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Connection to implicate richard kuklinski. >> kuklinski knew that deppner and smith posed a real threat to him. >> they could possibly talk and give him up. >> building on his lifelong evolution of a killer, these were risks that for him, were unacceptable. >> and he got rid of them. one by one. >> kuklinski took gary and danny off the street and moved them to a series of motels. eventually, they were put into the york motel. richard would visit them, bring them food, tell them not to leave the ...

>> welcome back to "very scary people". by 1982, police said richard kuklinski had killed three men in new jersey -- george malliband, louis masgay, and paul hoffman -- as part of what was dubbed his commercial murders. the murders were committed and the bodies dumped in three different jurisdictions, and though kuklinski was thought to be the last person to see each of them alive, these killings were unsolved and unlinked for a long time. but all that was about to change. >> in the 1980s, kukli...

Kuklinski decided that he would kill smith by poisoning him with cyanide. >> cyanide looks like just salt, table salt. so, kuklinski had mixed cyanide in the ketchup that was then brought on a hamburger to gary smith. >> gary smith started to eat the hamburger. >> gary got about halfway through. his eyes went goofy and rolled back in his head, and he just fell back on the bed. he was gagging and trying to breathe. kuklinski went next to the bed, ripped the lamp cord off of the lamp, threw it to ...

For many years, the Iceman, Richard Kuklinski, had literally gotten away with murder, but investigators were on to him; there was very little evidence,...

>> i had 40 house burglaries in a three-county area, and i had an informant with me that was part of the crew. i said to him one day, "wheres all these proceeds going to?" he says, "you dont want to know." i said, "why dont i want to know?" he says, "because the guy running this whole thing -- if he finds out that youre onto him, hes coming after you." he said, "he is the most vicious person ive ever seen, ive ever heard of. all he has to do is look at you and you feel like youre running for the...

Possibly talk and give him up. he had brought deppner baked beans and some other food, and danny deppner ate the baked beans, and they were loaded with cyanide. he was wrapped in plastic garbage bags, and he was taken up to west milford, where the body was dumped in the woods. his body was not found until approximately five months later, and an autopsy showed that he had an undigested amount of baked beans in his stomach. >> they found these baked beans that were so intact, they could tell they ...

Of richards daughters, merrick. >> richard patterson opened up another whole door for us in regards to what richard kuklinski had done. one day, patterson had been sleeping over, and kuklinski got him up early in the morning and said, "listen, i need you to help me move this package, this thing." >> and they get in the car and they go. and he says to richard, you know, "jump behind the wheel." he gets out of the car and he goes around the back. he opens the trunk, and richard looks in the mirror...

Bedroom of the hotel, and it remained there for a number of days. >> the room was rented out to several guests several times. they had no idea that this guys corpse was underneath it before the owner finally got the hotel staff to find it and call the cops. >> there was decay that had occurred, and so the body had actually turned the skin dark in color, to the point where they thought it was an african-american male initially. >> kuklinski knows that theres someone else who has to be eliminated ...