Ms.Dixon
The Iceman
The iceman (Richard Kuklinski) is not a regular serial killer because serial killers do not kill for money usually it’s for a sexual, pleasure, anger retaliation, hitmen kill for money not some type of excitement.In the Vernacular hit men are professional contract killers employed by organized crime groups to eliminate their rivals or other troublesome individuals. There is some debate among criminologists, psychologists and law enforcement authorities as to where
Hitmen should be considered serial killers.
Unlike serial killers who select their own victims, the targets of hit men are carefully chosen for them by their employers who pay them to kill on demand. Although professional hit men and serial killers share the common characteristics of killing multiple victims in separate and unrelated events, hit men are not serial killers because their motivation to kill is strictly financial. The murders committed by professional hit men fulfill no emotional or psychological needs on their …show more content…
Though strictly an amateur, and no match for his brother Richard the Iceman in terms of sheer numbers, joseph ran away with the title for most vile. In 1970 Joseph then 25, stole the beloved dog of a local 12-year-old girl telling the young girl that he’d Joseph Kuklinski would help find the girls lost dog raped and murdered the girl. He then threw her body and the dog off of the roof. The dog survived the fall and by howling alerted the neighbors to the crime. So overall i believe that richard kuklinski is not a regular serial killer thats why they have their own category as hitmen or contract killers they are not named as serial killers because a hitman will kill when the money is right a serial killer kills when he thinks the time is right contract killers kill when they get the word to knock someone off serial killers kill when they have a pleasure or feeling to do what they think needs to be