Ricardo Caputo
Ricardo Caputo | |
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Born | 1949 Mendoza, Argentina |
Died | 1997 (aged 47–48) Attica State Prison in Attica, New York |
Other names | The Lady Killer |
Killings | |
Victims | 4 |
Span of killings
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1971–1977 |
Country | United States and Mexico |
State(s) | New York, California |
Date apprehended
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March 1994 |
Ricardo Caputo (1949–1997) was an Argentine American serial killer during the 1970s who was known as "The Lady Killer."[1] Caputo was born in 1949 in Mendoza, Argentina. In 1970, he moved to the United States and settled in New York City.[2]
At times, he was #1 on the FBI's 10 most wanted list. Though he was not definitively linked to any murders after 1977, he remained a fugitive throughout the 1980s, and finally surrendered to police in 1994.
Incarcerated at Attica State Prison in New York, Caputo suffered a fatal heart attack in 1997, at the age of 48.[3]
Victims
- Nathalie Brown, 19, Flower Hill, New York (1971)
- Judith Becker, 26, Yonkers, New York (1974)
- Barbara Ann Taylor, 28, San Francisco (1975)
- Laura Gomez, Mexico City (1977)
Suspected victims
- Devon Green, 23, Los Angeles (1981) - Caputo became a suspect in Green's death when a former coworker of hers spotted him on a crime show and identified Caputo as having worked at a Los Angeles restaurant where Green was a chef. Already imprisoned at the time this information came to light in 1994, Caputo was neither charged with nor admitted to her murder.
- Jacqueline Bernard, 64, New York City (1983) - Caputo was a suspect in this murder but was never charged. A friend of the victim's, Linda Wolfe, published a book called Love Me to Death in 1998 in which she conjectured that Caputo was Bernard's killer.
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