“I regret that a jury is not going to have an opportunity to determine who killed this police officer. “I cannot proceed with this particular matter at this juncture and will be requesting that the court dismiss the case,” Molinelli said. That murder charge against Gravano dies along with Kuklinski.īergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli confirmed that his office was not going to proceed with the case against the famed mobster Gravano, who gained recognition for his testimony that helped to convict late mob boss John Gotti a decade ago. Lucky for Sammy the Bull Kuklinski was also expected to be the star witness in a murder charge against famed Gambino family underboss Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano, whom Kuklinski claimed hired him 26 years ago to kill a New York City detective in Upper Saddle River.
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Kuklinski was moved last month to the hospital from the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, where he had been incarcerated since his conviction on several murder charges in 1988. Kuklinski was apparently in failing health for the last four months, developing heart, lung and kidney problems.Īccording to published reports, Kuklinski was apparently also suffering from dementia in his final days and could not remember the names of his wife Barbara and three children. Francis Medical Center in Trenton, where he was being treated for a number of ailments.
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State corrections officials confirmed that Kuklinski died Monday in the secured wing of St. Kuklinski, who earned the nickname as “The Iceman” for keeping some of his murder victims inside a freezer in his garage on Tonnelle Avenue, was 70.
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Richard Kuklinski, a Jersey City native who became notoriously famous for his string of hired killings throughout New Jersey, including three more prominent murders in North Bergen during the 1980s, died last Monday in the locked-down prison wing of a Trenton hospital.