Ashley Ellerin: Ashton Kutcher’s Ex, DNA Linked To Murderer

August 30, 2008

Ashley Ellerin, Ashton Kutcher’s ex, was murdered in 2001 in her Hollywood Hills home and up until now, the case had remained unsolved.

DNA evidence, however, has now linked Michael Thomas Gargiulo, an air-conditioning repairman, to the brutal stabbing deaths of three women including Ellerin.

When DNA was collected from a crime scene last spring, it helped link Gargiulo to three separate murders: the death of a high school student in a Chicago suburb where Garguilo lived at the time, Ellerin’s 2001 murder and a 2005 fatal stabbing of a women in Monterey Park.

Garguilo is being held on $1.1 million bail on attempted murder and burglary charges from the April 28 attack in Santa Monica and Garguilo’s lawyer claims his client was not involved in any of the attacks and “thinks the police are out to get him.”

Anthony Salerno, Garguilo’s attorney, went on to say, “If there is any DNA evidence, that would be a surprise to me.”

Looks like a top-notch lawyer there Garguilo.

Ashton Kutcher was dating Ellerin, 22, in 2001 and went to pick her up to go to a party but she didn’t answer and he saw what he thought were red wine stains on the floor when he looked through a back window. Her body was discovered the next day by a friend.

Kutcher was never a suspect in the case and has no comment.