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		</div><h6><span style="color: #362d2d;">LA resident, Michael Gargiulo, 43, was found guilty in August of two first-degree murders and one attempted murder </span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #362d2d;">On Friday the jury recommended the death penalty for &#8216;The Boy Next Door Killer&#8217; in the deaths of the two women</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #362d2d;">Ashley Ellerin, 22, was found dead in her home in Hollywood hours before she had a date planned with actor Ashton Kutcher</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #362d2d;">Maria Bruno, 32, a mother of three, was found dead in her apartment complex in El Monte in 2005</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #362d2d;">Gargiulo is also convicted for the attempted murder of Michelle Murphy, then 26, at her Santa Monica home in 2008 </span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #362d2d;">Murphy was a fitness buff and fought off her attacker, which caused him to cut himself and leave a trail of blood</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #362d2d;">The wealth of DNA evidence left behind at the gruesome attack scene set off the chain of events that led to the arrest and charges against Gargiulo</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #362d2d;">He is currently awaiting trial in Illinois for the 1993 killing of Tricia Pacaccio, who was the sister of his friend </span></h6>
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<div><span style="color: var(--color-text);">A Los Angeles jury has recommended the death sentence for convicted Michael Gargiulo, a serial killer dubbed The Boy Next Door Killer, who assaulted and brutally murdered several women in two states, undetected, over a 15-year period.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">In August, Gargiulo, 43, was found guilty of murdering 22-year-old Ashley Ellerin in 2001 and 32-year-old Maria Bruno in 2005.<br />
Ellerin was actor Ashton Kutcher&#8217;s then-girlfriend, who was found dead hours before their planned date, while Bruno, a mother-of-three was found stabbed to death at her home, four years later.<br />
He was also found guilty of the 2008 attempted murder of Michelle Murphy. Prosecutors called Gargiulo &#8216;The Boy Next Door Killer&#8217; because he lived near all of the victims. <span style="color: var(--color-text);"> </span><br />
Gargiulo bespectacled and sporting a clean shaven head, remained stoic as the jury recommended the death penalty at 1.30pm on Friday after deliberating for more than a day.<br />
His sentencing is scheduled for February.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Gargiulo committed his first murder in 1993 when he killed Tricia Pacaccio, 18, outside of her home in Glenview, Illinois.<br />
Gargiulo was 17 years old at the time and was a friend of Pacaccio&#8217;s brother. In fact, he lived just around the corner from the family.<br />
After the murder, he moved to Los Angeles, where he met Ashley Ellerin.<br />
Gargiulo lived less than a block away and, on the day they met, allegedly asked if she needed help changing a flat tire.<br />
He became &#8216;obsessed&#8217; with Ellerin, showing up to her home announced and surveying her from a parked car across the street.<br />
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Ellerin was found stabbed to death in her home in February 2001, hours before she had plans to go out on a date with Ashton Kutcher.<br />
The young woman was allegedly stabbed so brutally that her head was almost completely severed from her body.<br />
At the time, Kutcher was a rising star of the Fox series That &#8217;70s Show but not yet the household name he is today.<br />
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Kutcher testified that the pair last spoke at 8.24pm when he told Ellerin he was running late and she told him she had just gotten out of the shower.<br />
When he arrived at her Hollywood home very late, he said he got no answer when he knocked on the door.<br />
Kutcher testified that he looked inside and saw what he thought were wine stains. He said he left thinking she had gone out without him in frustration.<br />
&#8216;I remember the next day, after I heard about what happened, I went to the detectives and said, &#8216;My fingerprints are on the door,&#8221; Kutcher said.<br />
&#8216;I was freaking out.&#8217;</p>
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<div><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Gargiulo moved, yet again, this time to a gated apartment complex in El Monte &#8211; 16 miles away &#8211; where he murdered his neighbor, Maria Bruno, in December 2005.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Then, in 2008, he attempted to murder Michelle Murphy, then 26, at her home in Santa Monica.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text);">In 2008, Gargiulo attempted to murder Michelle Murphy, then 26, at her home in Santa Monica. Murphy was a fitness buff and fought off her attacker, which caused him to cut himself and leave a trail of blood.<br />
The wealth of DNA evidence left behind at the gruesome attack scene set off the chain of events that led to the arrest and charges against Gargiulo. &#8211; </span>The physical evidence against him was so overwhelming that defense attorneys conceded that it was him.</p>
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<div><span style="color: var(--color-text);">They offered, as their only defense, that Gargiulo suffers from split personalities and did not know he was in Murphy&#8217;s apartment. They noted that he said &#8216;sorry&#8217; as he fled.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Prosecutors praised Murphy during their closing arguments, saying her resistance against Gargiulo led to his arrest in all of the other cases as they grew increasingly cold.<br />
&#8216;Michelle Murphy, because of her strength and courage, allowed investigators to work backwards,&#8217; the prosecutor said.<br />
&#8216;This case begins and ends with Michelle Murphy.&#8217;</p>
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<div><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Murphy testified during the trial&#8217;s penalty phase that she &#8216;lived in fear&#8217; for years after the attack. </span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The killer has since been linked to the murder of a third woman. He is currently awaiting trial in Illinois for the 1993 killing of Tricia Pacaccio. Her father found her fatally stabbed on their family&#8217;s doorstep with her house key still in hand.<br />
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Gargiulo was a close friend of Pacaccio&#8217;s brother and detectives had long suspected him in the killing.<br />
But they could never put together enough evidence to charge him with Pacaccio&#8217;s murder &#8211; until the attack on Murphy 15 years later.<br />
&#8216;It&#8217;s been 26 years,&#8217; he mother, Diane, said on the stand. &#8216;Every single day I think about her. Her room is the same. The bedspread is the same, drapes are the same. And my grandkids go in there to play, and that&#8217;s how I introduce them to Tricia.&#8217;<br />
Prosecutors were allowed to present evidence of the case in his California trial to help establish a pattern between the killings.</p>
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