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00:00And look who's sitting next to me, Fabio Cementilli.
00:08Fabio Cementilli, yeah.
00:10He was a celebrity.
00:12He was huge.
00:13He cut the hair of J-Lo, Jackie Chan, Russell Crowe, kind of these A-list stars.
00:19So what you see on the video is two men running.
00:22They weren't just out for a leisurely jog.
00:24My God, I'm sorry that he's bleeding and everything.
00:27He won't wake up.
00:31He had been hit in the heart.
00:33He was slashed across the neck, deeply, didn't appear to put up a fight.
00:38So that would lead us to believe that he was taken by surprise.
00:42I wanted for a sickly murder for the murder of Fabio Cementilli.
00:46We intentionally placed them next to each other.
00:49I'll fight this shit until I can't fucking stand it no more.
00:52A lot of admissions and then on top of that, a lot of sex.
00:59A travel-sized toothpaste tube filled with semen.
01:02It's a case about greed.
01:04It's a case about lust.
01:06Deception, disloyalty, treachery, duplicity.
01:10What is the emergency room?
01:27Oh, my God, my God!
01:29Okay, what's going on with your dad?
01:31My dad is outside and he's bleeding and everything.
01:36He won't wake up!
01:38Okay, do you know what happened?
01:40No, I just came home right now from school and there's blood everywhere!
01:45The victim was a celebrity hairstylist in Los Angeles, Fabio Cementilli.
01:50It was the daughter, it was Isabella Cementilli, who called in, very upset.
01:55Get close to him and try to wake him up.
01:58She had found her father slumped over in the back of the residence, the patio area.
02:17My name is Ryan Verna.
02:18I was a detective for the Los Angeles Police Department.
02:20I was assigned to this case the night the incident occurred.
02:24He just, like, smoked cigars back on the patio.
02:26And so he was seated in a chair when he was attacked.
02:29He had been attacked in all the right places if you wanted to kill somebody.
02:33I mean, he had been hit in the heart.
02:35He was slashed across the neck deeply and also hit in the femoral artery.
02:40You could tell there were no defensive wounds, didn't appear to put up a fight.
02:43So that would lead us to believe that he was taken by surprise.
02:47Neighborhood surveillance video showed two figures heading up the street to the Cementilli home.
02:53So what you see on the video is two men running and there's a man in the front.
02:58He's wearing a green sweatshirt pulled over his head, cinched tight to where you can only see about this much of his face.
03:06And he's followed by another male that appears to be more heavyset.
03:09His sweatshirt was like a burgundy color and same thing, hoodie over the top, cinched down to tiny little hole to see through.
03:19They weren't just out for a leisurely jog.
03:21The next piece of video that we have is Fabio Cementilli's Porsche.
03:26It's being driven away from the location.
03:28And there's a few different frames in there where you can see that the person driving the Porsche appears to be wearing that same green sweatshirt.
03:39It came at a time when local TV news was warning about a rash of what were called knock-knock burglaries.
03:46A crime alert tonight.
03:47They knock on your door to see if you're home.
03:49The LAPD announced a task force to crack down on so-called knock-knock burglaries in the San Fernando Valley.
03:54They would go up to the front door of a residence, knock on the door.
03:58There was no response.
03:59They would take, you know, small property and then they would get out.
04:02But detectives wondered why, if it was a robbery, Fabio's Rolex wristwatch was not taken.
04:08It was a high-dollar item.
04:09It just seemed odd.
04:10These guys that were operating these crews, the last thing they wanted to do was have a confrontation.
04:16They wouldn't have continued on with this, you know, their burglary.
04:19So that's why it stood out to us.
04:21But that's what we had in the beginning.
04:22Fabio and his family had moved to California just a few years earlier from Toronto.
04:29Welcome to Hollywood.
04:34In the billion-dollar hairstyling industry, Fabio Cimentelli was a rock star.
04:40And look who's sitting next to me.
04:42Fabio Cimentelli.
04:43Fabio Cimentelli here.
04:46He was a celebrity.
04:48He was huge.
04:49My name is Becky Musmani.
04:50I met Fabio since the beginning days of my career.
04:56He was my mentor.
04:58He was everything.
05:01Fabio was a glamorous hairdresser.
05:05Say hello to the rest of your night.
05:07Once a week, actually doing makeovers on a talk show host.
