20/20 - Sex, Knives, and Videotape

Episode Date: April 12, 2025

A beloved celebrity hairstylist is found murdered in his own home. Was it a burglary gone wrong or something more sinister? His family searches for justice and answers. Who killed Fabio? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight the bombshell trial that just wrapped. It could be a big movie or TV series, but it's real. These are real people. This really happened. Hey guys, Fab here for another Fab Style episode. What was about to happen to Fabio, nobody could believe. His daughter Isabella opened the door. She goes to the patio and lets out a scream Sees her father slumped over in his favorite chair

There's blood Everywhere they killed Fabio they killed Fabio Who would want to do these things to me? And why? How do you answer that question? Had this been a case of a home invasion robbery that turned deadly... ...authorities now investigating if Knock Knock Burglar's maybe to blame. Maybe that Knock Knock Burger ain't no Knock Knock Burger.

There's a twist here. The knife is personal. For the quantity of times he was injured with it, I thought this is really personal. They were on this torrid trail of love and murder. There's no way. There's got to be a mistake. I'm blown away. I'm in shock. I just wanted him to open his eyes.

It's January 2017, after a weekend of rain. It's a sunny Monday. And as 16-year-old Isabella Sementilli pulls up to her family's house in Los Angeles, it's about 5 p.m. Three minutes later, Isabella is screaming into her cell phone. In just a few minutes, law enforcement and emergency vehicles converge on the site, but Isabella's father is dead. Police say the victim was stabbed to death at his home. He's been identified by police as 49-year-old Fabio Cimentelli.

At the house, distraught family and friends gather into the night. Isabella is there, along with Fabio's older daughter, Jessica, and his widow, Monica, who is inconsolable, speechless with shock and grief. And I'm sitting with Monica, and she could not put words together. She was like, I'm not a wife anymore, over and over. To have somebody murdered in their home, it freaked all of us out. I'm not a wife anymore, over and over. To have somebody murdered in their home, it freaked all of us out. These kinds of things don't happen at Whitford House. Yet Fabio Sementilli's murder did happen,

and it happened in cushy Woodland Hills, California. This brazen killing would reveal secrets that would tear this family apart. And since we first brought you this story in 2024, new video and shocking new revelations direct from the courtroom. This is a homicide case. That's why it's looking like a Hollywood movie,

except that it's reality. The explosive trial and verdict some eight years in the making. And in this case, what you heard was that the defendant deceived everybody. Hey, everybody. How you doing? My name is Fabio Cementilli. Decades before his murder, Fabio Cementilli had started living life to the fullest in his hometown of Toronto, Canada.

This technique over here, you can take it to the bank, let me tell you. A hairstylist with a personality so grande, they called him Big Daddy. The first time I heard Big Daddy, I'm like, who are they talking about? Oh, of course, Fabio. Fabio was a salon standout, and he thrived in the spotlight. And everywhere he went, people adored him. Fabio, Simon Caron. Fabio styled people like J. Lo, Russell Crowe,

Jackie Chan, Jennifer LaVue, and the list goes on and on. People always would have to remind me, you know, do you know who your dad is? Your dad is so cool, right? And I would say, yeah, I mean, he's just my dad. But now I realize, oh, my gosh, yeah, he was a big deal in the hair industry. Fabio!

Fabio reveled in that life as a self-made superstar from Little Italy in Toronto, where he was a first-generation Canadian. He sang Italian. He sounded Italian. He drove an Italian car. He drove a Fiat. For Fabio, family seemingly was at the center of his universe. In those days he had a loving wife, Vonda, and a young son, Luigi. But he was especially close with his sister, Mirella.

She was a well-known hairstylist in her own right. Nobody could style hair the way Fabio and Morello were styling hair. We opened up a salon, Modeli, salon and spa, and that's where he came to work with me. And then she taught you everything you know. I don't want to take all the credit there. And a lot of clients loved his personality, of course, his laugh. And he could do no wrong in the salon, honestly.

This young lady's transformation is going to be tough to beat. Fabio and Mirella, they became immersed in the glamorous world of competitive hairstyling shows. Sementilli's flair under pressure made them instant stand-outs. So within 17 minutes, you had to create, from start to finish, your look. We just loved every minute and killed it. They would announce, five more minutes.

Cinque minuti rimani. And then hands off, don't touch. And I still have my finger on the hairspray. Team Modelli International. Then one day in the mid-90s, she would walk into their salon and change Fabio's life forever. She was Monica Crescentini, who was then working at a nearby clothing boutique.

Fabio needed a model. You know, Monica was one of his clients, so of course it was very easy. He asked her to be a model, and she was very happy to be his model. Monica took to her new role and to the man who was styling her. She was doing a great job. I was winning. It was always you know a nice celebration and I think they bonded. But while Fabio and Monica were growing increasingly close, for his wife, Vonda, not a lot of highlights. Yeah, tough. I noticed after a while that, you know, my marriage started getting a little crowded.

Fabio had fallen for Monica in the tour in love. They ended up getting married in 1997. Just when the ink on my divorce was dry, I said to him, good luck with this marriage. I hope that she gives you everything that you're looking for. Fabio and Monica would have daughters Jessica and Isabella. Monica also welcoming Fabio's son by his first marriage.

She welcomed Luigi into her home. And they had a lovely little family. Fabio admired her for welcoming Luigi like her own son. Brought me into the family and treated like family. It was a very good relationship that we all had together. But then in 2007, the hair care company Wella makes Fabio this amazing offer to move him and his family to Southern California for a dream job as their Vice President of Education. It had meant leaving Toronto and so many Semantilles behind. You could have said, how can you do this to us?

I could have. I could have. And I didn't. He was just so excited about it. Can you believe it, Murr? They want me. He felt the need, he had to go. By 2011, Fabio is living his best life in the warm California sun, along with Monica and their two daughters,

eventually moving to that neighborhood of Woodland Hills. The area that Fabio and Monica bought a house in L.A. is in a very, very nice part of Woodland Hills. Perfect kitchen, perfect patio, perfect porch. By early 2017, 49-year-old Fabio is already making plans for a 50th birthday blowout later that year. Seemed like he was living the American dream, the life that a lot of people would want, right?

