburgers. >> i had a guy tell me to go get me a hamburger. i put it on the hamburger with the ketchup. let it blend in. let him have enough to have a bon appetite. >> not only is he not shying away from it. he's bragging on it. >> i had one guy i was watching i couldn't believe it. he almost consumed the whole [ bleep ] thing before it hit him. the [ bleep ] must have had a constitution like a bull. >> what, he ate the whole [ bleep ] burger? >> yeah, i'm sitting there saying, "what did i do wrong?" >> richie's telling me -- he says, we're laughing at him. get one of the lamp cords, strangle him, and then we throw him under the bed. and then we leave him there, and off we go. >> each time he offers a detail, it's back-checked against the real murder, and all of them dovetail. >> at a certain point in time, it was believed that richard kuklinski could tell dominick

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an assassin? >> assassin. sounds so exotic. i was just a murderer. >> dominick polifrone was undercover for months. >> four months that i was able to extract the information. all of his conversations -- they're on tape. >> so, after polifrone had established with his audio recordings that showed kuklinski admitting to committing murders, he helps set up the fake hit, and this would be the final proof that was needed to put kuklinski behind bars. >> they were fully engaged in dom's plan to murder the rich kid under the ruse of a cocaine deal. >> a rich kid comes with cash, and i give him cocaine. we were gonna get him into the van, and rich was gonna give him the egg sandwiches.

>> they were gonna put cyanide on the one sandwich that the kid was supposed to eat. >> and he's gonna chop the body and put it into the barrel, and he would dump it somewhere, and we'd each make $40,000 a piece. >> you're going to make arrangements to seal that and however you do that? >> yeah. >> all right. >> dom certainly didn't want to give kuklinski cyanide as an atf agent who's undercover. >> we had a simulated cyanide that smelt like cyanide, that looked like cyanide, that was made up from the lab. >> dom, instead of cyanide, gave quinine. now, the reason to do that, quinine, if that's administered to somebody, you can then detect that, which would then show that it was given and that they attempted to murder somebody. so, it was really quite brilliant. >> 12-17-86.

agent polifrone to meet richard kuklinski regarding the jewish kid murder. >> kuklinski and dominick met up on december 17th, 1986, at the vince lombardi rest area. >> dom gives kuklinski the egg sandwiches and what is allegedly a vial of cyanide. >> he brought tape with him and rubber gloves that he had, so he was ready for this. kuklinski then says, "listen, my wife wasn't feeling that good, but i'm gonna head home, but i'll be back." >> now, what happened was kuklinski didn't come back right away. surveillance indicated he was at his house, and the decision was made then by the upper echelon, "just take him down." >> and they did.

>> he was extremely animated. screaming, cursing. "i'm gonna kill you. i'm gonna kill your families." i mean, he was off the wall. >> this is unwarranted. unnecessary. these guys watch too many movies. never showed a badge, never read me my rights, nothing. they think they're gangbusters. 37 guys to pick up one little guy. that's ridiculous. >> kuklinski was charged with five murders -- paul hoffman, louis masgay, daniel deppner, gary smith, and george malliband. >> at the time of the arrest, the car was searched for any evidence, and in the trunk was found the egg sandwiches, and on the egg sandwiches, two of them had the fake cyanide on them. so, in fact, not only was the rich kid gonna die, but dominick

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arrested richard kuklinski in 1986, it seemed like the end of the road, but the twists and turns of the iceman's evil legacy were far from over. a search of the home turned up shocking information about one of his killings, and a late-in-life confession uncovers what could yet be another. >> law enforcement authorities have arrested one of the most notorious contract killers in state history. a self-employed bergen county man is behind bars, charged with five murders, and prosecutors are investigating his involvement in dozens more. >> on the day of his arrest, his home was searched. >> and they found a knife, and it had eight notches carved into the handle on one side, and i believe three on the other side, indicating that he killed 11 people with that knife. >> we also talked to an individual by the name of richard patterson. >> patterson was engaged to one

of richard's daughters, merrick. >> richard patterson opened up another whole door for us in regards to what richard kuklinski had done. one day, patterson had been sleeping over, and kuklinski got him up early in the morning and said, "listen, i need you to help me move this package, this thing." >> and they get in the car and they go. and he says to richard, you know, "jump behind the wheel." he gets out of the car and he goes around the back. he opens the trunk, and richard looks in the mirror, and he sees him taking a body out of the trunk, walking into the woods, and he dumps the body and he gets in, and he tells richard, "what you saw here, you'll never repeat to anyone." >> it was ultimately determined that the body was danny deppner, who was in richard's circle of criminal friends. kuklinski decided deppner would

possibly talk and give him up. he had brought deppner baked beans and some other food, and danny deppner ate the baked beans, and they were loaded with cyanide. he was wrapped in plastic garbage bags, and he was taken up to west milford, where the body was dumped in the woods. his body was not found until approximately five months later, and an autopsy showed that he had an undigested amount of baked beans in his stomach. >> they found these baked beans that were so intact, they could tell they were even burned a little bit. that indicated that the person was eating when they had died.

