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The one thing I've learned in this job is that anything is possible. People will do anything.
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And if you have $80,000 to throw around, you can absolutely find someone in Los Angeles County to kill your wife.
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This story is definitely ripe for a made-for-TV movie, where you have the ex-model turned housewife [music]
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with a millionaire husband who is cheating on his wife and tries to hire a hitman because he's not winning his
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divorce. Monica Olsen used to be a model. And she ran her own skin care company.
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Dino Guglielmi was a successful [music] businessman in Los Angeles. He was the lead singer of a rock band,
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but he would pay to have the rock band play at the House of Blues. And he would tell his employees that
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they were required to go to his shows. Monica and Dino, they were married for about 7 years.
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And it looked to be a pretty happy marriage. They had two really beautiful children.
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What Monica didn't know was that there wasn't a time that he wasn't cheating on her.
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She was in love with this man. Yeah. And had no clue No. what was going on behind
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her back. Dino wanted too much. He wanted the hot model wife and his kids, [music]
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but then he also wanted everything on the side. And I think he wanted Monica to be a
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certain person or to just follow whatever he said and do whatever he wanted her to do and control her, but he
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couldn't do that. Someone like Mr. Gugliemelli, when they don't get their way, will do whatever
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they need to do, legal or illegal, to get their way. And ultimately, he decided >> [music]
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>> that he wanted to end it not through the legal proceedings, >> [music] >> but he wanted to kill his wife. And he
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wasn't going to do it himself. He was going to get somebody else to do it. He wanted her dead.
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He didn't care how it was done. Beat her up, cut her head off, put her in a ditch. My name is Richard Furman, and
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Dino Gugliemelli hired me to murder his wife. >> [bell] [music] [music] [music] >> Tonight's 48 Hours, appropriately set in
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Los Angeles, is a twisted tale of greed and murder that at times may seem like a
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Hollywood blockbuster. Like any good thriller, it's one part romance, two parts Hitchcock,
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but in the end, it's all true. It wasn't a joke to him. He was very serious. Get it over with,
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be bloody, be bad about it, and end it. Meet Rick Fordman. In 2012, millionaire Dino Guglielmelli asked him to kill the
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mother of his children. >> [music] >> Did you ever say, "How would the children feel if they lost their
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mother?" More than once. And what did he say? He would say, "They'll be much better off without her.
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I will find them a good mother, and I'll even have you check her out first and make sure she's great and make get your
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approval." Just 9 years earlier, this horror story was a love story. Monica Olsen, a
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small-town girl from Canada, made it big as a New York fashion model, and then moved to Los Angeles to try her hand at
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acting. Monica was working very hard towards it, being successful in modeling and acting. Monica's close friend, Olya
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Banar. She was beautiful. I mean, she's very photogenic. If this whole thing wouldn't happened,
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we would see her in the big screens by now, definitely. Olya says Monica wasn't in Los Angeles
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for very long before she was swept off her feet by Dino, a charming farm boy from a big family in Walla Walla,
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Washington. We all grew up in the same house where my parents live currently. Emilio Guglielmelli says his brother
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Dino's first love was music. >> [music and singing] >> He's always been a musician,
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very, very interested in music. Dino dropped out of college and moved to Los Angeles to be a rock star.
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But that's not how he would make his fortune. Living in the land of health and fitness, Dino saw a need and capitalized
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on it. He started making and distributing vitamins and other dietary supplements. There's nobody in the world
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doesn't want to live longer and so he parlayed that into a great business. Dino would eventually build a hugely
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successful multi-level supplements and skin care company, Creations Garden. Dino was a young successful man with a
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lot of money and a lot of power and when he met Monica he wanted her and he knew
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how to get her. Six months [music] after they met, Dino flew Monica to Italy and proposed.