But then came that fateful January day when Isabella came home and went out to Fabio's patio office, where she was greeted by a scene of horror. Now the question on everyone's mind, who would murder Fabio and why? OK, OK. Dad? Dad? Please, dad? Fabio Sementilli was living large and loving it. Married to his second wife, Monica, he brought her and their two daughters far from the lives they'd known back in Toronto, all the way to Southern California. Where his dreams of sunshine and success, they were coming true.

The area that Fabio Monica bought a house in LA is in a very, very nice part of Woodland Hills. He does everything you can think of to this house. It's almost perfection. He even redo the security systems so they got the fanciest and the best. That security system, it let Monica monitor comings and goings remotely, even when no one's home. And Fabio's on the road a lot, glad handing and hugging as a hair industry VP, posting exuberant updates from

his worldwide travels on social media. He loved checking in with his audience that he developed on social media, his friends and family, right? So here we've got one of his famous airplane pictures. He was traveling all the time. He was a go-getter man. He was everywhere at once. He was everywhere all the time. He was a go-getter, man. He was everywhere at once. He was everywhere at once.

That's the best way to put it, yeah. But at his house, with a Rolex on his arm and a Porsche in the garage, the prosperous executive, he struck a more cordial tone. Hey guys, Fab here for another Fab Style episode. His Fab Friday posts, they were signature Fabio. Number 10, teamwork. Showcasing his good-natured outlook, his passion for his work,

all from that home office of his, his favorite place on Earth. This was Fabio's place. No one would ever dare sit in that chair. While Fabio was working, the two girls seemed to be flourishing in Los Angeles and Monica also had found her footing in Southern California, spending time with friends who admired her gracious style. Monica was my fancy friend. I mean, everything she touched was elegant. Her home was elegant.

Her daughters are beautiful and sweet. Monica had some really nice dinner parties, and people would be like, how did you make this? She had made friends. She was going to the gym. So she had already set her roots down. So it was always reassuring for Fabio that the family was also thriving in LA.

Part of Monica's life was being involved in a racquetball club at the local gym called LA Fitness. And she developed lots of friends in this racquetball club. Two women in particular, they called themselves the Musketeers. The three Musketeers of racquetball, I felt like we were in high school and we would tease the guys, especially the head of the racquetball league. He was like the cool teacher. He would keep us all on schedule

and he was very serious. And Monica was fit and she was ready to play. Monica was like a beast. She was like climbing the ranks. Monica would play to win on the racquetball court. After competing in their LA Fitness League in West Hills, it was time for the Musketeers to P-A-R-T-Y at her place.

We'd go over to Monica's and they had the fire pit and she'd bring out this crudite of like cheese and meats and it was so delicious and there was always the wine and we would talk, girl talk, like what's going on? I mean you've been married 20 years Monica, what do you got to share? She was like no everything's really great. Everything is like, it's the love of my life. Ten days into 2017, Fabio celebrated Monica's birthday with a family dinner at a fancy restaurant.

Truly, La Dolce Vita in Southern California, just as he might have imagined it. He's like, oh my God, I can't believe I'm here. Marilla, do you believe this? But what was about to happen to Fabio, less than two weeks later, do you believe this? But what was about to happen to Fabio, less than two weeks later, nobody could believe. January 23rd, 2017 was a Monday.

Fabio planned to work from home all day that day. So it's just about five o'clock when his daughter Isabella, who'd been in school all day and then stopped to apply for a job after school, enters the house. And she can feel things seem a little odd and she walks through the kitchen and can see there's blood everywhere. She goes to the patio and lets out a scream, sees her father slumped over in his favorite chair. Bella calls 911 right away, and before help arrives, she stays on the line as the operator tries to help her save her father's life. I want you to go ahead and send the ones back immediately, okay? You did it very good. Okay, you did it very good.

Oh, my God. My God, it's really heavy. Just put the ones back as soon as you can, okay? I'm fine. You're doing a good job, okay? Keep going. I'm gonna cry. I can't. I can't.

Upon arrival, police say they found the victim lying in his outdoor patio. He was pronounced dead at the scene. We were learning some shocking details about the case as soon as we arrived on scene. Detectives right away said that this was extremely gruesome and bloody scene. Monica texted me, please come over. I need you. And I was like, da da da da, of course.

So I drive over and this lady comes out of Monica's house. I was like, yeah, my friend Monica, who lives there, asked me to come over. And she goes, okay, come with me, but just don't step in the blood. And I was like, um, okay. It's beyond, it's just, it's just beyond. It's just horrible.

Even as his family mourns elsewhere in the house, the investigation into Fabio's death is already underway. LA police surveying this hideous scene. Inside, police discover that Fabio has been stabbed to death. He's got several wounds in the neck, and he's been stabbed in the thigh, directly into his femoral artery. It seems an area targeted to cause maximum bleeding. Cops determining that Fabio had been alone in the house for about 80 minutes before his body was discovered by Isabella. Monica telling police she had been running errands at a nearby mall.

No motive has been determined, but police say burglaries have increased significantly in the area. You know, it's presented by the initial investigators. Oh, maybe it's a burglary gone wrong. Some suspects came into this house, ended up killing the owner and leaving. One of the things we've determined is that there was a sports car that was parked here that's missing. Fabio's pricey Porsche? It's been stolen.

His home has been hit at the same time that a crime ring, dubbed by police the Knock Knock Burglars, has been terrorizing wealthy neighborhoods in Los Angeles. A board is now investigating if Knock Knock Burglars may be to blame for the murder of a hairdresser, Fabio Semantelli. It was instantly the thought that, oh my gosh, had this been a case of a home invasion robbery that turned deadly. Oh my god, they may be killing people now. Had this been a case of a home invasion robbery that turned deadly. Oh my god, they may be killing people now. Fabio Cementilli had been at the top of his game, but the man described as larger than life had just been found murdered in his own backyard, sitting in his favorite chair. in his own backyard, sitting in his favorite chair.

Phone calls from Fabio's grief-stricken daughter, Jessica, bringing the horrible news home to his relatives in Ontario, Canada. My sister called me, and she's absolutely hysterical, and I'm thinking, what happened? And she goes, someone killed Dad. Jessica called me. Then Monica came on the phone because she started crying, Jessica. And she said, Rella, they killed Fabio. They killed Fabio.

