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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.
00:41I wanted for a secret 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 check?
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.
01:34He 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.
01:52It 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 used to smoke 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.
03:03It's 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.
03:12And same thing, hoodie over the top, cinched down to a 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
03:34appears to be wearing that same green sweatshirt.
03:37It 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.
04:24Fabio 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.
04:43Don't detail me.
04:44Fabio Cimentelli here.
04:46He was a celebrity.
04:47He was huge.
04:49My name is Becky Mosmani.
04:51I 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.
05:12Fab here for Fab Style Fridays.
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.
05:32And 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.
05:52You have your beautiful wife.
05:55You have your beautiful daughters.
05:56I mean, talk about living, even though they were Canadian.
06:00They really had the American dream.
06:03He and his wife, Monica, were preparing to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary.
06:10For me, the first thing is, my family comes first.
06:14I've traveled the world.
06:15I've been so fortunate.
06:17I don't deserve any of this.
06:18Detectives 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.
06:29In the racquetball league at the LA 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 can 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 paperback 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 Cimentelli 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 who I was last name?
08:38I think it's Baker.
08:39He's the racquetball league coordinator?
08:40Yes.
08:41Okay.
08:42Oh, so when you went to the 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.
08:50Right.
08:51Great 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.
09:13Everybody loves him.
09:15Everybody loves him.
09:17The 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.
09:26And there was a lot of emotion.
09:27The detectives decided to continue to follow Baker and not immediately arrest him.
09:32My 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.
09:44And then one night, they saw Baker out on the town in Los Angeles with an attractive woman.
09:50It was Fabio Simentelli's wife, Monica.
09:54Within 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.
10:35My name is Brad Hunter. I'm a national crime columnist for the Toronto Sun.
10:42Monica, 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.
11:06She'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.
11:16I can't believe that, I don't believe that Rob did that.
11:26And the only other thing I can think of that his DNA would be in my house is probably when I cracked him in the hand when we played racquetball.
11:37It's probably on my racquet, it's probably on my shoes, it's probably in the gym courts, and it 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.
11:50How can this DNA be in my home?
11:53So that's all I can really, that I know.
11:58But Monica and Baker continue to carry on their secret affair, unaware they had both become prime suspects.
12:06They would go to, you know, bars and comedy clubs and act as if they were just a happy couple.
12:13Going on to websites, swinger websites, and meeting up with other couples.
12:18LAPD detectives followed Monica and Baker to Las Vegas, where they had a wild weekend where she's outside for a cigarette and groping the doorman.
12:30All sorts of nonsense, filming and snapping pictures of, you know, raunchy sex in the hotel room.
12:38And police recovered surveillance video at a Target store, showing Monica driving in and then meeting with Baker about an hour before the murder.
12:46And it's not like they meet inside the store where there's cameras, they 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, you know, he's out on the patio, he's, you know, working, home alone.
13:01And then Monica spent an hour inside the store, leaving just after the murder happened.
13:06I mean, she set up an alibi to be away from the house, right?
13:10The relationship between Monica and Robert Baker was crucial, because obviously that pointed us to motive.
13:18I'm Beth Silverman.
13:19I'm a deputy district attorney at the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
13:24Robert Baker really had, 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. You 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?
14:18I have no idea what the f*** is going on, man.
14:21What 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 bad to get in.
14:29Oh, my God. My husband was murdered five months ago.
14:32Okay, 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.
14:40Oh, God.
14:41I need to go to the law.
14:43Listen, listen, listen, listen.
14:44Listen.
14:45Don't talk.
14:45I know, I know. Listen, listen.
14:46Don't talk.
14:47Listen.
14:48Got to get a lawyer immediately.
14:50Yeah, I will. I don't know what's going on.
14:51They were discussing, you know, the need to get lawyers not to talk, not to say anything, not to admit to anything.
14:59That's when we don't see s*** nobody.
15:03Get a lawyer immediately.
15:04All of those types of statements that would be under the law considered to be consciousness of guilt.
15:11This is a big mistake.
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.
15:28We should not be in here.
15:30Huh?
15:31We should not be in here.
15:32I know, I know, babe.
15:34Hopefully 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 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 that they weren't going to take any deals, that Baker shouldn't take any deals, him saying that he was going to take what they had done to the grave.