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Sounds like a fairy tale in the beginning because he proposed to her in Venice. I mean that was love at first
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sight. You don't hear those stories happened. The couple was married just 3 months
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later and Dino's brother Gino Guglielmelli attended the lavish wedding. It was pretty fancy for me, the
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whole thing. Gino says Dino's model wife seemed to complete his baby brother's transformation from farm boy
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to mogul. He had a successful business, he had nice cars. I think that just added to the image. What were your
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impressions of Monica? I didn't care for her. I thought she was a gold digger and had other motives. I
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don't know what it was, something about her I didn't really care for. She wanted
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her lifestyle that wasn't sitting at home. You know, her lifestyle was to go to Hollywood and whatever they do in
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Hollywood. They had nannies. People with the girls, you know, all day long. So he he's
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probably spent more time with them because when he'd come home from work, sometimes she wouldn't come back until
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later in the evening. I think she was a great wife and from what I saw of their life, I mean they were perfect
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together. But Gino lived with his brother and Monica for 6 months early on in their
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marriage and says he saw trouble from the start. Just two people with the same kind of egos and I think she really
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wanted to have a career and I think he wanted her to be a mom. Olia says Monica was a great wife and mother, but when
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she wanted more, their relationship changed and so did Dino. Monica was at home taking care of kids for a couple
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years and then it was time for her to be more independent. I think Dino was scared of losing control of Monica.
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He started being more aggressive, more controlling towards her. By the time Rick Fleming came into the
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picture, their marriage was in its final act. I knew that he was dating all sorts
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of girls because he liked to brag about it. Rick and Dino were in business together
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supplying vitamins and supplements to the military. Rick had served as an enlisted man years
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earlier and had contacts and says that impressed Dino. You two became friends. Close.
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And the closer they got, the more Dino confided in Rick. Dino told me that Monica was a very bad mother, always
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gone all the time and slept around with men, women, drank too much, did drugs. Dino filed for divorce and Rick says he
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became consumed with the thought of losing half his assets and custody of his children. Dino is
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for lack of a better word a complete control freak and a game player. He had to be one step ahead of everybody. He
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had to win at the end of the day. Rick says when Dino was ordered to pay a whopping $55,000
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a month in alimony, he hatched a plan to have his Canadian-born wife arrested and
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deported. And he turned to Rick for help. With my military background, Dino thought I was perfect.
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He would like me to plant drugs in her car, follow her around and call the police when she's driving erratically to
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see if she can get pulled over. I had Monica's house keys, uh Monica's car keys, uh Monica's credit
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card statements showing me everything that she's done and places she's been. Dino filed papers showing his company
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was in trouble and the alimony was reduced to 25,000, but Rick says it was still too much.
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Too late. What was the final straw for him? He got an email from his own attorney to him stating that he was just
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better off to give her the 25,000 a month and the credit card and just leave it alone.
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And that to him, that he just lost. His own attorney said, "Dino, you just you you lost. Give it up. Just just
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pay." It's like asking him to stop breathing. He he can't do that. So, what were his instructions to you?
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This has got to end. She's got to go. Get it Get it done. If I wasn't going to do it, he was going
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to find somebody to do it. Rick told Dino he would take care of Monica and he did, just not the way Dino
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wanted. Why are you still alive? You know, I I think Rick had did the noble thing.
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Monica Olsen, remarkable, and Deputy District [music] Attorney Emily Cole. Monica is really lucky that
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Mr. Guglielmelli picked the wrong guy. Otherwise, she'd be dead. I remember the first time
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I saw him, he was smiling at me. When Monica Olsen married Dino Guglielmelli, she was sure he was her
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happily ever after. He was persistent. He was charming. She never dreamed [music] their story
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would end so tragically. You don't think that the person that you've created a life with can want to harm you
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and make you suffer. Monica is very intelligent and has a master's degree in international
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finance, but she says that like a lot of women, she was blinded by Dino's charm and the spoils of his riches. We went
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out on a date and he said, you know, I have two plane tickets and I want to take you to Paris.
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Throughout our marriage, he spoiled me. But Monica says things began to change in 2008 when she decided she wanted to
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go back to work and asked Dino to help her create a skin care line called Skin by Monica. That was kind of my baby.
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But Dino took charge. Everything was kind of under his control and I was kept out of the loop. Don't ask too many
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questions. Monica says the more questions she asked, the angrier Dino became. So, she worked on reigniting her
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modeling career, but that just made Dino furious. There was a change in his personality.
