KRUGER, THEODORE: Gabriel Weston: Catching History’s Criminals TV -
Manhattan, New York, 10th April 1936, Good Friday: Theodore Kruger … delivering a reupholstered chair to one of their customers … There had been no answer when they rang the bell … The apartment door was open too … She lay in the bathtub with a piece of clothing tied round her neck … Nancy [Titterton] had been strangled with her own pyjama top … Some of the chord had been delivered the day before the murder to an upholstery company in Manhattan run by Theodore Kruger … After a night in the cells he [Weston] confessed. Gabriel Weston: Catching History’s Criminals II: Traces of Guilt, BBC 2015
KUKLINSKI, RICHARD: Mobsters: Richard Kuklinski TV - Philip Carlo - The Iceman: Confessions of a Mafia Hitman TV - The Iceman 2012 - World's Most Evil Killers TV -
September 1983 ... The frozen corpse was authorities’ first glimpse into the ice-cold world of the one of the country’s most prolific and sophisticated murderers – Richard Kuklinski, aka the Iceman. Mobsters s4e2: The Iceman: Richard Kuklinski
Richard defaulted on his loan to the Gambinos, crossing one of their most feared enforcers, a man who is suspected of killing more than seventy people – Roy DeMeo. ibid.
A ruthless contract killer for the New York mob. ibid.
Within two years DeMeo would turn up dead in the boot of his own car. ibid.
Kuklinski also kept his pockets full with another racket – auto theft. ibid.
He was charged with five counts of first-degree murder. ibid.
His most startling claim was that he’d killed over one hundred men. ibid.
One of the most evil killers in New Jersey history. ibid.
He came to Manhattan numerous times over the ensuing weeks and months and killed people, always men, never a female, he says, always someone who rubbed him the wrong way, for some imagined or extremely slight reason. He shot, stabbed, and bludgeoned men to death. He left some where they dropped. He dumped some into the nearby Hudson River. Murder, for Richard, became sport. The New York police came to believe that the bums were attacking and killing one another, never suspecting that a full-fledged serial killer from New Jersey was coming over to Manhattan’s West Side for the purpose of killing people, to practise and perfect murder. Richard made the West Side of Manhattan a kind of lab for murder, a school, he says. Philip Carlo
On May 25th 1988 Richard Kuklinski was convicted of multiple murders and sentenced to life imprisonment. This ended 30 years of cold-blooded killing by a master criminal police called The Iceman. The Iceman, Confessions of a Mafia Hitman
‘He murdered by guns, he murdered by strangulation, he murdered by putting poison on victims’ food, he did all of this at the same time while exhibiting a normal placid family existence.’ ibid. rozzer
‘An approximate guess … more than a hundred.’ ibid. Richard
‘It doesn’t bother me at all.’ ibid.
‘Nothing haunts me.’ ibid.
He and Barbara had three children. But just with an eighth grade education to only get low-paying jobs. ibid.
Kuklinski was the perfect enforcer. He was brutal and he knew how to intimidate. ibid.
Kuklinski kept his criminal life secret from his family and neighbours. ibid.
Richard Kuklinski became the head of his own crime ring. He developed new ways to profit from murder. ibid.
By the 1980s Kuklinski was involved in narcotics, pornography, arms dealing, money laundering, hijacking and contract killing on a world-wide basis. He was also pressing 50 and getting tired. He started to make mistakes. ibid.
Hurting my family – the only thing I feel sorry for. I’m not looking for forgiveness and I’m not repenting. I know I’m wrong. ibid.
A contract killer for the Gambino crime family. ibid.
They called him The Iceman because to confuse the time of death he would take his victims and put them in a freezer for a long period of time. ibid.
‘I wouldn’t kill a child. I most likely wouldn’t kill a woman. ibid.
The files on The Iceman will never be closed. ibid.
Do you have any regrets for the things you’ve done? The Iceman 2012 starring Michael Shannon & Winona Ryder & Chris Evans & Ray Liotta & James Franco & David Schwimmer & Stephen Dorff & Erin Cummings & Robert Davi & Weronika Rosati et al, director Ariel Vromen, opening scene interviewer to Kuklinski
Fucking guy’s cold was ice. ibid. Liotta
You’re gonna be watching my back. You’re gonna be collecting debts. You’re gonna be sending messages, whatever the messages are. ibid.
I never felt sorry for anything I done. Other than hurting my family. The only thing I feel sorry for. I’m not looking for forgiveness. I’m not repenting. ibid.
On December 17th 1986 51-year-old Richard Kuklinski left his home in the upmarket neighbourhood of Dumont, New Jersey. He placed a package of cyanide-laced sandwiches in the boot of his car and an automatic pistol under the driver’s seat. It was to be a normal day at the office for this seasoned killer. World’s Most Evil Killers s8e5: Richard Kuklinski, Sky Crime 2023
Richard Kuklinski is believed to be one of the United States most prolific contract killers of the 20th century. ibid.
KUKUCOVA, MAYKA: Murdered for his Millions TV -
Paradise: the last place you’d expect to lose your life. 48-year-old self-made millionaire Andy Bush was living a dream. He had his own business, a fleet of fast cars, enjoyed luxury holidays, and beautiful women. Murdered for his Millions, Channel 5 2021
When they arrived at Andy’ villa, they realised they weren’t alone … Andy was left in a pool of blood. ibid.
A working-class boy from Bristol who had made his fortune from a string of gold and jewellery shops. ibid.
Police say they want to talk to Mr Bush’s ex-girlfriend. ibid. news
KUMMERFIELD, STEVEN & ALEXANDER TERNOWETSKY: Crime Stories TV - Walnet online -
Out on the Canadian prairies a local man was travelling to work on a chilly spring morning ... He spotted a motionless figure. Crime Stories: The Killer School Boy, 2010
Fingerprints identified the victim as twenty-eight-year-old Pamela George ... Pamela had two young children. ibid.
Pamela had been the victim of an intense physical beating. ibid.
The young girl providing the latest tip insisted that she only knew the men as Steve and Alex. ibid.
Mission BC (CP) – A man who beat a Regina prostitute to death in a case that outraged women’s groups and Saskatchewan’s aboriginal community was granted parole Friday, less than four years after his conviction.
Steven Kummerfield, a former university basketball star, was convicted in January 1997 for the beating death of Pamela Jean George and sentenced to 6½ years in prison.
The three-member National Parole Board panel grilled Kummerfield, 24, about the brutal crime for more than an hour.
Kummerfield described a night of heavy drinking with his friend Alex Ternowetsky in April 1995.