The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer

POSTSCRIPT

• Detective Pat Kane was promoted to lieutenant before retiring from the New Jersey State Police. Today he is working as a fire ranger and loves being outdoors.

• ATF Agent Dominick Polifrone is presently retired. He had been training younger agents in successful undercover work.

• Bob Carroll retired from the state attorney general’s office and today is a practicing attorney; his specialty is criminal law.

• Stanley Kuklinski died of a heart attack in 1979. Until the end of his life Richard regretted not having killed him.

• Richard’s sister, Roberta, moved to the West Coast, and he didn’t hear from her in the thirty years leading up to his death.

• Barbara Kuklinski has severe arthritis, chain-smokes, loves to read, loves her grandchildren. “My whole life,” she says, “is my children and grandchildren.”

• Charges against Sammy Gravano for the murder of NYPD detective Peter Calabro were dropped the day after Richard Kuklinski died.

• Roy DeMeo’s boss, Nino Gaggi, died in a federal prison of a heart attack.

• The police never discovered any of the videos Richard made of feeding people to rats.

• HBO’s Gaby Monet had been planning to do yet another special on Richard Kuklinski, this one entitled The Ice Man Cold Case File, which would have explored more unsolved murders of Richard’s.

• Detective Robert Anzalotti was promoted to sergeant because he was able to get Richard to talk about murders he committed that the police knew nothing about.

• Richard’s three children, Merrick, Chris, and Dwayne, are doing very well; all of them live in New Jersey.

• Author Philip Carlo is living in southern Italy, working on a new book.