'Hollywood Ripper' sentenced to death in USThe so-called "Hollywood Ripper," Michael Gargiulo, seen during his trial in Los Angeles on August 15, 2019LOS ANGELES - A man known as the "Hollywood Ripper" was sentenced to death Friday for the gruesome killings of two women in their homes in the early 2000s. Among his victims was 22-year-old Ashley Ellerin, who was found in her Hollywood home with 47 stab wounds in February 2001. "In this case, everywhere that Mr. Gargiulo went, death and destruction followed," Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler said Friday as he announced the sentence. He was arrested in 2008 following an attack on a woman in her apartment in Santa Monica, near Los Angeles. Prior to that the death penalty was last carried out in California in 2006, when it was halted by a federal court order.

Source: Bangkok Post July 17, 2021 00:45 UTC