
Here are some prime examples of films from the early 1940s to the present where hitmen and contract killing are crucial plot elements. Legendary mobster Bugsy Siegel was one of Murder, Inc.’s most famous hitmen.įrom the day he first killed in 1948 until the day of his arrest in 1986, New Jersey-based mob enforcer Richard “The Iceman” Kuklinski dispassionately killed anywhere from 100-200 people, mostly by using cyanide. committed countless contract murders on behalf of the National Crime Syndicate.

In the 1930s and 1940s, a gang known as Murder, Inc. The party who pays the hitman may be an individual with a vendetta-say, a husband who has discovered his wife has been cheating-or a criminal organization, or even a government that seeks to dispatch of political enemies through the use of undercover intelligence agencies.


Known technically as “contract killing,” the hitman enters an illegal agreement with a person or group that desires to eliminate someone but also wants to distance themselves from the crime as far as things such as fingerprints and other forensic evidence go. A hitman has what is perhaps the oddest profession in the world-they are people paid money to kill people.
