Once Upon a Crime in Hollywood

Jan 06 2025 17 ep. 41 mins 7
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Once Upon A Crime In Hollywood is a true crime podcast hosted by Kelly Hyman. The series focuses on some of Hollywood's most compelling cases with key experts and investigators involved in them. Season 3 focuses on the tragic deaths of Christy Giles and Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, who were both dropped off and left for dead after a night out in Los Angeles. Kelly retraces the steps of the women that night, looks into the past of David Pearce - the man accused of murdering them - and uncovers new evidence about the case ahead of the criminal trial.

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S3: Girls Night Out EP 01 Christy and Hilda

Jan 06 2025 49 mins  

S3: Girls Night Out EP 02 8641 West Olympic Boulevard

Jan 06 2025 54 mins  

S3: Girls Night Out EP 03 Dead Girls Can’t Talk

Jan 06 2025 58 mins  

S3: Girls Night Out EP 04 Murder Trial

Jan 06 2025 52 mins  

S2: The Hollywood Ripper EP 07 The Trial Pt. 2

Mar 15 2024 50 mins  
The Hollywood Ripper trial shifts its focus to the two California murders - Ashley Ellerin and Maria Bruno. Ashton Kutcher, the most famous witness in the trial, takes the stand to detail the night he went to pick up Ellerin before she was found dead. Michael Gargiulo's defense team hammers Ellerin's former apartment manager about his version of events the night of her murder, and

S2: The Hollywood Ripper EP 06 The Trial Pt. 1

Mar 15 2024 47 mins  
The Hollywood Ripper trial begins nearly 28 years after the murder of Tricia Pacaccio. Michael Gargiulo is on trial for the murders of Ashley Ellerin and Maria Bruno, as well as the attempted murder of Michelle Murphy. Due to California law allowing "prior bad acts" evidence to be introduced, prosecutors also detail the murder of Tricia Pacaccio to show a pattern of behavior and th

S2: The Hollywood Ripper EP 05 Survivor

Mar 15 2024 48 mins  
With no suspects in Maria Bruno's murder, L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy Detective Mark Lillienfeld continues the search. Michael Gargiulo marries, then moves to Santa Monica, California, with his wife. Across the alleyway, 26-year-old Michelle Murphy lived in an apartment nearby. One night, Murphy woke up with a man on top of her, stabbing her repeatedly with a knife. She manages to

S2: The Hollywood Ripper EP 04 The Blue Bootie

Mar 15 2024 43 mins  
After Cook County's State's Attorney chose not to prosecute, Michael Gargiulo is once again a free man. He moves into an apartment in El Monte, California with his girlfriend, where a 32-year-old woman named Maria Bruno moves in across the complex. Less than two weeks after she moves in, Maria Bruno is killed. Her estranged husband, Irving, finds her stabbed, mutilated, and left fo

S2: The Hollywood Ripper EP 03 Casual Contact

Mar 01 2024 44 mins  
Cook County detectives are looking for Michael Gargiulo in California, and connect with L.A.P.D. homicide detective Tom Small to help locate him. Armed with a search warrant, detectives track him to an apartment listed under his girlfriend's name, and arrest him. They submit his DNA for testing and get a match with the DNA collected from Tricia Pacaccio's fingernail clippings. When

S2: The Hollywood Ripper EP 02 The Furnace Guy

Mar 01 2024 38 mins  
Seven years after Tricia Pacaccio's murder, Cook County's Sheriff's Office were now treating it as a cold case. A new investigative team submitted Tricia's fingernail clippings taken from the crime scene as DNA evidence, hoping to get a match. Meanwhile, Michael Gargiulo had moved to Hollywood, where he met 22-year-old Ashley Ellerin, who lived a few blocks from his house. After in