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Actor Ashton Kutcher said Wednesday in front of a Los Angeles jury that he was "panicking" after learning that a young woman had been found dead in Hollywood the day after he had called home for an appointment.
The former star of Two and Half Men testified at the trial of a man nicknamed the Hollywood Ripper accused of the murder of the young woman and two others.
Kutcher said she arrived at Hollywood bachelor Ashley Ellerin, a fashion design student, on the night of February 22, 2001, after phoning her earlier in the evening to make an appointment, the Los Angeles Times reported. Angeles City News Service.
But when he arrived two hours after the call, Kutcher said that he had found the lights on and the door locked. Looking through the window, he saw "what I thought was a red wine spilled on the carpet".
"I really did not think so," said Kutcher, adding that he "thought I was wrong" arriving late and that he presumed that Ellerin had gone out with a friend City News reported.
Ellerin, 22, was found dead at home the next morning by a roommate. She was stabbed 47 times, prosecutors said.
Kutcher, now 41, said when he learned what had happened to Ellerin. He had spoken to the police and was "panicking" because he knew that his fingerprints would be on the front door of her home.
Michael Gargiulo is on trial in the Los Angeles Superior Court for the murder of Ellerin and two other women and for the attempted murder of another.
Gargiulo, 43, was arrested in 2008. He pleaded not guilty.
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