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Other names
  
The Lady Killer

Role
  
Serial Killer

Name
  
Ricardo Caputo


Span of killings
  
1971–1977

Victims
  
4

Date apprehended
  
March 1994

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Born
  
1949
Mendoza, Argentina

Country
  
United States and Mexico

Died
  
1997, New York City, New York, United States

Ricardo Caputo (1949–October 1997) was an Argentine American serial killer during the 1970s who was known as "The Lady Killer." Caputo was born in 1949 in Mendoza, Argentina. In 1970, he moved to the United States and settled in New York City.

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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 October 1997, at the age of 48.

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 conjected that Caputo was Bernard's killer.

    • References

    Ricardo Caputo Wikipedia
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