The Iceman Confesses

The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer is a 1992 HBO documentary special in which convicted murderer and alleged Mafia hitman Richard Kuklinski confesses to multiple contract killings on camera.

HBO documentary in which convicted Mafia hitman Richard 'The Iceman' Kuklinski confesses to murders including a NYC detective, while serving four life terms.

Albert DeSalvo confessed in 1965 to being the Boston Strangler, responsible for at least 11 murders across the Boston area between June 1962 and January 1964. Yet he was never charged with any of those killings, and his confession never reached a courtroom—a legal peculiarity that would haunt the case for generations.