Mafia Hitman
Psychology
3/6/17
Snow Day Homework
This video was about a man named Richard Kuklinski. He was a man that had a very
high temper and eventually became a hitman for the mafia. He got into his urgency to kill at a
young age. This video talked about Richard as an eighteen-year-old, throwing a Molotov into a
car and ending someone’s life. The reason for this is because he had a “big mouth” and it
reminded Richard of his father. So, by the age of twenty-five, Richard was a man that did not
mind taking someone’s life. This made him take his life into a direction where he could get paid
to end people’s lives. It was ironic that the video talked about him living two lives because no
one in his family knew what he was involved in. My guess is that his wife had an idea but the
money was too good to question it. This in a way, makes her just a guilty for not stepping up and
questioning what he does and why he does it. Richard obviously had some problems wrong with
him because he was stated as the best hitman in his mafia. If someone can sleep at night knowing
that they had killed hundreds of innocent people for their own purposes, then there must be