05:11Hey, everybody, Fab here for Fab Style Friday.
05:13Back here, we're backstage at America's Beauty Show in Chicago.
05:16He cut the hair of J-Lo, Jackie Chan, Russell Crowe, kind of these A-list stars.
05:22My name is Jesse Hyde, and I'm a writer with Town & Country magazine.
05:27Just looking at his videos on Instagram, he just loved hair, and he loved to cut hair.
05:34He loved the way it made people feel better about themselves.
05:36His celebrity led him to becoming a vice president of a Procter & Gamble hair products line.
05:44Sun's going down, meeting my team for some drinks and dinner, and listening to Elvis on Sirius Radio.
05:51It doesn't get any better than that.
05:53You have your beautiful wife.
05:55You have your beautiful daughters.
05:56I mean, talk about living, even though they were Canadian, they really had the American dream.
06:03He and his wife, Monica, were preparing to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary.
06:11For me, the first thing is, my family comes first.
06:14I've traveled the world, and I've been so fortunate.
06:17I don't deserve any of this.
06:19Detectives wanted to know from Fabio's wife if there was anything in their personal lives that could be a factor.
06:25She was basically a stay-at-home mother, in the racquetball league, at the L.A. Fitness.
06:32We had asked her all the relevant questions, you know, as far as if there was a stalker in her life.
06:37If she's seeing somebody else, what she followed that day, did he have any enemies?
06:41Ultimately, you know, everything was a no.
06:43And, in fact, I think the verbatim statement from her at the end of that interview was,
06:47my boyfriend is my husband.
06:50But at a memorial service for Fabio at the Woodland Hills home,
06:54a neighbor became suspicious of a man she did not recognize, who was spending time with Monica.
07:00And so we were sent images, two pictures of a person that had shown up to the memorial.
07:06And a second image, you could see on his hand that he's got a bandage on one of his fingers.
07:11One of those things you kind of stick in your back pocket.
07:13It's not enough to do anything with at that point, but definitely something of interest.
07:17The forensics team had found drops of blood in the kitchen they thought would be from one of the killers.
07:23And two weeks later, the DNA results came back from the lab.
07:27We get a simple paper back that says that, you know, there's a hit.
07:30The DNA matched a man who had been convicted of a sex offense with a minor years earlier, Robert Baker,
07:37who, it turned out, was the mystery man at the memorial service.
07:42It's like, well, here we go.
07:44So now it's up to us to figure out who Rob Baker is, exactly what he's been involved in.
07:49They discovered Baker had worked in the adult film industry.
07:53Initially as a performer and later on as a manager.
07:57He kind of ran in a pretty seedy environment where he's, you know, he's on adult film sets, he's going to strip clubs.
08:05And we get surveillance up on him as quickly as possible.
08:08We want to see, you know, patterns of life, you know, who he's meeting with.
08:11We're expecting to maybe run into our second murder suspect.
08:15Detectives also followed him to the very same fitness club where Monica Simentelli belonged,
08:21where he was a woman's racquetball coach.
08:24So we asked her, well, you know, isn't there like a director who's involved in this or, you know, a coach or a league director?
08:31And she said, oh, yeah, I think his name is Rob.
08:34I think his name's Rob.
08:36Rob, what's the last name?
08:38I think it's Baker.
08:39He's the racquetball league coordinator?
08:40Yes.
08:41Oh, so when you went to racquetball league, then he's the coordinator.
08:45Yes.
08:47He runs the leagues.
08:48But I, but we see him all the time at the gym.
08:50Great, great person too.
08:52And has he been to the house?
08:53She has been to the house and I just don't know if it was after her before.
08:57And we left it at that.
08:58We weren't trying to push hard.
09:00The detectives did not tell Monica about Rob Baker's DNA found at the crime scene,
09:05letting her believe their prime suspects were still the knock-knock burglars.
09:10In my mind, you guys are 100% rolled out.
09:12Everybody loves him.
09:15Everybody loves him.
09:16The only thing that struck us as odd was the fact that, you know, we didn't see tears flowing when she was, you know, having all this emotion.
09:25And there was a lot of emotion.
09:27The detectives decided to continue to follow Baker and not immediately arrest him.
09:33My thinking was that we have at least one additional suspect out and about.
09:37So it was definitely our purview to keep working this case and to find out what's going on.