The pain is in your stomach. And it hurts. It hurts, yeah. Very painful. And everything else that happens, the disbelief, the whys, the when, the how. It felt like a dream. And really, when I say that, I mean it felt like a nightmare. Police launch their investigation and they get a break. A neighbor's security camera provides an immediate clue to the possible identity of the perpetrators.

It showed two suspects, two hooded suspects, their hoodies pulled all the way around their faces, tied tight so you couldn't see anything, running up to the home. When they leave, they leave in a car, and it ain't their car. It's Fabio's favorite Porsche. As the LAPD is scouring the house, they do notice that there is some cash missing, there's some jewelry missing. Right off the bat, their thought

was that this was a home invasion robbery turned deadly strictly because the home, part of the home had been ransacked. No motive has been determined, but police say burglaries have increased significantly in the area. Fabio's house has been hit at the same time that a crime ring that the police dubbed the Knock Knock Burglars has been terrorizing wealthy neighborhoods in Los Angeles. There were some people on the video who appeared to be dressed similar to how the Knock Knock Burglars were dressing. In 2017, we were seeing probably double the burglaries of what we were seeing five years before.

There was a dramatic rise. When it comes to the knock-knock burglaries, there was kind of an ammo at the time. They'd be looking for a bigger, nicer house. They'll knock on the door, usually middle of the day. No one answers, they break in. Neighborhood like this would attract them, mainly because you have obviously some really

expensive cars in the driveways. The homes look like they're really well taken care of. They're in and out of the home in three to five minutes. They're looking for money. They're looking for jewelry, anything that they can grab. It was also the celebrity knock knocks. Celebrities who were clearly on social media would become targeted. They would watch the house, see they weren't there,

and then they would go break in. It's an A-list of victims who all led lives that took them on the road. Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, the Dodgers' Yaseel Puig, Lakers legend Derek Fisher, Alanis Morissette lost more than a million dollars in jewelry. When the Berglers would break into the homes, these guys were pretty savvy.

They were going straight for the bedrooms because everybody who's wealthy keeps everything in their bedroom for some reason. They're young guys, they're strong guys, they can pick up a safe and take it and get it in the car and they're gone. I don't think that this can ever be stopped the way that it is right now.

They're making too much money and they're not getting enough time in jail. Plenty of people are getting hit. It was almost a weekly event. There have been fights, there have been attacks, people have been hospitalized, but no one had actually been murdered. But was it possible that the Knock Knock gang had become more brazen?

Had they expected that Fabio's home would be unoccupied? A board is now investigating if Knock Knock burglars may be to blame for the January murder of hairdresser Fabio Sementelli. The cops have work to do. They're trying to figure out if these Knock Knock people are getting really, really ruthless to the point where now they're work to do. They're trying to figure out if these knock-knock people are getting really, really ruthless to the point where now they're willing to kill. This was kind of seen as an escalation. Oh my God, they may be killing people now.

Residents are now terrified that the knock-knock burglars have turned deadly. But as police go deeper, they are not 100% sold on the idea. The issue that I had with it was the homicide. I had not seen any homicides with any of my Knock Knock burglars. One of the ground rules that we did find in the Knock Knock series was that if they ran in anybody, it was all agreed that no violence.

From the video that I've seen where victims had confronted these guys, they run. Who are you? What do you want? They're just like cockroaches when light hits them. They're just scattered. Well, look, if they just wanted to burgle the joint, they could have seen Fabio outside on the patio, smoking his cigar, sipping his wine and said, let's go in here and get all

the stuff and get out of here. It would have been easy. Initial detectives start realizing, hey, if they were ransacking their house, why is there blood inside the house? Doesn't that suggest that they ransacked the house after killing him? The detectives begin to think maybe that ransacked bedroom was a stage robbery. After all, what's missing? Just some money and some costume jewelry.

Here's the other thing. Fabio's very expensive Rolex watch is still on his wrist. When it takes three seconds to pull the watch off his wrist and get out of there, they didn't. And these are the things that start to make any good detective wonder. Maybe that knock-knock burglar ain't no knock-knock burglar. I thought the knife is personal, and for the quantity of times he was injured with it, I thought this is really personal. Remember, like other houses in their well-to-do neighborhood,

Fabio and Monica's house had an up-to-date security system. So all police should have to do is get their hands on the main unit and check to see what was recorded on its cameras. There's just one problem. It's missing. The missing child is Lucia Blix, nine years old. Please let her come back home safely. April 16th.

The kidnappers planned it meticulously. If money is what it takes to get her back, we're going to pay it. The secrets they hide. You can't talk about this. You can't write about it. Are the clues. The mother's hiding something. I know it.

to find her. Tell me where she is. The Stolen Girl series premiere April 16th on Freeform and Mark Duplass. Something is off. She's just a little girl. You think she's faking? She has adult teeth? There are signs of puberty? Inspired by the shocking stories that tore a family apart. I don't know what's going on. How old are you? You should get a lawyer.

You have no idea how those people hurt this girl. The Hulu Original Series. Good American Family. New episodes Wednesdays streaming on Hulu. American Family, new episodes Wednesdays, streaming on Hulu. Fabio Cimentilli had lived a life with his family at the very center. So one week after his murder, his grieving loved ones gathered together, some from Toronto, others from Southern California, for his funeral in Los Angeles. There was a lot of visible wounds and my mom wanted to see my brother.

In Italian funeral, the caskets are open. So they suggested that maybe we put a scarf around him and I said, that's my brother. He always loved the scarf. He looked so peaceful and rested and just wanted him to open his eyes. Just say goodbye. There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about it, it still weighs heavily on me. We've got this poem from the funeral and a little guardian angel pin. If I start reading it, it's going to make me cry for sure.

Beyond the tears of his family, news of Fabio's untimely death also occasioning an outpouring of mourning like this tribute video to Fabio. Early in the year, we tragically lost a member of our industry family. And it's left a hole that will really never be filled. We lost an icon, we lost a colleague, so although we lost Fabio, his legacy is going to live on forever. While it seems the globe is mourning the loss of Fabio Semantulli, the cops have work to

do. Weeks into the investigation, the knock-knock burglar theory is a no-go. Detectives thinking about the murder differently once they learn how Fabio was killed. The coroner made note that there were no defensive wounds on Fabio's hands, so police are now starting to think, there is intent here. This is a target. Then police get a big break when they find Fabio's Porsche.

