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this special two-part edition of 48 Hours [Music] continues he's accused of attacking at
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least four women he's been called a Serial sexual thrill killer this is not a typical murder case
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this is a systematic slaughtering of beautiful women by a serial killer four young women only one
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Survivor the Hollywood Ripper is one of the most horrible cases I've ever seen this is a man who spied on them who
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stalked them and then brutally stabbed them to death and that's defendant Michael
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kulo Ashley ellerin 2001 Ashley alen was supposed to go on a date with Ashton kchen and he rang the doorbell and
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nobody answered he saw what he thought was spilled wine all over the place unfortunately we later learned that that
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was her blood Maria Bruno 2005 mother of four was brutally murdered inside her El Monte
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apartment she was stabbed to death you think she was asleep when she was attacked I do Michelle Murphy 2008
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this attack was would change [Music] everything how did Michelle Murphy somehow get away from this guy she
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fought we have some blood on the steps okay and then Blood on the concrete steps here leading out down this walkway
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and into the alley so how significant did you think that blood was going to be huge we actually have a hit a DNA hit
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and who does it match Michael vulo I'm Morin Maher since the fall of 2008 I've been covering a man known as the
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Hollywood Ripper it's a story that 48 Hours helped to break wide open Trisha Picacho
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1993 one question has haunted this quiet Glen View Community who killed Trisha picachio and why
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who would do this why would anybody do this what was your reaction when you got a phone call that a witness had come
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forward to 48 hours I was shocked I would you have imagined that a television show would be able to help
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you solve a crime no but it's never happened to me targeted young women in Illinois and the LA area frankly it's
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almost a miracle that these cases were linked together you say to yourself who could do this butchering his attemped
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murder of a you think oh my God it's a monster vicious murders of young women Mur and attemped murder
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[Music] [Music] in a town known for keeping secrets the murder trial of Michael garulu nicknamed The Hollywood
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Ripper could reveal a hidden life Trisha picachio Ashley ellerin Michelle Murphy
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and Maria Bruno were all young attractive and outgoing on May 2nd 2019 the case against Michael gulo begins prosecutors
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say he murdered three women and attempted to murder a fourth he stake them out Mary F Jan a former Federal prosecutor
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and 48 Hours consultant he stalked them and then he stabbed them brutally prosecutor Dan Aman says
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Michael gulo is a serial killer attacking Four Women just for the thrill of it from 1993 through his arrest in
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2008 what you will hear is that Michael gulo for almost 15 years was watching always watching watching and his hobby
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was plotting the perfect opportunity to attack women with a knife in and around their
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homes during those years garula played High School Football was a wannabe actor and a
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repair man it has taken gulo longer to go to trial than any other inmate in the history of the LA County
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Jail nearly 11 years this is how he looks now there have been nearly 100 hearings
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he's fired attorneys and even tried to represent himself Mr Reuben and myself have the opportunity to ask questions
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and cross-examine but now with the new high-powered courta appointed legal team the wait is over the prosecution starts
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with its strongest case and most powerful Witness Michelle Murphy in 2008 was stabbed in
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her bed in her Santa Monica apartment right across the alley from gul's apartment after showing photos from her
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brutal attack Michelle Murphy the only woman who survived this alleged serial killer is called to the
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stand there were no cameras allowed in court during Michelle's testimony but we wanted to share with you some of what
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she said her exact chilling words I grabbed at the knife I wrapped my hands around the blade and at some point 5'1
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Michelle Murphy gets her legs up against her chest and shoves the attacker off of
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the bed she describes how he runs out of the room down the hallway she goes after
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him and Michelle says the attacker told her I am sorry this is Miss Murphy in the hospital Michelle never saw his face
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but noticed he was left-handed in the struggle the attacker was also cut leaving his blood his DNA all over her
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bedroom gara's blood and DNA were found on Michelle's bedspread and sheet and In
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The Blood Trail across the alley after Michelle Murphy testified the prosecution turned to the other victims
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to prove gul's pattern of stalking and stabbing 3 years before Michelle's attack Maria Bruno a mother of four
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young children was St stabbed 17 times Maria Bruno was stabbed to death in her El mon
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residence BL Maria Bruno's body was discovered by her estranged husband Irving who called
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911 I'm looking at her right now she's dead he just me moved here about less than less than a week
