Sunday April 23, 2006, The Observer
When Richard Kuklinski died in a prison hospital wing in New Jersey last month there were few mourners. But the hitman and serial killer left behind a mystery: did Kuklinski really kill the union leader Jimmy Hoffa?
That is the claim in a new book based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the notorious killer, who was nicknamed 'The Iceman' for both the cold-blooded nature of his crimes and because he once froze the corpse of a victim to disguise the time of death...Kuklinski described murdering Hoffa and dumping his body in a scrapyard.
... . 'He's part of a car somewhere in Japan right now,' Kuklinski tells Carlo in the book, which will be published in July....