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on December the 17th 1986 51-year-old
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Richard kinsky left his home in the
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upmarket neighborhood of Dumont New
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Jersey he placed a package of cyanide
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lace sandwiches in the boot of his car
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and an automatic pistol under the
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driver's seat it was to be a normal day
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at the office for this seasoned killer
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he had a family he had
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children and uh yet he was able to go
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out and kill somebody and then come home
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and wrap Christmas
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presents over a 30-year career Richard
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klinsky had perfected the art of Murder
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by any means necessary methodical very
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cunning and frankly frighteningly
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efficient in the way he killed he really
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liked to make sure he was ready for
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anything detectives in investigating
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klinsky knew they needed cold hard
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evidence to put a stop to his reign of
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terror he figured he never get caught
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out he controlled everything and he
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controlled you if he could Richard
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klinsky known as The Iceman was about to
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be unmasked as one of the world's most
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evil killers
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Richard cinski is believed to have been
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one of the United States most prolific
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Contract Killers of the 20th century
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working for New York and New Jersey's
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Infamous crime families he claimed
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responsibility for over a hundred
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murders Robert Carroll was part of the
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task force that helped bring klinsky to
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Justice No Remorse no conscience in
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killing and that's the most dangerous
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criminal you can get klinsky cut down
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Associates who dared to cross him as
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well as wealthy customers who came to
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him for drugs weapons and pornography
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detective Dominic polyone infiltrated
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klin's crime underworld and eventually
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got the Killer to confess in a series of
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secret recordings he was just brutal he
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was explaining to me how he murdered
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people and the joy like on his face make
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it he go to
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sleep this killer Story begins in Jersey
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City New
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Jersey Richard Leonard klinsky was born
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on April the 11th
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1935 the second of four children of
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Polish and Irish immigrants he grew up
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in a home that was violent and
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chaotic he took beatings from his mother
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and father sometimes for no reason
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whatsoever criminologist and author
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Jennifer satton has researched klin's
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life
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story his father Stanley he was very
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aggressive he would come home drunk
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attack their mother his mother
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was an orphan she never really
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experienced a loving family and I think
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that was detrimental to the way she was
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able to be a mother to him in February
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1941 when klinsky was just 5 years old
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his older brother Florian died the
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official story was that he'd met with a
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terrible accident but klinsky would
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later claim this had been a coverup he
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believed that Stanley klinsky had beaten
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his seven-year-old son to death if you
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imagine being a 5-year-old and you're
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subject to that kind of violence you are
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utterly powerless you don't have the
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physicality or the resources to be able
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to escape from that you have to survive
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it in his early teens klinsky began to
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drift into
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crime one day he decided that he was
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going to steal some wine cuz he wanted
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to get a bit of money and then he went
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home and absolutely panicked thought
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that the police were going to come for
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him and then when nothing happened no
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one came for him that was the turning
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point for Richard that was when he
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realized you know what it really doesn't
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matter if I do anything good or if I do