09:43And then one night, they saw Baker out on the town in Los Angeles with an attractive woman.
09:51It was Fabio Sementelli's wife, Monica.
09:54Yes, hi, my name is Monica Sementelli.
10:08I'm calling on behalf of my late husband, Fabio Sementelli.
10:11Within days of the murder, Monica was on the phone to Fabio's employer, Procter & Gamble, to see what he had left her.
10:18I need to know, am I the beneficiary? Is there a beneficiary? Otherwise, we have to go to court.
10:24She enjoyed living the life of a rich man's wife.
10:30The good life in California aspect of things for her.
10:36My name is Brad Hunter. I'm a national crime columnist for the Toronto Sun.
10:41Monica, by day, was, you know, devoted wife and mother.
10:49And then by night, she became, you know, something quite different.
10:55Monica had rediscovered herself when she was with Baker.
10:59One thing led to another, and pretty soon the pair are having a torrid affair.
11:05She's telling her girlfriends that, you know, she's a new woman.
11:10So now detectives confronted Monica about Baker's DNA being found at the crime scene.
11:17I can't believe that, um, I don't believe that Rob did that.
11:25And the only other thing I can think of that his DNA would be in my house
11:33is probably when I cracked him in the hand when we played racquetball.
11:37Um, it's probably on my racket, it's probably on my shoes, it's probably in the gym courts.
11:43And I brought the towel home.
11:45And that's the only thing I can think of that I've been thinking while I've been laying down there.
11:49How can this DNA be in my home?
11:52So that's all I can really, that I know.
11:55But Monica and Baker continued to carry on their secret affair,
12:02unaware they had both become prime suspects.
12:06They would go to, you know, bars and comedy clubs and, and act as if they were just a happy couple.
12:12Going on to websites, uh, swinger websites and meeting up with other couples.
12:17LAPD detectives followed Monica and Baker to Las Vegas,
12:24where they had a wild weekend where she's outside for a cigarette and groping the doorman.
12:31All sorts of nonsense.
12:33Filming and snapping pictures of, you know, raunchy sex in the hotel room.
12:37And police recovered surveillance video at a Target store,
12:41showing Monica driving in and then meeting with Baker about an hour before the murder.
12:47And it's not like they meet inside the store where there's cameras.
12:49They meet in the parking lot away from cameras.
12:51It just happens to be a far shot.
12:53I mean, I think she's giving him final instructions.
12:55You know, he's out on the patio.
12:57He's, you know, working, uh, home alone.
13:01And then Monica spent an hour inside the store, leaving just after the murder happened.
13:07I mean, she set up an alibi to be away from the house, right?
13:10The relationship between Monica and Robert Baker was crucial,
13:15because obviously that pointed us to motive.
13:18Uh, I'm Beth Silverman.
13:19I'm a deputy district attorney at the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
13:24Robert Baker really had, uh, you know, not even a dollar to his name.
13:30And so if they were going to be together, she was going to have to fund that lifestyle.
13:34In June, Monica flew to Toronto to accept a Lifetime Achievement Award for Fabio.
13:41At the same time, she's sending Baker raunchy photos of herself in her hotel room.
13:46So, you know, this is going to go south at some point.
13:50You know it.
13:51On Monica's arrival back in Los Angeles, she was arrested, along with Baker, both charged with murder.
13:57No hits are number one, Robert Baker.
14:02Number two, Monica, Sonia, Cementelli, wanted for 187 PC, first-degree murder for the murder of Fabio Cementelli.
14:13The police car was wired for sound and video.
14:16What is going on?
14:17I have no idea what the f*** is going on, babe.
14:21This s*** is in prison.
14:23What is this?
14:23There's a warrant for your arrest for murder.
14:25Oh, my gosh, I just talked to the detective this morning.
14:28Okay, it's had to get in.
14:29Oh, my God, my husband was murdered five months ago.
14:32Okay, I'm, listen, I'm very sorry for the loss.
14:35We could see and hear that they were whispering and had their heads down as they were whispering.
14:40They were discussing, you know, the need to get lawyers not to talk, not to say anything, not to admit to anything.
14:59All of those types of statements that would be under the law considered to be consciousness of guilt.
15:11This is a thing I'm saying.
15:13I can't believe this is happening.
