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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 room under any circumstances. >> on december 23rd, kuklinski decided that he was gonna kill gary smi...

>> 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, kuklinski began working with a small crime ring in the northern part of new jersey. >> they were doing ho...

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 danny. >> and he then ordered danny deppner to finish him off with the cord, which danny deppner did...

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, "where's all these proceeds going to?" he says, "you don't want to know." i said, "why don't i want to know?" he says, "because the guy running this whole thing -- if he finds out that you're onto him, he's coming after you." he said, "he is the most vicious person i've ever seen, i've ever heard of. all he has to do is look at you and you feel like you're running for the hills." i said, "give me his name. i want his name." he gave me the name richard kuklinski....