A jury Friday recommended the death penalty for Michael Gargiulo, the serial killer convicted of murdering two women and nearly killing a third who were his neighbors in the Los Angeles area.
But his attorneys argued that Gargiulo was a battered, neglected child who grew into an antisocial man beset with severe mental illness. Gargiulo met Ellerin, 22, after helping her change a flat tire. An air-conditioner repairman, Gargiulo offered to fix Ellerin’s heater and began showing up uninvited at her home.
Her estranged husband, Irving Bruno, told the jury last week he didn’t immediately tell his four children — ages 2 through 5 at the time — that their mother was dead. Nardoni, Gargiulo’s attorney, outright begged the jury not to condemn to death a man he described as the mentally ill product of a family that showed him nothing but abuse, cruelty and, finally, abandonment.Last week, a psychologist who interviewed Gargiulo’s father and most of his six siblings described a train of abuse that began with 2-year-old Michael Gargiulo being hogtied with his father’s neckties and left in a closet for days.
Castellano, who interviewed Gargiulo for 300 hours, said he has no memory of the abuse or of his childhood at all. His memory begins when he left home at 18, she testified.Prosecutors assailed Castellano’s credibility, pointing out her handwritten notes from interviews with Gargiulo’s relatives contain virtually no mention of the abuse she said he suffered.
To bad our pathetic governor GavinNewsom won’t allow it to go through even though the people of California voted to expedite inmates killings that are on death row.
One of Michael Gargiulo's victims was 22-year-old Ashley Ellerin who was killed the day she was supposed to attend an event with Ashton Kutcher. The actor testified in the trial earlier this year:
By death you mean endless appeals
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