15:15And when Monica and Baker were scheduled for court, detectives continued to listen in.
15:21We intentionally placed them next to each other and cells placed listening devices in those cells.
15:27We should not be in here.
15:30Huh?
15:31We should not be in here.
15:33I know, I know, babe.
15:34Hope.
15:35They're going to, hopefully they'll give you a bail.
15:38I don't know.
15:40I'm hoping they'll give you a bail.
15:41You've never done anything.
15:42You're a, you know, you're a housewife.
15:44What the f*** are they doing?
15:47I don't think there's going to be a bail.
15:49And over the next six years, when Monica and Baker were in and out of court, detectives continued to listen in.
15:56There's over 60 hours worth of conversation between them, including statements by Monica saying, you know, that they weren't going to take any deals, that Baker shouldn't take any deals.
16:12Him saying that he was going to take, you know, what they had done to the grave.
16:17My f***, babe.
16:19What's up?
16:20Okay, babe.
16:21So, you know, we stick, we stick with the, we stick with the program, okay?
16:25You just, uh, just wait.
16:29Okay.
16:31Yeah.
16:32Just stick with the program, okay?
16:34I'm, I'm, I'm not, I'm not going anywhere.
16:36I'll fight this s*** until I can't f***ing handle no more.
16:39Nothing is okay about this.
16:41Not for me, not for you.
16:43Say that again?
16:44Nothing is okay about this.
16:46Oh, I know.
16:47A lot of, uh, admissions, a lot of co-conspirator statements, and then on top of that, a lot of sex.
16:56They exchanged sexually explicit drawings, romantic letters, and this toothpaste tube.
17:03I got to say that was the first time, uh, in my career that I've seen defendants pass between themselves travel-sized toothpaste tube filled with semen.
17:15You like your, you like your present?
17:16I do.
17:17I love it.
17:18I don't know, are they going to take this away from me?
17:20Put it on your hand.
17:21You're so gorgeous, baby.
17:23Oh, you just like me a little bit.
17:25Oh, my God, I love you so much.
17:28Honestly, I've had, you know, I've had quite a few relationships with you, not like this.
17:33This is, like, different.
17:35This is, like, supercharged.
17:37It's weird, it's weird, and I've never synced up like this with anybody.
17:49Hey, where's your eyes?
17:52Oh, where they are.
17:53Tell me you're going to be okay, baby.
17:55Come on, tell me.
17:57Make me believe it.
17:58It's going to be okay.
17:59Even as they were locked up in the Los Angeles County Jail facing charges of murder, Monica
18:12Salentelli and Robert Baker were planning their wedding.
18:16You are the perfect wife for me.
18:18I told you that long, don't know.
18:19This is a, you know, supposed house, grieving housewife, but she gets a tattoo on her neck
18:25that says, ride or die.
18:28Monica probably showed it to one of her daughters.
18:31You couldn't see it?
18:32It says ride or die.
18:33They support their mother 100%.
18:37They're obviously angry and disappointed with, you know, the fact that she was having this affair,
18:43but they've never doubted in their mother's innocence.
18:45COVID and pre-trial hearings delayed the trial for Monica and Baker for some six years.
18:52And then Baker surprised prosecutors by going to court to admit he had killed Fabio Salentelli
18:58and that Monica played no role.
19:01Mr. Baker, the client wishes to plead guilty to all allegations and special circumstances.
19:05Is this correct?
19:06That is correct, ma'am.
19:07Is that what you wish to do, sir?
19:08Yes, sir.
19:09All of a sudden, in a moment of chivalry, Robert Baker decides that he is solely responsible,
19:19that Monica didn't want anything to do with it.
19:21He was a stand-up guy for Monica, that he was, you know, he was going to take the fall.
19:28It presented a new challenge for the prosecution.
19:31It makes it more difficult to prosecute Monica Simentelli by herself, right?
19:36And it made it even more important to find the second person
19:39seen in the surveillance video with Baker outside the Simentelli home.
19:44We had been working on the second person from the very beginning.
19:47We had had numerous tips, but really the pieces didn't start coming together until sometime in 2023.
19:55A detective was assigned to comb through Robert Baker's messages again
20:00and found one the night of the murder to a Christopher Austin.
20:05She, you know, dives deep into that and finds out that Christopher Austin had flown to Los Angeles
20:10the day before the murder and flew back the night of the murder.
