Bruno Latini, a 55-year-old White man, was shot to death in New York City on December 24, 1971, while in his car. The killing is repeatedly tied in later accounts to Richard Kuklinski, the New Jersey criminal who became known as The Iceman, but Latini’s name does not appear among the murders prosecutors proved at Kuklinski’s trials.

Kuklinski was arrested in December 1986 and later convicted for several murders, and he made claims about additional victims that have been treated cautiously because they are hard to verify.

Latini’s shooting remains a case that sits between documented conviction and reputation-driven attribution. Did anyone have direct knowledge of Latini’s life, movements that day, or the circumstances around the car where he was killed?