It's been abandoned about five miles away from the Semantilli home, and it's got vital clues. Some really, really critical information comes from the swabbing of this Porsche, because there's blood in a few places. There is blood on the inside panel of the driver's side door, blood on the clutch and brake, very, very significant. Or blood on the clutch and brake? Very, very significant.

While the DNA from that blood is getting processed, investigators make another discovery. Remember, Fabio's home had that state-of-the-art security system with the multiple cameras? Well, they're cameras that should have recorded the events leading up to his death. But it turns out the DVR, where that surveillance footage would have been stored,

it's missing, gone from its spot, even though it was not in plain sight in the garage. How did they know to take it? So then they started to wonder who had access to it. How I came alive to have lived the greatest love story of all time. As the investigation continues, Fabio's grief-stricken spouse Monica, she's overcome as she speaks at his memorials. My heart went out to her. I just felt like, oh my God,

how devastating can this be, right? I couldn't imagine. And if you saw posts or you saw them in person, you would see them dancing in the kitchen and singing. He would always call her nicknames. I know there's funny ropes by my side and he has us drinking one hand and his cigar on the other, and he's singing his favorite song, Me Away. But it wasn't always easy for Monica when Fabio wanted it my way, as she would confide to some of her friends. When Fabio was in town, she had to be available.

She would complain about how Fabio would call from his chair in the backyard, Monica, I need a beer, Monica, get me another cigar. And she would have to wait on him hand and foot. And she did it, and she took pride in it because she was a good wife, and he loved her very much. And at the other side of it, it seemed like she was getting tired of it and didn't like it, and it felt disrespectful. Friends say Monica had mentioned other things that would get on her nerves about Fabio. The pride she took in her racquetball matches, for example.

She felt was underappreciated by her husband, they say, who was so often on the go somewhere else. She would get very, very offended and hurt if he didn't come and watch her play. She was really angry about it. She's like, where's Fabio? She would say, I gave up everything for him and he can't be bothered to care about what I care about. And she revealed to Elise that she felt a little homesick.

Mr. Ma, back in Canada, felt a little neglected because Fabio was so busy and out of town a lot. But knowing Fabio's love of life and love of parties, Monica had yet another chance to honor her late husband. After the Los Angeles memorial for Fabio on the 29th of January, Monica invited several of the people, friends and family, to come back to her home for a more quiet gathering. Yet in that intimate group, there was an unexpected figure present.

We were all outside and this guy comes in. And that leaves family and friends of Fabio all asking the same question. Who is this man? At the Sementilli home, it was supposed to be an intimate gathering, a memorial for the late Fabio's closest confidants and loved ones. So when a mysterious guest shows up, it raises a lot of eyebrows. It seemed out of place because this was more of a memorial for Fabio. This was more of Fabio's people.

So mysterious, in fact, that a friend of Monica's takes this photo of him and turns it over to the police. He was Robert Baker, the racquetball coach at the gym nearby where Monica and her pals had become avid competitors. Robert was a spectacular athlete. He was very fit and very muscular, and he wielded it proficiently.

Robert would play till he dropped dead. It was so fun to watch him. He's like a marathon runner on the racquetball court. I saw him and she loved the game. He was a very alpha male. It was found out or discovered that Robert had some porn that was on the internet. And that was shocking.

What about you? How about you? He told me he did perform in films. I never asked any more than that. I'm sure nobody will see this. So I had to watch it. We were in the industry together in the 90s and the early 2000s. Alana Evans was just a rising performer in the porn world when she first encountered Robert Bape.

I started porn. My very first scenes were in 1998 and I remember meeting Rob and his wife at the time on set. Robert Baker, it turns out, also acted as a manager specifically for his wife Dee who also appeared in adult films. And our special guest today is... Dee? Ellen, if you've been in California, California? Since we met your husband, Rob. You can say that. So as a girl coming into the business, you see what's happening,

you immediately are going to flop to Rob because he's a mover and a shaker. He's got it all going on. But by 2013, Robert Baker had moved on. He'd left the porn industry and his wife, Dee, for the world of racquetball. But there was a part of his past preceding those game filled days

that he could not outrun. I lived at Woodland Hills for a long time, and as a mom, I will check the sex offender registry for my neighborhoods. And I see a picture and it's Rob's face and I am thinking, this can't be right. It turns out that in 1993, he was convicted of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor. When I originally got this case, looked into his background, at the time he was a recruiter for the army. In the late 80s early 90s police were notified that a student had made serious allegations

against Robert Baker to her school counselor, events that occurred after an incident following a basketball game. Apparently they had a very good day and they started hugging afterwards and then there was a kiss on the lips. After that, I think things progressed during the next couple weeks.

At the time that this happened, she was 14 years old. He was in complete control of her, complete dominance of her. Baker was arrested and charged with six counts of a lewd act upon a minor. After pleading to these charges, he got a two-year state prison sentence, and he has a lifetime requirement to register as a sex offender anywhere he lives. Now despite Baker's past, for police this didn't necessarily add up to murder. But investigators say when they took a closer look at another photo of Baker, sent to them by that same friend of Monica's, they spot something.

Baker's hand is bandaged. According to the cops, it looks as if Robert Baker has a cut on his left index finger. Also remember, there were those blood droplets in Fabio Sementilli's Porsche. Could there be a connection? Mysteries abound. Those two masked men running toward Fabio's home.

Who are they? Fabio found stabbed to death inside and his car stolen. But why? What seems to start off as a sort of, it's a burglary gone wrong. It's horrible. It's terrible. There's a twist here. So all of a sudden, people were saying,

oh, so there's really more to this than what's going on. So they start to watch. They're looking for a connection. When investigators make that connection, a tangled web of lust and lies begins to unravel. At this point, I'm blown away. I'm in shock. However this went down, it was executed brilliantly

because we were deceived. Those deceptions then unfold view at a sensational trial. The evidence in this case is this is a murder that was total depravity. Where sex, knives, and videotape take center stage. And a betrayal so stunning, it will shock the Cementilles to their very core. I said, there's no way, there's gotta be a mistake.

