politics | January 01, 2026

Where is Michael Gargiulo now? The Hollywood Ripper’s whereabouts explored ahead of People Magazine Investigates

In July 2021, after numerous postponed preliminaries throughout the last ten years, Michael Gargiulo, named The Hollywood Ripper, was condemned to death for following and afterward violently cutting his clueless casualties to death. Gargiulo has frequently been depicted as a “sequential, psychosexual, thrill executioner.” He recently filled in as a bouncer and cooling repairman.

Gargiulo was seen as blameworthy in August 2019 of killing 22-year-old Ashley Ellerin over twenty years prior, which was trailed by 32-year-old Maria Bruno’s homicide in 2005. The two ladies were violently wounded on various occasions in their Los Angeles region homes. Prior in 2008, he was likewise seen as at real fault for the endeavored murder of Michelle Murphy, who was wounded on various occasions in her St Nick Monica home.

As per reports, Michael Gargiulo is at present spending time in jail waiting for capital punishment at the San Quentin State Jail.

Individuals Magazine Researches narratives the violations of Gargiulo in an episode named after his scandalous moniker The Hollywood Ripper. The authority rundown of the episode states:

“A lady is killed that very night she should go out with rising star Ashton Kutcher, and police accept the signs highlight a chronic executioner; as the quantity of casualties climbs, one fearless lady figures out how to make due.”
The forthcoming episode will air on ID this Monday, May 1, at 8:00 pm ET.

Michael Gargiulo was given capital punishment for the cutting passings of two Los Angeles ladies and an endeavored murder

Indicted chronic executioner Michael Gargiulo, otherwise known as The Hollywood Ripper, was given a capital punishment in July 2021. Los Angeles Predominant Court judge Larry Fidler gave over a sentence to the 45-year-old previous bouncer and cooling repairman. He is right now spending time in jail waiting for capital punishment in California’s San Quentin State Jail.

Capital punishment was conveyed after a Los Angeles jury sentenced Gargiulo in August 2019 of killing Maria Bruno and Ashley Ellerin. The two ladies were ruthlessly wounded a few times in their homes in the Los Angeles district. He was likewise recently sentenced for the endeavored murder of Michelle Murphy in 2008 after she was over and again cut in her St Nick Monica home.

Moreover, Michael Gargiulo was accused of homicide in Illinois for the 1993 cutting passing of 18-year-old Tricia Pacaccio outside her Glenview home. Reports express that Gargiulo, who was 17 years of age at that point, was a companion of Pacaccio’s brother and resided nearby to her home.

DNA proof was utilized to associate Michael Gargiulo, who “watched and paused” for his casualties, to every one of the three violations

During Michael Gargiulo’s Los Angeles preliminary, examiners claimed that every one of the ladies were youthful, gorgeous, and had a get-up-and-go — and all lived close to the chronic executioner. He purportedly “watched and paused” for “the ideal open door” to kill in “barrage style blade assaults and afterward get away from identification.”

As indicated by reports, Gargiulo was 24 years of age when he initially met Ashley Ellerin, a style plan understudy at the Los Angeles Design Foundation of Plan and Marketing. She was going to leave for a date with entertainer Ashton Kutcher at that point, when outside her home, he inquired as to whether she really wanted assistance fixing a punctured tire. She was found in her Hollywood home with 47 cut injuries in February 2001.

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Gargiulo migrated to a gated high rise in El Monte after Ellerin’s homicide, where he lethally wounded Maria Bruno, a neighbor, on December 1, 2005. Then, at that point, on April 28, 2008, he cut Michelle Murphy in the arm while she was resting. Murphy figured out how to shield herself from the aggressor, who then cut himself during the battle and ran away from the wrongdoing area.

As per the arraignment, Michael Gargiulo’s DNA was found on Murphy’s bedsheet. The DNA likewise connected him to an example found under Pacaccio’s fingernails. On June 6, 2008, the St Nick Monica Police Division captured Gargiulo and accused him of the endeavored murder of Murphy. He was subsequently accused of the wounding passings of Ellerin and Bruno.

ID’s Kin Magazine Explores will additionally dig into the chronic executioner’s wrongdoings this Monday.