Richard “The Iceman” Duklinski, a Dumont, New Jersey hit man who turned raging psychosis into a string of lucrative killings died Monday in the prison wing of a Trenton hospital.
Kuklinski shot, stabbed, stangled and poisoned his way into the upper echelon of mass murderers. As a Gambino crime family enforcer, he was known for killing with such ease that even “wiseguys” became timid around him.
My only regret is that he died peacefully in a hospital bed. Over 100 of his victims were not so lucky.
He was 70 and could do no more harm.
With his death some very bad people might escape prosecution.
His burning in hell I will second, but I wish he had lived long enough to provide more testimony.
The reason this is in the news is because this psychopath’s death, under questionable circumstances, essentially collapses the case against the head of a criminal organisation who employed him.
Amid all this wishful thinking about the curious fiction called “hell”, note that his continued life in order to give testimony might have had positive consequences in convicting Gravano.
Like other hitmen, the majority of his victims will be there in hell with him. Sounds like he killed some outsiders too, but most mob hits are on other mobsters. Not only wouldn’t I waste any time grieving over him, I wouldn’t feel too bad for most of his targets.
And here I was expecting a savage Pitting of the Bronze Age hunter whose frozen body was found in the Italian Alps.
Hey, Otzi! You suck! News flash, moron: some of your contemporaries have been experimenting with a radical new technology known as “fire.” Maybe you’ve heard of it? It helps prevent you from getting frozen in a fucking glacier.
Nice hat, by the way. I see your people used every part of the bear, including its ass.
Hey, at least I don’t wear them. Where I hail from, sporting a hat like that is practically an invitation for people to pummel you into unconsciousness, drag you into the hills, and leave you there with an arrow in your back and your dick stuck to a glacier.
Yeah, for all the good it did him. If only he’d had something handy like a huge, greasy hat to burn for warmth.
I may need some clarification on his victims. If you’ve read Pileggi’s book Wiseguy, (*GoodFellas[i/] was based on it), Jimmy Burke and Tommy DeSimone were the muscle. The guys they killed weren’t exactly angels. The deaths disrupted many innocents, but those killed knew what they were getting into for the most part.
That said, I can’t automatically sympathize with some of the victims. But overall I agree he’s burning in hell. The only drawback is the info he takes with him to indict and convict the other criminals. Take it for what it’s worth.
