Want to get away with murder? Make sure no one can spell your name! That’s the secret of New Jersey’s famous freelance hit man, Richard Kuklinski, known as the Ice Man, the Devil, or that really big guy over there with the bad temper and the baseball bat. The DUSE leaves no murder behind as Eli and Mel go the distance with a marathon episode that covers everything from Kuklinski’s nightmare childhood and his teenage gang angst to a web of seedy mob connections, a meet cute at a urinal with a fellow psychopath, and the famous hit man’s downfall by way of hubris, betrayal, and a cop in a bad wig in… New Jersey!
Music Credit: “Game Boy Horror” by The Zombie Dandies
Originally aired September 22, 2025