Michael Lupo
Michael Lupo | |
|---|---|
| Born | Michael del Marco Lupo 19 January 1953 life sentences 14 years in prison |
| Details | |
| Victims | 4 |
| Country | England |
| State(s) | Brompton Road |
Date apprehended | 18 May 1986 |
Michael del Marco Lupo (19 January 1953 – 12 February 1995)
History
On 15 March 1986, the body of a 37-year-old murder victim named James Burns, a railway worker originally from Edinburgh, was found in a derelict flat in Kensington, London. The investigation made little progress because there was no obvious link between a perpetrator and the dead man.
On 6 April that year, the corpse of Anthony Connolly, 24, was found on a railway embankment in
Trial and imprisonment
Six weeks later, on 18 May, Michele del Marco Lupo was arrested and charged with the murders of Connolly and Burns. Lupo, who ran a flower shop in Chelsea,[2] was originally from Italy and a former soldier. He apparently called himself "The Wolf Man" ("lupo" means "wolf" in Italian) and boasted of having had 4,000 lovers.
On 21 May, Lupo was charged with two other recent killings, those of a young hospital worker named Damien McCloskey, who had been strangled in West London, and an unidentified man, who was murdered near
In July 1987, at the
In February 1995, Lupo died in
See also
References
External links
- The New Encyclopedia Of Serial Killers, Brian Lane and Wilfred Gregg (Revised Edition 1996), ISBN 0747253617
- The Independent obituary