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Huge. He went dark. I mean, it was it was as if he was possessed. Monica says she was never the one
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sleeping around and doing drugs. Dino was. And at the height of that madness, he
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created his heavy metal rock band. Dino dyed his hair and polished his nails black and told Monica it was all
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for show, but she says she became terrified of him and started documenting his behavior. Everything that's going on
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she's recording on her cell phone. Which is fine. He can do that. He has every right.
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When Dino started behaving really badly, uh Monica would record him on her on her
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cell phone. Come on, let's go. Let's get your backpack. showing these videos to everyone saying, "Look, I
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don't know what happened to him. This is This is really crazy. He's behaving like
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a lunatic." In this incident, Dino fired a nanny who his children loved. You don't understand. You can't be here,
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Anna. You let us. Because she was too loyal to Monica. You can't do that, Anna. Look at it. It's not a choice.
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After Dino filed for divorce, he had refused to move out. What Monica didn't know is that while Dino was living in
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the guest house, he was already planning to get rid of her by paying his friend Rick Furman to do it.
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How did he want Monica killed? That would depend on the day. Rick says he tried to keep Dino happy
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and stall him through the divorce, hoping it would all end when there was an agreement, but things just kept
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escalating. She was definitely putting him through the wringer. And he wanted her to suffer. So, I came
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with this idea of letting him know that she was infected with AIDS. And then, just a matter of time, Dino,
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it'll all be over. Don't worry about it. And that worked for months. How did he react when you told him that you
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infected Monica with HIV virus? How big can you smile? It's not a joke. I mean, literally, how big can you
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smile? Cuz this was pretty big. Rick made it clear he never actually infected Monica with the virus. It was
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just a lie to stall Dino. But meanwhile, things at the Gugliemelli home were about to spiral out of
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control. It was the night of January 16th, 2012. He was getting in my face right then and
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there in front of the kids. My first thing was to get the kids removed. Monica says she rushed the children into
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her room and locked the door. But before she could dial 911, Dino once again beat her to it and accused her of
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assaulting him. He said that she wrapped her hands around his neck and it caused scratches.
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And that she hit him. Monica was [music] arrested and Emily Cole was assigned to the case. The story
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was corroborated somewhat by their daughters. So the case was filed as a misdemeanor
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domestic violence case. So there was evidence that she had struck him. There were pictures. He showed me a
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picture that his daughter or one of his friends took or something of this teeny beetle cut and I basically said man up.
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I've cut myself worse shaving. Still Dino was able to get a restraining order against Monica and was granted
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full custody of their daughters. I'm being given a restraining order to stay away from my kids, to stay away
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from the house, to stay away from my business. It all sounds too familiar to this
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woman. Do you see parallels between your story and Monica's? It's the same story almost. Lisha
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Divine, Dino's ex-wife. At any given moment he would do anything to make me lose my kids. That was his
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goal. Lisha says during their divorce, Dino accused her of doing drugs and being
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abusive and then took everything. Their daughter, their home, and the business they started together, Creation's
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Garden. The Dino I married was a caring and compassionate guy. The guy I divorced
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was callous, mean, calculating. The best way to describe it is Jekyll and Hyde. Looking back in hindsight, this is
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exactly what he did to his second wife. He brought up domestic violence charges and he was able to get custody of their
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child then and that's exactly what it looks like he was doing with Monica. I'll do the pink fairy duty. Monica lost
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custody of her girls for 13 months and then charges were finally dropped for lack of evidence. But that's when Dino
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pushed Rick Furman to execute the plan. The pressure was on the killer. Three, five, seven, 10 times a week,
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phone calls at 4:00 a.m. in the morning, when's this going to end? Are you sure you can get it done? There's always
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problems even in normal divorces with couples that fight over certain things, but you somehow
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make it work for the benefit of your children. There is no such a concept in his mind.
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It's all or nothing. It's the Hunger Games. It's kill or be killed. Monica was about to find out how right she was.