>> the path that led to kuklinski becoming a killer likely began in his childhood. richard had a very difficult upbringing. his father, according to richard, was physically abusive -- beat him, beat other members of the family. when you have violence in the home, it can create the dynamics that can lead to violent behavior. >> by the time he was 10 years old, he had a host of personality problems. he started beating animals, setting cats on fire. >> richard kuklinski was raised in a hardscrabble section of jersey city. he was of mixed ethnic decent. he was part polish, part irish, and because of that, he later said that he was often picked on and taken advantage of. >> ultimately, he says leading

to the murder of a neighborhood bully when he was a teenager. >> richard was about 13 years of age, and he got sick and tired of being bullied. he picked out the big bully. his name was charlie lane. >> finally, he's not taking shit no more from the guy, and did what he had to do. >> and he went into one of the closets in his apartment, and he took all the clothes off the rod. >> and he says he waited outside for the boy to come by. >> and then he beat him to death with that rod. >> after he killed charlie lane, richard was worried that he would get caught. when he didn't, he learned that he might be able to get away

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they ripped me apart like i'm some sort of fool. i never resisted. >> the first time he was brought into the courtroom, he had an aura about him, a threatening aura. >> he had them damn orange tinted glasses on, and i'm saying, jesus, how can they let this guy have these glasses? get him a different pair. >> kuklinski's trial started on january 25th, 1988. >> the prosecution began with the murders of gary smith and danny deppner. >> they were the two best cases we had out of all five. we had so much.

>> there was a lot of physical evidence, a lot of testimony from medical examiners about how these people had died. >> one of the witnesses was gary smith's wife. she testified that her husband left the hotel where richard was having them stay. >> when gary came home, she said, don't go back. you know, don't go back, and he said, i have to. he'll kill the whole family if i don't. >> he goes back, and richie kills him. >> in court, kuklinski himself continued with his continence of intimidation, would yell out every now and then at people on the stand. >> when witnesses testified against him, he would mouth, "you're dead", or he would go like this to scratch his head, and he'd go like this and make it like a gun pointing at them.

>> i think that the key evidence was dominick polifrone's testimony. it laid out who kuklinski was. it laid out what he did. it laid out the way he carried out his crimes. >> the chief attorney's asking me questions, and then they played a tape. >> i mean, i'm not adverse to a little lead. i'm not adverse to steel. i'm not adverse to, you know, whatever. >> you could hear a pin drop, and then i can see some of the faces were like, "this is hard to believe. is this reality?" >> the talk about cyanide and how to kill with cyanide must have sent chills through some of the people on the jury. >> if you sprinkle a hamburger like that, just coat it, that's enough. that's enough to take him and four or five other guys out. >> the tapes killed him. the tapes were devastating. devastating.

>> it gave the jurors a very clear picture of what kind of guy he was. >> there's even spray mists around, you know. >> yeah? >> yeah, you put that stuff in a mist, you spray it in somebody's face, and they go to sleep. >> all up until the time that dominick took the sand, kuklinski's wife and his daughters were in court. you could see his wife and his daughters were disbelieving. they just couldn't believe that he had done these type of things. >> but when they heard their husband and father's voice explaining how to kill people and how cold and calculated he was, i think that really hit home with them, and their whole demeanor changed. >> we played one of the most explosive tapes early on, and we took a break after that, and i

looked over at barbara and the daughters, and they were all crying, and she said, "we didn't know, we didn't know." >> through all of that time, all of these dozens and dozens and maybe as many as 200 murders, barbara, you didn't know that anything was up? you lived with this man for 25 years, you knew nothing? >> no. first of all, you never questioned richard. >> you have said in the past that he would sometimes get up at 2:00 in the morning, leave the house -- >> or in the middle of dinner and leave the house, and you'd never ask him why. >> barbara was badly beaten by him. she was not in a position to ever question him about where he was going and whether he was coming back, and he was extremely macho, so she was really put-upon actually, as were her children. >> barbara, do you think he could have killed 200 people? >> i think he was capable of anything. >> to the jury, it was overwhelming evidence. >> and richard kuklinski was convicted of the murder of gary t. smith and daniel deppner. >> this was what the judge said.