20:16I have a seat in that chair over there.
20:17Seven years after the murder, they finally had the second man,
20:22a longtime Baker family friend, who by that time had become a court probation officer in Oregon.
20:29I'm really sad that I'm here.
20:32I understand, and to be honest with you,
20:34it's not the favorite part of our jobs, okay?
20:39I understand, I gotta tell.
20:41Especially people that look like they're doing good, their life's in order.
20:46He was working for Baker in the past.
20:50His father grew up with Robert Baker,
20:52so he trusted Robert Baker would be watching out for him.
20:57Austin agreed to cooperate and said Baker had told him
21:00they were just going to rough up Simentelli.
21:03Say why? Did you ask why?
21:07Yeah.
21:08He said she's in an abusive relationship,
21:11and that's my girl, and I was like, oh.
21:13Okay, so how did it happen?
21:17Went in, and it was one, two, three, and go.
21:25Then we stabbed.
21:27What do you mean, one, two, three, go?
21:33Rob counted, and he was like, you better go.
21:36I was like, I don't, you better go.
21:37I'm one, two, three, but he went.
21:39I lost everything after that.
21:41If I'm straight up, I don't know what happened with me,
21:46but I just did what he said.
21:48But what did he say?
21:49He said, we're going to go get this.
21:51Okay.
21:51So one, two, three, here we go.
21:53What does that mean, go, though?
21:55You did what?
21:56You went and I heard him.
21:58Well, I wasn't just heard.
22:00Yeah, I know.
22:01So what do you see Rob doing?
22:07Held him down.
22:08What's that?
22:10Held him down.
22:11Rob held him down?
22:13What were you doing while he was holding him down this time?
22:16Held him.
22:20Where are you holding him?
22:23Say again?
22:25Yes, sir.
22:26He's holding him.
22:26You were holding him by his eyes?
22:28I mean, covering his eyes?
22:32Did you stop him at all?
22:33I know this has been weighing on you a long time, all right?
22:41But it's important for us to know.
22:46How many times did you stop him?
22:49Was that once?
22:51Where?
22:55I didn't want to do this.
22:57What's that?
22:57I didn't want to do this.
22:58I honestly, detective, I've always tried to do good.
23:02And this one day, I did horrible.
23:06I was a part of a horrible thing.
23:09And I cried.
23:13So much.
23:15You could tell that he was very remorseful, that he was, you know, knew that he had screwed up his own life with this.
23:22Am I being charged?
23:23You are going to be charged.
23:24You are going to be charged.
23:27I mean, I think you can understand there's really no way around that, okay?
23:32Because we know we've got one other person to try, and that's Monica.
23:36And we, we, you know, there wouldn't be you without Monica.
23:41So we believe you that you got brought into this.
23:44We do believe you.
23:45But it seemed like he was getting all the information from her.
23:49How did he know she was there?
23:50He was there.
23:51I believe him.
23:51I believe the woman called him and told him, and he told me.
23:56Okay, did he tell you she said he's home?
23:58Yeah.
23:58Now they had the witness they needed to directly tie Monica to the murder of her husband.
24:04Monica was in jail for almost eight years before this went to trial.
24:19She's got gray in her hair, and most of the trials seemed like Monica wasn't wearing makeup.
24:24She was demure.
24:26She was, wasn't, you know, she was more, more Mary Poppins than porn star in this instance.
24:34Fabio's family was in the courtroom almost every day.
24:37Hello, friends.
24:39My sister and I are here in L.A.
24:42We're proud to be here for him on his behalf.
24:46And Monica's family was also present.
24:48It was a horrible experience for us.
24:52My sister's character was assassinated all over social media, newspapers, the television.
24:58She did horrible things with the affair and hid it and lied.
25:04But she had nothing to do with Fabio's murder.
25:08Does the prosecution have an opening statement?
25:10Do you?
25:11Receive, please.
25:11What you're going to learn very quickly from the evidence is that the defendant is a master at manipulation and also a very convincing actress.
25:23But if her beloved husband was murdered, people would feel sorry for her.
25:28She would be a victim.
25:29After the murder, you're going to learn that she behaved as if there was no danger, as if her husband hadn't just been brutally murdered at her home.
25:37My partner, D.A. Heather Stagel, and I are going to ask that you find the defendant guilty of the charges that is the crime of murder of her husband, Fabio Sementili.
