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UPDATE: On Oct. 18, 2019, a jury recommended that Michael Gargiulo be sentenced to death for the murders of Ashley Ellerin and Maria Bruno. Sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 28, 2020.
On February 21, 2001, he murdered 22-year-old Ashley Ellerin, stabbing her 47 times in her home in Hollywood. Ellerin's injuries included a neck wound that nearly severed her head and deep punctures to the chest, stomach, and back. Some of her wounds were up to six inches deep.
Ashley Ellerin, 22, and Maria Bruno, 32, were both stabbed to death in their California homes. Gargiulo was caught after another potential victim, Michelle Murphy, then 26, managed to fight him...
She had been stabbed 47 times. Investigators later identified her killer as Michael Gargiulo, also known as “The Hollywood Ripper” and “The Boy Next Door Killer.” However, Gargiulo wouldn’t face justice for his heinous crimes until 2019 — nearly two decades after he brutally murdered Ashley Ellerin. Ashley Ellerin’s Early Life In New Jersey.
Gargiulo was found guilty of the 2001 murder of Ashley Ellerin, a 22-year-old fashion design student, in her Hollywood home as she prepared to go out with Kutcher. At the trial, Kutcher said...
May 3, 2019 / 8:58 AM EDT / CBS News. The trial of an alleged serial killer known as the "Hollywood Ripper" is underway in Los Angeles where prosecutors say Michael Gargiulo attacked four women...
Then, on a winter's night in 2001, 22-year-old Ashley Ellerin was found brutally murdered in her Hollywood Hills home. The tabloids ran the news, because Ashley was about to go out on a date...
