Then, in the 1950s, Richard Kuklinski got involved with the mafia. The young misanthrope turned into a giant of a man, growing to be six feet, five inches tall and weighing almost 300 pounds. In the eighth grade, he dropped out of school, and that same year, at the age of 14, he beat the town bully to death. He tortured and killed neighborhood cats and stray dogs. Kuklinski took the violence he received and gave it back to the world. His father’s beatings were so rough that they killed Kuklinski’s older brother, who authorities were told fell down the stairs. Richard Kuklinski was born on April 11, 1935, in Jersey City to an aggressive alcoholic father and a stern religious mother, both of whom beat him regularly. Arthur Rothstein / Library of Congress Jersey City in 1939.
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