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this week's 48 Hours investigates the death of a well-known hair stylist a Los Angeles mother is set to go on trial
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next month for conspiring to kill her husband celebrity hair stylist Fabio simonelli this was back in 2017 now
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prosecutors say that his wife her name is Monica was secretly having an affair with a killer her racket ball instructor
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this sounds like a movie that's not going to end well 48 hours and Michelle Miller have a very exclusive new
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information on this case on January 23rd 2017 Beauty executive Fabio cimenti was stabbed to
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death by his pool in Woodland Hills an upscale Los Angeles suburb his then 16-year-old daughter Isabella found his
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body it looked like a textbook Breakin a robbery Gone Wrong Mary fan is a CBS News consultant she says police had one
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good clue a neighbor's camera caught two hooded figures near the house and later
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the those same figures making their escape in simen til's Black Porsche the crime seemed to go unsolved
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for months but secretly detectives had a lead they discovered DNA at the bloody scene DNA that led them to this racket
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ball instructor Robert Baker investigators say he was having an affair with Fabio's wife Monica cimenti
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you can see him here with Monica at the Wake for Fabio on his finger a bandage investigators
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say he cut himself when he stabbed Fabio in court filings prosecutors say Monica had shared the password for her
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home security system with Baker both she and Baker were arrested and pleaded not
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guilty but in July 2023 Robert Baker changed his plea Robert Baker pleads no contest and
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that's in essence accepting responsibility for the murders he's ultimately sentenced to life without PE
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2 weeks ago 48 Hours went to visit Baker in jail he told us Monica had nothing to
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do with the murder and she never knew he was the killer still most of Fabio's family has turned against Monica but the
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daughters she shared with Fabio are supporting her we will continue to stand by our mother as we have done and we
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will fight for her innocence so Michelle that surveillance video seemed to be a huge break for the
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cops but there are two people in it one is Baker right you know who the other one is we do not know who the other
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person is we do know that it is not Monica centilli because at the time of the murder she was at a Target store
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about 10 minutes away she had an alibi she had an alibi but there's an interesting point that both defense and
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prosecutors both teams say there's a reason why she was at that Target you're going to learn all about that to tease
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Michelle Miller thank you thank you very much you can see Michelle's full report
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the Monica simonelli Affair tomorrow night at 10: 9 Central right here on CBS and of course it streams on Paramount
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