young child he began abusing animals such as cats and dogs by torturing them “He would tie the tails of cats and throw them over a clothesline to watch them tear each other apart”(Klein). At age 14 he had committed his first murder on a human being, the victim's name was Charles Lane, a bully who was the leader of a local gang called “The Project Boys”(Newton). This group of boys had been bullying Richard for a short while until he lost his temper. Richard killed Charles with a wooden stick and then removed his teeth and sawed off his fingers to prevent the body from ever being identified. Kuklinski then went in search of the other boys in the gang. He found a metal pipe in a garbage can and beat the rest of the boy’s nearly to death. “He