Michelle Murphy was the first witness prosecutors called in the capital murder trial of alleged serial killer Michael Gargiulo, who has pleaded not guilty to four brutal knife attacks.
In a struggle to save herself, Murphy said she wrapped her hands around the knife’s blade and kicked the man off the bed. As he ran out the door, Murphy recalled, he spoke for the first time.Murphy testified that she locked the door, closed the living room window the man had climbed through to get in and made two phone calls. She first called the man she’d been dating for two months, who is now her husband, and then the police.
As the prosecutor spoke, Gargiulo, dressed in a purple shirt and tie, frequently leaned over and whispered to his attorney. As Akemon displayed grisly photographs for jurors, Gargiulo leaned forward and watched the screen attentively, often with his eyebrows raised. Sometimes, he took notes on yellow legal pad paper.
Akemon told jurors that Gargiulo grew up in a suburb near Chicago, where he played on his high school football team. He went on to become a husband and a father, working as an air conditioner repairman and a plumber.“What no one knew for many years is that Michael Gargiulo was leading a double life,” Akemon said, calling Gargiulo the “boy next door killer” because he targeted women who lived nearby.
After learning the routines and habits of his victims, Akemon said, Gargiulo would “watch, shadow, stalk and hunt down” the women relentlessly as part of his plan to kill.
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