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ago garula lived right across the way gar entered Maria's apartment through a window put on Blue surgical
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booties and mutilated Maria with a knife as she slept the prosecution argues that the
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pattern and direction of the blood drops show that the killer was left-handed just like Michelle's attacker and just
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like Michael gulo and this time the killer left something behind behind a blue booty
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with critical evidence detectives located a blue surgical booty right outside of Maria's Front Door forensic
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analysis showed that there were drops of Maria's Blood on the booty and gul's DNA
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was around the elastic band 4 years before Maria there was Ashley ellerin a 22-year-old fashion
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student in Hollywood G julo who lived within a short distance from Ashley's house and frequented the dog park across
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from her house injected himself into Ashley's life on February 21st 2001 within weeks
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of garula fixating on Ashley surveilling her home at odd hours Ashley ellerin was
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found stabbed to death in the hallway just outside her bathroom and Ashley had been stabbed over 47
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times as the state lays out its explanation of how Ashley was murdered an important witness is about to have
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Hollywood's eyes upon him this is Mr Kutcher he's Ashley's friend Ashton Kutcher is used to being a
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star but not a star witness Mr Kutcher is part of the chronology of this case that is offered to show you that there
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was a very narrow window of opportunity for somebody to get into the house and murder Ashley why is Kutcher called as a
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witness he's incredibly important to the timeline here and when the murder possibly occurred and he may have been
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the last person to actually speak to her before she was killed at trial only still cameras were allowed for his
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testimony Kutcher is asked about his planned date with Ashley on February 21st 2001 the evening she was murdered
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at 8:24 p.m. Ashley talked to Mr Kutcher on the phone and they confirmed a plan to go out that night Ashton Kutcher was
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running late so we called Ashley again at 10:15 to let her know he was on the way but Ashley didn't pick up he then
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drove to her home knocked on the door but still got no answer people testify that at 10:45 p.m.
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he arrived at the residence and saw what he thought was spilled wine on the floor
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We Believe now the evidence will show that was actually blood and Ashley had already been
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murdered a diagram of Ashley's home is shown that's her bathroom where we believe she had just exited the shower
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and was getting ready to go out with Mr Kutcher when she was attacked from behind and then there was a struggle in
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the area right outside the bathroom where she was stabbed 47 times Kutcher testified that after learning about
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Ashley's murder he quote went to the police I was like my fingerprints are on this door like I was freaking out
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although never a suspect Kutcher was concerned about what he left behind that's unlike Michael gulo who
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was always careful to cover his tracks [Music] [Music] the methodical and systematic Slaughter
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of women that's what this case is about the prosecution painted a portrait of Michael gulo throughout his life he was
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violent towards women Ed in serial killer Ted Bundy and studied forensic science Mike was a strange guy this is
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Miro Hoffman a man who now describes himself as gul's former best friend told merco he could get away with committing
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crimes because he studied forensics he would go online whatever he could find about forensics and he would learn from
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people's mistakes other criminals mistakes you know how to get away with a crime and he told me if he ever got
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caught committing any crime he would just lie lie until he dies lie lie until you die Michael garula felt
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confident arrogant dare I say invulnerable prosecutors said gulo also studied a book that taught you how to
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kill with a knife the Anarchist Cookbook talks about knives the perfect guide to
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committing some of these crimes detailing how you go for the throat we believe the evidence will show as this
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is what Mr gulo is doing as for gul's motive prosecutors described a serial killer with a sexual bent this was
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somebody who was going to take pleasure and plunging a knife into their victim over and over and over
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again to better understand that we asked Chris Mandi to explain he's a forensic psychologist and expert on serial
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killers he is also a consultant to 48 Hours most serial killers are motivated by power that's at the core of
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everything the prosecution points out that gulo never raped his victims but he controlled them and say for Michael gulo
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that control itself is a sexual thrill it's control over life and death so violence has become sexualized according
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to prosecutors garula went after women he found attractive Michael garulu noticed Michelle Murphy Michael garulu
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noticed Ashley ellerin Michael garula noticed Maria Bruno and he stalked them he watched and waited and collected
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realtime Intelligence on the victims prosecutors say the spying was all part of his power game and his