he said, "words are inadequate to describe the depths of depravity reached by this defendant. the lives of others have no meaning to this man. no remorse, no conscience, no regrets. cold, calculated, premeditated murders." >> after being convicted of two murders, he confessed to two others in court today. >> richard kuklinski later pled guilty to the malliband and masgay murders. >> i shot george malliband five times. >> the judge says to kuklinski, can you tell me why? and he says -- >> it was due to business. >> when they got him on the other murders, that was it. they had effectively thrown away the key. >> he received four consecutive life sentences. >> he was going away for a long, long time. he wasn't getting out. >> and so it seemed to bring an end to the long pursuit of the

so-called iceman. >> richard had an unusual reaction to dominick. he i think in his own way respected dominick, because dominic was able to get oh on him. >> today in court the iceman greeted him with a hello dominick. >> he seems to be cheery about saying hello to you. >> i reciprocated. the only difference is i'm going home and he's going into a different environment at the time. >> after kuklinski was sentenced to new jersey state prison, we got a christmas card from him, which was a very sick, odd number of drawings with jesus and the devil and skulls, and it was just bizarre. and that was kuklinski, sending us a message, "merry christmas."

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> after kuklinski was convicted and received life without a roam sentences for all those murders there was no chance he was ever getting out of prison and he agreed to sit down for a series of interviews with hbo.

>> people up close and personal. >> definitely. i wanted to tell them just before they left. i wanted to say goodbye. >> would you like to look them in the eye? >> i wanted them looking straight at me. >> he spoke about his life. he talked about the murders that he commit. he talked about his mindset and when he committed these murders. >> what did you want them to see as they died? >> just see my pretty face. last thing they ever saw was me. and if they carry that glimpse to eternity infinity they're going to be thinking of me all that time. >> career hit man's confession the iceman saying one victim was a new york city police detective. >> one of the kings that

kuklinski claimed to have committed was that of a new york city detective named peter colabro in 1980. >> there was a snowstorm. he was coming down the river and complings knew road he was going to take. he blocked the road off with a van so he would have to slow down and go slowly around the van. >> i go to the back of the van and i go out the back door. i take the shotgun with me. as he's going by the van, i fired. >> kuklinski stepped out with a shotgun and shot him to death. >> the so-called iceman has nothing to lose more than 20 years after the crime he pled guilty to the murder after new york city police officer. >> did you cause the death? >> yes. >> how did you do that?

>> i shot him. >> prosecutors asking for another 30 year prison sentence in the clab row case. he laughed in the judge said there would be no need to set bail. >> when the police came to interview him about his statement that he was involved in the killing of peter clabrow he said he was hired by sammy the bull gravano. >> it's not whether sammy the bull was involved. he has denied it there. are other theories about what happened and who was responsible but it led to gravano being indicted. >> kuklinski was ready to testify against him. but then kuklinski dies. all of a sudden. amazing.

>> richard kuklinski died march 5th, 2006 of a heart attack. >> allegations maybe he was poisoned. payback is a pitch if he it was. >> without his testimony the case doesn't have a case against him and the charges against sammy were dropped. >> i don't believe richard kuklinski was involved in the involved in the killing of peter clabrow. >> [bleep]. the person he said he committed the crime with was a major witness in the federal case and if kuklinski had been believed that would have affect his credibility. >> we know that for sure he killed five people. we also assume that he was involved in numerous other

homicides. >> was it possible it could have happened? >> absolutely. he's capable of doing things like that. >> what a vicious bloodthirsty non-caring and they i can person he was, cold blooded killer. >> richard kuklinski was and evil person, evil to the core. >> he did what he wanted when he wanted to whomever he wanted period end of story. >> he met his maker. i hope it's the devil. >> is that all you've got left is hate? >> it's all i've got left. everything that i ever cared for is gone. everything i ever liked is gone. everything that ever meant anything to me is gone.

so, hate. >> that's how all you started with, too. >> then i've come full circle. it's time for me to die. >> richard kuklinski made and dubious claims to and mob related killings including the death of jimmy hoffa but without proof we may never know. his wife barbara said neither imprisonment more his death will relieve the terror she felt being married to him saying he haunted her in her dreams. i'm donnie wahlberg. good night. >> let's