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Rick Furman couldn't stall Dino any longer and says he's no killer. So he decided to visit Monica's divorce
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attorney and spill the beans. We had quite a detailed discussion. And you told him
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that Dino >> You told him everything. That Dino wanted Monica dead. Absolutely. How did
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your husband want you killed? I mean in a horrific way. He wanted to make it look like a drug
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killing. Like I had been kidnapped in Mexico and he wanted me raped and he wanted my head cut off.
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It's pretty horrific. Monica's lawyer took Rick Furman's information to the District Attorney's
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Office and the case of attempted murder was assigned to none other than Emily Cole. I didn't automatically recognize
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the Guglielmi name. It was his daughter's names that I recognized from the domestic violence case.
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That's what clicked in my head that I'd met this guy before. But before Cole could make an arrest, her investigators
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needed solid evidence. The detective said, "Would you be willing to wear a wire?" And I said, "Sure."
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On October 1st, 2013, he did just that. You're positive that what? You want her dead.
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Um 100%. Why wouldn't I? Why wouldn't you? Good question. >> [music] >> On the afternoon of October 1st, 2013,
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Rick Furman and Dino Guglielmelli did something they'd done many times. They were just going to have lunch, and uh
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this is where they usually went. Spicy mint chicken? Let's do the penang curry beef.
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But prosecutor Emily Cole made sure that this time the tables were turned. The detectives in this case from the
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Sheriff's Department Major Crimes, they were sitting here watching Dino and Furman have their lunch.
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There's no going back when you get up out of that seat. I'll never go back. So what did Furman have to
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get out of Dino? Well, first of all, he needed to give him an opportunity to say
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no, to back out at all times. Um but he needed for Dino to understand that at the end of this conversation, by
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the time they walked out that door, that there was no way that Dino was going to
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be able to stop what he had put in motion. I'll I'll happy when it's all over. That's when I'll really be happy.
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We did exactly the same routine as we've done for a year. It was the same conversation. Nothing was changed.
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Nothing was embellished. Nothing was made up. In the moment Rick calls typical, Dino
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is heard justifying his desire to have Monica killed because she lied during a deposition in the domestic violence case
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against her. And she went into her deposition and lied and said that I scratched myself to set her up
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and I knew then that she never touched me. I knew then that she lied. All those scratches came from me
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going to the bathroom and scratching myself and she looked me straight in the eyes and said it.
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And that's when I knew that I wanted her dead. And I knew that I could never ever trust
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her or anything or anything that came out of her mouth. And I knew then that she
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would do anything to hurt me. This is a clip from the recording that was made that day at this restaurant
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between Dino and Mr. Fuhrman. I I'll ask you a simple question. You're positive that what? You want her dead.
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Oh. 100%. Are you sure the girls are they're fine? They're totally fine. I'll make
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you think they're dead. They're dead. [clears throat] So this is significant because it was a
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this was a clear declaration that he wanted his wife dead. No matter the consequences.
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He wants her dead regardless of who it's going to hurt. It's like a dream come true.
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So so she's tried so hard to hurt me for so long and done so much you know, evil things.
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Three or four times I gave him the way out. Are you sure you want her dead? When I get up out of this seat, it's
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done. It's over. I think his words were, it's been a long time, but why wouldn't
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I? Why wouldn't I? Why wouldn't you? Good question. But what are the kids going to do for a
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mother? Don't worry about it. I'll find a good one. By the time we're out of lunch,
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it's already done. You just need to figure out how to pay me. Oh, I'll pay. How much?
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You already told me how much. 80,000? That's what you told me. Rick says that in earlier conversations
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about killing Monica, Dino made it clear he wanted it done while she was traveling abroad. So, Rick told Dino
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that while they were at lunch, Monica was away on vacation in Mexico, where she would die that day.
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Are you telling me it's going to be done today? Are you serious? Yes. When you leave this room,
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Rick convinced Dino that a hired assassin in Mexico would kill Monica before they had time to digest their
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lunch. I don't want to know anything. There you go. I'm not going to tell you anything.
