
He repeatedly hit him with a thick wooden dowel (rod), eventually leading to his death. After the beating, Richard decided to go all the way. Charley was in a gang called 'The Project Boys.' In 1948, Richard was 14 years old when he set up and beat the boy who bullied him for a while. Richard’s first target was his number one enemy, Charley Lane. Joseph ended up dying in prison on September 22, 2003. Once the police were called, Joseph immediately confessed to the crime. The dog survived the fall but howled in pain, therefore getting the attention from the neighbors. After all that, he threw the girl's lifeless body and her dog off the roof. He then told the young girl that he found her dog, luring her to a roof. Richard’s younger sister Roberta was probably the only one who grew up to be 'normal.'” In 1970, Joseph stole a dog from a local 12-year-old girl.

In the book The Iceman: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer by Philip Carlo, it states, "His younger brother, Joseph, also grew up to be a killer like Richard but not to the same extent. By sixteen, Richard’s explosive temper became well known, along with his willing to kill. Stanley ultimately left the family, leaving Richard to fend for himself. When Stanley realized what he had done, he demanded Anna to call the hospital and say her son fell down the stairs.

When Richard was only five years old, his older brother, Florian, was brutally being beaten by his father and was eventually killed. Meanwhile, Stanley was an alcoholic who worked as a brakeman at a railroad, who also hit his children. Even though they were a devoted Catholic family, Anna often beat Richard during his childhood.

He was the second of four children raised in Jersey City, New Jersey. Richard Leonard Kuklinski was born on Apto Stanley and Anna Kuklinski.
