‘Boy Next Door Killer’ Gets Death Sentence for Murders of 2 Women

‘Boy Next Door Killer’ Gets Death Sentence for Murders of 2 Women
Michael Thomas Gargiulo listens to his defense attorney Daniel Nardoni, as he pleads for his life during a sentencing hearing at Los Angeles Superior Court, on July 16, 2021. Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo
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LOS ANGELES—For crimes he called “vicious and frightening,” a judge on Friday gave a death sentence to a man prosecutors called “The Boy Next Door Killer” for the home-invasion murders of two women and the attempted murder of a third.

Victims’ family members wept as Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry P. Fidler handed down the sentence to 45-year-old Michael Thomas Gargiulo.