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I'll read about it in the paper. Guess you will. Mexico paper, maybe. Painfully aware of the sting operation,
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Monica was hiding out in a hotel room in Beverly Hills. That night, Dino went home to his daughters, presumably
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thinking their mother was dead. The following day, the recording was brought to me. We listened to it, and
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then I and then I filed the case. Dino Guglielmelli was arrested at his home in Valencia, California in front of his
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daughters and charged with attempted murder. They saw him being arrested. The girls were taken into protective
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custody, and Monica had to pick them up at the jail. And I don't understand is why the hate?
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The deep-seated anger and hatred towards you. You know, um that's a question for him.
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One, I would eventually get to ask him over the phone. You have a prepaid call from inmate Dino
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at the Corcoran California State Hello, Dino. Hi, Chris. I just want to remind you that you are
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you are being recorded, Dino. The only way I could ask Dino Guglielmi why he wanted his wife Monica killed was via
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telephone. My first question to you is, what mistakes did you make? What are you
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guilty of? Dino is being held in this facility in Corcoran, California, which doesn't allow cameras.
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Well, I would say I'm probably I could say that I'm guilty of allowing myself to to be betrayed and
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manipulated. I'm guilty of working too hard. I'm guilty of trusting too much. Dino says he is the victim here. He
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calls Rick and master con man who convinced him they could make millions selling vitamins and supplements to the
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military. When that con started to unravel, Dino says Rick set him up for attempted murder. You're not taking any
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responsibility for this. No. No. No. Ask Furman. Why did he do it? After 2 years and a manipulation on a
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military contract and and all this stuff, why did he do that? He didn't have to. I wasn't going out trying to
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find somebody to knock off my wife. He had a conversation Prosecutor Emily Cole confirms that Rick did indeed con
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Dino into thinking there was a big contract coming his way. Rick forged Department of Defense documents
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to lead Mr. Guglielmeli to believe that there was some big business deal. And Mr. Furman explains that he did that
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in order to keep Mr. Guglielmeli happy because a happy Dino doesn't want to kill his wife.
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Is there a military contract? There's military contracts given every day. Um I particularly am seeking one for
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supplements. Um and I'm still working on it today. And that's really all I'll say with
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that. Our investigation brought forward the information that Mr. Furman only spent a year in the military. He had a
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very basic military background. He was honorably discharged on injury. Rick Furman is a chameleon because he'll be
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whatever you want him to be. And just like Emily Cole, we found Richard Furman hard to pin down. Are you
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a hitman? No. Have you ever killed somebody? Um not on US soil. That's it. Move on.
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But you have killed someone. Um move on. He'll say and do what he thinks you want him to do.
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I think Dino and Mr. Furman were very similar in that respect and I think that's why they got along so well.
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But while it was obvious that Rick Furman was a phony, the conspiracy to kill Monica was very real.
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By the time we're out to lunch it's already done. You just need to figure out how to pay me.
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I'll pay you. How much? You already told me how much. 80,000? That's what you told me.
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I've listened to the tape and it's very clear on the tape you wanted your wife killed and you were willing to pay
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$80,000 to make it happen. Well, the whole money aspect had come up numerous times
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about him wanting money and needing money and I've been paying him money for a long time.
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I don't know how much money I paid him. I think I've in total I I paid him probably $50,000
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to secure the military contract and it was always like how are you going to give me the money? And where's the money
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going to come from? I was questioned all the time. By the time the hour and a half lunch
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was up and he asked me those questions, I wasn't you know, was it about killing somebody?
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I really didn't think anybody was going to be killed. I mean, I'm just answering
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the question. I didn't know what the tape appears to be like, but I didn't take any of it seriously. I really
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didn't. Dino claims it was Rick Furman who wanted to get rid of Monica because she
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was trying to sabotage his military contract. He convinces me that Monica is calling them and trying to kill the
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contract. So, he's like, you know, I want to get her out of the country. I want anything
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I can do to get rid of her. I'm like, "Richard, don't talk like that. Just we'll just pay her when the contract
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happens." No, no, no, "We're not going to get the contract. Do you understand what she's doing? She's sending letters
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to them." Are you saying to me, Dino, that Rick Furman was the one who proposed killing Monica?
