‘Boy Next Door Killer’ who murdered Ashton Kutcher’s date given death sentence

Serial killer Michael Thomas Gargiulo listens to Michael Ellerin, the father of victim Ashley Ellerin, a 22-year-old fashion design student, during a victim’s statement at Gargiulo’s sentencing hearing at Los Angeles Superior Court, Friday, July 16, 2021. For crimes he called “vicious and frightening,” a judge on Friday gave a death sentence to Gargiulo, a man prosecutors called “The Boy Next Door Killer” for the home-invasion murders of two women and the attempted murder of a third. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

A judge has handed a death sentence to a man prosecutors called “The Boy Next Door Killer” for the “vicious and frightening” murders of two women and the attempted murder of a third.

Victims’ family members wept as Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry P Fidler handed down the sentence to 45-year-old Michael Thomas Gargiulo.