25:54Let's have an opening statement.
25:56Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
25:57It is our privilege and our great responsibility to be representing Monica Sementili.
26:09Monica, can you stand up, please?
26:11We have not, from the start of this case, seven and a half years ago, ever once contested that Monica Sementili probably made the most fatal mistake of her life when she entered into an affair with Robert Baker.
26:31But that has nothing to do with Monica wanting Fabio dead or conspiring to kill him.
26:43And you will learn that Robert Baker, Robert Baker decided to take things into his own hands.
26:52Ladies and gentlemen, after seven and a half years of waiting to finally have her day in court, not guilty, ladies and gentlemen, will be the only just verdict in this case.
27:14For the record, can you say and spell your first and last name, please?
27:19Christopher Austin.
27:20It wasn't until just a few months before the trial, Christopher Austin was even located and now becomes the star prosecution witness in the case.
27:28My name is Tom Jones.
27:29I was on the defense team representing Monica Sementili at her trial.
27:33The description he gave as to Monica's involvement is very vague at best.
27:40Now, Baker told you as you're headed out there, as he testified, that the front door is going to be unlocked.
27:48He said the front door should be open.
27:51He said the front door should be open.
27:52Meaning unlocked.
27:53Did he tell you how he knew that?
27:55He told me he said she's going to leave the door unlocked.
28:00When you got and when he said she, did he tell you who she was?
28:05The defendant.
28:06When you got to the front door, was it unlocked?
28:10It was indeed unlocked.
28:13Now, if you have to ask him to walk through, what happened when you came through that door?
28:19Baker had covered his mouth.
28:23I started stabbing him and I covered his eyes.
28:27And I stabbed him once.
28:30What did Baker tell you about it?
28:34Baker told me she's loaded.
28:37She wants him gone.
28:39She's going to get paid.
28:40It was nothing that was firsthand.
28:43Nothing that he'd had a conversation, Austin, directly with Monica, saying that she wanted Fabio killed.
28:50Now, again, you never spoke to her about this, correct?
28:55Yes, sir.
28:56You never saw her except at the gym, correct?
29:01And her home.
29:02But there was no conversation at that time about killing her husband, right?
29:06No, sir.
29:08So other than that, all the evidence or communications, I'll put it, that she was involved in any way with the planning and killing of her husband is that you say Mr. Baker told you that.
29:26Right?
29:28Yes, sir.
29:29You didn't hear her voice, correct?
29:32That is correct.
29:33You didn't see any text messages, correct?
29:36That's correct.
29:36He was getting a very good plea deal in return for implicating Monica, and that we felt significantly undermined to what he was saying is true.
29:46Austin's deal allowed him to plead guilty to second-degree murder and be sentenced to no more than 15 years in prison.
29:53And you knew the only way you could save yourself was to testify on behalf of the prosecution, correct?
30:01To tell the truth, yes.
30:03And now you're lying when you say that Monica Simentilli was involved in the planning and the murder of Mr. Simentilli.
30:14You're lying about that to get a deal.
30:17Isn't that true?
30:18No, sir, it is not.
30:30And for the record, say spell your first and last name, please.
30:34Robert, R-O-B-E-R-T, Baker, B-A-K-E-R.
30:39The first day that Robert Baker came into the courtroom to testify, she was wearing makeup for the first time.
30:45But Monica's family said she had long since broken off the relationship with Baker once he admitted to killing Fabio.
30:53She immediately cut all ties and called him a murdering bastard.
30:57One of the key issues we had with Baker is that there was a lot of material to make him look bad.
31:04And he was someone who was a murderer.
31:08He was in the porn industry.
31:09He had previous convictions.
31:12We always knew that it was going to be very difficult for the jury to hear someone like that and sort of side with them.
31:18I murdered him because I wanted her.
31:22Well, you kind of had her already, but not the way you wanted or what?
31:26Absolutely.
31:27I didn't have her the way I wanted her.
31:28I wanted her, I wanted her to have easier access.
31:31I wanted her to be around me and with me more, like all the time.
31:38You tell anything about the plans you had to kill her husband?
31:41Absolutely not.
31:42And then the grisly details of the murder itself.
31:47He got up real quick and he grabbed me by my hoodie and grabbed my hand at the same, my left hand at the same time.
