Although DNA tests introduced at his second trial proved that blood found on Ms Ancona didn’t belong to either her or Ray, he was again convicted on the basis of ‘expert’ testimony linking his teeth to the bite marks on Ms Ancona. The prosecution had no other physical ‘evidence’ that it claimed linked Ray to Kim’s murder.
After his second conviction in 1996, Ray told The Arizona Republic he was innocent. ‘I was not there that night ... pretty much rules out any faith I have in truth and justice.’ The trial judge, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge James McDougall, expressed doubt about the outcome of the trial when he wrote, ‘The court is left with a residual or lingering doubt about the clear identity of the killer.’ Judge McDougall also wrote after sentencing Ray to life in prison, ‘This is one of those cases that will haunt me for the rest of my life, wondering whether I have done the right thing.’ Justice Denied magazine article Hans Sherrer 2:9
My name is Ray Krone, and I am the 100th person in the United State to be sentenced to death and later exonerated. I spent 10 years behind bars in Arizona, including more than two years on death row, before DNA evidence proved my innocence. I thank you for the opportunity to speak here today.
My wrongful conviction is not a lone occurrence of injustice, but a representation of what has happened to many innocent people. Ray Krone, testimony before Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
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March 26th 2010: Surgeon Dr Craig McAllister and his 18-year-old son are returning to their Kirkland Washington home. But when Dr McAllister gets out of his car two men in black balaclavas are waiting in the shadows … The two attackers suddenly flee the scene. Very Bad Men s3e12: Trained to Kill, 2014
It’s starting to look like Krueger and Bradshaw did the McAllister job together … Krueger: a cop prone to violence who killed men in the line of duty, literally choking one man to death. Then, to support a bad gambling habit, Krueger went rogue. ibid.
Krueger: his DNA is linked to an earlier unsolved homicide. ibid.
Bradshaw has not been seen since the night of the McAllister attack … Did Bradshaw drown his partner in crime, Gary Krueger? ibid.
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Manhattan, New York, 10th April 1936, Good Friday: Theodore Kruger … delivering a reupholstered chair to one of their customers … There had been no answer when they rang the bell … The apartment door was open too … She lay in the bathtub with a piece of clothing tied round her neck … Nancy [Titterton] had been strangled with her own pyjama top … Some of the chord had been delivered the day before the murder to an upholstery company in Manhattan run by Theodore Kruger … After a night in the cells he [Weston] confessed. Gabriel Weston: Catching History’s Criminals II: Traces of Guilt, BBC 2015
KUKLINSKI, RICHARD: Richard Kuklinksi - Mobsters: Richard Kuklinski TV - Philip Carlo - The Iceman: Confessions of a Mafia Hitman TV - The Iceman 2012 - World’s Most Evil Killers TV - Very Scary People TV -
Nothing haunts me. No murders haunt me. Nothing. I don’t think about it. Richard Kuklinksi
September 1983 ... The frozen corpse was authorities’ first glimpse into the ice-cold world of the one of the country’s most prolific and sophisticated murderers – Richard Kuklinski, aka the Iceman. Mobsters s4e2: The Iceman: Richard Kuklinski
Richard defaulted on his loan to the Gambinos, crossing one of their most feared enforcers, a man who is suspected of killing more than seventy people – Roy DeMeo. ibid.
A ruthless contract killer for the New York mob. ibid.
Within two years DeMeo would turn up dead in the boot of his own car. ibid.
Kuklinski also kept his pockets full with another racket – auto theft. ibid.
He was charged with five counts of first-degree murder. ibid.
His most startling claim was that he’d killed over one hundred men. ibid.
One of the most evil killers in New Jersey history. ibid.
He came to Manhattan numerous times over the ensuing weeks and months and killed people, always men, never a female, he says, always someone who rubbed him the wrong way, for some imagined or extremely slight reason. He shot, stabbed, and bludgeoned men to death. He left some where they dropped. He dumped some into the nearby Hudson River. Murder, for Richard, became sport. The New York police came to believe that the bums were attacking and killing one another, never suspecting that a full-fledged serial killer from New Jersey was coming over to Manhattan’s West Side for the purpose of killing people, to practise and perfect murder. Richard made the West Side of Manhattan a kind of lab for murder, a school, he says. Philip Carlo
On May 25th 1988 Richard Kuklinski was convicted of multiple murders and sentenced to life imprisonment. This ended 30 years of cold-blooded killing by a master criminal police called The Iceman. The Iceman, Confessions of a Mafia Hitman
‘He murdered by guns, he murdered by strangulation, he murdered by putting poison on victims’ food, he did all of this at the same time while exhibiting a normal placid family existence.’ ibid. rozzer
‘An approximate guess … more than a hundred.’ ibid. Richard
‘It doesn’t bother me at all.’ ibid.
‘Nothing haunts me.’ ibid.
He and Barbara had three children. But just with an eighth grade education to only get low-paying jobs. ibid.
Kuklinski was the perfect enforcer. He was brutal and he knew how to intimidate. ibid.
Kuklinski kept his criminal life secret from his family and neighbours. ibid.
Richard Kuklinski became the head of his own crime ring. He developed new ways to profit from murder. ibid.
By the 1980s Kuklinski was involved in narcotics, pornography, arms dealing, money laundering, hijacking and contract killing on a world-wide basis. He was also pressing 50 and getting tired. He started to make mistakes. ibid.
Hurting my family – the only thing I feel sorry for. I’m not looking for forgiveness and I’m not repenting. I know I’m wrong. ibid.
A contract killer for the Gambino crime family. ibid.
They called him The Iceman because to confuse the time of death he would take his victims and put them in a freezer for a long period of time. ibid.
‘I wouldn’t kill a child. I most likely wouldn’t kill a woman. ibid.
The files on The Iceman will never be closed. ibid.