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Turns out it was a murder, allegedly fueled by two things, love and money. One murder, but three possible conspirators, that courtroom verdict just did. Oh, he saw me. He saw me. I see a picture, and it's Rob's face. And I am thinking, this can't be right.

What did the sound of his voice feel like to you? Sound like I was listening to the devil speak. According to prosecutors, Monica claimed she didn't really know him. She didn't even know his last name. They are constantly communicating in some sort of code. This is like old code cracking from World War II kind of stuff. But suddenly, Robert Baker makes a move that turns this case on its head.

Help me! case on its head. Fabio Cimentilli was an exuberant larger-than-life Canadian, making a real name for himself in the flashy field of competitive hair shows. Then Fabio moved from the salon to the C-suite, living the sweet life as a hair care company executive in Southern California. Settling in with second wife Monica and their daughters Jessica and Isabella, telling American Salon in an online interview his loved ones always mattered most. For me, the first thing is my family comes first. My parents taught me that. I have sisters who I adore and my own family unit is the most dear to me. But Fabio's triumphant rise is cut tragically short here on January 23rd, 2017.

They found the victim lying in his outdoor patio with several stab wounds to his neck and upper torso. Seemed at first like it had to be something random. Fabio's wife, Monica, telling cops she couldn't imagine anyone who'd want to kill him. I can almost 100% guarantee she has not won anything. She's not won. One of Monica's friends sends a photograph to police, and it's a mystery man at the wake for Fabio at the Semantilli home.

It turns out that the mystery man is Robert Baker, a former porn star manager and one-time felon turned racquetball instructor, who was training Monica and her friends in the sport. Investigators say when they take a closer look at another photo of Baker's sent to them by that same friend of Monica's, they spot something. Baker's finger is bandaged.

Keep in mind, there were blood droplets found in the Sementilli home as well as in Fabio's Porsche that didn't belong to Fabio. When the DNA profile comes back, it turns out they had a match. His name? Robert Baker. He seems to be, based on their evidence, one of those two men who came into that house

that day, and most likely the one who wielded the knife. So now a special unit of the LAPD is brought in. They put GPS trackers on his Ford Expedition and start following him. They soon make a very disturbing discovery. That man that police believe murdered Fabio Semantilli is spending a whole lot of time with Fabio's widow, Monica. There's also quite a lot of titillating footage that they're capturing. Let's just say lots of kissing and fondling and embraces.

All the while they say she was posting on social media that she was this grieving widow. Every day I was seeing her Instagram and it was like this constant living love letter to Fabio. My heavy heart misses you, she would write. I married the greatest man on earth. It's so hard to live without you. Doing our best to cope. But Monica seems to have found her own way of coping.

Cops tracking her and Robert Baker to Las Vegas, where they're both seen checking into the Venetian. Investigators say they were living it up. They were having a great time going to clubs, going to bars, snuggling together. Back in LA, investigators are really focusing on Monica and her spending habits. She had just bought a brand new Mustang and all the bells and

whistles. The scuttlebutt was like, who does that? But Monica was like, Fabio would want me to have this. He loved us and this is what he would want us to have. And even as Monica appears to be freely spending money, authorities say she's also haranguing people about Fabio's life insurance. She was on the phone with the insurance company and she's like, how am I supposed to take care of the bills if you guys aren't gonna pay out. The cops mentioned this they've never seen a

victim spend so much time begging to be cleared for the sake of the insurance money. I need some answers, I need to know what's going on here. It's four months. Please tell me about something. Just because Monica is having an affair with Robert Baker, that does not prove that Monica is involved in Fabio's murder. Detectives pay her what looks like a run-of-the-mill visit to probe what she'll choose to disclose about Robert Baker. According to prosecutors,

Monica claimed she didn't really know him. Rob, he's a lead detective for a rap call. What's Rod's last name? I think it's Baker. And Rod everything? No. They know this is a lie, and it immediately moves her from being, oh, she might be involved, to being involved.

And now she's in the frame as much as Baker is. For investigators, it's go-tunt. Cops can cock a clever plan, one they hope will elicit more incriminating information as it catches Monica Semantilli and Robert Baker totally by surprise. What the f***? That's f***ing clever.

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to the people who know these stories best. It's been five months since Fabio Cementilli was murdered on his back patio in Los Angeles. Now, as his widow Monica tools around town in her brand new Mustang with her racquetball coach turned lover, Robert Baker, the cops are moving in. They come up, and they're, like, doing the stolen car ruse.

We think the car might be stolen, you know, blah, blah, blah. They wanted to just get them out of the car into the position where they would be able to extract some information. LAPD has rigged this patrol car with microphones and cameras. The dispatcher has been told to say over the radio for Monica and Robert's benefit alone

how Monica Stamantelli is wanted for 187 murder. The number for 187 is made for the father of Stamantelli. What the f***? 187 murder. This is the big sting, but the camera malfunctions right at this critical moment, so in the beginning you don't see, you just hear audio. Well Monica's hyperventilating. When the patrol car camera does come on, the scene is surreal in a way, right out of an LA movie. Robert Baker tells Monica to stay in protocol. To detectives, it implies that they have pre-planned a certain behavior if and when they get arrested. Robert Baker and Monica Sementilli are taken to a police station in Van Nuys, booked on

murder charges. The news that Fabio Cementilli's widow has been arrested for his murder hits the Cementilli family like a shockwave. Detective Parshall called us and he said, okay, we've made an arrest for your brother's murder. We arrested Monica Cimentilli and Robert Baker. I blacked out. I don't know what to think in that moment. I'm like, are you sure this is right?

