A Killer with 2 Faces W Bobby Bukowski creates a gritty look for the period crime drama The Iceman, which profiles a notorious hitman. By Patricia Thomson •|• 60 June 2013 hen Richard Kuklinski was arrested in 1986 outside his suburban home in Dumont, N.J., he had been a contract killer for two decades and was responsible for more than 100 hits. Dubbed “The Ice Man” for his cold demeanor when dispatching targets, and for his practice of freezing his victims’ corpses to disguise their times of death, Kuklinski kept his loved ones entirely in the dark about his livelihood. To his wife and daughters, he was a loving father and gainfully employed husband who worked in currency exchange. American Cinematographer