16:17Oh, f***, hey.
16:18What's up?
16:19What's up?
16:20Okay, babe, so, 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, just stick with the program, okay?
16:34I'm, I'm not, I'm not going anywhere.
16:36I'll fight this s*** till 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.
16:46A 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 gotta 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.
17:23Aw, you just like me a little bit.
17:25Oh my god, I love you so much.
17:28Honestly, I, it's, 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.
17:37Weird, it's weird, and I've never synced up like this with anybody.
17:40Hey, close your eyes.
17:52Tell me you're going to be okay, baby.
17:55Come on, tell me.
17:56Make me believe it.
17:58It's going to be okay.
17:59Even as they were locked up
18:08in the Los Angeles County Jail
18:10facing charges of murder
18:11Monica Celentelli and Robert Baker
18:14were planning their wedding
18:15This is a
18:20supposed
18:22grieving housewife
18:24but she gets a tattoo on her neck
18:25that says ride or die
18:27Monica proudly showed it
18:30to one of her daughters
18:31They support their mother
18:36100%
18:37They're obviously angry and disappointed
18:40with the fact that she was having
18:42this affair but they've never
18:44doubted in their mother's innocence
18:45COVID and pre-trial
18:48hearings delayed the trial for Monica
18:50and Baker for some 6 years
18:52and then Baker surprised prosecutors
18:54by going to court to admit
18:55he had killed Fabio Celentelli
18:58and that Monica played no role
19:00Baker, the client wishes to plead guilty
19:03to all allegations and special circumstances
19:05Is this correct?
19:06That is correct
19:06Is that what you wish to do, sir?
19:08Yes, sir
19:09All of a sudden
19:10in a moment of chivalry
19:13Robert Baker decides that he is solely responsible
19:18that Monica didn't want anything to do with it
19:21He was a stand-up guy for Monica
19:24that 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 Celentelli by herself, right?
19:35And it made it even more important to find the second person
19:39seen in the surveillance video with Baker
19:42outside the Celentelli home
19:44We had been working on the second person
19:46from the very beginning
19:47We had had numerous tips
19:49but really the pieces didn't start coming together
19:53until sometime in 2023
19:55A detective was assigned to comb through
19:58Robert Baker's messages again
20:00and found one the night of the murder
20:02to a Christopher Austin
20:04She, you know, dives deep into that
20:06and finds out that Christopher Austin
20:08had flown to Los Angeles
20:10the day before the murder
20:12and flew back the night of the murder
20:15I was seeing that chair over there
20:17Seven years after the murder
20:20they finally had the second man
20:22a long-time Baker family friend
20:24who by that time had become
20:26a court probation officer in Oregon
20:29I'm really sad that I'm here
20:31I understand and to be honest with you
20:34is not the favorite part of our jobs
20:39I understand, I gotta tell
20:41Especially people that
20:42look like they're doing good
20:45their 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
20:54would be watching out for him
20:56Austin agreed to cooperate
20:58and said Baker had told him
21:00they were just going to
21:01rough up Sementilla
21:03You say why?
21:04Did you ask why?
21:07Yeah
21:07He said she's in an abusive relationship
21:10and that's my girl
21:12and I was like, oh
21:13Okay
21:14So how did it happen?
21:17Went in
21:18and
21:20it was one, two, three
21:23and go
21:24and then he was stabbed
21:26What do you mean
21:28one, two, three, go?
21:33Rob counted
21:34and he was like
21:35you better go
21:35and I was like
21:36I don't
21:36you better go
21:37I'm one, two, three
21:38but he went
21:38I lost everything
21:40after that
21:41and from
21:42straight up
21:43I don't know
21:45what happened with me
21:46but I just
21:46did what he said
21:47But what did he say?
21:49He said
21:49we're gonna go get this
21:50Okay
21:51So one, two, three
21:52here we go
21:53And what does that mean
21:54go though?
21:55You did what?
21:56You went
21:57and I heard him
21:57Well, I wasn't just heard
22:00Yeah, I know
22:00So
22:02what 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
22:14while he was holding him down
22:15to stab him?
22:16Held him
22:16Where
22:20where are you holding him?