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anything bad nobody
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notices according to his own testimony
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at around the age of 13 klinsky decided
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it was time to start facing his problems
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headon although Richard kinsky was to
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grow into a very large man as a child he
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was comparatively puny and he was
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bullied relentlessly by a local gang the
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kids around the block would take
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advantage of him until one day he
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started ruling himself and wound up
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beating up people and showed that you
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know he's the
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man and he decided to take his revenge
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on this particular gang leader he got
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tired of being abused from him he beat
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him to death and felt good about it too
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this was what Richard kinsky later
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claimed though prosecutors were never
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able to prove it the earlier a criminal
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career starts especially something like
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that the less likely it is that it's
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ever going to end now fully invested in
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a life outside of the law by his early
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20s Richard klinsky had developed a
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range of moneymaking
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rackets he formed his own crew he had
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several people that were working for him
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they formed a gang where they would Rob
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cars to order they had a place where
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they could offload the goods that they
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stole to be sold quickly money
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laundering you know a bit of extortion
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so he started setting up some companies
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timate companies which he then used to
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launder money through Richard kinsky had
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the perfect physique for the line of
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work he' chosen he was huge he was about
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6'4 about close to 300b
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Big Man scary looking
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guy kensy married young and had two sons
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but the marriage was not destined to
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last spooked by a minor theft charge in
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1958 klinsky found a job with a trucking
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company in North Bergen New Jersey and
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it was here two years later that he met
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19-year-old Barbara padri
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Barbara who was a receptionist at the
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time and he thought she was absolutely
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beautiful so he spent as much of his
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time as he could trying to woo her they
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began an affair but Barbara wasn't
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entirely convinced that this man who
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appeared on the surface to be courteous
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and kind was actually that in reality
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not just the fact that he was married
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and had two children already but also
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the fact that he had this incredibly
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violent streak which would sometimes
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come to the
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surface this violent streak emerged just
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a few months into the affair when
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Barbara tried to leave
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klinski when Barbara told him that
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perhaps they weren't made for each
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other he lost his
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temper he grabbed her and told her very
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sternly that if she left him he would
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have to kill her and her family because
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he was the only one for her he stabbed
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her in the back with the tip of a
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hunting
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knife and he would have killed her if
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she tried to leave there is absolutely
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not a doubt in my mind that he would
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have done klinsky left his first wife
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for Barbara then something happened that
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made it even harder for the young woman
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to leave
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him Barbara discovered she was pregnant
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it is quite possible that he forced her
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to be pregnant because it ties her to
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him for the rest of her life Barbara
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reluctantly agrees to marry Richard
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klinsky the marriage takes place in
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early
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1962 she's several months
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pregnant and then perhaps inevitably
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tragically klinsky sets about her and
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beats her very badly so badly in fact
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that she miscarries
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terrified of the consequences if she
