The night Ashley Ellerin was stabbed to death in 2001, Ashton Kutcher arrived to pick her up for a date. She didn't answer the door.
Michael Gargiulo listens to defense attorney Daniel Nardoni's opening statement on Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court. By Meagan Flynn Meagan Flynn Morning Mix reporter Email Bio Follow May 3 at 7:05 AM It was the night of the Grammy Awards in Hollywood and 22-year-old Ashley Ellerin had a date with Ashton Kutcher.
Instead, as prosecutors will tell a jury this week, it was the aftermath of a brutal stabbing — and the work of Michael Gargiulo, a suspected serial killer whose alleged murders span two states and 15 years. In Los Angeles, he is known as the alleged “Hollywood Ripper.” "What you will hear is that Michael Gargiulo, for almost 15 years, was watching, always watching,” prosecutor Daniel Akemon said, according to the AP. “And his hobby was plotting the perfect opportunity to attack women with a knife in and around their homes.”
The only real break in the case finally came a decade later, in 2003, when DNA detected on Pacaccio’s fingernails was found to match Gargiulo.Police told “48 Hours” they believe Gargiulo fled to Los Angeles around 1999 when he realized authorities were taking a closer look at him in Pacaccio’s death. He moved into the same Hollywood neighborhood as Ellerin and, one day in the fall of 2000, introduced himself to her while she was trying to fix a flat tire.
As Los Angeles police were investigating Gargiulo, something strange happened: Chicago police called. They wanted to know if police in the Hollywood division could obtain a DNA sample from an area man named Michael Gargiulo — a person of interest in the murder of Tricia Pacaccio. At that moment, Hollywood homicide detective Tom Small told Chicago magazine, “bells and whistles went off.”
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