{"id":1388,"date":"2025-09-22T19:06:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T19:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2025-09-22T19:06:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T19:06:32","slug":"episode-166-fifty-states-of-murder-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/episode-166-fifty-states-of-murder-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 166: Fifty States of Murder: New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Want to get away with murder? Make sure no one can spell your name! That&#8217;s the secret of New Jersey&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;s downfall by way of hubris, betrayal, and a cop in a bad wig in\u2026 New Jersey!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Fifty States of Murder: New Jersey\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/2uQezCL42zsSR3LpoNISMD?si=2855120059364332&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Music Credit: &#8220;Game Boy Horror&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/zombiedandies.bandcamp.com\/\">The Zombie Dandies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally aired September 22, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to get away with murder? Make sure no one can spell your name! That&#8217;s the secret of New Jersey&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[91,119],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-episode","tag-fifty-states-of-murder","tag-new-jersey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/episode-166-Fifty-States-of-Murder-New-Jersey2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1394,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}