Turns out it was a murder, allegedly committed by his wife and her lover, allegedly fueled by two things, love and money. Fabio Cimentelli had a substantial life insurance policy that Monica Cimentelli would have been the direct beneficiary of. Now that Monica and Robert Baker are both under arrest, investigators have access to their devices. And authorities say it's Monica's communications and her actions on the day of Fabio's murder

that will put her in the hot seat right alongside her lover. As cops begin to assemble a minute-by-minute TikTok via surveillance cameras and precise times of phone calls and text messages. January 23, 2017, Fabio Sementilli has decided to work from home that day. Investigators have noticed that there are constant encrypted messages going back and forth between Robert Baker and Monica on the encrypted app Viber. You can see the comings and goings of the Santilly family that morning. Isabella leaving for high school. Monica and Jessica going to LA Fitness. They happen to be there at the same time as Robert Baker arriving and leaving within minutes of each other. A few hours later here at the Target, it's about two

miles from the Semantilly home. That's when things get really interesting according to investigators. Robert Baker arrives at the lot. He parks. He's seen entering and exiting the store and then he reparks his car all the way over here. According to prosecutors, surveillance video shows Monica pull into the parking lot of Target. She pulls off to a more remote area by another store. Is it just a coincidence that Robert shows up at that very Target at the same time that Monica's at that very Target and suddenly he goes over to murder her husband? Cops say that's Monica walking into the target.

She texts Jessica, who is still at home with Fabio, and reminds her, Jessica, don't be late for babysitting. After Jessica drives away from the house, investigators say Monica activates her home security system app from her phone. They believe she is watching a live stream of her home security cameras. Right around that time, two men are running up to the home to commit a murder. Prosecutors allege that Robert Baker and his accomplice enter the house through an unlocked door and make their way to Fabio out back.

There, authorities say, they ambush him and stab him to death. Detectives say that right after the murder, Robert Baker goes into the master bedroom and starts ransacking to make it look like a robbery. Then he goes to the garage and rips that DVR for the surveillance cameras right out of its wiring. Then he gets into Fabio Sematilli's Porsche, his accomplice in the passenger seat, and they take off. High schooler Isabella comes home at 4.54 p.m.

That's just one minute after the intruders have fled and finds her father dead. Monica arrives nine minutes after that. Investigators feel certain that Monica planned it for her own teenage daughter to be the one to find her father in a pool of blood so that Monica could distance herself from knowledge of the scene. When you started to see how they allege this crime unfolded. I mean, it was like a made for TV movie. LAPD robbery homicide detectives believe

that this entire operation was masterminded by Monica Sementilli. Sementilli and Baker's arraignment was continued today. and the police are investigating the case of Samantha and

Baker and the search continues for that third

suspect. Both Monica and Baker were charged with capital murder with special circumstances not guilty to the crime. My client adamantly denies any involvement whatsoever in the murder of her husband and we are hopeful that when all the facts come out she will be totally exonerated.

Totally infatuated, that's what these lovers were like behind bars, from a ride or die vow to an illicit message in code. But suddenly Robert Baker makes a move. Is that what you wish to do, sir? ...that turns this case on its head. Denied bail after their June 2017 arrests for the murder of Fabio Sementilli, lovers Robert Baker and Monica Sementilli are still allowed to communicate with each other on the phone and by letter, with authorities monitoring every word.

It seems like being arrested for murder has actually made the relationship steamier and more impassioned as we hear in jailhouse phone calls. Okay. This guy doesn't act different. He's my super charge. I love so much. But it turns out, authorities say, that the pair are also trying to communicate with each other, away from the prying eyes of law enforcement. In one instance, during October of 2017, surveillance cameras spot Robert Baker on his way to a pre-trial hearing, as he stops

to leave something on the railing of the courthouse stairwell. What authorities discover later, they say, is a note meant for Monika, written in some sort of code. Kites are basically pieces of paper written with binary codes. These are typically used by people in prison. This is like old code cracking from World War II kind of stuff. Is it intimate or incriminating? Detectives are now reading word-for-word all this jail mail between Robert and Monica and

there's yet another reference to keeping with the protocol, something we already heard in the back of the patrol car. It seems clear their time apart and their legal jeopardy has not cooled their passion for each other. Monica even signs her letters, Mrs. Baker, and calls Baker her ride or die. and calls Baker her ride or die. That's good, you wanna see mine? Sure.

Okay. Then during a visit with her daughter, Jessica, Monica compares tattoos with her. I can't see it, I can't see it at all, what does it say? Showing off some fresh jailhouse ink penned on the back of her neck. You couldn't see it? It says ride or die.

That ride is longer than anyone might have imagined. Amid COVID delays and legal moves, six years plus into their incarceration without a trial, there was a huge development in the summer of 2023 from Robert Baker himself. Robert Baker has done the unimaginable. He's gone to his lawyers and said, I am going to plead guilty with no offers from the prosecution. I'm going to take the blame. I don't care what the sentence is.

It is what it is. So on July 7th, 2023, Fabio's loved ones gather at the courthouse in downtown LA. When you saw them bring him into court in the orange jumpsuit, what struck you as you looked at him? He's ugly. Ugly. I was on pins and needles for it all, because we were told that he could change his mind

at any time. On the record, he was a baker, defendant of his presence. Then, in this indictment, conspiracy to commit murder. So those three charges, how do you plead? No contest. A no contest plea means the defendant accepts a conviction for the crime without admitting to being guilty. But in the eyes of the court, it's exactly the same as a guilty plea.

You intentionally committed the murder by means of lying in wait. Yes. No statements by the people, Your Honor. However, I do have multiple family members who would like to give victim impact statements. Members of the Semoncille family stand up to speak and outpour not only anguish over Fabio's death, but their long suppressed rage at Robert Baker. Why would a delinquent monster do this to Fabio? Why rip away the life of a transcendent man who was destined to be a legacy?

Baker may have hurt him, but Fabio will live forever in our hearts. From my grief, I summon the strength to speak and to demand accountability against those who choose savagery over humanity. And what about Jessica and Isabella, the young daughters that Fabio shared with Monica? What might they say to the court about their mother? My sister and I never thought we would finally see the day that justice would be served.

You took our beautiful mother's selflessness and our amazing father's life down with you. Our dad was quite frankly the best man in the world in our eyes and a rock for an entire family. His smile and laugh was like the sun as it touched everyone he met. We miss him so much and think about him every damn day. Like her sister, Jessica, believing in her mother's innocence. We know that today there will be many statements berating our mother, my sister, and myself who are helpless and suffering as well.