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pattern and you've got all this stalking this watching surveilling and fantasizing going on and the person is
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doing this repeatedly to try to satisfy their urges at some point for some of these individual uals it's not enough to
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just think about it anymore and they have to move to the next step they have to actually kill in order to get the
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same degree of [Music] stimulation to really make their points prosecutors took the jury out of court
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to see where everything happened jurors saw that Michael garula lived close to all of his victims close
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enough to watch them to start with Gula lived right down the alley from Michelle
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Murphy a few years earlier he lived within a few hundred feet of Ashley Allin and when he lived in El Monte his
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apartment was just across the courtyard from Maria [Music] Bruno to strengthen their argument and
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really show how gulo had a clear pattern they also told jurors about a murder over 1,800 mil away you will hear that
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gara's Killing Spree started in Chicago in the summer of 1993 almost 26 years ago when Garo killed his first
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victim his neighbor then 18-year-old trishia picachio while gulo is not being tried for Trisha's murder here in La
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prosecutors thought it was essential to tell the jury what happened all those years ago outside Chicago well it's
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introduced here for a very limited purpose and to show that the facts and the pattern in the picachio case in
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Illinois are similar to the California cases it was 1993 Trisha Pono was just 18 years old
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coming home late one night in the Chicago suburbs gulo who was athletic and had trained in martial arts and
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boxing grab Trisha who was very petite snapped her arm and stabbed her repeatedly in the left breast arm and
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chest left her bleeding to death on the doorstep of the family home and fled I was the one who found
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her Trisha's father Rick I woke up I had a cup of coffee and I was going out to my
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van and I just happened to see two little tennis shoes sticking up by the side door and when I saw it was
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her I dropped a coffee [Music] cup I died breaked in and there at the Time Michael Gula was a
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17-year-old kid living around the corner one of Trisha's brother's closest friends when the murder happened gulo
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wasn't even a suspect and the case went cold for years by 2003 there was new DNA
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technology eventually gul's DNA was found on Trisha's fingernails back then prosecutors in Chicago did not think
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that DNA alone was enough to charge him and the case stayed dormant in 2011 48 Hours reported on the case and a witness
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came forward to me I watch the show teer ly and Anthony D Lorenzo had once worked
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with Michael gulo as bouncers in the late 90s at a Hollywood nightclub they say Michael gulo confessed to them one
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day when they were driving telling them that he had killed a girl in Illinois at
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the time it seemed too crazy to be true gulo had told them a lot of stories we're cruising down
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Sunset when he asked us but he's like you guys ever kill anybody and we're like he's like I have and we're we're
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like shut the you know shut up here we go again he said he buried this he was he was I buried a [ __ ] he goes I left
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the [ __ ] on the steps for dead we put them in touch with Chicago authorities and shortly after garula was charged
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with the murder of of Trisha Picacho 18 years after her death now they are key Witnesses at garula Los Angeles trial in
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1997 garula told his friend teer ly quote I stabbed up the girl end quote also in 1997 Mr gulo told his friend
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Anthony D Lorenzo I actually left the [ __ ] on the step for dead end quote they asked you to identify garula and
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the room did you make eye contact with mik I did absolutely he did not want to look at me he knew every word that came
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out of my mouth was true and there's just no doubt about it each of the picachio family members
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were called to testify retelling the awful details of finding Trisha on the doorstep of their home they also
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described their relationship with her alleged killer what was it like for you to be in the room with
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him uh it's it's and the room it's very very hard Trisha's brother Tommy it's difficult I mean it never something like
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that never goes away the picachos can only hope that this trial will bring Justice for Ashley
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Maria and Michelle but the defense has another take they point the finger in a different direction and away from
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Michael gulo [Music] they just have to poke holes they've got to raise any doubt they're going to
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throw everything at it the kitchen sink and they're going to hope that some of that will resonate and it'll raise just
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a a seed a colel of doubt in one of those jurors and that's all they need something accused serial killer Michael
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gulo knows my truth is being 100% innocent being wrongfully charged in recorded jail conversations with 48
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hours between 2009 and 2011 gulo maintained his innocence and a desire to fight the charges it's a
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matter of waiting to KN that there will be Victory because I know I'm innocent and uh it's just now putting it down
