Ricardo Caputo
Background information
Also known as	The Lady Killer
Born	1949 Mendoza, Argentina
Died	1997 (aged 47–48)
Killings
Number of victims	4
Country	United States andMexico
State(s)	New York, California
Date apprehended	March 1994

Ricardo Caputo (1949 – 1997) was a 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.

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 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
•Devan Green, Los Angeles (1981)
•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 conjectured that Caputo was Bernard's killer.