We want to clearly state that we will continue to stand by our mother as we have done for the last six years and we will fight for her innocence. Thank you. Thank you. With the victim impact statements completed, it's sentencing time for Robert Baker. I'm going to sentence to state prison for the term prescribed by law, which in this case is life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. I realize that that would not mend the hearts of anyone. And I'm sorry. We are done.

Six and a half years to wait for this day. Six and a half years. Torturous. Six and a half years. Just makes us feel like we're halfway there right now. At last the stage is set for the murder trial of Monica Sementilli. So she and Baker decided that Fabio was getting in the way. Featuring two star witnesses, one for the prosecution and he held his mouth, couldn't scream. One for the defense. I murdered him because I wanted her.

With one big thing in common, they were both there when Fabio was murdered. On trial today, the woman who prosecutors say was the mastermind of the killing, Semantilli's wife Monica. Over the years, I've covered every pretrial except one. And now the jury has to decide, is Monica Semantilli capable of such a heinous act?

This is a homicide case that's going to look an awful lot like a Hollywood movie, except that it's reality. In her opening statement to the jury, prosecutor Beth Silverman insists that Monica was motivated to have her husband killed because she was desperate to spend her life with Robert Baker. So she and Baker decided that Fabio was getting in the way of their future plans to be together for her to become Mrs. Baker. So she and Baker decided that Fabio was getting in the way of their future plans to be together for her to become Mrs. Baker. So the prosecution shows the jury this picture of her standing in front of Robert's mirror in his bedroom and she's scantily dressed and she writes in lipstick

Mrs. Baker. An early prosecution witness telling just how wickedly indiscreet he says Monica could be about her bedfests with Robert Baker. She was saying how great the sex life was and how great Rob was in bed. At any point in time did you see the defendant express any grief or sadness that her husband had been murdered approximately two months before. We had no idea of that and she didn't grieve even 1%. Though she's a staunch believer in her mother's innocence, daughter Jessica called to testify about the time she caught Baker in Fabio and Monica's bed while her dad was out of town

on business. I noticed Rob in her bed. It was in the morning. I. I noticed Rob in her bed. It was in the morning. I asked why is Rob in the bed? She told me that he doesn't drink often. They had a party last night and he got drunk and so he slept it off. But when the defense has its turn with Jessica,

she is insistent that her parents were the most loving couple and had the happiest of marriages. My mother and father were the pit of me of what a loving marriage was and they were the best parents. Prosecutors showed the jury that Monica was not going to lead a lesser life with Robert. That financial gain was the primary motive because she was going to be left with a lot of money if her husband was dead.

She stood to inherit a great deal of money through Fabio's insurance policy, his stock options, and other assets he had set up. Luigi Sementilli, Fabio's son by his first wife, testifying about a conversation he had with his stepmother just hours after his father's death, when he says she was all about the money. Monica's freaking out about money, worried that they're not gonna have money. And this was a conversation that you had with the defendant, perhaps an hour, a couple hours of your dad's murder?

An hour, yeah. But the defense counters. They say it is perfectly reasonable to expect a woman who's in a state of deep grief to also be worried about the welfare of herself and her two young daughters. A mystery that has lingered over this case from the very beginning. Just who was that second man running with Baker towards the Cementilli home on the day of the murder? Now, in an explosive moment inside the courtroom,

the prosecution brings that mystery man to the stand, and it turns out he is their star witness. Thank you. The people call Christopher Austin. 39-year-old Christopher Austin. Investigators first came across his name as a person Robert Baker messaged on Facebook. After a years-long investigation, police were able to arrest Austin in October 2024 in Washington State and he would eventually make a full confession to his role in Fabio's murder. When you flew here what was the purpose of coming to LA on this particular date? To kill the victim. This very soft spoken man throws a bomb into the courtroom with his testimony.

He tells everyone that there was a first murder attempt on Fabio on January 22nd, and that Monica had masterminded the whole thing. He said, she's gonna send them to the store so we can catch them then. He showed me a picture of him. He said, this is who you're looking for. And as I'm walking, I was like, I'm not doing this.

How are you feeling at this point? Shame and relieved. In my mind, I was like, like okay this isn't going down. But Austin testifies that the very next day Baker decided to make another attempt on Fabio's life. Austin saying he was following Baker's orders as they accessed Fabio's home. He said he should be out back and then he opened the door he said I'm counting three. He're going to hold him down.

And he opened the door, and he held his mouth. Couldn't scream. And he started stabbing him. I'm sorry. And he to have stabbed him once. And Austin testified that Baker told him very clearly who wanted Fabio dead and why. Monica wanted it. The wife wanted it done. I'm sorry.

Baker told me she's loaded. She wants him gone. It's an emotional, even compelling, account. But on cross-examination, the defense hammers at his credibility. The defense argues, Christopher Austin cut a deal. He got second-degree murder. He'll walk out one day from her prison, essentially,

because he made a deal. So who do you trust? And you knew the only way you could save yourself was to testify on behalf of the prosecution, correct? To tell the truth, yes. So it was at that time, was the first time that you ever said, oh, Mr. Baker told me that Monica Simintilli

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The prosecution has been piling up evidence against Monica Cementilli, and it's crystal clear what the defense sees as a key point. You have not heard one piece of evidence, one text, one recorded call that Monica Cimentilli ever uttered a word about wanting her husband dead. Having a sexual affair doesn't mean you want your husband to die. Now the defense is looking to rehabilitate Monica's reputation in the eyes of the jury. Monica was duped into believing that Robert Baker had nothing to do with Fabio's death. After Fabio was murdered, in her grief, the person who stepped up to replace Fabio, to

control Monica, is Robert Baker. In the defense opening statement, Blair Burke made a case for Fabio being far worth more to Monica if he was alive, not dead. The most valuable thing that Monica Cimentilli could have wanted if she cared about money was for Fabio to continue with his salary. Then the defense brought up Isabella, the youngest daughter,

the one who found her father lying in a pool of blood. You still believe in your mother's innocence? Yes. Can you describe what condition she was in after realizing that Fabio had been murdered? She fell to her knees when she came home. She was screaming, crying. She couldn't stand up on her own. The defense vehemently challenges any notion brought about by the prosecution that Monica

timed it so that Isabella would find her father's body. It's inconceivable that if Monica was orchestrating this murder, she would allow her own daughter to potentially arrive home when the killers are still there and risk her being murdered. The defense also calls Monica's sister Anna Crescentini to the stand. Those two siblings were incredibly close. I believe she had nothing to do with that murder. She was just concealing an affair and her lifestyle.