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left Barbara stayed she became pregnant
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again and again her husband's violence
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caused her to lose the baby but in 1964
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they had a healthy child together and
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Richard kinsky set about creating the
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image of a wholesome New Jersey family
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they had three children then he moved to
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Dumont New
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Jersey far as their neighbors were
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concerned in New Jersey they were an
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upright
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family his children went to nice schools
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his wife was always dressed beautifully
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they had holidays on the outside he
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looked like this wonderful beautiful
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husband and family
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man this Persona could not have been
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further from reality violence was now a
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way of life for Richard kinsky by the
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1960s when he was in his early 30s
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klinsky had begun running a video piracy
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operation something that Drew him deeper
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and deeper into the world of serious
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organized crime he had a little business
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called Sunset Studio pirating tapes but
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quickly he got into pornography and that
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was pretty lucrative for him the
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interesting part of that of course is
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pornography involves the mob these tapes
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were going out to different organized
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crime people and a fellow by the name of
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Roy Deo who was a ruthless individual
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had his own crew in New York got wind of
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klin's
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activities also heavily involved in the
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making and distribution of adult movies
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by the late 1960s Roy Deo had become
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unhappy with Richard klinsky encroaching
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upon his
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business hearing about klin's
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willingness to employ violence Deo came
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up with a way that this rival
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pornographer could pay his dues to the
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family he could take care of their
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enemies Roy Deo was known in organized
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crime circles as a uh vicious vicious
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killer himself and also an enforcer Deo
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immediately recognized that kinsky was
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evil that he was absolutely
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heartless they asked him to kill a
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homeless person just to prove that he
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would be able to do it which he obliged
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shot them broad daylight got back into
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the car according to klin's own claims
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this murder marked the beginning of his
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relationship with some of New York and
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New Jersey's most infamous crime
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families New Jersey prosecutor Robert
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Carroll would later try to follow the
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trail of Destruction klinsky had left as
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a killer for hire as we sampled these
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things unsolved murders we would check
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the travel records and you'd see kinsky
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was there for a day and then something
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would happen he would go to Switzerland
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stay for a day somebody would be killed
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unsolved murder he went to to Hawaii he
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went to Maui there was a man thrown out
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of a third floor balcony on a hotel he
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died that night kinsky left the next day
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this was a man probably with antisocial
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personality disorder had never
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experienced empathy maybe in his life so
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yeah it was all business to him none of
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it was personal to
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him until Richard cinsky was arrested
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the extent of his contract killings was
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not known in fact until the early 1980s
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he was not yet on the radar of homicide
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detectives but in 1985 a newly formed
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organized crime and racketeering task
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force was handed an interesting case
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File we were brought together as a group
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of experienced detectives from different
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areas in New Jersey and outside of New
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Jersey Pennsylvania New York to focus on
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lostra which is the Mob We were assigned
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to handle complex and sensitive cases
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around the state of New Jersey and there
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was a series of burglaries car thefts
