In 1941, Stanley Kuklinski beat his eldest son, Florian, to death and told the police the boy had fallen down the stairs. Richard Kuklinski was only 5 at the time and was so afraid of his father that the mere sight of him made him wet his pants. His father would beat him for this again and again in an endless cycle before eventually abandoning the family. But life with his mother was no better. She also beat her children. "My mother was cancer." Kuklinski recounted in "The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer." "She slowly destroyed everything around her. She produced two killers; me and my brother, Joe."

In 1970, his brother Joseph Kuklinski, 25, lured a 12-year-old girl to a rooftop after kidnapping her dog. He raped her and then threw her off the roof along with the dog, killing them both. He died in prison in 2003. His brother, Richard, also pursued a violent path that began with torturing neighborhood animals and soon escalated.

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