This podcast explores themes of violence against women, rape and murder. It includes explicit dialogue.

Listener discretion is advised. Please note, some of the voices you hear in this series have been performed by actors.

Under the shimmering lights of Hollywood in the 2000s, a killer lies in weight.

He's someone people think they can trust, a neighbor.

But he's biding his time, stalking the streets, hunting for his next victim.

From ID and Arrow Media, I'm criminal psychologist Dr. Michelle Ward, and this is Mind of a Monster, the Hollywood Ripper.

Chapter 1, Michael Garjulo.

Michael Garjulo was watching. Always watching.

She was stabbed, and I mean butchered, almost 50 50 times and her throat was cut.

I touched her and she was like, you know, ice cold.

That's when the shock set in.

A media frenzy erupts when this modern day serial killer is convicted of

attempting to murder one woman and succeeding in murdering two other women.

All neighbors he ambushed in their own homes.

News at 10, actor Ashton Coucher appears in the Hollywood River trial.

For the first time in my work on the Mind of a Monster series,

I'm investigating a case that as of today isn't over.

This killer awaits trial in another murder case in Illinois.

Trisha parked her car and walked up to the side of the house, key in hand, but she never made it inside.

Throughout this season, I'll be delving into the disturbed mind of Michael Garjulo. He's one of the most contemporary, and as a woman living in L.A. at the time, troubling serial killers I've investigated.

The rage of the killing of Ashley was so extreme. The attack on Maria Bruno was so vicious,

so callous,

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