‘Hollywood Ripper’ Gets Death Penalty for Killing 2 Women, Including Actor Ashton Kutcher’s 2001 Date
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A California judge formally handed down the death sentence to 45-year-old Michael Gargiulo, nearly two years after a Los Angeles jury convicted him of murdering two women and stabbing a third, who survived. Media outlets dubbed Gargiulo “the Hollywood Ripper” for the Los Angeles-area killings of Ashley Ellerin, 22, on February 22, 2001, and Maria …