31:57And I'm struggling with him and I'm trying to get away from him.
32:01He's a pretty big guy.
32:03Then what?
32:03And I just kind of, I said to myself, I need to, I need to get him off me.
32:10I need to cut him.
32:12I just need to cut him.
32:13I need to cut him.
32:14I took one stab again and let go of me.
32:16He let go and I just kind of blacked out and just, just try to get him off me and just kept cutting until he stopped, until he got off me.
32:23He's a sick man and he belongs in jail.
32:27He manipulated, coerced, groomed many women in his life and Austin, Christopher Austin as well.
32:35He got all these people to do things for him, even if they didn't want to.
32:39And Monica's lawyers introduced the prison sex drawings, the toothpaste tube and various sex acts to show that Baker had manipulated her.
32:50Why'd you tell her to pull her pants down?
32:56Jailing, man.
32:58Jailing is like golfing and bowling.
32:59You got to bowl.
33:00You jail.
33:01That's how you jail when you're, when you do time.
33:03You ever tell her, instruct her to perform sexual acts with other men on the bus for your benefit?
33:18I might have.
33:19Maybe.
33:20I might have.
33:20Did you ever say you need to be a whore out there for me while you can, then tell me about it?
33:26Could have been.
33:28Maybe.
33:29Why'd you do that?
33:31Just jailing.
33:31Now, you are a convicted murderer, correct?
33:38Yes.
33:38And you committed a heinous crime.
33:41Yeah, I did.
33:43But are you telling the truth about what happened?
33:46It's nothing to lose.
33:48Thank you, Your Honor.
33:49Nothing to lose.
33:50Beagle, man.
33:51Far.
33:52Nothing to lose, right?
33:57Yes.
33:57Prosecutor Beth Silverman asked Baker about what he said on the videos recorded in jail.
34:04You told her, we got to get married, babe.
34:07And she said, I love you.
34:10And you said, babe, I'm not making no f***ing deal.
34:14I'll take it to my f***ing grave, baby.
34:17Remember that?
34:18Mm-hmm.
34:19I got to hear it.
34:20I don't remember hearing, saying it, but I'm sure, I got to hear it first.
34:23And you said, I know, but I'll take the blame.
34:27I'll lie.
34:28And then she whispered again and said, wait, listen, listen.
34:33And once again, you said, I'll lie.
34:36I'll lie and I'll take it.
34:38Remember that?
34:38I don't remember the conversation, but I'm sure if you said it's there, it's there.
34:44He did exactly as we thought he would do.
34:46I mean, he couldn't tell enough lies.
34:48He just kept changing the story from moment to moment.
34:50At one point, Baker said he killed Fabio because he abused Monica.
34:55And is that, again, another lie that you are, again, telling to the jury to try and dirty
35:06up a completely innocent man who was slaughtered by you, sitting on his back patio?
35:14I'm just telling you the truth now.
35:15I'm a sword to this now, so I'm swearing to it.
35:18I swore to it, I'm telling you.
35:19I just felt that way.
35:20I really did.
35:21You felt that way?
35:22Yes, I did.
35:25Are you finding it difficult to keep your stories straight?
35:29You're asking four questions at a time when I try to answer you, cut me off.
35:32Objection, non-responsive, move to strike.
35:34Sure, go.
35:35Again.
35:36One more time.
35:36Are you finding it hard to keep all of your stories straight?
35:40I'm sorry, again.
35:41Sustained.
35:42What consequence might there be if you were to lie to this jury?
35:46I don't...
35:47This all, uh...
35:49I don't know.
35:50What consequence?
35:50I don't know, that's...
35:51I have no idea.
35:52I'm sure you'll find something.
35:54Now we had to see...
35:55Two murderers.
35:55One of whom is now a defense witness, saying Monica had nothing to do with it.
36:01And the other murderer, now being a prosecution witness, saying that Monica was involved.
36:08Monica Simentelli's fate would depend on which killer the jury believed.
36:13It's been about 40 days that we've now been in trial.
36:26As I told you at the beginning of this case, during opening statement, that this would be a case about betrayal.
36:37It's a case about greed.
36:39It's a case about lust.
36:41Deception, disloyalty, treachery, duplicity.
36:46Each of those words perfectly described this defendant.
