LOS ANGELES (Court TV) — A California woman accused in the murder of her famed hairstylist husband is standing trial.
Monica Sementilli, 52, is charged with murder and conspiracy in the death of 49-year-old Fabio Sementilli. Prosecutors say Monica and her lover, 61-year-old Robert Baker, killed Fabio to continue their affair and cash in a life insurance policy worth $1.6 million.

Monica Sementilli (R) and her co-conspirators Christopher Austin (C) and Robert Baker (L) appear in a prosecution exhibit during her murder and conspiracy trial for the death of her celebrity hairstylist husband Fabio Sementilli. (POOL/Frederick M. Brown for DailyMail.com)
Fabio was found stabbed to death at their Woodland Hills home on Jan. 23, 2017. It was initially believed to be a home-invasion robbery gone awry, reported the Los Angeles Times. Monica and Baker were arrested six months later after investigators uncovered their affair. DNA evidence at the crime scene also connected Baker to the murder.
Last July, Baker pleaded no contest to the charges against him. He accepted a sentence of life in prison without parole. Months later, Baker told “48 Hours” that Monica had nothing to do with Fabio’s death.
In Oct., a third person was arrested in the murder plot. Christopher Austin was extradited from Washington State on charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Ahead of jury selection in Monica’s trial prosecutors announced, “Austin pled guilty to second-degree murder and the personal use of a knife in exchange for his truthful testimony against the defendant.” Austin faces 16 years to life in prison at his sentencing scheduled for April 30.
Monica, through her attorneys, maintains her claim that she had no part in Fabio’s death.
DAILY TRIAL UPDATES
DAY 39 – 4/3/25
- Closing arguments begin in the case against Monica Sementilli, accused of the death of her husband, celebrity hairstylist Fabio Sementilli. Monica was involved in a year-long affair with her racquetball coach, Robert Baker.
- Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman told jurors that the case before them was about “betrayal,” and she “deceived everyone.”
- Monica Sementilli left her children at home following the murder of Fabio because there was “no real danger,” according to Silverman.
- Fabio Sementilli had no defensive wounds when he was murdered inside his Woodland Hills home on January 22, 20217.
- One-half of Monica Sementilli’s communication was with Robert Baker, more than Monica’s communication with her husband, Fabio, and her two daughters combined.
- Detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department tell Monica Sementilli that Robert Baker’s DNA was at the crime scene inside her home. Monica explains the information away by telling them that she hit and injured Robert Baker while playing racquetball, and his DNA transferred to a towel that she brought home from the gym.
- Closing arguments continue Friday.
DAY 38 – 4/2/25
- The defense rested: Over 38 days of testimony, jurors heard from 44 state witnesses and 13 defense witnesses.
- Jurors heard testimony from Deborah Obad, a friend of Fabio and Monica Sementilli. She told jurors that she was “suspicious” of Robert Baker when he arrived at Fabio’s memorial at the Sementilli home. She suspected that he was the man Monica was having an affair with and could be the person responsible for the death of Fabio Sementilli.
- Deborah Obad confronted Monica Sementilli in the Fall of 2016 about her concerns she was having an affair. Monica denied the allegations. Obad then told Fabio that he needed to “watch [Monica’s] gym friends.”
- Obad contacted investigators daily with the information she had discovered in the case and requested that detectives investigate. Obad was referred to as “Nancy Drew” by detectives because she continued her investigation into Monica’s affair and the people she was associated with at the gym.
DAY 37 – 4/1/25
- Christopher Austin continued his testimony and the jury heard more of his proffer interview.
- Deborah Obad, a friend of the Sementilli family, testified about her suspicions that Monica was having an affair, which Monica denied.
- Obad testified that Robert Baker “had a dark energy” at Fabio’s wake.
DAY 36 – 3/21/25
- Christopher Austin continued his testimony and the jury heard more of his proffer interview.
DAY 35 – 3/20/25
- Monica Sementilli’s defense team recalled Christopher Austin to the witness stand.
- Jurors heard the audio recording of Christopher Austin’s proffer interview.
DAY 34 – 3/19/25
- The defense’s star witness and Monica Sementilli’s lover, Robert Baker, finishes his testimony on Wednesday, testifying for three and a half days.