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All the time, yeah. And you never And you never said that? You No, you never said The more I
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pressed Dino about what he said on the tape, the more he blamed Rick Furman and the less his story made sense. Well, on
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the tape it's very clear that you understood that once the lunch with Rick was over there was no turning back, that
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he was going to kill Monica. He said that to me many times. There's no turning back once this
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happens. He would say there's no turning back or we don't pay the people on the military
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contract. They're going to kill both of us. I mean, these were the things that he used to say all the time.
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I didn't take any of it seriously. I mean, it's it was normal protocol for him to keep talk like that.
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I don't think it's my place to go into detail because >> But we listened to the whole tape and
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there is no mistaking what Dino and Rick were discussing. Even Dino's brother agrees. Did you hear the recordings?
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Yes. >> Between your brother and Rick Furman? Yes. What did you make of it? Um the recordings kind of speak for
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themselves. That they had a conversation about uh killing Monica. Dino made it clear more than once that
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he wanted her dead. Yes. And he was willing to pay $80,000 to have it done. Yes.
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Yes, he did. Does that surprise you? Yes, it does surprise me and uh I truly believe though the whole situation
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snowballed out of control. I believe in my heart there may be, you know, how guys talk, everybody gets mad, you say
00:31:59
things and whatever. He could say, "I wish she was gone." Somebody say, "I can get rid of her for you if you want." The
00:32:05
guy uh was a real blowhard and I could see the situation where he said, "I can take care of that, no problem. I can do
00:32:14
that for you. Sure, go ahead." Richard told me the whole time, "I don't know Monica, but I hate her guts. What she's
00:32:19
done to you and those children, she should be deported. She should be there, she should be that."
00:32:25
I mean, to the depth of the deception here. I'm not lying. I'm telling you the truth.
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Yeah. I fell into a military contract where I was blinded by that. I just kind of ignored it because that was my focus.
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And that was wrong. It does show a weakness in me being greedy. I should have recognized what was going
00:32:50
on and I'll never forgive myself for that. But to Emily Cole, this wasn't about a
00:32:58
phony military contract or Rick Furman. This was a clear-cut case of murder for hire by Dino.
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And you're sure the girls are they're fine? They're totally fine. All I need is their dad.
00:33:11
I'll bring I'll bring it to their dad. There was just one problem. Cole's star witness was an alleged con man. Were you
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concerned about putting Rick Furman on the stand? To an extent. Why? He had his own credibility issues and
00:33:29
that was brought forward in the preliminary hearing. There were a lot of things that
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the defense attorney brought up that didn't make him [music] look great. The defense portrayed Furman as a fraud
00:33:41
who manipulated Dino with a fictional multi-million dollar military contract for supplements. Cole knew that would
00:33:47
happen again if Furman was called as a witness in front of a jury. But the case wasn't Mr. Furman, it was the tape.
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[music] But would the tape be enough to convince the jury? >> [music] >> You're positive.
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They're what? You want her dead. 9 months after Dino Gugliamelli was caught on tape and charged with
00:34:26
attempted murder for trying to have his wife killed, Emily Cole was preparing for trial. The evidence from the tape
00:34:33
had the potential to send Dino away for life. When Mr. Furman tells him that when he leaves this room, he can't
00:34:40
change the fact that Monica is going to be killed, and Mr. Guglielmelli agrees to that,
00:34:45
that is Mr. Guglielmelli pointing the proverbial gun at Monica. And there's no way for them to like come
00:34:53
track it back to me, right? Cuz we No, that's why I asked you about the money. Cole had solid evidence on that tape,
00:35:00
but she also had a big problem. Rick Furman himself. Just before trial, she decided she
00:35:05
wasn't going to take any chances and made a stunning decision. She offered Dino a deal. Plead guilty to attempt to
00:35:13
murder in the second degree and serve only nine years in prison. He had never spent a day in jail
00:35:20
previous to this incident. He didn't have a record. Mr. Guglielmelli didn't commit violence on anyone, either. Um
00:35:26
and I think this was a fair sentence. I think my life is worth more than that. To me, the intent shows the criminal
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mind. The intention. So, if I try to kill you and the bullet misses you by half an
00:35:40
inch, am I less of a criminal because I don't have a good aim? Is he less of a criminal because
00:35:48
Richard came forward? Did you want this to go to trial? Yes. Absolutely. I was shocked.