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and things that were occurring in the
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northern part of the state as officers
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in the early 80s had investigated the
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crimes and had begun to chase up their
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Prime suspects they noticed a Sinister
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Patton persons who were involved with
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those crimes started showing up
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dead no killer had ever been caught but
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in 1985 the organized crime task force
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began to painstakingly reinvestigate the
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murders in the hopes of proving a link
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between them on February the 5th 1980
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the mutilated body of 42-year-old George
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maliban had been discovered in Jersey
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City he had last been seen on January
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the 30th carrying
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$227,000 in cash he told his family the
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money was going to be used to buy a
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batch of
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tapes Mr maliban was found with his body
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hanging out of a 55 gallon drum he was a
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big man he was about 63 and 280 you know
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85 lbs in order to get him into the drum
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his tendons and so forth had been sliced
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then the drum had been thrown off a
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ledge area in Jersey City and as it
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rolled down the hill it reached the
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bottom and apparently broke open and
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then someone noticed the body the
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businessman man from Pennsylvania had
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been shot five times this was the first
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in the series of unsolved murders that
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would in 1985 land on the desk of the
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task
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force the only clue that we had at that
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point was that Mr maliban may be meeting
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a subject by the name of Richie or big
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Richie that's all we had that case
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remained unsolved 17 months after the
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murder of George maliban another
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Pennsylvania businessman had disappeared
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on his way to a meeting in approximately
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uh July of 1981 a subject by the name of
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Lewis masg traveled to New Jersey to buy
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some
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videotapes he was a family man he run a
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business with his son he had like a
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convenience store and his plan was to
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buy a load of blank tapes for recording
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for people to buy for their VCRs at home
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when he arrived in New Jersey he went to
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a diner and later on he just disappeared
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the van that he was driving was found
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shortly thereafter on a highway in New
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Jersey but he was gone there was no
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evidence nothing indicating foul play at
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that point but again that was a cold
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case it had not been solved but by
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talking to his family we learned that
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you know he had been carrying a large
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sum of money 50-year-old LS masgay had
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been carrying
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$45,000 in Cash when he disappeared his
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family also gave investigators another
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piece of tantalizing information
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he too was supposed to be meeting a
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subject by the name of Richie 17 months
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after Lewis maz's Disappearance in
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December 1982 an employee at the York
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motel in North Bergen New Jersey began
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getting complaints from
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customers there was room 31 that had a
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terrible smell in it and when they
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finally investigated they found a body
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under the bed and it was secured in a a
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box-like
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structure the body was of an individual
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by the name of Gary Smith Gary Smith had
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been in that room for several days and
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was pretty far along in terms of
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decomposition 37-year-old Smith was from
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Vernon in the northeast of the state at
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the time of his death there was a
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warrant out for his arrest on the
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charges of stealing and cashing
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checks an autopsy revealed ligature
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marks on his neck he'd been
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strangled Smith's skin also had another
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unexpected
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feature cyanosis the pink lividity that
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it was depicted on the body at the time
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there's only two things that would cause
