He was sentenced to death Michael Gargiulo, heinous criminal also known as “the Hollywood ripper”: the 45-year-old was convicted of the murder of two women and the attempted murder of another in the early 2000s. Stabbed several times, the victims also suffered severe mutilations, one of them she was almost beheaded “Wherever Gargiulo went, he sowed death and destruction”, thundered the judge in Los Angeles. However, Gargiulo will not end up on death row for now, as California has been observing a moratorium on executions since 2019 and no inmates in the state have been killed since 2006.
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Among his victims Ashley Ellerin, found in her Hollywood home, massacred with 47 stabs in February 2001. On the night of the murder, she had an appointment with actor Ashton Kutcher, who testified at the trial and said that that evening he arrived. late and no one opened the door for him: he looked through the window, saw what appeared to him red wine spilled on the ground and left, thinking that she had gone out without waiting for him.
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The second victim, Maria Bruno, was 32 years old, was a neighbor of Gargiulo who stabbed her 17 times while she was sleeping, in December 2005. According to the prosecutor Dan Akemon, Gargiulo attacked the women who lived near him and waited for the time to attack them after having carefully studied their movements. Before the court, Gargiulo has returned to profess his innocence. He was arrested in Santa Monica in 2008, near Los Angeles, after accidentally cutting himself while attacking a third victim, who later survived. Gargiulo is also on trial in Illinois for the murder of a woman in 1993.
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