22:22Hmm
22:22Say him
22:24He said
22:25He's nice
22:26You're holding him
22:28by his eyes
22:28I mean
22:29covering his eyes
22:30Did you stab him at all?
22:36I know this has been
22:37weighing on you
22:38a long time
22:38alright
22:39but it's important
22:42for us to know
22:44How many times
22:46did you stab him?
22:49Was that
22:50once?
22:51Where?
22:55I didn't want to do this
22:56What's that?
22:57I didn't want to do this
22:58I
22:58Honestly, detective
23:00I've always tried to do good
23:01and this one day
23:03I did horrible
23:05I was a part of a horrible thing
23:09and I cried
23:11You could tell
23:16that he was very
23:17remorseful
23:18that he was
23:19you know
23:19knew that he had
23:20screwed up his own life
23:22with this
23:22You are going to be charged
23:24You are going to be charged
23:26I mean
23:27I think you can understand
23:29there's really no way
23:30around that
23:31okay
23:32because we know
23:32we've got one other person
23:33to try
23:35and that's Monica
23:35and we
23:36we
23:37you know
23:38there wouldn't be you
23:39without Monica
23:40so
23:41we believe you
23:43that you got brought
23:43into this
23:44we do believe you
23:45but it seemed like
23:46he was getting all the information
23:47from her
23:49How did he know
23:50she was there?
23:50He was there
23:51I believe him
23:51I believe
23:52the woman
23:53called him
23:54and told him
23:54and he told me
23:55okay
23:56did he tell you
23:57she said he's home?
23:58Yeah
23:58Now they had the witness
24:00they needed
24:00to directly tie Monica
24:02to the murder
24:03of her husband
24:04Monica was in jail
24:16for almost 8 years
24:18before this went to trial
24:19she's got grey
24:20in her hair
24:20and most of the trials
24:22seemed like Monica
24:22wasn't wearing makeup
24:23She was demure
24:26she wasn't
24:27you know
24:28she was more
24:29more Mary Poppins
24:31than porn star
24:32in this instance
24:33Fabio's family
24:35was in the courtroom
24:36almost every day
24:37Hello friends
24:39my sister and I
24:40are here in LA
24:41we're proud
24:42to be here for him
24:44on his behalf
24:45and Monica's family
24:47was also present
24:48It was a
24:50horrible experience
24:51for us
24:52my sister's character
24:53was assassinated
24:54all over social media
24:55newspapers
24:56the television
24:58she did horrible
25:00things with the affair
25:01and hid it
25:03and lied
25:04but she had
25:05nothing to do
25:06with Fabio's murder
25:08Does the prosecution
25:09have an opening statement?
25:10Do you have
25:11What you're going
25:12to learn very quickly
25:13from the evidence
25:14is that the defendant
25:16is a master
25:17at manipulation
25:19and also
25:21a very convincing actress
25:22but if her beloved
25:24husband was murdered
25:25people would feel
25:27sorry for her
25:28she would be a victim
25:29After the murder
25:30you're going to learn
25:31that she behaved
25:32as if there was
25:33no danger
25:34as if her husband
25:34hadn't just been
25:36brutally murdered
25:36at her home
25:37My partner
25:38DA Heather Stagel
25:40and I are going
25:41to ask
25:41that you find
25:42the defendant
25:43guilty
25:44of the charges
25:45that is the crime
25:47of murder
25:47of her husband
25:48Fabio
25:49Simon Tilly
25:50Thank you
25:52Thank you
25:53Let's have an opening statement
25:55Good morning ladies
25:56and gentlemen
25:57It is our privilege
26:00and our great responsibility
26:03to be representing
26:06Monica Simon Tilly
26:09Monica can you stand up please
26:11We have not
26:15from the start
26:17of this case
26:18seven and a half years ago
26:19ever once
26:21contested
26:22that Monica Simon Tilly
26:24probably made
26:25the most fatal mistake
26:27of her life
26:28when she entered
26:29into an affair
26:30with Robert Baker
26:31But that has
26:34nothing to do
26:36with Monica
26:37wanting Fabio
26:39dead
26:39or conspiring
26:41to kill him
26:41And you will learn
26:44that Robert Baker
26:46Robert Baker
26:49decided to take
26:51things into
26:51his own hands
26:52Ladies and gentlemen
26:54after seven
26:55and a half years
26:57of waiting
26:58to finally
26:59have her day
27:00in court
27:00not guilty
27:02ladies and gentlemen
27:03will be the only
27:06just verdict
27:07in this case
27:08Thank you
27:10Thank you
27:11For the record
27:15can you say
27:16and spell
27:16your first
27:17and last name
27:18please
27:18Christopher Austin
27:20It wasn't until
27:21just a few months
27:21before the trial
27:22Christopher Austin
27:23was even located
27:24and now becomes
27:25the star prosecution
27:26witness in the case
27:27My name is Tom Jones
27:29I was on the defense
27:30team representing
27:31Monica Cimentelli
27:32at her trial
27:32The description
27:34he gave
27:35as to Monica's
27:36involvement
27:37is very vague
27:38at best
27:39Now Baker told you
27:42as you're headed out there
27:44as you testified
27:45that the front door
27:46is going to be
27:47unlocked
27:48I said the front door
27:49should be open
27:50Open?
27:52Meaning unlocked
27:53Did he tell you
27:54how he knew that?
27:56He told me
27:56he said she
27:57she's going to
27:57leave the door
27:58When you got
28:01and when he said
28:02she
28:02did he tell you
28:03who she was?
28:05The defendant
28:06When you got
28:08to the front door
28:09was it unlocked?
28:10It was indeed
28:11unlocked
28:12I do have to ask
28:14you to walk through
28:15what happened
28:17when you came
28:17through that door
28:18Baker
28:19had covered
28:20his mouth
28:21I started
28:24stabbing him
28:25when he covered
28:26his eyes
28:26and
28:28I stabbed him
28:30once
28:30What did Baker
28:32tell you about it?
28:34Baker told me
28:35she's loaded
28:36she wants him
28:38gone
28:38she's going
28:39to get paid
28:40It was nothing
28:41that was
28:42first hand
28:43nothing that
28:43he'd had a conversation
28:45Austin
28:46directly with Monica
28:47saying that she
28:48wanted
28:48Fabio killed
28:50Now
28:51again
28:52you never
28:52spoke to her
28:53about this
28:54correct?
28:55Yes sir
28:56You never
28:57saw her
28:58except at the
28:59gym
29:00correct?
29:01And her home
29:02But there was
29:03no conversation
29:03at that time
29:04about killing
29:05her husband
29:05right?
29:06No sir
29:07So other
29:09other than that
29:10all the
29:12evidence
29:14or communications
29:16I'll put it
29:16that she
29:18was involved
29:20in any way
29:21with the planning
29:22and killing
29:22of her husband
29:23is that you say
29:24Mr. Baker
29:24told you that
29:25right?
29:28Yes sir
29:29You didn't hear
29:30her voice
29:31correct?
29:32That is correct
29:33You didn't see
29:34any text messages
29:35correct?
29:36That's correct
29:36He was getting
29:37a very good plea deal
29:39in return
29:40for implicating Monica
29:41and that we felt
29:43significantly undermined
29:44what he was saying
29:45is true
29:45Austin's deal
29:47allowed him to plead guilty
29:48to second degree murder
29:49and be sentenced
29:50to no more than
29:5115 years in prison
29:53and you knew
29:54and you knew
29:54the only way
29:55you could save
29:56yourself
29:56was to testify
29:58on behalf
29:59of the prosecution
30:00correct?
30:02To tell the truth
30:02yes
30:03And now you're
30:04lying
30:05when you say
30:06that Monica
30:07Cimentilli
30:07was involved
30:08in the planning
30:10and the murder
30:11of Mr.
30:13Cimentilli
30:14You're lying
30:15about that
30:16to get a deal
30:17isn't that true?
30:19No sir
30:19it is not
30:20And for the record
30:32say spell
30:33your first and last name
30:34please
30:34Robert
30:35R-O-B-E-R-T
30:37Baker
30:37B-A-K-E-R
30:38The first day
30:40that Robert Baker
30:41came into the courtroom
30:42to testify
30:43she was wearing makeup
30:44for the first time
30:45But Monica's family
30:47said she had long since
30:48broken off
30:49the relationship
30:49with Baker
30:50once he admitted
30:51to killing Fabio
30:53She immediately
30:54cut all ties
30:55and called him
30:55a murdering bastard
30:56One of the key issues
30:58we had with Baker
30:59is that
31:01there was a lot
31:01of material
31:02to make him
31:03look bad
31:04He was someone
31:05who was
31:07a murderer
31:07He was in
31:08the porn industry
31:09He had
31:10previous convictions
31:11We always knew
31:12that it was going
31:13to be very difficult
31:13for the jury
31:15to hear someone
31:16like that
31:16and sort of
31:17side with them
31:18I murdered him
31:19because I wanted
31:20her
31:20Well you kind of
31:23had her already
31:24but not the way
31:25you wanted
31:26or what?
31:26Absolutely
31:27I didn't have her
31:28the way I wanted her
31:29I wanted her
31:29I wanted her
31:30to have easier access
31:31I wanted her to be
31:32around me
31:32and with me
31:33More
31:36like all the time
31:37Did you tell
31:38anything about
31:39the plans
31:39you had
31:40to kill her husband?
31:41Absolutely not
31:42And then
31:43the grisly details
31:45of the murder
31:45itself
31:46He got up
31:48real quick
31:48and he
31:50grabbed me
31:51by my
31:52hoodie
31:54and grabbed
31:55my hand
31:55at the same
31:56my left hand
31:56at the same time
31:57and I'm struggling
31:59with him
31:59and I'm trying
32:00to get away
32:01from him
32:01he's a pretty
32:02big guy
32:02He's a sick man
32:25and he belongs
32:26in jail
32:27He manipulated
32:28coerced
32:29groomed
32:30many women
32:30in his life
32:31and
32:32Austin
32:33Christopher Austin
32:34as well
32:35He got all these
32:36people to do
32:37things for him
32:38even if they
32:38didn't want to
32:39And Monica's
32:42lawyers introduced
32:43the prison's
32:44sex drawings
32:44the toothpaste tube
32:46and various
32:47sex acts
32:48to show that
32:49Baker had
32:49manipulated her
32:51Why'd you tell
32:52to pull her
32:53pants down?
32:57Jailin' man
32:57Jailin'
32:58it's like
32:58golfin'
32:58and bowling
32:59You gotta bowl
33:00You get you jail
33:01That's how
33:01you jail
33:02when you
33:02do time
33:03You ever tell
33:06her
33:06or instruct her
33:07to perform
33:08sexual acts
33:09with other men
33:10on the bus
33:10for your benefit?
33:18I might've
33:19Maybe
33:19I might've
33:20Did you ever
33:21say you need
33:22to be a whore
33:22out there
33:23for me
33:23while you can
33:24then tell me
33:25about it?
33:27Could've been
33:27Maybe
33:28Why'd you do that?
33:31Just Jailin'
33:32Now you are
33:33a convicted
33:35murderer
33:36correct?
33:38Yes
33:38And you committed
33:39a heinous crime
33:40Yeah I did
33:42But are you
33:44telling the truth
33:44about what happened?
33:46It's nothing
33:47to lose
33:47Thank you
33:49I'm nothing
33:49for him
33:50Keep a man
33:51fire
33:51Nothing to lose
33:53right?
33:57Yes
33:57Prosecutor Beth
33:59Silverman
34:00asked Baker
34:00about what he said
34:02on the videos
34:02recorded in jail
34:04You told her
34:05we gotta get married
34:06babe
34:07and
34:08she said
34:09I love you
34:10and you said
34:11babe
34:11I'm not making
34:12no f***ing deal
34:13I'll take it
34:15I'll take it
34:15to my f***ing grave
34:16baby
34:16Remember that?
34:18Mm-hmm
34:18I gotta hear it
34:20I don't remember
34:21saying it
34:21but I'm sure
34:22I gotta hear it first
34:23and you said
34:24I know
34:25but I'll take the blame
34:27I'll lie
34:27and then she whispered
34:30again and said
34:30wait
34:30listen
34:31listen
34:32and once again
34:34you said
34:34I'll lie
34:35I'll lie
34:37and I'll take it
34:37Remember that?
34:40I don't remember
34:41the conversation
34:41but I'm sure
34:42if you said
34:43it's there
34:43it's there
34:43He did exactly
34:44as we thought
34:45he would do
34:45I mean
34:46he couldn't
34:47tell enough lies
34:48he just kept
34:49changing the story
34:50from moment to moment
34:51At one point
34:52Baker said
34:52he killed Fabio
34:54because he abused Monica
34:56And is that
34:57again
34:58another
34:59uh
35:00lie
35:02that you are again
35:03telling to the jury
35:05to try and dirty up
35:07a completely
35:08innocent man
35:09who was slaughtered
35:10by you
35:11sitting on his back patio
35:13I'm just telling you
35:14the truth now
35:15I'm swore to this now
35:16so I'm swearing to it
35:17I swore to it
35:18as I'm telling you
35:19I just felt that way
35:20I really did
35:21You felt that way
35:22Yes
35:23I did
35:23Are you finding it
35:27difficult to keep
35:28your stories straight?
35:29You're asking
35:30four questions at a time
35:31when I try to answer
35:31you're coming off
35:32Objection
35:32non-responsive
35:33move to strike
35:34Sure again
35:34Again
35:35One more time
35:36Are you finding it
35:37hard to keep
35:38all of your stories
35:39straight?
35:41It's this thing
35:42What consequence
35:43might there be
35:44if you were to
35:45lie to this jury?
35:46I don't
35:46This all
35:48I don't know
35:50I don't know
35:50that's
35:51I have no idea
35:52I'm sure you'll
35:52find something
35:53Now we had
35:54two murderers
35:55one of whom
35:57is now a defense witness
35:58saying Monica
35:58had nothing to do with it
36:00and the other murderer
36:03now being a prosecution witness
36:04saying that Monica
36:06was involved
36:07Monica Simentelli's fate
36:10would depend
36:10on which killer
36:11the jury believed
36:13It's been about 40 days
36:25that we've now been in trial
36:26As I told you
36:28at the beginning
36:30of this case
36:31during opening statement
36:33that this would be
36:34a case
36:35about betrayal
36:37It's a case about greed
36:39it's a case about lust
36:40deception
36:41disloyalty
36:43treachery
36:45duplicity
36:46each of those words
36:48perfectly describe
36:50this defendant
36:52This defendant
36:55who was
36:57the mastermind
36:58behind her own
37:01adoring husband's
37:03gruesome murder
37:05The defendant
37:06wasn't going to do
37:07the dirty work herself
37:09right?
37:09She's not going to kill
37:10Fabio
37:10but
37:12she knew that
37:13Baker would
37:14because
37:14Baker is
37:16a stone cold killer
37:17Again
37:18she's the one
37:19that brought us
37:20all here
37:21She's the one
37:22who destroyed
37:24so many lives
37:25and their
37:26entire family
37:27No one else did that
37:28There's no one else
37:29to blame
37:30for any of that
37:31I
37:33hope that
37:34your deliberations
37:36go smoothly
37:37Thank you
37:38We're not here
37:39to decide
37:40whether or not
37:41Monica Simentelli
37:42was a bad
37:44wife
37:44an adulteress
37:45We're here
37:46to decide
37:46you are here
37:47to decide
37:48if she's been
37:48proven guilty
37:49of first degree
37:51murder
37:52conspiracy to commit
37:54first degree murder
37:55beyond a reasonable
37:57doubt
37:58And I submit
38:00to you
38:01if the evidence
38:02was that clear
38:03it would not
38:03have taken
38:04eight years
38:05and eight weeks
38:08of testimony
38:09to prove it
38:11You have got
38:13to connect
38:14Monica Simentelli
38:15to Robert
38:17Baker
38:17and this
38:18conspiracy
38:19Now how do you
38:21do that
38:21if it's not
38:22true
38:23And I submit
38:24to you
38:25it's not true
38:27and it's not
38:27been proven
38:28true
38:28and it won't
38:29be proven
38:30true
38:30Boy did she
38:32make a stupid
38:32mistake
38:33and she is guilty
38:35of a lot
38:36of things
38:37stupidity
38:40duplicity
38:41lying
38:43adultery
38:44all the things
38:46you saw up there
38:47all the things
38:49but she is not
38:51guilty
38:52of murder
38:54Thank you
38:55The jury was out
39:03for almost
39:03nine hours
39:04All the evidence
39:06connecting her
39:07to the murder
39:08seemed very
39:08circumstantial
39:09and the longer
39:11it goes on
39:12you start to think