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that and one is carbon monoxide and the
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other is cyanide poisoning officers who
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initially investigated Smith's murder
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didn't know what to make of this unusual
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Discovery but just a few months later in
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Main
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1983 a cyclist riding through a wooded
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area in West Milford New Jersey noticed
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a large turkey Buzzard hovering over
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something on the
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ground 34-year-old Daniel deppner a
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known car thief had disappeared 3 months
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earlier again the autopsy results were
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intriguing there are suggestions that
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there might have been cyanide poisoning
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involved in his death we found
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undigested food in the stomach
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what that conveyed to the medical
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examiner was that whatever had been
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eaten you know was fatal because the
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stomach died right away and there was no
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other indications of trauma to the body
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if the victims had really been killed
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with cyanide it was a truly unusual
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method of murder cide is not easy to get
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if you're in the jewelry business they
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use it but it's not easily you can't buy
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it in the drugstore got to have people
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who know how to do this
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as the task force reexamined the murders
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of Smith and depner in
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1985 the same name came up they were
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connected to him just by a name big
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Richie or a phone number somebody's wife
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would call up and say that my husband
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went to meet somebody his name was
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Richie and she never came
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home investigators realized there was
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only one Richie that Gary Smith and
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Daniel deppner could have been meeting
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both men were known to be members of
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Richard klin's
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crew four months after Daniel DEA was
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found dead the body of missing man Lis
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masgay turned up in a park near the New
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York New Jersey border with a single
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gunshot wound to the back of the head
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when they found the body it looked like
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it was only dead a week two weeks maybe
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cuz the body didn't decompose
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it had the same clothes on from when he
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disappeared his body had been
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methodically wrapped in plastic bags
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when the medical examiner examined the
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body it was very well preserved and it
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actually had what's called Ice Crystal
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artifacts present in the body Lis maz's
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family had been searching for him for
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over two years since he'd vanished in
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July 1981 on his way to meet Richie and
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they find out that this person allegedly
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was meeting with
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klinsky and he wasn't dead for a week or
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two he was
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frozen in a freezer for two
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years this unusual tactic to cover the
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tracks of his killings earn klinsky the
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nickname The
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Iceman now linked to a fourth murder the
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organized crime task force knew that
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klinsky had to be
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stopped it just seemed that wherever
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this guy kinsky when people were turning
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up dead it was time sensitive because we
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knew there were other criminal
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Affiliates so we knew that while the
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investigation was occurring there's a
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possibility other persons could be
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killed by early
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1985 50-year-old Richard klinsky had
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been linked with four brutal murders the
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victims were all known associates of his
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or men who wanted to do business with
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him but with only circumstantial
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evidence it wasn't enough for the New
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Jersey organized crime and racketeering
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task force to bring him in we did not
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have evidence that we could charge him
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with at that
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time in the spring of 1985 Robert
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Carroll and his team launched operation
