Kuklinski claimed to have been responsible for DeMeo's murder, although the available evidence and testimony points to the murderers being fellow DeMeo crew associates Joseph Testa and Anthony Senter, as well as DeMeo's supervisor in the Gambino crime family, Anthony Gaggi.Īt the same time he was allegedly a career hit man, Kuklinski met and married Barbara Pedrici, and later fathered two daughters and a son. He was only photographed on one occasion at the Gemini Lounge, having reportedly visited the club to purchase a handgun from the Brooklyn crew. He also claimed to have left bodies sitting on park benches.ĭespite Kuklinski's claims that he was a frequent killer for DeMeo, none of DeMeo's crew members who later became witnesses for the government admitted that Kuklinski was involved in the murders they committed.
His other disposal methods included dismemberment, burial, or placing the body in the trunk of a car and having it crushed in a junkyard. One of his favorite methods of disposing of a body was to place it in a 55-gallon oil drum. He would variously administer it by injection, putting it on a person's food, by aerosol spray, or by simply spilling it on the victim's skin. He favored the use of cyanide since it killed quickly and was hard to detect in a toxicology test. Lack of attention from law enforcement was partly due to Kuklinski's ever-changing methods he used guns, knives, explosives, tire irons, fire, poison, asphyxiation, and even bare handed beatings, "just for the exercise." The exact number has never been settled upon by authorities, and Kuklinski himself at various times claimed to have killed more than 100 people. From then on, Kuklinski was DeMeo's favorite enforcer.Īccording to Kuklinski, he killed numerous people over the next 30 years. Without hesitating, Kuklinski got out, walked towards the man and shot him in the back of the head as he passed by. DeMeo then selected a random target, a man walking his dog.
Although Kuklinski was carrying a pistol at the time, he decided against using it this earned him DeMeo's respect.Īfter Kuklinski paid back the money he owed, he began staging robberies and other assignments for DeMeo and the Gambino family, one of which was pirating pornographic tapes.Īccording to Kuklinski, DeMeo took him out in his car one day and they parked on a city street. DeMeo was sent to 'talk' with Kuklinski and proceeded to beat and pistol whip him.
Kuklinski became associated with the Gambino crime family through his relationship with the soldato, Roy DeMeo, which started due to a debt Kuklinski owed to a DeMeo crew member.
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