But the prosecution uses Anna's time in the witness box to launch another withering assault on Monica's character and truthfulness. Do you still think they had a great marriage? Yes. It is possible to love someone and cheat on them at the same time. It happens all the time.

That funeral in Canada, you wrote down that Monica was feeling ill and emotional. Did you know that she was sending explicit graphic, sexually explicit photos of herself naked to her boyfriend? No, obviously I did not know. Despite all that sexting, she insisted that Monica had been devastated at the time. At last, the stage is set for this trial's climactic testimony. When Robert Baker takes that witness stand,

that cool house is full. Did she have anything to do with the planning or the execution of the plan to kill Fabio Cimentilli? No. Why did Robert Baker want Fabio dead? His response is brutally frank. I murdered him because I wanted her. I wanted to have easier access.

I wanted her to be around me and with me more, like all the time. Baker then lays out the horrifying details of the fatal stabbing of Fabio Cementilli. He got up real quick, and he grabbed me me and I'm struggling with him. And I'm trying to get away from him. He's a pretty big guy. Just try to get him off me and just kept cutting until he stopped, until he got off me. Now it's the moment everyone's been waiting for

as DA Beth Silverman begins her cross-examination of Robert Baker. Did you think at all about the trauma that you would inflict for a lifetime on these two young girls and losing their father in their home in such a horrific manner? Did that ever cross your mind? No, to make this easy for you, no. A man who's going to prison for the rest of his life, will never see the light of day,

was offered nothing from the prosecution. What is in it for him? And you still love her, right? That's why you're here. I love her. Of course I still love her. Of course I do. So again, you'd do anything to protect her too, right?

That's what you do. If I could. The question is just how far would Robert Baker go to protect Monica? Well, he says something quite interesting in the jailhouse conversations that are being monitored by authorities. I'll take it from you. I'll take it. And once again you said, I'll lie. I'll lie and I'll take it. Remember that?

I don't remember the conversation but I'm sure if you said it's there, it's there. The prosecution tries to get Baker to admit that it was Monica who tipped him off about the first murder attempt, even telling him where to go to lie in wait. Remember being there waiting for Fabio to get there before Fabio even knew he was going there? No? I don't remember being... I really don't know. And while you're waiting there for two and a half hours, you and Monica exchanged 69 viral messages.

Well, we're always texting. Baker denies that he coordinated a murder with Monica. He told the court that he always knew exactly where Fabio was going to be because he could just pick things up in random conversations with Monica. Baker concedes that months earlier, Monica had set him up to be able to monitor

the security cameras in her home. She sent me to log on? Yes. And that was so that you could also be aware of people coming and going, the family, from the home, right? No, it was just for her to say hello to me. For her to say hello to you? Yeah, stupid as that sounds, but yes.

Investigators believe there was a heavy volume of activity between Robert Baker and Monica on the day of the murder on Viber, the encrypted app. The defense says, not unusual, nothing like any other day. Because we use Viber all the time. Like millions of other people. But millions of other people aren't plotting a murder. No, but they still use Viber. It's been eight years since Fabio's murder.

And after a trial that stretched from January to April, a verdict is finally on the way. Trial is wrapping up in the sordid case of a woman accused of plotting her husband's murder. It's been more than 42 days, 65 witnesses, and over 300 court exhibits. And now the jurors have their final task. The case is in their hands now for deliberation. Ladies and gentlemen, the jury,

you have heard all the evidence and the arguments of the attorneys. It must base your decision on the facts and the law. Two days after receiving the case, the jury has reached a decision. Inside the courtroom, loved ones of both Fabio and Monica Cimentilli are on pins and needles as the jury returns its verdict. Good morning.

I understand the jury has reached verdicts. Is that correct? The people of the state of California versus Monica Cimentilli. We the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant Monica Cementelli guilty of the crime of murder, a felony is charged in count one of the indictment. We further find the defendant Monica Cementelli guilty of the crime of conspiracy to commit murder.

Monica Cementelli was found guilty of everything across the board, conspiracy to commit murder, murder in the first degree, and including the special circumstances of lying in wait and financial gain. It was incredibly emotional as she got taken away in handcuffs. Well, we continue to believe that Monica Cimentilli

had nothing to do with her husband's murder, and we will pursue every legal avenue to obtain her complete exoneration and her freedom. Obviously we're very disappointed in this result. We're extremely disappointed. This has been a long eight years, a long eight years. It's a very good day for justice. We've been waiting for this for Fabio and his family for many, many years.

Justice was served today. It's the most beautiful day for our family. Our spirits are lifted. My brother can now rest in peace. And the murderers that have deceived him are exactly where they belong today. For some, this verdict is justice at last for the Semensilly family.

But at the end of the day, their beloved Fabio is still gone, and the family must take comfort in his memory, each in their own way. So my dad was a cigar smoker, and some of the other coats and stuff even to this day smell like cigar. I'll go in the closet every now and then and open it up and smell it. Those smells are very dear to me, absolutely.

This is his Rolex. He wore this all the time. He wore it when he died. I wear it for special occasions when I want to feel close to him. It's probably one of my most cherished possessions. It's hard to dig deep for Silverlining here. No, it's... His legacy will live on.

We were blessed to have him even for a short time. Hey, Fav. Fav, you are so beautiful. I miss you every day of my life. I remember every one of these pictures. Yeah? Yeah, every one. Remember this one?

His iconic smile. I love you. I miss you. I missed you. We'll be back. Two heartbroken sisters, a tearful goodbye and a verdict, finally after eight long years of investigations. And we should point out, Deborah, that after Fabio Cementelli's death, a scholarship in his name was established to help students in the beauty field, hoping to follow in his footsteps.

That is 2020 for tonight. I'm David Muir. And I'm Deborah Roberts. From all of us here at 2020 and ABC News. Good night. The amateur has arrived in IMAX. I want to find and kill the people who murdered my wife. Critics rave. The amateur is a tense, unpredictable ride. You're just not a killer, Charlie. Train me.

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