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Iceman we decided that we would
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introduce an undercover agent into the
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operation and the undercover agent
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though had a very difficult task I get a
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call from my buddies at the prosecutor's
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office there sandam we have an
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individual that's here in Bergen County
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area and he's been murdering people with
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pure cyanide agent Dominic polyone who'd
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previously gone undercover to get
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information on New York's most ruthless
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crime families was the obvious choice
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for the high-risk sting Dominic in my
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opinion was probably the best undercover
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in the country he he just fit the
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profile he talked the talk he walked the
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walk he was able to make people feel
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comfortable in that world that he was
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part of that world though detectives
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suspected klinsky used cyanide in some
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of his murders they had no direct proof
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of this highly unusual method of killing
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they needed direct evidence and that's
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was my mission to meet with him to find
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out how he murdered these people and get
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that direct evidence getting what they
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needed would be dangerous even for such
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an experienced
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agent risks were very high for Dominic
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Richard kinsky was a was an evil very
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capable murderer as they prepared to
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send Dominic polyone into the lion's den
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the team dug deeper into The
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Disappearance of a fifth man who was now
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believed to have done business with
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their
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Target on the 29th of April in 1981 a
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pharmacist called Paul
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Hoffman was invited to a meeting with
00:23:09
klinsky Hoffman thought that klinsky
00:23:12
could Supply him with prescription drugs
00:23:15
at A Cut Rate he was looking for this
00:23:17
tagant that he was buying for his
00:23:20
Pharmacy when he left to meet Richard
00:23:22
klinsky 51-year-old Hoffman was carrying
00:23:26
$225,000 in cash
00:23:29
he was never seen again the Cold Case
00:23:32
gave investigators another insight into
00:23:35
what appeared to be one of klin's
00:23:38
favorite
00:23:39
schemes he would look for opportunistic
00:23:41
businessmen businessmen who were looking
00:23:43
for a deal businessmen who were
00:23:46
financially were on the rocks and needed
00:23:48
some help what kinsky would do was would
00:23:51
put the word out find out what you were
00:23:53
interested in okay if you were
00:23:54
interested in videotapes cheap but you
00:23:57
had cash money he would hear about that
00:23:59
through his criminal Network he would
00:24:01
build up a desire an expectation that
00:24:03
this was a good deal and eventually once
00:24:06
he was sure that you would come with
00:24:07
cash money he would do his thing he
00:24:11
would invite people to a secret meeting
00:24:13
he would kill them and he would steal
00:24:15
their money this was what detectives
00:24:18
believed to have happened to Paul
00:24:20
Hoffman along with George maliban and
00:24:23
leis
00:24:24
masz now they needed agent Dominic
00:24:27
polyone to get the proof klinsky and his
00:24:31
crew were known to base themselves in
00:24:34
the city of Patterson New Jersey there
00:24:37
was a location on McBride Avenue they
00:24:39
called the store they had a burglary
00:24:42
ring where they would go to different
00:24:44
locations Rob them all these different
00:24:46
homes in Bergen County area and bring it
00:24:51
back to the store and they see what they
00:24:54
have and uh guys would be hanging out
00:24:56
just like Good Fellas
00:24:59
and there was also gambling and then a
00:25:01
bunch of other illegal activities going
00:25:03
on in there and Dominic was able to get
00:25:06
into that location and become friendly
00:25:09
with a couple of the guys needing a
00:25:11
backstory that would convince the
00:25:13
thieves and gangsters who frequented the
00:25:16
store the task force created a fake name
00:25:19
a rrap sheet and mug shots for agent
00:25:23
polyone I was using the name of Dominic
00:25:26
Michael provenzano and Anthony
00:25:29
provenzano was the head of the Union Big
00:25:33
Time Union big mafiosa man and they
00:25:38
assumed that I was in blood relationship
00:25:43
with Anthony proano and I had card
00:25:47
lunch Dom put the word out that he had
00:25:50
access to guns drugs everything that a
00:25:54
criminal would advertise for one day he
00:25:56
walked into the store with a mysterious
00:25:59
black case I open up the
00:26:02
attache and inside is 10 high standard
00:26:05
22 caliber silences no manufacturer
00:26:08
serial number where you can come back to
00:26:09
you in addition to that stolen military
00:26:13
plastic explosives with the lottin block
00:26:16
numbers still on them when they saw that
00:26:18
they went berser they said holy now word
00:26:21
is out at the
00:26:24
store that Dominic Michael provano can
00:26:27
wind up getting
00:26:29
everything with stunts like this Dominic
00:26:32
built relationships with Associates of
00:26:34
Richard klinsky he got the reputation of
00:26:38
a man who could get his hands on
00:26:40
anything no matter how
00:26:42
nefarious but more than a year went by
00:26:45
without the target showing his face at
00:26:47
the
00:26:49
store Richie was avoiding the place
00:26:51
because it was kind of hot with the cops
00:26:53
and everything cuz he met people there
00:26:55
and they
00:26:56
disappeared so so he was keeping his
00:26:59
distance then one day in late summer
00:27:02
1986 out of the blue a bite from the
00:27:07
Iceman phone rings and said the big guy
00:27:11
wants to know if he can meet with you at
00:27:13
the donut shop which is around the
00:27:16
block I said when he says in about a
00:27:20
half
00:27:21
hour that was the make maker break
00:27:24
meeting between Dominic and kinsky I
00:27:28
pull up in my Lincoln he pulls up in his
00:27:31
Camaro and here comes the Jolly Green
00:27:34
Giant man big big dude he gets out of
00:27:37
the car I get out of the car and I'm
00:27:39
looking him grow man he's just growing
00:27:41
he looked at me with these orange Ting
00:27:44
glasses I tell you he was taking my soul
00:27:46
out but he I didn't budge he looked and
00:27:49
it was the longest like 5 Seconds you
