Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer

Woke up in the middle of the night and caught Coast to Coast. George Noory had a fascinating interview last night with Phillip Carlo the guy who writes the books about serial killers. He was talking about Richard"The Iceman" Kuklinski, the Polish serial killer turned contract killer for several Mob families. Some gory stuff. You gotta read the excerpts -

http://www.philipcarlo.com/iceman.shtml

The woods of Bucks County(PA) were also a good place to get rid of bodies. By profession Richard was a contract killer, and the disposal of bodies was always a concern. Sometimes it was okay to leave the victims where they dropped, in alleys, parking lots, and garages. Other times they had to disappear. That was specifically requested. One time Richard left a victim in an ice-cold well for nearly two years—preserving the corpse—purposely seeking to confuse the authorities as to the accurate time of death, thus earning his eventual moniker: "Ice Man."

I learned that the Iceman's own death is surrounded in mystery. He died of "natural causes" shortly before he was to give testimony that would incriminate Sammy the Bull. It is so creepy that it could be a Sopranos plot line:

From this website, which has some great background information:

... he was scheduled to testify that he had killed a New Jersey police officer in the 1980s on the orders of former Gambino crime family underboss Sammy Gravano. A few days after Kuklinksi's death, prosecutors dropped all charges against Gravano, saying that without the hit man's testimony they had insufficient evidence to continue.