After the corpse remained there for what Kuklinski related as a long time, he noticed one day that the drum was no longer there. Over the next thirty years, according to Kuklinski, he killed numerous people, either by gun, strangulation, knife, or poison. From then on, Richard Leonard Kuklinski was Roy DeMeos favorite enforcer. As he passed him, he turned and shot the man in the back of the head. Kuklinski monitored the drum for some time, sitting in Harry's Corner every day to listen for talk amongst the patrons that would indicate the corpse's discovery. Without questioning the order, Kuklinski got out and walked towards the man. Kuklinski then placed Hoffman's corpse inside a fifty-gallon drum and brazenly left the drum on the sidewalk outside a motel behind a luncheonette. Kuklinski then resorted to killing Hoffman by beating him to death with a tire iron. The shot did not kill Hoffman so Kuklinski tried to shoot him again, but the gun jammed. Kuklinski placed the barrel of his pistol under Hoffman's chin and pulled the trigger. After Hoffman gave him the money, Kuklinski told Hoffman that the business deal was a ruse. Hoffman met Kuklinski at a warehouse Kuklinski leased to buy the Tagamet for $25,000. Hoffman was a pharmacist who hoped to make a large profit by illegally purchasing at a low cost large quantities of Tagamet, the most popular drug used to treat peptic ulcers at the time, to resell through his pharmacy.
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