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== Use as weapon == Because of its availability and ability to puncture the skin easily, the ice pick has sometimes been used as a weapon. Most notoriously, New York's organized crime groups known as [[Murder, Inc.|Murder Incorporated]] made extensive use of the ice pick as a weapon during the 1930s and 1940s.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yh9UgN4H_lwC&q=ice+pick&pg=PA34|title=The Canary Sang But Couldn't Fly: The Fatal Fall of Abe Reles, the Mobster Who Shattered Murder, Inc.'s Code of Silence|last=Elmaleh|first=Edmund|publisher=Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.|year=2009|isbn=9781402761133|location=New York, London|pages=34|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Icepicks-coffins-killers-Murder-inc/dp/B00071DL8K|title=Icepicks & Coffins: The Killers of Murder, Inc|last=Hanna|first=David|publisher=Leisure Books|year=1974}}</ref> There were up to 1,000 murders committed by this group. In 1932, the bodies of two young men were found who had been stabbed numerous times with an ice pick. A man named Jacob Drucker was found guilty of murdering a man in 1944. His victim had been stabbed with an ice pick over 20 times.<ref name="Ruderman">{{Cite web |last=Ruderman |first=Wendy |date=August 31, 2012 |title=The Ice Pick Seems Antiquated, but It Still Shows Up on the Police Blotter |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/nyregion/ice-picks-are-still-used-as-weapons.html |access-date=July 12, 2022 |website=New York Times}}</ref> The most feared hitman of his day, [[Abe Reles]], used the ice pick as his weapon of choice, usually stabbing his victims in the ear.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-this-day-killer-canary-defenestrated-1.5327309|title=This Day in Jewish History / Repentant Killer Canary Dies From Hotel Window Fall|last=Green|first=David B.|date=2014-11-12|work=Haaretz|access-date=2019-02-06|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/justice-story-canary-not-fly-article-1.246599|title=Justice Story: Canary who could not fly|last=Krajicek|first=David J.|date=25 March 2008|work=[[New York Daily News]]|access-date=6 February 2019}}</ref> According to New York City police, ice picks are still used today as street weapons. On August 21, 2012, a man was attacked with an ice pick in the Bronx. John Martinez, a man from the Bronx, was convicted of several robberies using an ice pick in 2011.<ref name="Ruderman"/> Murderer [[Richard Kuklinski]], who claimed to have killed over 200 people, was reported to have used an ice pick among other weapons.<ref name="Ruderman"/> During the early morning of August 16, 1975, Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Robert Hayward arrested Serial Killer [[Ted Bundy]], amongst the items found during a search of Ted's Volkswagen was a brown gym bag containing a red handled ice pick along with handcuffs, rope, ski mask, panty hose mask, flashlight, GLAD garbage bags, and other incriminating items.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq9MUE6qSxc&t=466s | title=Ted Bundy trial Bundy cross exams Utah cop Bob Hayward | website=[[YouTube]] | date=12 January 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/c7id2f/ted_bundys_murder_kit/ | title=Ted Bundy's murder kit | date=30 June 2019 }}</ref> [[Leon Trotsky]] is sometimes incorrectly said to have been killed with an ice pick. He was actually killed with an [[ice axe]], a mountaineering tool.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/13/trotsky-ice-axe-murder-mexico-city|title=Bloodstained ice axe used to kill Trotsky emerges after decades in the shadows|last1=Borger|first1=Julian|date=2017-09-13|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=2019-02-06|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191130145200/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/13/trotsky-ice-axe-murder-mexico-city|archive-date=November 30, 2019|last2=Tuckman|first2=Jo|issn=0261-3077|author-link=Julian Borger}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19356256|title=The ice pick assassination|last=Lanchin|first=Mike|date=2012-08-28|access-date=2019-02-06|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905120322/https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19356256|archive-date=2019-09-05|work=[[BBC News]]}}</ref> An ice pick (later revealed as a [[screwdriver]]){{Please clarify|Was it an ice pick or not?|date=December 2023}} and a [[kitchen knife]] were used by [[Luka Magnotta]] to murder [[Murder of Jun Lin|Jun Lin]] in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title=Police wage unsuccessful campaign to remove 'frickin' horrible' Luka Rocco Magnotta video from web |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/police-wage-unsuccessful-campaign-to-remove-frickin-horrible-luka-rocco-magnotta-video-from-web |website=[[National Post]] |access-date=July 8, 2022 |language=en}}</ref> In 2018, a 25-year-old man was killed at a New York City bus stop when he was stabbed with an ice pick.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Parry |first=Bill |date=April 27, 2022 |title=Rosedale man convicted of murder in 2018 ice pick stabbing at Jamaica bus stop |url=https://qns.com/2022/04/rosedale-man-convicted-murder-ice-pick-stabbing/ |access-date=July 13, 2022 |website=QNS}}</ref> in the Philippines, an ice pick is a common weapon, particularly in the slums of [[Manila]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2006-01-14 |title=What to Carry in the Philippines |url=https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/what-to-carry-in-the-philippines.383179/ |access-date=2024-03-22 |website=BladeForums.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
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