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putting it down in the courtroom and just being patient in the courtroom his defense
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attorney Daniel doni has a plan argue someone else besides his client could have killed these women he starts with
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the Ashley ellerin case there's not one single witness called by the prosecution that saw Michael gulo go
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into the house in the ering case despite all the efforts they put into to scouring that
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that crime scene they came up with zero zero DNA zero physical evidence linking him zero trace evidence no eyewitnesses
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no fingerprints really they had nothing nardoni focuses on the prosecution's celebrity witness Ashton
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Kutcher to everyone's surprise he says Kutcher is really the defense team's star witness because Kutcher's account
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of that evening points to a very specific suspect and it's not Michael garula instead it's the manager of
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Ashley's rented house this man aspiring actor Mark Durban I think there's suspicion that Mr Durban did this murder
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Mark Durban testified he was actually having an affair with Ashley and admits they were intimate that very evening
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just hours before Ashton arrived the defense argues that at the time of her murder Durban was was at Ashley's house
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their proof Ashton Kutcher's cell phone records Ashton Kutcher calls her at 8:24
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p.m. we know there's a phone record he calls her at 8:24 p.m. Miss Elin stay I just got out of
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the shower Mark Durban testifies that he was there when she was taking a shower and
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while he was there he says Ashley got a phone call then he left nardoni insists it must have been Kutcher's call at
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8:24 and that is critical because the neighbor testifies that around 8:25 or 8:30 he heard
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something he's horrible screaming coming from Ashley's home he hears two screams from a woman
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that puts Mark deran possibly right in the thick of it at the time of the murder Mark dervin was the only person
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known to have been with Ashley ellerin last person while she was still alive but Los angelist detectives clear Durban
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he was cooperative and they didn't believe he had a motive still nardoni may have succeeded in raising some doubt
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with the jury the defense makes a very big deal about Mark turban they did a pretty good job I thought and with that
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the defense was on to the other case where they saw an opportunity the killing of Maria Bruno same argument
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thin evidence not one single person saw Mr gulo leaving the house but there was that blue booty with a drop of Maria's
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blood on it and gul's DNA on the elastic band nardoni reminds the jury gulo who lived across the courtyard was a repair
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man we all know that Michael used booties all the time he says the booty probably dropped out of gul's pocket as
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he was returning from work and picked up a drop of Maria's blood that was already
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on the sidewalk Maria's body had been mutilated and again nardoni offered up an alternate suspect he pointed the finger
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at Maria's estranged husband Irving the person that did this what to tell you I hate you I hate you I hate you whoever
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did this made it personal nardoni paints a picture of a fractured marriage and details a
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previous fight between the two Irving Bruno grabbed his wife out of the car threw her to the
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ground and with a clo fist punched her in the face he's got a terrible history of physically abusing her that came out
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she said she was scared of him in fact Maria Bruno had recently left him but Irving told the police that on the night
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she was killed he and Maria had rekindled their relationship Irving Bruno was the last
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person with Maria brono while she was still alive that night he told police they went out to a restaurant together
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returned to her place were intimate and then he left a neighbor says she heard crying at around 1:30 in the morning and
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who's down there at 1:30 in the morning you know who Irving Bruno and police did
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find drops of Maria's blood in Irving's car they found it on Irving Bruno's baseball cap a droplet they found it on
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the passenger seat and they found it on the uh Central console but a restaurant manager
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testified he had seen Maria cut her finger earlier that night police cleared Irving Bruno but the defense still tried
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to persuade the jury the defense though is still going to try to raise doubt just because they were clear didn't mean
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they didn't possibly do it the defense also drills down on the Trisha picachio case the 1993 murder
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outside Chicago everyone agrees it was gul's DNA on Trisha's fingernails but how did it get there nardoni says it
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could have come from casual contact gulo had been friends with Trisha's mother and Trisha had been in gul's Van the day
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before she was killed I have a theory and that is this the Trisha seats sits in the back seat of the family van you
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know she touches it her cloth pick it up uh potentially Mr gul's DNA to find out
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how likely that is we asked Nathan lent a forensic expert at johnj College of Criminal Justice so what we're talking
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about now is a secondary train transfer a day later I've never seen a secondary transfer that would last that long
