Legal experts believe that Ashton may play a key role if he does take to the witness stand and may even have subpoenaed him to appear. Michael told In Touch magazine: 'It would have been nice if he had contacted us or sent flowers. He said he did not arrive at her house until about 10:45 p. Gargiulo has pleaded not guilty to two charges of murder and one of attempted murder in attacks between 2001 and 2008. He called her in the interim four times and could not reach her but assumed it was bad phone service. The police, however, assured him that he was not a suspect. She was stabbed 47 times, nearly decapitated.
The court case will undoubtedly bring back memories for Kutcher, who went on to marry actress Demi Moore in 2005. The family also revealed back then that the Hollywood hunk had never got in touch with them following Ashley's death. Prosecutors are asking for him to be sentenced to death if found guilty. In 2008, Gargiulo moved to Santa Monica where prosecutors say he tried to stab another woman to death. Gargiulo is also facing a first-degree murder charge in Illinois over the murder of his 18-year-old neighbor Tricia Pacaccio in August 1993.
Legal experts believe he might be able to help the prosecution to establish the timeline of Ashley's murder, but also sway the jury with his star power. He is being charged with the 2001 stabbing death of Ellerin as well as the 2005 stabbing death of Maria Bruno, 32. He is charged separately with killing an 18-year-old Glenview, Illinois, woman, and is awaiting trial there. Ashley was originally from Los Altos, California and later moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in fashion. The woman was a neighbor of Gargiulo and was able to escape and survive.
Ashton Kutcher testifies during the trial of alleged serial killer Michael Gargiulo, known as the Hollywood Ripper. Called as a witness by prosecutors, Kutcher said he had recently reviewed the police report he had given the day after the killing, to refresh his memory. He told police at the time that he looked through the French windows and spotted a red stain on the floor but assumed that a pool of Ashley's blood was spilled wine and left. Looking nothing like the shaggy, casual characters he has often played, Kutcher wore a blue linen suit with his hair short and a trimmed mustache as he gave 40 minutes of somber testimony in the courtroom of Judge Larry P. Ashley Ellerin takes time out from her hectic schedule to talk with a friend during brunch.
And Ashley was laying across the two stairs - absolutely blue and covered in blood. Ellerin has been described as Kutcher's girlfriend, but he said Wednesday that she had been a casual acquaintance whom he had met a few months before at a party, and was going to take her out now that both were single. Difficult time: Ashton Kutcher and his wife Demi Moore look stressed as they leave Cube Restaurant in Los Angeles He thought she was angry at him for not making the earlier date and left. The red wine he had seen pooled on the floor was her blood. In their only interview - back in 2004, long before Gargiulo was arrested - it was claimed the Ellerins wished Ashton had tried harder to check if she was at home to give police a better chance of catching her killer.
He called her again at 7. Especially because it has taken so long. It took over seven years for air conditioner repairman Michael Gargiulo, now 43, to be identified as a suspect in Ashley's killing. In the case of Ellerin, an aspiring actress and fashion student who moonlighted as an exotic dancer, Gargiulo allegedly gained her trust by. There's an issue with some of the details. The last time they spoke was at 8:24 p.
. Police say the evidence also links Gargiulo to the fatal stabbing of a Monterey Park woman in 2005 and the 1993 killing of high school classmate Tricia Pacaccio in the Chicago suburb of Glenview, where Gargiulo lived at the time. The Ellerins will likely be anxious to hear what Ashton has to say about his role on the night that Ashley was killed. Gargiulo has pled both not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity to the charges against him. She was dating Ashton Kutcher at the time Years before Ashton Kutcher's former girlfriend was stabbed to death, Ashley Ellerin had an idyllic upbringing in the Silicon Valley town of Los Altos. Ashley was neighbors with and the two were friends.
Gargiulo, now 34, is facing trial for the murder of Ellerin and two other women - and the attempted murder of a fourth. After knocking on the door and calling out to her with no answer, Kutcher said he looked through a window into the apartment and saw what he thought was red wine pooled on the floor. And it has taken over 10 more years since then for alleged serial killer Gargiulo — dubbed the Hollywood Ripper — to finally go on trial Thursday charged with two murders and one attempted murder after years of legal wrangling. While Gargiulo has represented himself in the past, he has two lawyers defending him now. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Gargiulo, who has pled not guilty. According to police interviews, before he left, Kutcher looked in the windows and saw what he thought was spilled wine on the floor.