A federal judge sentenced a North Texas woman to nine years in prison for using Bitcoin to pay a hitman to kill her boyfriend’s lover. Investigators say Michelle Murphy, 58, used an ATM to convert cash to Bitcoin and transferred about $10,500 to a hitman’s cryptocurrency wallet, KDFW reported. The plan was for the hitman …
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 …
A Los Angeles jury on Friday recommended the death sentence for Michael Gargiulo, who was convicted in August in the deaths of two women and the brutal stabbing of a third, who survived, KNX1070 reported. Prosecutors called Gargiulo, 43, the “Hollywood Ripper” for the Los Angeles-area killings of Ashley Ellerin, 22, on February 22, 2001, …