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there's just not enough cells that would survive and especially on your arm which
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is touching other things you're putting on and off your clothes uh that rubs off
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the cells pretty quickly and he says casual contact is even more unlikely because at trial the scientist who
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matched gul's DNA to Trisha's fingernails said it was actually a 5050 mixture of Trisha and gul's DNA
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and that is significant casual contact will leave a few cells here and there a 50/50 mixture means in almost all cases
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that there was a lot of DNA a lot of cells from both parties that would require contact that would require
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extensive contact it looks to me that the defendant was scratched by those fingernails that's what it looks like to
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me well there may have been some doubt about the power of that DNA evidence no one disagrees that the DNA in the case
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of the woman who survived Michelle Murphy belongs to Michael gulo DNA is all over the place so they've got to
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somehow figure out okay what am I going to do now to defend this particular charge the defense's argument surprises
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everyone Michelle Murphy because of her strength and courage allowed investigators to work
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backwards and piece this entire case together Michelle Murphy is the sole surviving victim and it is gul's DNA
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that is found all over Michelle's apartment it's a problem defense attorneys Daniel nardoni and Dale Rubin
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must address headon and we know that the evidence in this is stronger was much stronger Michelle
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testified that she never saw her attacker's face but did notice he was left-handed and there were those words
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Michelle heard her attacker utter as he ran out the door I am sorry Michelle Murphy is the only count in which the
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prosecution has shown that Mr gulo was in her apartment and attacked her in a surprising move Michael gul's attorneys
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do not deny that he attacked Michelle but insists that he wasn't in his right mind when he did it she says that she's
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fighting off Mr garula when all of a sudden he cuts himself he stands up he like comes out
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of a fog says I'm sorry I'm sorry and runs out didn't know where he was didn't know what he was doing and to prove it
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the defense calls only two witnesses at trial Mental Health Health experts both of them have diagnosed Mr gulo with a
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mental disease or disorder he can't premeditate he can't deliberate he can't have malice of
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forethought the defense says when garula attacked Michelle it was as if another personality had taken over as if he was
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possessed an experience of possession Michael gulo they claim suffers from associative identity disorder
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dissociative identity disorder used to be called multiple personality disorder there's a split whereby they may not
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have an awareness of when they're doing certain things this becomes the go-to defense because you can say I was there
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but I wasn't they're just saying that they didn't have the mental state to be able to commit horrible crimes and how
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often is that true oh it's very infrequently I mean the only times I've ever seen it actually be successful is
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when the person was truly like a schizophrenic had other voices in his head the defense can only hope that they
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have managed to convince the jury after a three-month-long trial 79 Witnesses the presentation of some 350
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exhibits and that field trip to the crime scenes closing statements begin it was four female victims all
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young attractive and outgoing prosecutor Garrett Damron again lays out the similarities among the victims and the
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attacks these attacks these murders took a great deal of strength and athleticism
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each of these attacks were all extraordinarily coldblooded torturous each of these victims were ambushed no
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evidence that there was any theft knife is the weapon of choice 20 similarities between the attacks of the four Wom
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women are described those common characteristics of these crimes point to one man one
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killer Michael garula adding to their argument you know about the DNA is the forensic evidence
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with gul's DNA found all over Michelle Murphy's apartment on Trisha Pico's fingernails and that slight amount on
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that booty near Maria Bruno's home the prosecution is trying to lump these all together why because they want to show
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that it was one attacker that the pattern the practice the you know everything that was done was similar you
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have to judge each case separately on the other hand the defense is trying to do just the opposite they want to
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separate these out they want to show that no no no one's in Illinois yes you may have some in California but they're
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separated by years in time they're not just one attacker you can find them not guilty in all these crimes or you can
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find him uh guilty of some crimes and not guilty of other crimes the defenses needs to plant a seed of doubt in one of
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those [Music] jurors the 3-month trial of Michael gulo has captured the Public's attention
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alleged killer D the Hollywood Ripper claims he's innocent he's accused of attacking at least four
