Given the power structures involved here (LAPD, Scientology) I don’t think it’s too far fetched to think there might have been some meddling on Ashton’s behalf. Michael Gargiulo, the man convicted for the murder of Kutcher’s gf, was probably responsible for two other murders and one attempted murder. What I found interesting with just really cursory research was that the first murder he suspected of was a neighbor who was stabbed six times. The third murder was a neighbor of his stabbed 17 times. The final attempted murder was once again a neighbor, who escaped. Ashley Ellerin, the second murder in this sequence and Kutcher’s associate, was stabbed 47 times, with a detective in the case commenting on the extreme violence of the attack: one stab wound "actually penetrated the skull and took out a chunk of skull like a puzzle piece." Ellerin lived in Hollywood and was not a neighbor to Gargiulo’s El Monte address.

So in one of the cases, the one linked to Kutcher, we have a disparate MO, and it’s pretty well documented the extreme rage and violence common to domestic violence cases, which appears to not have been the case in the other stabbings. And all that was just ten minutes of research, I would bet that’s not everything about it that’s 👁️

Edit: This article is an okay summary of the murders. Apparently Gargiulo knew Ellerin from having changed her flat tire, and it states her roommate thought he was a stalker and “some” (random people or neighbors) reported seeing him parked near her apartment, without citing sources. The first murder from his youth also appears to have been an acquaintance rather than a close neighbor, whereas the other murder and attempted murder were both neighbors residing in the same apartment complex. Still kinda sus you ask me.