Life & Mind of a Hitman
Sunday night on A&E, I watched the Iceman Tapes: The Conversations with a Killer.
It was chilling.
Haunting.
Creepy enough to give you nightmares, to make you double-check your locks, to pull all your blinds, and to make you want to fear every man you’ve ever known!!
On the show, notorious mob hit man, Richard Kuklinski shares snippets of his mind with the audience. He answers frank questions calculatedly yet amazingly honest at times. Regardless, Kuklinski is a difficult person to read. Why? Because he is clearly a psychopath. He admits he had no guilt for all the horrific crimes he committed. He said he never thought about them nor was he ever haunted by them.
Richard Kuklinski was known to aerosolize cyanide, using a spray to kill his victims in less than a minute. He also told a story where he walked into a bar, acted drunk, spilled his drink on a guy — a drink laced with cyanide — walked away — and later heard he claimed another victim.
Kuklinski earned the title Ice Man because he froze one of his victims for two years and when he disposed of the victim, he didn’t take into account his victim needed to thaw before discovery to successfully pull off the crime. The medical examiner realized upon review that they body was still frozen — and that there was more to this murder than what met the eye.
It doesn’t take much to say that this man was deeply, deeply disturbed. He disturbed ME!
I had a realization during this show last night. I realized that psychopathic liars do feel emotions – – even though most of the time, they are neutral. I realized they only feel their own pain — and not the pain of others. When I see this, it hints at a bigger picture. It hints for me to look closer.
Psychopaths, who are capable of serious crimes, do not feel emotions for other people. While I knew that, I never connected consciously that the only emotions they feel are their own.
Murderers like Kuklinski, BTK, Scott Peterson, etc. see other people as objects and not human beings. They will treat you right — usually better than average (if you are a stranger or a friend, not the target of their obsession. They will pull out all the stops to make you believe in them, but behind their facade, you will not see any deep or true emotion.
Some psychopaths can fake emotions quite well–good enough to really make me second-guess myself. If that is the case, the only other way to uncover a psychopath like these guys is to look for inconsistencies in fact to back up your suspicions. That will be the biggest clue that something is amiss. When 1 + 1 = 4 time-and-time again — something is up. That can make for a tough investigation, though.
There are people who are safe around these crazy psychopaths. If the psychopath has deemed you IMPORTANT and SPECIAL, in the power of their world, and they don’t believe you are any threat to them emotionally or physically in any way — you will be safe. You will be lied to repeatedly, but you will be safe and unharmed. Case-in-point: The wives and children of both Kuklinksi and BTK. Both men, in a sick way, loved their family and never once imagined hurting any one of them.
The big question is just how do you know you are deemed important to a psychopath?? Of course, you can’t so you can never ever trust them! Laci Peterson and her son were a threat to Scott Peterson. Scott Peterson lost control with Laci I believe due to the expectant baby and felt his lifestyle was threatened and in the end treated her like an object and killed her.
The world of psychopaths is complex, bizarre and out right strange — if not utterly creepy.
