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Argentine American serial killer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ricardo Silvio Caputo (1949 – October 1, 1997) was an Argentine American serial killer active during the 1970s who was known as The Lady Killer.[1]
Ricardo Caputo | |
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Born | 1949 |
Died | (aged 48) |
Other names | "The Lady Killer" |
Details | |
Victims | 4–6 |
Span of crimes | 1971–1977 |
Country | United States, Mexico |
State(s) | New York, California, State of Mexico |
Date apprehended | March 1, 1994 |
Caputo was born in 1949 in Mendoza, Argentina. In 1970, he moved to the United States and settled in New York City. According to his brother Alberto, Caputo was physically and sexually abused as a child.[2]
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 had a fatal heart attack in October 1997, at the age of 48.[3]
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