Ricardo Silvio Caputo (1949 – October 1, 1997) was an
Argentine American
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They are part of the broader Hispanic and Latino American category, and make up a scant 0.1% of the U.S. population, compared to lar ...
serial killer
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during the 1970s who was known as "The Lady Killer".
Caputo was born in 1949 in
Mendoza, Argentina
Mendoza (, ), officially the City of Mendoza ( es, Ciudad de Mendoza) is the capital of the province of Mendoza in Argentina. It is located in the northern-central part of the province, in a region of foothills and high plains, on the eastern si ...
. In 1970, he moved to the
United States
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and settled in
New York City
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. According to his brother Alberto, Caputo was physically and
sexually abused
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as a child.
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
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in New York, Caputo had a fatal
heart attack
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