The Most Famous and Well Respected Way of Making Money

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The Most Famous and Well Respected Way of Making Money

It's amazing how the life of a contract killer runs, and how one person can do so much to affect the lives of others and have no remorse. For more the forty years, Richard "the Iceman" Kuklinski led a double life beyond anything ever seen on the Sopranos, becoming one of the most notorious and well respected professional assassins in Americas history while hosting a neighborhood barbeque in suburban New Jersey.

In today's society you can't trust anyone. Someone you think you know well could very well be a secretive contract killer. Contract killers live an abnormal lifestyle. Most in which can go and take the life of another only head back home and have a great dinner with his family. In Philip Carlos's book "The Iceman: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer (Published in July of 2006, 402 pages) we examine the life of Richard Kuklinski a cold blooded mafia contract killer."

Contract killers live this lifestyle for many years. Most of them don't do the job for only a week. Kuklinski worked hand in hand with the Mafia for more then 40 years of his life. He was the most well respected killer that was involved in the Mafia at the time. He did such jobs that no one would take up. The only reason why he kept living this life he said was because he could never have enough money.

A variety of things can lead someone to become a contract killer. For example, Richard was brought up this way. As a young child Richard got beat every day, saw his mother and siblings beat, and even seen his own father kill his brother. Day after day of this finally set in his mind and he built up so much anger and rage inside him he lets it all out by killing. Some people just do the job for the money. Though those people most of the time don't last to long. For some, they get the adrenaline rush it causes and it's a way for them to release stress. For Richard it just came by nature. Some people turn to this because of being bullied in their young ages. Kuklinski killed his first victim when he was just fourteen years old.

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