Richard 'The Iceman' Kuklinsky

Fellow mobsters called him 'the one-man army' or 'the devil himself'.

Richard Leonard Kuklinski (April 11, 1935 – March 5, 2006) was a hitman and serial killer. He was convicted of murdering six people, but confessed to far more. He was associated with the DeCavalcante crime family, and the Five Families of New York. He was given the nickname 'The Iceman' for his method of freezing a victim to mask the time of death. His favorite method of murder was a nasal-spray bottle filled with cyanide.

"This guy is just doing stuff because he likes it. There is nothing that's driving him to this. He just likes killing people."

Kuklinski recalled in an interview: "By now you know what I liked most was the hunt, the challenge of what the thing was. The killing for me was secondary. I got no rise as such out of it ... for the most part. But the figuring it out, the challenge—the stalking and doing it right—that excited me a lot. The greater the odds against me, the more juice I got out of it." A psychiatrist said Kuklinski was a bipolar psychopath with paranoid personality disorder.

Kuklinski used guns, knives, explosives, tire irons, fire, poison, asphyxiation, and even beatings "just for the exercise". He favored cyanide, since it killed quickly, wasn't blood-messy and was hard to detect. He fed living human beings to cave rats in Pennsylvania and recorded footage in order to collect torture contracts. Upon viewing one of the tapes, Mob Boss Roy DeMeo could not finish watching and said Kuklinski 'had no soul'. Kuklinski said the rats disposed of a body in about 2 days, leaving no trace.

DeMeo would later became one of his victims. Kuklinski was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988 for 5 murders, with an additional 30 years added on for murdering a mob-corrupted police officer. He died in prison at age 70 on March 5, 2006. See ----->Part II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceERzARTMGs

Ex-Quebec HA Michel "L'Animal" Smith

Michel "L'Animal" Smith

5 years ago the HA awarded a golden parachute to one of their most influential members, who receives a $10k monthly pension after 23 years of service. Michel "L'Animal" Smith, a pillar of the South chapter, withdrew from the OMG. Smith, previously Michel Lajoie-Smith, left the club "with honor" - or in "good standing". The biker received his patches in 1993. Smith was one of two HA at the table with the Italian mafia to control the cocaine market in the Montreal area.

Cops believe Smith sponsored the first chapter of the Hells Angels in Ecuador in 2015. In Quito, the Devils Clowns officially joined the ranks of the Hells Angels. The charter is strategic since Ecuador is one of the main conduits through which Colombia cocaine transits, before being exported to North America.

A retiree on good terms with the Hells Angels must have the date of his departure under his tattoo with the effigy of the gang. Club rules stipulate that a retired member on good terms must have the date of his retirement below his "official" Hells tattoo. Those who leave in "bad standing" must remove or camouflage their tattoos.

Outlaws boss Orville “Orvie” Cochran

Chicago Outlaws boss Orville “Orvie” Cochran's lucky streak continues as he got an early prison release. After contracting COVID-19, the former gang boss was released 6 months early from his 5-year racketeering conspiracy sentence. Cochran survived a shooting outside the biker’s South Side clubhouse in 2000 — he slipped on ice and fell, thus avoiding a hail of bullets and his execution.

Arrested in 2017 after being on the run for 16 years to avoid racketeering charges, he caught a break on his sentence. Since a judge ordered his release last month, the onetime junkyard dog of Chicago’s biker underworld is now boss of a dog-grooming business. More doggie spa duties could be in Cochran’s future. As a condition of his early release, Cochran is not allowed to associate with anyone from the Outlaws.

CJNG drones on patrol

The Jalisco New Generation Cartel is behind an attack in Michoacán where two drones rigged with explosives injured two cops. The first CJNG drone bomb turned up in 2017 in the back of a stolen car driven by cartel members stopped by police near Valtierrilla, Guanajuato.

The drone was a 3DR Solo quadcopter, with a ‘potato bomb’ IED taped to it.

Drones can easily be acquired and fited with explosives to turn them into guided weapons able to hit high value targets with pinpoint precision from more than a mile away. Improvised armed drones are now used by groups in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Afghanistan.

Samuel Little - America’s most prolific serial killer

Samuel Little was a career criminal, in and out of jail his entire adult life. In 2018, he opened up to a Texas Ranger who questioned him about a killing Little didn’t commit. His DNA linked him to three California killings. It was then when Little began recounting his other slayings. In 2018, the FBI stated that Little "chose to kill marginalized and vulnerable women" who were mainly drug addicts, sex workers and poor."

Little confessed to 93 murders in 14 states between 1970 and 2005. The former boxer used his powerful hands to strangle many of his victims. He died in late 2020 at age 80 in prison. Authorities continue to investigate Little’s claims. They’ve confirmed nearly 60 killings and have no reason to doubt the others.

