Monica Sementilli was sentenced on Friday to have sent her lover to kill her husband, the famous hairdresser Fabio Sementilli, in a brutal stab at the Luxury House of the Woodland Hills of the couple eight years ago.
Sementilli, 51, Haleta and melted into tears, hugging his hands on his mouth while the verdict was read. She will risk for life without the possibility of parole during the conviction after being found guilty of murder and conspiracy in order to commit murder.
Fabio Sementilli was found dead at the couple’s home in January 2017 and the police first thought that he had been killed in an invasion of the botched home, pointing “Knock burglars” which had ransom expensive houses in the San Fernando valley at the time. The hairprow of the hair has undergone several injuries on his face, jaw, neck, chest and thigh. But the detectives were perplexed to explain why a $ 8,000 rolex was left in the Senmentilli wrist at the crime scene.
The blood found on the scene was soon linked to Robert Baker, a condemned sex offender and former porn star later who started a link with Monica Sementilli after being a racquetball coach in a West Hills fitness club. While the prosecutors painted sementilli like the “brain” behind the massacre while it was standing to gain $ 1.6 million in life insurance payments, Baker took a stand during the two and a half months trial and insisted for having killed the hairprow on love.
“I murdered it because I wanted it,” said Baker last month. “She had nothing to do with that.”
Baker has already been found guilty of the murder of Fabio and sentenced to perpetuity without parole.
Video evidence presented by the district dist. Atty. Beth Silverman, however, showed Monica Sementilli to watch a live flow from the region shortly before the murder to make sure that Baker had a clear path to her husband. The detective of the veteran of the LAPD, Mitzi Roberts, also testified Monica Sementilli and Baker exchanged 95 messages via a encrypted messaging application called Viber on the day of the murder and 180 messages the day before.
While Monica Sementilli denied all the reprehensible acts and has publicly cried her husband, a framework of the Wella hair care company, she was involved in a hot case with Baker. The pair sedled during her husband’s funeral, according to Silverman, who said that the new Monica had even sent nudes to Baker during the service in Toronto.
Baker’s accomplice Christopher Austin also testified for the accusation last month and insisted that Baker told him that Monica had managed the murder. Austin, a former Oregon probation officer, said that he had never spoken directly to Monica, but Baker clearly said her lover wanted her husband to be “gone”.
“Everything he did, after having received an SMS, who told me that he was talking to him by SMS.” Austin testified. “I did not hear him talk to him on the phone … but everything happened in the sequence.”
Defense lawyer Leonard Levine argued that prosecutors focus too much on the sordid details of his client’s affair, which is not himself proof that she has plotted murder.
“Adultery is not murder. … All she did was to protect the case, not to hide the murder,” he said.
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