Ashton Kutcher was in court this week, testifying about his last interactions with Ashley Ellerin, who authorities believe was murdered by Michael Gargiulo, a suspected serial killer and Ashley’s neighbor at the time. Gargiulo is on trial for two counts of murder. Both of his alleged victims were young women. People reports Ashton had first date plans with Ashley, 22, on Feb. 21, 2001. He told the court the two spoke that evening on the phone but when he tried to reach her again repeatedly, she did not answer. He said he finally went to her house between 10:30 and 10:45 p.m. and knocked but again, she didn’t answer. He noticed the lights were on and the door was locked, but said in his testimony he “just assumed she had gone out with her friend and bailed,” because he was late. Police believe she had been killed by the time he arrived. He learned she’d been brutally stabbed the next day and contacted the police. “My fingerprints are on this door and I was freaking out,” he said at one point, recalling how he’d tried to open the door when she didn’t answer. “I told [an officer], ‘Let me tell you what happened.'” The suspect also faces a murder charge in the stabbing deaths of a young woman in 2005 in her home and another woman in 1993, as well as the attempted murder of yet another female victim.