A month before Little’s death, cops revealed that two women who were slain in Miami during the ‘70s were killed by Little. The number of murders he confessed to, if confirmed, would make him the most prolific serial killer in United States history.

Basketball coach dies in cartel drug rip

Teacher and coach Barney Dale Harris was killed in a drug rip shootout with a Mexican drug cartel, the Alamance County Sheriff's Office annouced. Harris and his brother-in-law, Steven Alexander Stewart, went to the stash house of a Mexican drug cartel to steal drugs and money. They shot Alonso Beltran Lara twice in the head. Harris was wearing a bulletproof vest, but the vest was no match for the high-caliber weapons used by the cartel.

Stewart survived and was arrested; he's charged with armed robbery and murder. Cops found 30 shell casings inside and outside the home and bullet holes in three nearby homes. Inside, deputies seized two pounds of cocaine and $7k in cash.

Hardliners Holland

The ban on wearing the MC Hardliners club logo in Holland is contrary to the right of association under the constitution. So says an HA lawyer.

Cops arrested 14 members of Hardliners MC on April 1 after they refused to turn over their colors. When one points out the Hardliners logo closely resembles the Hells Angels the response from the bikers is that its nonsense. “Anyone who thinks that is illiterate anyway." Hardliners now have about two hundred members with 22 chapters, including Haarlem.

Reta Mays - Serial Killer

Reta Mays

A woman who murdered seven elderly military veteran patients and tried to slay an eighth at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center faces sentencing. Reta Mays, 46, faces seven terms of life in federal prison plus 20 years. Mays admitted to the crimes but she said nothing about a motive. Her pattern was to inject patients with lethal doses of insulin.

Mays is a veteran and is taking medication for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Experts say, “serial murderers commit their crimes because they want to. The exception to this would be those few killers suffering from a severe mental illness.” Mays is not mentally ill, otherwise that could have been used as a defense. The why may never be known.

Denmark ex-HA Jørn Jønke Nielsen - Out

Jørn Jønke Nielsen, 60, has been thrown out of the Hells Angels. The biker had been a member of Hells Angels since the club started up in Denmark. For many years he was the spokesman for Hells Angels in Denmark.

"After almost 40 years with the club, it's over. I've been told I'm outcast. Of course, I do not agree with the decision, the background to it and how it was taken. However, it is not possible to change." he writes on Facebook. There are many internal rules within the Hells Angels. How to behave after leaving the club, whether it is voluntary or not is one of them. Most ex-HAMC members out would shut up, as instructed.

He denies being a criminal, but has been in jail for 18 of his 60 years. "I'm not a criminal. A criminal is someone who gets up in the morning and commits criminal acts." He founded Hells Angels in Denmark, but now he has been thrown out by those he called "brothers".

Manitoba cops land 81 kg cocaine

Cops seized 81 kg of cocaine, which they say is the largest coke bust in Manitoba history. “Project Drone" also returned $1.5m in cash.

Stephen Ferenc Stumpf, 41, from Peterborough, Ont has been arrested. He has been charged with possessing a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking and possessing proceeds of crime. The cocaine is valued at $7.6m.

UK drug dealer/jailbird marries

Drug dealer Benjamin Connor has wed his sweetheart on the taxpayer dime, despite being 7 months into a 6 year stretch for trafficking cocaine.

He was escorted from HMP Humber, East Yorks, to Goole Register Office — the two-hour trip all paid for by the prison. “This rule is in place to visit dying relatives, not to go on a jolly. What next? Lags out for a round of golf? It is not government policy to let drug traffickers out for weddings!” Pandemic restrictions mean there are an estimated 824,000 weddings on hold in the UK.

Somkid Phumphuang - “Kid the Ripper”

The Khon Kaen Provincial Court has passed the death sentence on paroled serial killer Somkid Phumphuang, 55, for the murder of a woman in 2019. The premediated murder of the woman included torturing her, theft and concealment of her body. Phumphuang, dubbed “Kid the Ripper” was sentenced to death in 2005 for killing five women in a six-month period.

The sentence was reduced to life imprisonment after he pleaded guilty. He was paroled and let free on May 17, 2019. The Corrections Department said he was a "model prisoner".

Liquid Meth

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at the Ysleta port of entry in El Paso, Texas, seized 1,543 pounds of liquid meth last year. The shipment was hidden as cleaning supplies. South Fulton, Ga. cops recently lassoed 77 pounds of the drug and discovered equipment used to dry and produce it. The bust comes days after another, even larger, drug bust involving liquid meth in Henry County. There 450 pounds of the drug was found.

Meth can be mixed with water for smuggling and then dried.