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women for the families of the victims the wait for justice has seemed endless finally the Finish seems to be in sight
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as the jury begins its deliberations on August 12th 2019 this was probably one of the worst cases and I've worked in
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this area for a long time as a prosecutor and defense attorney and I've never seen anything this horrific so for
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this jury to have to see all this evidence and day in and day out for 3 months think about this case and what
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happened to these victims is really challenging but in what might seem like a short time given such a long trial
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after three and a half days of deliberations the verdicts are in we the jury and the above entitled action find
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the defendant Michael garulu guilty of the crime of attempted murder guilty of attacking Michelle
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Murphy guilty of the crime of first-degree murder guilty of murdering Maria Bruno guilty of the crime of first
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decree murder and guilty of murdering Ashley ellerin Michael gulo sat without emotion as he heard the
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verdicts outside the courtroom I immediately called the picachos with the news it's all done it's all done here
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and now it's your turn she's sobbing sobbing sobbing that she's so grateful that they all got their Justice and that
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now it's Trish's turn remember Trisha's case was included in California only as supporting
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evidence of Michael gul's criminal pattern it is up to Illinois officials in Cook County to try the case there we
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have to make sure that Cook County now does a the job that they need to continue to do because they need to
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prosecute him for what he did to my daughter are you confident that he will be brought back to Chicago and he will
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stand trial talking with the California attorneys and our attorneys in Co County
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I feel confident the picachos are cautiously optimistic as they say they have been
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let down by the Cook County State's Attorney's office before the family has criticized that office for being slow to
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charge gulo when there was that DNA match in 2003 when we spoke with Jack Blakey from
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the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in 2011 he told us that DNA match alone wasn't enough to charge gulo if
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there was a DNA match to Gar julo why hasn't he been arrested the DNA match is consistent
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with casual contact we still cannot establish based on the DNA alone that he was present at the time of The Killing
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as opposed to a different time but it came out at the Los Angeles trial that an Illinois forensic
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scientist submitted her findings to Cook County Prosecutors in 2003 that it was a
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5050 mixture of Trisha and gul's DNA on Trisha's fingernails remember the expert
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from John J College of Criminal Justice told us that usually signifies extensive
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contact a 50/50 mixture means in almost all cases that there was a lot of DNA a lot of cells from both parties that
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would require extensive contact in almost all cases extensive contact so why not bring charges a lot of
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prosecutors are hesitant to bring a case when there's not at least one other piece of evidence that helps complete
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the picture of how the DNA got there does it bother you that the charges weren't filed oh absolutely he had him
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in 2003 you had them it didn't work out for Lou solo the lead detective on the Picacho case the focus now is seeking
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closure to the case that has haunted him through the latter part of his career and into retirement now that La is done
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they fully intend to exite him back here and I I think it has to be done for the
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picachio family their verage is still coming but the trial in La did give the picachos a chance to meet the men who
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changed the course of Trisha's case keer and Anthony who came forward with gulo statements evidence that pushed
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authorities to finally charge garula with Trisha's murder so you have both met the picachos
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now yes yeah what was that like I it was hard and I see all the corner of my eye
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I see them and I spun around and I was like Rick and he instantly knew who I was he hopped up and gave me hug I feel
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for them so much yeah that you know they were just sent through the ringer the whole
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[Music] time it's always painful yeah it will always be I just tell people it's something that I have to live with now
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and deal with now and try to cope with for the rest of my life Trisha's remembrance book from her funeral
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provides Bittersweet Memories and so there's family in here obviously and lots of friends I mean hundreds of
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people it's filled with kind comments about their beloved daughter but also this back here what was that
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name that that's a Michael gulo signed that it has been a 26 year long journey from when that book was signed by the
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man the picachos now believe killed their daughter garula is now a con icted murderer of two other women women the
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picachos through Trisha helped to find Justice she helped these other girls she was a very always like to help people
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and I just want Justice to get done because that's what my daughter deserves [Music]
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