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Tricia Pacaccio, dressed as a bridesmaid for an aunt’s wedding
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Michael Gargiulo, in a photo taken by California police in 2008. A neighbor of the Pacaccios, Gargiulo was a longtime suspect in Tricia’s killing.
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Rick and Diane Pacaccio, Tricia’s grieving parents, stand outside their Glenview home, the scene of the murder 18 years ago. “We just want justice for our daughter,” says Diane.
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Tricia Pacaccio, in her 1993 senior photo from Glenbrook South High School
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Ashley Ellerin, who was slain in California
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Maria Bruno, who was slain in California
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Gargiulo with an unidentified woman. Los Angeles police fear she may be another victim.
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Tricia with her brothers, Thomas (center) and Doug. A friend of Doug, Gargiulo spent time inside the Pacaccio home, though he was never at ease, instead “pacing back and forth like a caged animal,” recalls Tricia’s mother.
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A newcomer to Hollywood, Ashley Ellerin had enrolled in the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising and dated Ashton Kutcher, then a rising TV star.
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Ashley Ellerin
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Gargiulo after his arrest in June 2008 for the attempted murder of a petite 28-year-old California woman named Michelle Murphy
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Before her December 2005 murder, Maria Bruno (shown here with her children) told friends that a “weird guy” had been watching her.
Photograph: Courtesy of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau