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[Music] she was incredibly Charming she was attractive I don't even want to entertain why she did what she
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did you had a beautiful home you didn't work you had cleaning ladies You' pool people you had cars money you had it all
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Monica Sean Tilly homicide investigators say she conspired to murder her husband they said when they talked to
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her she lied and lied I was hearing about break-ins at the time in that particular area there
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were a lot of what they call knocknock burglaries I was hearing about home invasion it was assumed that it was a
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couple guys that had jumped the fence and it was a robbery what happened on the day of the
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murder at night at about 5 something I got a text saying come to my house I need you I get the phone and and I'm in
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disbelief saying what what what cuz I can't believe it and it was uh Monica she was crying and distra brought
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and she was saying they killed Fabio Fabio's Fon Tilly Fabio was an executive in the
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beauty business was a former hairdresser my queen he called her he would come home drop his bags sweep her
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off her feet and dance with her he was the love of her life and he loved his kids it looked like a textbook
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breaking a robbery gone wrong there was immense suspicion as to the explanation of a robbery from my
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perspective didn't sound right didn't sound right we're here to announce the arrest
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of two individuals in connection with the murder of Fab centi over the past several months
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investigators have developed information and identified Robert Baker and Monica centilli who is the wife of our homicide
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victim as responsible for his murder detectives say Monica simonelli had been having an affair her boyfriend
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was arrested and charged with murder but so was she I'm like you sure there's no effing
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way now the boyfriend has been convicted he has been sentenced to life without parole and Monica seanell is about to go
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on trial for murder according to the prosecutor she was the one with all the information and intelligence and she fed
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it to him and he was the Executioner the daughters she shared with Fabio are standing by her we want
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to clearly state that we will continue to stand by our mother as we have done for the last 6 years and we will fight
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for her innocence the defense is going to say there is no hard evidence by by the way
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there's no evidence that Monica sementelli conspired to kill her [Music] husband
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[Music] [Music] in 2017 Monica simonelli had an enviable life a luxurious house with a pool and a
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Porsche in the driveway in a posh area of Los Angeles but after spending almost 7
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years behind bars waiting through legal delays and Co Monica simonelli is scheduled to go on
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trial for the murder of her husband celebrity hairdresser and Beauty executive Fabio
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simonelli it's a tangled story her Defenders say Monica cimenti is an innocent victim but if you believe
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prosecutors she's a criminal authorities describe a case of lust greed and murder
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whichever it is the drama unfolded on January 23rd 2017 there were fire tracks outside of her
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house and I was like oh gosh there was no police yet it was just the First Responders Elise bluel was a friend of
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Monica simen til's we spoke with her in 2018 she says Monica texted her to come over the night Fabio was killed it was
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her and her daughters she just kept saying that he's gone that I'm not a wife anymore I just held her I just held
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her it was so painful just the Weeping the not being able to breathe she was beyond
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devastated Beyond devastated Monica's husband Fabio was slumped over his chair by the pool had
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you seen the body had you seen didn't I just wanted to be the best possible comfort
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I didn't know how to comfort that she couldn't speak in complete sentences until like the fourth day
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detectives quickly learned the victim Fabio simonelli had been a superstar in the beauty business Welcome to
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Hollywood you're on he was a happy man whoa we spoke with those who knew him best in
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2017 Bobo's sister morel aota and he wanted everybody around him happy all right and now it'll go backwards you say
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the best way to describe my dad oh my god really is like a cup of coffee in the morning Luigi cimenti Bobo's son
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from an earlier marriage he gets you going he lifts your spirits he gets you determined to charge the mountain of
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Life did your friend say hey Luigi is that your dad absolutely yeah it was kind of a fun thing you know uh it's
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hard to to avoid him when you type in seilly on on Google it's very hard in fact when you type in my name uh Luigi
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SEI the first thing that comes up is his profile yeah Fabio and his sister Mela began cutting hair in Toronto Canada
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good that's beautiful I love it that's where Fabio met Monica a customer and makeup artist he married in 1997 the
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wedding was incredible restaurant tour Joe Mercurio grew up with Fabio he was best man at Fabio's wedding to Monica we
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were dancing right to the very end we saw their relationship as a love story Fabio was also in love with his
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career he and his sister Mella were getting famous hey welcome fob look at this in 2008 Fabio was promoted to an
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executive job at the beauty giant Wella I'd love to recommend something new and moved his family to La Pete castios was
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Fabio's colleague what happened was it was the opportunity to really allow the things that he wanted for his family to
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come to life by taking on a bigger role he and Monica settled into a life most of us can only dream about well there
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won't be snow in Africa this Christmas he R A pors yeah what man doesn't want a Porsche in Los Angeles
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you're absolutely right they were living the life and raising their two teenage daughters Jessica and Isabella my own
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family unit is uh the most most dear to me then came that January day it was late afternoon as he sat by the pool
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Fabio was stabbed to death his then 16-year-old daughter Isabella discovered his
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body to investigators the Simmon Tilly case started out a mystery but from early on they had at least one
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intriguing clue from a neighbor's security camera they could see two figures and hoodies
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running close to Simon Tilly's House at the time of the murder a little while later Fabio's Porche being driven away
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back then investigators didn't suspect Monica had anything to do with Fabio's death she wasn't even home at the time
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he was killed instead they looked at those two hooded figures and thought they seemed a lot like these guys what
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do you call these guys well we call them the knock knock burglars at the time of
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Fabio's murder in 2017 La was plagued with break-ins from notorious teams of criminals so this is
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LAPD footage yeah they know what they're doing and they know what they want I mean they're running wild yeah they were
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hitting homes of celebrities all over Los Angeles least say this may have been a case of him being in the
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wrong place at the wrong [Music] time at least seven celebrities had hundreds of thousands of dollars worth
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of jewelry taken it was 27 and for years the homes of La celebrities were targeted high-profile
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victims include $300,000 from former Laker star Derek fiser $175,000 for Nicki Minaj and 2 million
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from Alanis Mor sets brenwood home they're moving just as quick as they can in and out in about 3 minutes
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they ransack a bedroom find some jewelry and get out William Dunn a Los Angeles Police
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Department detective at the time had hours of videotape of the knock knock burglars in action all over wealthy Los
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Angeles neighborhoods this one comes from a home just a few miles from Fabio's months after his murder they
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seem to know what to look for right they're looking for jewelry they're looking for cash look at him yeah he's
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checking clothes he's feeling the clothes to see if somebody's put jewelry or cash in some of the pockets see now
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he's seeing that safe ah see and now he gets he tells his buddy hey look at what
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we found now look at how many seconds and this is a a real heavy safe but they're very determined they put a lot
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of effort into it and it's so heavy he can't he can't lift the thing but look at how he's just going to slide that
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thing out so they got the safe that's Pay Dirt off they go g yep you see they're
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gone to detectives those two hooded figures recorded on a neighbor surveillance camera near Fabio's house right around
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the time of his murder looked a lot like the knocknock burglars and the Simon Tilly home had
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its own cameras detectives hoped they would find even more video of those hooded figures on those tapes there were
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four cameras outside the Simon Tilly house but when police came to to look for the video it was gone a DVR like
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this was in the garage it stored all the surveillance whoever broke in must have
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taken it strangely besides taking Fabio's Porsche that black box was one of the only things stolen from the house
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say investigators Monica told them she thought some inexpensive jewelry and $111,000 in cash was possibly missing
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but she wasn't sure detectives say the home safe hadn't been touched the only thing I thought that was unusual is why
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didn't they take more why didn't they take his watch the suspected burglars left behind
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an $88,000 Rolex on Simon Tilly's [Music] wrist but within months the knock knock
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burglars began to fade as police suspects because the police were hanging on to a big secret nobody
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except investigators knew it at the time but they discovered blood at the crime scene that did not belong to Fabio cimen
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Tilly that meant detectives had DNA to work with DNA that eventually led to a suspect we were able to develop forensic
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evidence some of that was DNA which identified Robert Baker Robert Baker he had been a racket
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ball league director at a Los Angeles gym not far from Fabio's house and Monica's friend Elise knew him we
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spoke to her about him in 2018 how would you describe Rob Baker he was cool we all really liked him he was
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one of those gy guys you know Elise played in his League he was very Alpha he was a very alpha male there was also
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kind of a sexually thing about him there was something sexual about him you know how
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some guys just have this sexual kind of I don't know he's very manly he was in shape and he was kind of
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you know kept everything he was in charge he was also Tangled Up in the porn industry even doing some acting
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Elise didn't know much about Baker's background but she did hear about his movie career from a friend who happened
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to spot him in an adult film that's like the kind of Gossip you just need to tell
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someone who did you tell I told Monica Monica was also in Robert Baker's racket ball league what was her reaction
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well it was pretty anticlimactic I'll tell you really yeah cuz a lot of times when we would have girl talk she'd get a
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little prudy like a little prude what Elise didn't know was that Robert Baker was also a registered sex
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offender Robert Baker has a 1993 conviction out of a Long Beach case it's for luden
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lascivious acts with a minor police say baker sered time for that offense against a teenage
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girl for months police watched Baker and they discovered two things first he was
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definitely not one of the knocknock burglers and second he made thousands of calls and texts to of all people people
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Monica cimenti in fact just days after Fabio's death Monica held a wake in her backyard
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and Robert Baker actually showed up you did meet him I did morela says she saw Monica hanging out with Baker I saw her
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back outside again the drink smoking and talking to this guy I found out that that was his name Rob and um she
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introduced me to him Luigi noticed him too Robert and Monica were in the corner talking to each other sort of away from
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the party and there was something else Luigi noticed about Baker he had uh bandages on his hands one guest even
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snapped these pictures of Monica and Robert Baker together if you look closely you can just make out a bandage
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on Baker's finger police would later conclude Baker cut that finger when he killed Fabio and that's how his blood
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was at the scene detectives visited Monica at home using what they called aruse telling her they
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were investigating the knocknock burglars when in fact they were investigating her and secretly following
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Monica and Robert Baker and according to authorities it paid off they say they found evidence that Monica and Baker
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were having an affair and conspired to kill Fabio over the past several months months investigators have developed
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information and identified Robert Baker 55 years old of Koga Park and Monica cimeni 45 years old of
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Woodland Hills who was the wife of our homicide victim as responsible for his murder he said uh we arrested Monica for
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the murder of your brother and Robert Baker for the murder of your brother and I was in shock I'm like they
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you sure you know I I was in shock according to the prosecution these two were plotting and planning to kill Fabio so
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they could live their life together Mary fulan is a former Federal prosecutor and a 48 Hours consultant it
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was a very complicated investigation as author hustled Robert Baker and Monica simonelli into court
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they each pleaded not guilty calling people versus Robert Baker but almost 6 years later Robert Baker changed
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everything when he came to court that day people were [Music] stunned [Music] Monica simonelli was being accused of
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cheating on Fabio with that racketball coach Robert Baker and then along with Baker planning Fabio's murder my instant
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and thorough and complete reaction was there's no effing way I was there she was
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decimated after months of crying and grieving alongside Monica Bobo's family couldn't believe it either 20 some years
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in my life she was like a sister she was a cool aunt to my kids she was lovable whole family felt that way about her
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then in 2023 Baker skipped trial all together and pleaded no contest Robert Baker leads no contest and that's in
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essence accepting responsibility for the murders he's ultimately sentenced to life without
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parall the maximum sentence in this case is life imprison without the possibility
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of parole plus one year you understand this yes sir but while Baker was accepting responsibility for Fabio's
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death Monica wasn't what he and Monica did to my brother Fabio is unfor give all but Monica's own daughters Isabella
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and Jessica supported their mom we will continue to stand by our mother as we have done for the last six years and we
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will fight for her innocence as Monica prepared to go to triy her defense attorney Leonard Lavine
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made a statement we are confident that Robert Baker's guilty pleas and his truthful testimony will finally
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establish once and for all that Monica Celli had nothing to do with the planning or the
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murder of Fabio cimmelli her husband Monica's defense team wasn't answering questions before trial so we
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asked New York based defense attorney Julie rendelman to review Monica's defense team's pre-trial
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motions there's no witnesses that we know of so far that are going to come forward and testify that she planned
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this Murder She says Monica's relationship with Baker doesn't prove anything it seems to strengthen the DA's
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case that not only did she have an affair but the person she was having the affair with is the killer I hear you but
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the problem is is that simply because an individual is having an affair the you cannot take the leap to get to um an
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individual being responsible um for the death of their loved one certainly not Beyond A Reasonable Doubt but the
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prosecution says the affair is key to establishing a conspiracy between Monica and Robert Baker an alleged conspiracy
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detective spent months tracking how long was that investigation 5 months 5 to six months
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while the da also declined an interview before going to trial former prosecutor Mary fulan reviewed the case against
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Monica so this is the scene of the crime yeah yeah this is where the two joggers
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you know came according to the video from a a neighbor uh running up here toward the house prosecutors say that
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first hooded figure in the green sweatshirt is Robert Baker so what about that accomplice we don't know who that
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person is it's a mystery what does this indictment say about Monica cimenti yeah
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this indictment is a very detailed outline and timeline of the plot to kill fabios
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selli motive here is simple I mean this is love and money this is one of the oldest crimes in the book where you know
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two lovers desperately wanting to be together and they try to get rid of one of the spouses so they can be together
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for what for financial benefit and that would mean the 3/4 of a million life insurance policy the house 401ks police
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say the plan was to Stage the scene to make it look like the work of the knock knock burglars and throw police off
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their Trail and they believe Monica was deeply involved they believe she was one
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the coordinated everything the one that showed him you know where the house was where the DVR was so that he knew where
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to go to rip it out of the walls how to get into the house and that's not all the prosecutor says 6 months before
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before the murder Monica forwarded this email sharing details of her home security system with Baker she provided
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the password the username the loging credentials as well as the user manual to Robert Baker the same day that she
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received it from the surveillance company and then there's the day of the murder prosecutors say Monica's behavior
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that day is a key element of her role in The Conspiracy to kill faia according to
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prosecutors this surveillance video shows Monica left home at 326 p.m. driving the family's black Ford F-150
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pickup this is where she came according to prosecutors to establish her Alibi so that happens in
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this parking lot she pulls in here in her Ford 150 pickup truck right in front of this store stops for just a few
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minutes prosecutors say they have video where it appears an individual gets into
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Monica's truck they say that person was Robert Baker Monica then goes alone into the
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Target store and begins shopping but as she leaves prosecutors say this surveillance photo shows her fixated on
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her phone they would tell a grand jury it appear years she was streaming video from her home a lot of it but what was
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Monica watching how do you think Robert Baker's plea will affect Monica cti's trial for
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a look at a timeline of the case go to 48 [Music] hours.com [Music] so what was Monica simonelli watching on
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her phone that afternoon at about the time her husband was being murdered the phone records and data show
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that she's connecting to a unique IP address it happens to be the IP address of the house and there's a large amount
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of data that's being consumed and that large amount of data is consistent with video streaming I.E the surveillance
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video of the surveillance video according to the DA it might have been video from her
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home security cameras but could Monica have been watching the actual murder no the surveillance cameras on
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the house are are facing outside but they're not facing in the pool area which was where Fabio was located at the
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time so they didn't actually capture the murder but they would capture obviously
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who was coming and going Monica could have been watching everything else prosecutors say they're
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going to argue she's watching the scene the scene of the crime to see the comings and goings of when Baker and the
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accomplice are going into the house when are they leaving the house so that she knows when she can leave here and go
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home prosecutors say while she's watching the feed Baker and his accomplice were on the cimen Tilly
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property stalking Fabio according to the prosecution quote it was a very targeted attack that was
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done with the intent to kill they also go on to say that quote he was stabbed in the neck it cut his jugular vein cut
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the carded artery and there's more evidence of the plot to kill Fabio prosecutors say baker was planning
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a future with Monica the da say is that about 2 months before the murder uh Baker told a friend
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that he hadd been dating this woman for about a year uh and that he sent a picture of that woman and that woman was
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Monica and then two months later Fabio was killed authorities also say Monica's Behavior after the murder is suspect she
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didn't move her teenage daughters out of the [Music] house or have her security system
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repaired and the prosecutors argue that the reason why she had no concern because she knew who the killer was and
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she was with them this is a woman who is pretending to be a grieving Widow and making all
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these posts on social [Music] media who at the same time is carrying on a tour love affair with the man who
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actually killed her husband prosecutors made explicit photos public in court filings some we can't
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show you they say it's evidence the secretive romance continued after Fabio's death I mean that's a double
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life the da presented a photograph of Monica and and Baker to the grand jury and it was a photograph of Monica
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actually grabbing his crotch and this was one uh that was taken in Vegas there was also this this photo of
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a mirror right and it was a photo of the back of Monica with Mrs Baker uh written
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a lipstick on the mirror the lipstick and the mirror what does that tell them again this all goes
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to motive I mean Mrs Baker she wanted to be Mrs Baker but when detectives asked Monica
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about Robert Baker prosecutors say she told them she wasn't even sure of his last name they say she also told them
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she wasn't sure how to work the home security cameras to quote the prosecution here
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they say quote she's a liar she's a manipulator she's a cheater and everything that comes out of her mouth
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has to be taken with a large grain of salt large enough so that you could choke on it if they can show that Monica
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lied about her lifestyle about the affair about a variety of other things that they'll convince the jury that
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she's also lying about her involvement in this conspiracy to kill Fabio and they say when she was later
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confronted about why Baker's blood was found in her house she continued to lot she comes up with some cockin story
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about you know playing rocketball with Baker and hitting him in the finger and that it was bleeding and there was a
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bloody towel and she had to bring it home and and that's why his blood was at the
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house but full genan says one of the biggest pieces of evidence against Monica is what happened when police came
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up with a plan to secretly record the couple it began when they pulled them over as they were driving it's a ruse by
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the police they say that they think the car that they're in is stolen and they wanted to you know just check it out and
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you know probably isn't and they handcuff them per protocol put them into the police vehicle but what they don't
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know is that vehicle's wired and that there's a van up the street with police in it listening to the for every word
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and it's at that point Monica says and I'm going to quote here somebody must have talked somebody is doing this to us
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and then she said they must have something they must have something that's pretty damning evidence
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as a former prosecutor that is close to an Omission to being involved in this conspiracy according to detectives
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Monica was also recorded telling her cellmate he's not just my lover he's my Confidant he's my
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everything detectives also intercepted letters Monica wrote to Baker from behind bars saying I'm always amazed how
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we both know what the other is thinking destined and I miss you so much my love when you look at these pieces in the
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totality it's going to put together a pretty perfect puzzle here and the puzzle will paint this picture that
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Monica conspired with Baker that he did not do it alone that they did it together but Monica's Defenders say the
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case against her is flimsy and they say baker did it without her Robert Baker may have killed him
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because he wanted him out of the way maybe he did it because he hoped that by killing him he would get Monica to
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himself that in and of itself does not establish that Monica was in on the [Music]
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murder Monica simen Tilly's defense is adamant she had absolutely nothing to do with Fabio's murder the defense's
