Micheal Lupo (1953 - )

Micheal Lupo took great delight in the fact that his last name in Italian meant "wolf," and he bosted that he truely was the "wolfman." Lupo also bragged that he had taken over 4,000 homosexual lovers and that he had murdered 4 of them.

In May 1986, the London police realized that a serial killer was stalking the momosexual communities. 24-year-old Tony Connolly' body had been found on April 6 by children playing near a Brixton railway embankment in South London. Connolly was determined to be HIV positive, and the police soon linked his death to that of another gay man who had been strangled in West London, as well as another attempted murder in the same area.

On May 18, police arrested Micheal Lupo, an Italian-born-ex-commando who now worked as a makeup artist and the manager of a fashion shop in Chelsea. The 33-year-old Lupo had not been all that discreet in bosting of the murders and his prowess of the wolfman and he had been heard to state that he would continue killing until the police were able to catch him. Lupo was charged with the murder of Tony Connolly, as well as that of railway guard James Burns. Police also accused him of the attempted murder of a man in South London.

Three days after his arrest, the police were able to add the death of Damien McClusky, a 22-year-old hospital worker, to the wolfman's list of murders. Before Lupo was brought to central criminal court, a new murder charge, that of an unidentified man in his sixties, strangled near Hungerford Bridge, brought the tally to four murders and two attempted murders.

On July 10, 1987, Lupo pleaded guilty to all charges, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment on each of the murder charges, and to consecutive terms of seven years on each of the counts of attempted murder.