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