00:27:51
can think of kinsky tested him and
00:27:54
Dominic tested him right back and turned
00:27:57
out that he wanted to do business with
00:28:00
him then he says I could have fell off
00:28:03
the chair he goes can you get pure
00:28:06
cyanide I said yeah I can get it the
00:28:09
task force had their first solid
00:28:12
evidence tying klinsky to the use of
00:28:15
cyanide the suspected cause of death in
00:28:18
the cases of Gary Smith and Daniel
00:28:20
depner it was the Breakthrough they'd
00:28:23
been waiting for but they needed more
00:28:26
they needed to hear Richard klinsky
00:28:29
admitting killing all five victims malib
00:28:33
band mazg Hoffman Smith and deppner
00:28:37
Dominic began wearing a secret recording
00:28:41
device for every meeting Dominic used
00:28:45
the lore of obtaining cyanide for kinsky
00:28:50
and during that time he was also talking
00:28:52
to him and trying to get him to talk
00:28:55
about how he would kill somebody
00:28:58
we had a huge number of surveillance
00:29:00
teams that were always in place and we
00:29:02
had a quick response team in the event
00:29:04
something would happen the fear of
00:29:06
something happening to Dominic was
00:29:08
uppermost in the minds of his handlers
00:29:11
the fact that he was skilled at using
00:29:14
cyanide created a high risk the highest
00:29:16
risk situation he can have in an
00:29:17
undercover operation because he was
00:29:19
capable of killing in a matter of
00:29:22
seconds he loved to use a nasal spray
00:29:26
that he said he used put in cyanide pure
00:29:29
Cyanide and squeeze it and then watch
00:29:31
you die you know if you C you off
00:29:34
guard you're history I always had my
00:29:37
leather jacket and I always had a a
00:29:40
380 pistol in my pocket always pointed
00:29:44
at him I said if you pulled out a spray
00:29:48
I'm killing him I'm telling you right
00:29:50
now prepared for anything by September
00:29:54
1986 agent polyone had his fish on the
00:29:58
the Hulk over the next four months he
00:30:00
secretly taped his meetings with klinsky
00:30:05
today Saturday on the meeting with
00:30:07
Richard kinsky at the Lombardi service
00:30:09
station Dominic himself was posing as a
00:30:11
murderer that he was a hitman and he had
00:30:14
ways of killing so they were at least in
00:30:16
kin's mind a murderer talking to a
00:30:18
murderer the two men would meet at a
00:30:21
service area off a busy intersection
00:30:24
where Dominic would turn the
00:30:25
conversation to methods of killing when
00:30:28
they got to the topic of cyanide Dominic
00:30:30
was able to say well how do you use that
00:30:32
I never used cyanide I'm I'm a gun and
00:30:34
steel guy is the way Dom used to put it
00:30:36
he goes listen my friend it's nice and
00:30:40
easy simple used to say a little boost
00:30:44
little squirt you watch him kill
00:30:47
over looks like they died of a heart
00:30:49
attack wearing a hidden recording device
00:30:52
agent polyone got the killer on tape
00:30:55
explaining exactly how to lace a victim
00:30:58
food with cyanide powder what I'm saying
00:31:01
is that if I took a guy out we talking
00:31:04
business people tell me they want to
00:31:06
take care they want him gone no M what
00:31:09
they want him gone so you got to be very
00:31:11
careful you got to wait for an
00:31:13
opportunity if let me tell you this way
00:31:16
if you're working it out and you're in a
00:31:19
restaurant with a guy oh ha little
00:31:20
Spritz thr little cter over there on his
00:31:23
plate right hopefully he's got gravy or
00:31:26
something he comes back in need his meal
00:31:28
somewhere along the line he's going to
00:31:29
go byby over the next four months
00:31:32
through the Autumn and early winter of
00:31:35
1986 Richard klinsky described to
00:31:38
Dominic in graphic detail how his
00:31:41
victims had met their deaths under the
00:31:43
guise of looking for tips on killing his
00:31:46
enemies agent polyone encouraged his
00:31:48
Target to boast about poisoning his
00:31:51
victims with deadly
00:31:54
cyanide one guy was watch I couldn't
00:31:56
believe it he almost consume the whole
00:31:59
must had
00:32:07
ation must have been hungry with the
00:32:10
help of crew member Daniel deppner
00:32:13
klinsky had used cyanide to murder their
00:32:15
colleague Gary Smith at the hotel in
00:32:18
North
00:32:20
Bergen Gary and Danny were being hidden
00:32:22
out because the police were looking for
00:32:24
them and kinsky was basically h in them
00:32:28
in different hotels now we know now that
00:32:31
he was doing that eventually to kill
00:32:33
them in Gary's case he brought food in
00:32:36
and he brought a hamburger in with
00:32:38
cyanide on it he didn't die completely
00:32:41
right away so kinsky ripped a light cord
00:32:45
off and then wrapped it around his neck
00:32:46
and finished it by a Garing him he had
00:32:48
Danny do that so then they put the body
00:32:50
under the bed and then they left Dominic
00:32:53
polyone had hit the jackpot it was the
00:32:56
next crucial step in building a
00:32:57
watertight case against their killer to
00:33:01
silence Daniel deppner kinsky went after
00:33:04
him too Danny depner then was one night
00:33:07
was brought food by kinsky we believe it
00:33:09
was was beans because that's what was
00:33:11
found in his stomach he ingested the
00:33:13
beans and then died from cyanide during
00:33:16
one of their meetings klinsky boasted to
00:33:19
agent polyone about why the body of
00:33:22
Lewis mazg had been discovered so well
00:33:25
preserved in 1983 more than two years
00:33:29
after he'd
00:33:31
vanished he G said he was dead two
00:33:35
weeks and actuality he was Dead 2 and a
00:33:39
half years the freezer maintained
00:33:43
everything you made have tell me this
00:33:45
guy was de for two years and his
00:33:46
features and everything was the same
00:33:49
believe he had the same pair of pants on
00:33:51
the same shoes same shirt same sweer
00:33:53
everything was the same
00:34:00
in this case no the recordings revealed
00:34:03
to detectives klin's willingness to use
00:34:06
a range of methods to kill his victims
00:34:09
wasn't just limited to cyanide he also
00:34:11
killed by shooting people and stabbing
00:34:14
people he admitted to shooting George
00:34:16
maliban who'd been found in a barrel in
00:34:19
Jersey City in 1980 the motive klinsky
00:34:22
admitted was the
00:34:24
$45,000 he' bought with him to buy tapes
00:34:29
in my opinion why Richard killed all
00:34:31
these
00:34:32
people for
00:34:35
monies he didn't do it just at random he
00:34:38
would really set him up perfectly and
00:34:40
they'd bring him large sums of
00:34:42
money and they would disappear greed was
00:34:46
not his only
00:34:48
motivation kinsky loved killing he says
00:34:52
cuz I own
00:34:55
them he was Absol absolutely sist brutal
00:35:00
son of a gun I think we need to remember
00:35:03
that klinsky started life with zero
00:35:07
power and was routinely beaten and
00:35:10
humiliated and I don't think he was ever
00:35:14
ever going to be in that position ever
00:35:17
again he was going to have all the power
00:35:21
he was going to control absolutely
00:35:24
everything in his life and everyone in
00:35:26
it have collected admissions on tape of
00:35:29
all five of the murders the final stage
00:35:32
of the task Force's plan was to catch
00:35:35
Richard cinsky in the ACT Bobby Carol
00:35:38
came up with an idea about having
00:35:40
someone set up to be killed we would
00:35:43
tell kinsky that there was a a kid we
00:35:47
called him the rich kid who was coming
00:35:48
up from Florida with a lot of money to
00:35:50
buy drugs the kid would bring the money
00:35:52
they'd set up the meat and the kid would
00:35:54
be killed and the money would be taken
00:35:56
detective Paul Smith would pose as the
00:35:59
target agent polyone put the idea to
00:36:02
klinsky at one of their service station
00:36:04
meetings you know he's Rich here but I