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position is that there is no hard evidence actually no evidence that establishes Monica sementelli
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participated in conspiracy and if you can't prove a conspiracy you can't prove Monica's guilt says rendleman the sheer
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number of circumstances that seem to weave together the parking lot meeting the walking into the store and watching
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video that is streamed live from the home the password being given to the killer all of those things the sum of
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them wouldn't a jury believe is just too much of a coincidence obviously I can't
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answer for what a jury's going to say um the defense I can promise you is going to attempt to poke holes holes in every
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single piece of evidence you just spoke about so let's go step by step the sharing of that password for the
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surveillance video so there is no question that she shared the password let me says there's no connection
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between sharing that password and a murder plot there's absolutely no evidence between the 6 months that she
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shared it and the day he was killed that establishes there was any plan in place
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between them whatsoever to have her husband killed not a text not an email not a conversation with her best friend
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saying she's over her relationship the second issue is there's absolutely no evidence that Robert Baker downloaded
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the app or ever even used the app let's talk about the actions in the parking lot the day of the markers
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someone appears to be getting into the car keep a couple things in mind one is from the defenses perspective the video
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footage is so grainy that you can't make out who if anybody is getting into Monica Celli's car and what about the
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allegation that she was watching video of the house as the murder took place once she went inside the target
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there was a point in time where she seemed fascinated fixated on her phone well I'll tell you one thing the
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prosecution doesn't know what she was watching on her phone they cannot articulate nor will they ever be able to
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articulate what was going on on in that phone but it was being streamed from her
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home she could be watching a show just like any one of us watched a show while we're walking
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along the prosecution really digs in on Monica's character fact that she's having an affair well let me quote what
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the defense says in regards to that quote the prosecutor's evidence of M Simmon tell's Affair and specifically
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the sexist and Lord manner in which it was presented was irrelevant improper and unfairly prejudicial to Ms simonelli
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they go on and say the sexual and romantic details of their Affair were simply irrelevant to the question
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whether they conspired to murder Fabio Celli but then why lie to investigators allegedly saying she was unsure of
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Robert Baker's last name the question becomes why is she lying is she lying because she committed a murder or is she
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lying because she has been in a trist with someone for quite a while and doesn't want the world to know
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particularly law enforcement prosecutors did find it suspicious that on the night Fabio died
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Monica was already inquiring about his life insurance but rendelman says it's not odd I understand um how it could
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look insensitive to start asking about a life insurance policy so soon after but
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if you're uh an individual that is not financially sound you have two girls at home you have potentially a mortgage to
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pay you have bills to pay you are going to be worried about the Financial Security of your
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family and come trial says rendleman what may really help Monica is that she won't be tried with Baker the jury will
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not see the man who committed the actual murder at the defense table next to Monica and that could make the case
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harder for prosecutors says Mary F and the fact that he's her lover and the killer the one that the DNA is around
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the house I mean that there is a spillover effect and that all would have you know potentially impacted I think
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the jury in this case and he's no longer there would you say it was his last gift
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to Monica yeah I would cuz there's absolutely no other reason for him actually to plead straight up without
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any real plea bargain here to life without the possibility of parole except I guess his last murderous chivalrous
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act but it seems Baker may have an even bigger impact on Monica's case 48 Hours went to see him in jail and he told us
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Monica had nothing to do with the murder of Fabio and she never knew that he was
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Fabio's killer Baker also told us that he's no longer in touch with Monica and he has not decided if he will
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testify another factor that could help Monica says rendleman the daughters Monica shared with Fabio are standing
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behind their mother and so there's an argument to be made that the jury's looking at the daughter saying if they
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believe her after all this shouldn't we as for Monica herself she's never spoken publicly except at a
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