39:13well maybe
39:13this is good
39:14for the defense
39:15jury number 10
39:16I understand
39:16the jury has
39:17reached the verdict
39:17is that correct
39:18The people of the
39:23state of California
39:23versus Monica
39:25Simentelli
39:26We the jury
39:27in the above
39:27entitled action
39:28find the defendant
39:30Monica Simentelli
39:31guilty of the crime
39:37of murder
39:38in violation
39:38of penal code
39:39section 187A
39:40a felony
39:41as charged
39:42in count one
39:43of the indictment
39:43We further find
39:45the murder to be
39:46of the first degree
39:47We further find
39:49the allegation
39:49that the murder
39:50of Fabio Simentelli
39:51was intentional
39:52and carried out
39:53by the defendant
39:54Monica Simentelli
39:55for financial gain
39:56We the jury
39:58in the above
39:59entitled action
39:59find the defendant
40:00Monica Simentelli
40:01guilty of the crime
40:02of conspiracy
40:03to commit murder
40:04She just kept
40:07shaking her head
40:08and saying no
40:09and I think
40:10the gravity
40:11of the whole thing
40:12just fell on her
40:13where it's like
40:14I've been in jail
40:15for eight years
40:16I'm not getting out
40:17At her sentencing
40:24both of Monica
40:25Simentelli's daughters
40:26spoke on her behalf
40:28My name is Jessica
40:29and I'm the oldest
40:30daughter of Monica
40:32and Fabio
40:32For the past eight years
40:35my sister and I
40:36have lived
40:36with an open mood
40:37We only had five months
40:40to give our father
40:40before we lost
40:41our mother too
40:42I won't have my dad
40:44to walk me down
40:45the aisle one day
40:45I won't have my mom
40:47to help me
40:47when I become
40:48a mother myself
40:49and yet I will
40:50keep going
40:51I'll keep fighting
40:52for justice
40:53for the truth
40:54than for my mom
40:55I love you
40:57and I'm giving you
40:58every ounce of strength
41:00I have
41:00for the days ahead
41:02Thank you
41:02Good morning Judge Cohen
41:05members of the court
41:06and all present
41:07My name is Isabella
41:09I'm the youngest daughter
41:11of Monica
41:12and Fabio Simentelli
41:13It was Isabella
41:15who had first discovered
41:16her father's
41:17bloodied body
41:18My dad was the biggest
41:20loss of my life
41:21and it pains me
41:23that he will never
41:23know this version of me
41:25but I know for a fact
41:27he would be proud
41:28of me speaking today
41:29honoring our family
41:31in a positive way
41:32Now I hope you can
41:34understand why I stand
41:36by both of my parents
41:37They were the greatest
41:39people I've ever known
41:40I have hope justice
41:42will prevail over time
41:43To my mom and dad
41:45I love you
41:46I miss you
41:47and I will forever
41:49remember you dancing
41:50in the kitchen
41:50Thank you
41:52I understand
41:56because obviously
41:58it would be very hard
41:59to live with the idea
42:00that your mother
42:01set up your father
42:02and now you've lost
42:03both parents
42:03because your mother
42:04is such a selfish person
42:06Listening to the evidence
42:07in this matter
42:08I do find
42:10that that was
42:11the mastermind
42:12in this conspiracy
42:16that committed murder
42:17Baker
42:18did not have the intelligence
42:20to plan
42:24such a brutal
42:25well thought out
42:26slaughter
42:26The defendant
42:28was the prime mover
42:29in this execution
42:30of a human being
42:31and consequently
42:33I am utilizing
42:34my discretion
42:35to impose
42:36the more serious
42:37of the sentences
42:38The defendant's sentence
42:39to stay prison
42:40for the term
42:40described by law
42:41which is life
42:42imprisonment
42:42without the possibility
42:43of parole
42:44There was definitely
42:46justice for Fabio
42:47and she got exactly
42:48what Robert Baker got
42:49life without parole
42:50because she was convicted
42:51much as he was
42:52on all counts
42:53There's certain cases
42:54where they're so just
42:56evil and devious
42:57that they would qualify
42:59for the death penalty
43:00and I think Monica's lucky
43:02that the state of California
43:03doesn't allow for that
43:04right now
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