00:36:06
think it' be a quick score if you want
00:36:08
he's all along yeah well he comes all
00:36:09
along all the time you take care I take
00:36:11
care he'll bring the breath all right
00:36:13
you see what I'm saying then you're
00:36:15
going to have to get me the C if you
00:36:16
want Dominic polyone assured klinsky
00:36:20
that the cyanide he'd long been
00:36:21
promising to supply would finally be in
00:36:24
the Killer's hands just in time to take
00:36:26
out the so called rich kid so we had the
00:36:30
uh State Police lab rig up a fake
00:36:33
Cyanide and the idea was that he would
00:36:35
put it on one sandwich and a rich kid
00:36:37
would eat it just like Gary Smith was
00:36:39
killed on the morning of the 17th of
00:36:41
December 1986 undercover agent Dominic
00:36:45
polyone waited at the Vince Lombardi
00:36:47
service station in Ridgefield New Jersey
00:36:51
klinsky meets that
00:36:53
morning I give him the cyanide and the
00:36:56
three egg sand whiches the plan was that
00:36:58
once the rich kid arrived Dominic would
00:37:01
distract him while klinsky doctored one
00:37:03
of the sandwiches with what he belied to
00:37:06
be real
00:37:08
cyanide the rich kid would bite it and
00:37:11
then we would go into the room and
00:37:12
arrest him the problem with it is
00:37:13
Dominic what happens if he pulls out a
00:37:15
gun and shoots you both or shoots the
00:37:17
rich kid fearing the thing could get out
00:37:19
of hand and end with a bloody shootout
00:37:22
the task force took advantage of a
00:37:24
change in klin's plans as he was leaving
00:37:27
to lace the sandwiches he told the
00:37:29
undercover detectives to wait because
00:37:32
he'd be a little while when he got home
00:37:34
he had to take his wife to a doctor's
00:37:36
appointment klinsky then drove the nine
00:37:39
miles to his home in Dumont New Jersey 2
00:37:42
hours later he and his wife emerged from
00:37:45
the house and got into their car and a
00:37:48
waiting Tactical Team took their chance
00:37:51
we sprung and we executed the arrest and
00:37:54
search warrants and at the time he tried
00:37:56
to get away he started to drive he went
00:37:58
up a little grassy area jumped a curb
00:38:00
realized he was surrounded once we had
00:38:02
him handcuffed his wife started
00:38:04
screaming and he had there was about six
00:38:08
of us on top of him he just went berserk
00:38:10
and he actually pushed us right off was
00:38:12
mad because he was caught we found a
00:38:14
loaded gun under his seat so that
00:38:17
basically was the end of Richard kinsky
00:38:19
and when officers examined the
00:38:21
sandwiches klinsky had put in the boot
00:38:24
they found fake cyanide not just on the
00:38:26
sandwich intended for the rich kid but
00:38:29
also on the one Dominic would have
00:38:32
eaten he was going to kill Dominic so
00:38:34
the witness was going to be
00:38:36
Mur agent polyone heard a different
00:38:39
version of how klinsky was planning to
00:38:41
kill him so make sure that when I bring
00:38:45
Dom to to a location that his hands are
00:38:48
on a steering wheel so I can blow his
00:38:50
brains out 51-year-old Richard klinsky
00:38:53
was charged with five murders one count
00:38:56
of attempted murder murder and a number
00:38:58
of weapons charges this is
00:39:01
unwarranted
00:39:04
unnecessary these guys watch too many
00:39:07
movies never showed the badge never Me
00:39:10
My Rights
00:39:13
nothing they think their gang musters 37
00:39:16
guys to pick up one little guy it's
00:39:18
ridiculous in February
00:39:21
1987 district attorney Robert Carroll
00:39:24
confirmed the severity of Richard
00:39:26
klinsky Alle crimes at a bail hearing
00:39:29
before judge
00:39:31
chelino total he has 10 complaints uh
00:39:34
which cover approximately 19 different
00:39:36
charges uh he is facing uh roughly 300
00:39:40
years uh in custodial time exposure uh
00:39:43
hundreds and hundreds of thousands of
00:39:44
dollars of fines and obviously the most
00:39:47
serious penalty of all the death penalty
00:39:49
bail was set at two million and kinsky
00:39:53
was detained at Bergen County Jail to
00:39:56
await trial
00:39:59
on January 25th 1988 52-year-old Richard
00:40:03
klinsky stood trial at the Bergen County
00:40:06
Courthouse for the murders of Gary Smith
00:40:09
and Daniel deppner he pled not
00:40:12
guilty it was loaded with press I mean
00:40:16
you couldn't even walk in the courtroom
00:40:17
it was so packed it was mindboggling
00:40:20
agent Dominic polyone testified in court
00:40:23
about the audacious undercover sting but
00:40:26
it was his covert tape recordings that
00:40:28
provided the most shocking
00:40:33
testimony once you get this into your
00:40:35
system there's no way to get it out like
00:40:39
that he has got
00:40:41
about possibly 3 to five
00:40:46
seconds then he's gone the tapes
00:40:49
conveyed a story of a cold-hearted
00:40:52
murderer that was in the prime of his
00:40:54
murderous career and was highly skilled
00:40:57
with many methods of
00:41:00
killing klin's trial was attended by his
00:41:04
victim's
00:41:06
relatives for the families Left
00:41:09
Behind it's devastating absolutely
00:41:13
devastating you've got some of those
00:41:15
details coming straight from the mouth
00:41:18
of the person who did it on a tape and
00:41:22
they're a person given to bragging I
00:41:25
can't imagine what that would do
00:41:28
to a
00:41:31
family after only 4 hours of
00:41:33
deliberation on March the 16th 1988
00:41:37
52-year-old Richard klinsky was
00:41:40
convicted of the murders of Gary Smith
00:41:42
and Daniel
00:41:44
deppner he later pled guilty to killing
00:41:47
George maliban and leis masgay and as
00:41:50
part of the deal he finally admitted
00:41:53
what had happened to pharmacist Paul
00:41:56
Hoffman
00:41:57
invited him to a garage and then
00:41:59
proceeded to try and shoot him but the
00:42:02
gun jammed so klinsky without a moment's
00:42:05
hesitation beat him to death with a tire
00:42:07
iron his body was then cut up and put
00:42:09
into a 55 gallon drum and he put uh a
00:42:13
small layer of concrete on it on the top
00:42:15
to seal it up he took the 55-gallon drum
00:42:18
and he dropped it off at a roadside
00:42:20
coffee shop that oil drum with Hoffman
00:42:24
inside it disappeared
00:42:27
Hoffman's body has never been found so
00:42:31
there's really no closure and that's a
00:42:33
very tough thing for to tell a family
00:42:36
member on April the 22nd 1988 Richard
00:42:40
klinsky was given two life sentences for
00:42:43
the murders of Gary Smith and Daniel
00:42:46
deppner with a minimum term of 30 years
00:42:50
he later received the same sentences for
00:42:52
killing George maliban and leis masgay
00:42:56
he was sent to Trenton State Prison in
00:42:58
New Jersey where he remained until his
00:43:01
death in March
00:43:04
2006 press interest in the Iceman serial
00:43:07
killer continued for decades after his
00:43:10
trial fueled by klinsky claims that
00:43:13
during his lifetime he had killed over a
00:43:16
hundred people there were no barriers
00:43:19
for him violence was was violence and he
00:43:21
was quite happy for the violence to be
00:43:24
extreme that's what makes kinsky so d
00:43:27
dangerous he wasn't driven by sex he
00:43:29
wasn't driven by uncontrollable urges he
00:43:31
was driven solely by greed and evil I
00:43:35
call him the Devil Himself that was
00:43:38
actually the devil walking on
00:43:40
Earth Richard kinsky claims to have
00:43:43
killed his first victim at just 13 years
00:43:46
old throughout his life he continued to
00:43:49
demonstrate that life was cheap and that
00:43:52
almost everyone who crossed his path was
00:43:55
nothing more than a potential victim
00:43:58
after a killing spree that by his own
00:44:01
testimony lasted at least 30 years
00:44:04
Richard klinsky will be remembered as
00:44:07
one of the world's most evil killers
00:44:11
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