Michael Gargiulo, a ‘Hollwood Ripper’s’ Survivor Speaks

On Apr 28, 2008, a day started routinely for 26-year-old Michelle Murphy from Santa Monica. She woke adult with her beloved of dual months subsequent to her in an unit she separate with her roommate.

Murphy left during 8:00 am GMT for work and returned home during 6:45 pm GMT. She laundered her bedding, went out to get a manicure, and saw a store was closed. She afterwards went immediately home.

Murphy exercised by using sprints in a alley in a behind of her unit and jumped rope.

She came home, showered, ate her dinner, watched television, and went to nap around 10:30 pm GMT.

Less than an hour late, she woke adult to find a male who was slim straddling her while she was in her bed. He afterwards started to gash her in her chest, arm, and shoulder.

On Apr 7, 2019, 11 years after Murphy was attacked, she became a initial declare during a hearing of Michael Gargiulo. Now 37 years aged and Gargiulo, famous as a “Hollywood Ripper” she was there to tell a story about her attacker.

Gargiulo is indicted of murdering between 1993 – 2003 3 women including a ex-girlfriend of Ashton Kutcher.

The conflict on Murphy left her with haughtiness repairs in her right palm and stitches in her arm.

Murphy was on a list of over 250 witnesses. Kutcher is also on a list dating one of a victims in 2001. The hearing is approaching to final 6 months.

Murphy told a jury that she woke adult to find a male on tip of her who continued to gash her arm.

She pronounced she knew she was being stabbed with a knife.  Murphy grabbed with both of her hands a knife. She attempted to reason a blade to keep from being stabbed. He still stabbed her, and she kept relocating to try to stop removing stabbed.

The night she was attacked, Murphy’s roommate was in Poland visiting her family. He beloved was during his possess home. It was hot, and she slept naked, with a fan on and window open. The assailant came in from a open window, climbing adult from a alley and cut a screen.

Murphy struggled while being attacked, grabbed a blade, pulled her legs towards her chest and attempted to flog a attacker.

She pronounced she was screaming and asked because was he was spiteful her. The antagonist who is pronounced to be Gargiulo did not answer.

Murphy kicked him to a building and a antagonist who is purported to be Gargiulo ran out of a room, to a front door. Murphy ran after him drizzling blood. When she got to a vital room, he pronounced that he was sorry.

Gargiulo was charged on dual cases of carnage and one box of attempted murder. He has pled not guilty. If convicted, he could face a genocide penalty.

Written by Barbara Sobel

Sources:

Daily Beast: Michael Gargiulo, an air-conditioner repairman, Gargiulo is confronting a genocide chastisement for allegedly targeting his young, womanlike neighbors with a knife—including Ashton Kutcher’s ex.
Los Angeles Times: Survivor testifies opposite indicted ‘boy subsequent doorway killer’ Michael Gargiulo
KTLA: Gargiulo Survivor Testifies as 1st Prosecution Witness Against Accused L.A. Killer Michael Gargiulo

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