00:35:57
I remember calling asking them why are you offering him a plea? Um what I got back was, "Don't worry
00:36:04
about it. He'll never take it. Don't worry about it. He's going away for life." Why did you take the plea? I took the
00:36:13
plea deal cuz I didn't want to. You know, you should know I went all the way to the last
00:36:17
second before I took the deal. But my mom, uh my my whole family pleaded with me to
00:36:23
take the deal. I wasn't going to. I thought a one to five chance was really worth taking the risk and I told
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them all that. Um I didn't think the jury was going to find me not guilty. Um but after my mom said, "Please, just
00:36:39
take the deal." I took the deal. Dino was serving his time here at this state prison in Corcoran, California. He
00:36:50
will be eligible for parole in 2021. He will get out angry. He will get out vengeful.
00:37:00
And he will get out thinking that the game still needs to be won. Despite suspicions that Rick Furman is a
00:37:06
con man, he has not been charged with any crime. His biggest fear is when Dino is released. That's what's scary for me.
00:37:16
There isn't any doubt in my mind that my life would be in danger. And Monica fears for her safety as well.
00:37:25
I know that my husband's very resourceful. He may have asked Rick, but he could ask many other people, too. He
00:37:30
had a lot more than 80,000 at his disposal to have me killed. So, do you believe money will be waiting
00:37:36
for him when he's released? If he has control over it from prison, then absolutely he will have access
00:37:43
to um several millions. Dino's brother Gino insists there is no money left. She claims that there's four and a half
00:37:52
million dollars overseas. Okay. Go find it. His second wife told us 20 million dollars overseas. Go find it. How come
00:38:02
nobody's finding it? Seriously. Where is it? Honestly, the guy is in prison. Can't somebody go get it?
00:38:14
Do you have any sympathy for Monica? No. I think she's I think she pretty much it brings on
00:38:22
all of her misfortune herself. But I didn't like her before, so I'm certainly not going
00:38:28
to like her now. What if your brother was actually associating with a real head man?
00:38:36
Monica could be dead today. I guess by the tape is probably true. But I believe that my brother in his
00:38:47
business world probably knew more capable people if you wanted something like that done than Richard Foreman.
00:38:53
That's why I think it was just a something said between two guys that spiraled out of control. Does Monica
00:38:59
have any reason to fear for her safety after you are released from prison? Of course not. I just want my I want to
00:39:07
take care of my kids. I want to pay child support. I want to be a good providing citizen and a good providing
00:39:15
father. But Dino might have a hard time with that. Monica is proceeding with divorce,
00:39:21
fighting for the house, whatever money is left, and she has full custody of their daughters. How do you explain
00:39:29
something like this? And how do you make them adjust to a new life knowing that their father is alive?
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Knowing that their father, you know, is in prison. Do they know why he's in prison? Yes,
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they saw him being arrested. So, they were they were very present that morning. Vandala, my my youngest,
00:39:48
she said um she said, "You know, Mommy, God gave Daddy a time out." But Dino still claims he is the victim.
00:40:01
I've been criminalized, Troy. Which is it's just destroyed my life. And I don't get it. I don't understand
00:40:09
why everyone wants to attack me. And this guy set me up. Monica is lucky because in the end Mark
00:40:19
Furman is not a killer. He's someone that might bend the truth or omit the truth, but he's not a killer
00:40:25
and that's what saved Monica. Monica's main concern now is her children. I know his intention is to
00:40:35
reunite himself with the kids and take those children away from me. I know that that's
00:40:40
Is that one of your greatest fears? Do I think about it? Yes. Am I going to live in fear every day?
00:40:48
No. I'm not going to allow this man to do this to me. No. I intend on really making something of my experience
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[music] and not shying away from what happened um because I think that if somebody can look at my life and what
00:41:04
I've been through and learn from it then I've done something right. Anything else you want to say? You have
00:41:12
30 seconds remaining. Um you know, it's 15 minutes of fame has turned into 30 seconds of fame.
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