36:52This defendant, who was the mastermind behind her own adoring husband's gruesome murder.
37:05However, the defendant wasn't going to do the dirty work herself, right?
37:09She's not going to kill Fabio.
37:10But she knew that Baker would, because Baker is a stone-cold killer.
37:17Again, she's the one that brought us all here, right?
37:21She's the one who destroyed so many lives and their entire family.
37:27No one else did that.
37:28There's no one else to blame for any of that.
37:33I hope that your deliberations go smoothly.
37:39We're not here to decide whether or not Monica Simentelli was a bad wife, an adulteress.
37:45We're here to decide.
37:47You are here to decide.
37:48If she's been proven guilty of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, beyond a reasonable doubt.
37:59And I submit to you, if the evidence was that clear, it would not have taken eight years and eight weeks of testimony to prove it.
38:11You have got to connect Monica Simentelli to Robert Baker and this conspiracy.
38:20Now, how do you do that if it's not true?
38:23And I submit to you, it's not true.
38:27It has not been proven true.
38:28And it won't be proven true.
38:31Boy, did she make a stupid mistake.
38:34And she is guilty of a lot of things.
38:37Stupidity, duplicity, lying, adultery, all the things you saw up there.
38:48All the things.
38:50But she is not guilty of murder.
38:55Thank you, Rem.
39:01The jury was out for almost nine hours.
39:04All the evidence connecting her to the murder seemed very circumstantial.
39:10And the longer it goes on, you start to think, well, maybe this is good for the defense.
39:15Juror number 10, our sign of the jury has reached the verdict.
39:17Is that correct?
39:18That's correct.
39:19The sign of the court, please read the verdict.
39:22The people of the state of California versus Monica Simentelli.
39:26We, the jury, in the above entitled action, find the defendant, Monica Simentelli.
39:30Monica Simentelli.
39:31We, the jury, in the above entitled action, find the defendant, Monica Simentelli.
40:01Guilty of the crime of conspiracy to commit murder.
40:05She's, she just kept shaking her head and saying no.
40:09And I think the gravity of the whole thing just fell on her where it's like, I've been
40:15in jail for eight years.
40:16I'm not getting out.
40:17At her sentencing, both of Monica Simentelli's daughters spoke on her behalf.
40:28My name is Jessica, and I'm the oldest daughter of Monica and Fabio.
40:32For the past eight years, my sister and I have lived with an open mood.
40:38We only had five months to give our father before we lost our mother too.
40:43I won't have my dad to walk me down the aisle one day.
40:46I won't have my mom to help me when I become a mother myself.
40:49And yet I will keep going.
40:51I'll keep fighting for justice, for the truth, and for my mom.
40:55I love you, and I'm giving you every ounce of strength I have for the days ahead.
41:02Good morning, Judge Cohen, members of the court and all present.
41:08My name is Isabella.
41:10I'm the youngest daughter of Monica and Fabio Simentelli.
41:13It was Isabella who had first discovered her father's bloodied body.
41:19My dad was the biggest loss of my life,
41:21and it pains me that he will never know this version of me.
41:25But I know for a fact he would be proud of me speaking today,
41:30honoring our family in a positive way.
41:33Now I hope you can understand why I stand by both of my parents.
41:38They were the greatest people I've ever known.
41:40I have hope justice will prevail over time.
41:44To my mom and dad, I love you, I miss you,
41:48and I will forever remember you dancing in the kitchen.
41:55I understand, because obviously it would be very hard to live with the idea
42:00that your mother set up your father and now you've lost both parents
42:03because your mother is such a selfish person.
42:06Listening to the evidence of this matter,
42:08I do find that the defendant was the mastermind
42:12in this conspiracy, the defendant murdered.
42:18Baker did not have the intelligence
42:20to plan such a brutal, well-thought-out slaughter.
42:28The defendant was the prime mover
42:29in this execution of a human being,
42:31and constantly, I am utilizing my discretion
42:35to impose the more serious of the sentences.
42:38The defendant's sentence is to take prison for the term
42:40prescribed by law, which is life imprisonment
42:42without the possibility of parole.
42:45There was definitely justice for Fabio,
42:47and she got exactly what Robert Baker got,
42:49life without parole,
42:50because she was convicted much as he was on all counts.
42:53There are certain cases where they're so just evil and devious.
42:57Then there is a few secrets there,
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