- Robert Baker testified that he purchased GPS tracking devices and placed them on Fabio Sementilli’s vehicles before his death. Baker said he removed the tracker from one of the vehicles while visiting a bar with Monica Sementilli. Monica did not see him remove the tracker.
- Monica Sementilli has not spoken to Robert Baker in six years.
DAY 33 – 3/18/25
- The defense’s star witness and Monica’s lover, Robert Louis Baker, returned to the witness stand for more cross-examination.
DAY 32 – 3/17/25
- The defense’s star witness and Monica Sementilli’s lover, Robert Baker, returned to the witness stand.
DAY 31 – 3/14/25
- The defense’s star witness and Monica Sementilli’s lover, Robert Baker, returned to the witness stand.
DAY 30 – 3/13/25
- The defense’s star witness and Monica Sementilli’s lover, Robert Baker, testified.
- Robert Baker told the jury that he murdered Fabio Sementilli because he wanted to be with Monica and “wanted easier access and more time with her.” He added that he planned the murder, that Monica was not involved, and that the third accomplice, Christopher Austin, was only there to be a lookout.
- On the day of Fabio’s murder, Monica Sementilli’s youngest daughter, Isabella, testified that she came home to find blood throughout the kitchen and immediately called 911.
- According to Robert Baker, he and Monica began a physical relationship a few weeks after he met Fabio Sementilli at the gym in 2016. The meet-ups were sporadic and based on her schedule.
- Monica’s sister, Anna, confronted her sister about having an affair after Monica’s trip to Myrtle Beach, but she never admitted to the affair.
DAY 29 – 3/12/25
- After calling 51 witnesses over 29 days, prosecutors concluded their presentation of evidence.
- The defense’s case gets underway on Wednesday. Their first witness was called during the state’s presentation due to a scheduling conflict.
- Jurors hear testimony from Monica’s Sementilli’s oldest sister, Anna “Crescentini” Larsen.
- Anna Crescentini told jurors she spoke to her sister, Monica, on the afternoon of Fabio’s murder. Crescentini said she remembered Monica telling the cleaning lady goodbye and asking Fabio to turn the volume on the TV down.
- Crescentini said she never heard her sister, Monica, ask about insurance money or finances before Wella representatives came to the home the day after Fabio’s murder, adding that the family encouraged Monica to call law enforcement about the insurance money following Fabio’s funeral.
DAY 28 – 3/11/25
- Detective Mitzi Roberts returns to the witness stand.
- Detective Roberts reviewed Robert Baker’s communications following the murder of Fabio Sementilli. She found a message from Baker instructing Christopher Austin to download WhatsApp. Through a search of travel records, she discovered that Austin was in Los Angeles on the day of the murder.
- The defense called its first witness on Tuesday. Due to a scheduling conflict, the witness was called out of turn and before the state rest.
DAY 27 – 3/10/25
- Jurors hear more recorded conversations between Monica Sementilli and Robert Baker following their arrest.
- While comparing information received from their attorneys, Robert Baker told Monica that the police have “nothing” and mentioned they only have a “couple drops of DNA in the kitchen.”
- Monica Sementilli told Robert Baker that Police believe she “planned” the murder of her husband, Fabio Sementilli. She continued, “I would never have my kids come home to that if I was planning it.”
DAY 26 – 3/7/25
- Detective Corey Farrell, LAPD, told jurors that investigators learned of an unexpected event regarding the murder of Fabio Sementilli during the police interrogation of Christopher Austin. Austin told police that he and Baker attempted to attack Fabio while he was picking up take-out for his family the day before the murder.
- Monica Sementilli searched for Pho restaurants near her home and later deleted them from her phone. Investigators believe, based on the testimony of Christopher Austin, that she communicated the location of the restaurant to her lover, Robert Baker.
- Court ended early due to an unforeseen event.
DAY 25 – 3/6/25
- The state’s star witness and co-defendant, Christopher Austin, testifies for a third day.
- Cell phone records show that Monica Sementilli accessed the surveillance cameras at her home right before the attack on her husband, Fabio Sementilli.
- Sy Ray, a geolocation expert, told jurors that Monica Sementilli and Robert Baker communicated via phone calls and text messages up to 5000 times a month. The number does not include how often they communicated via the encrypted app, Viber.
DAY 24 – 3/5/25
- The state’s star witness and co-defendant, Christopher Austin, testified for a second day.
- Leonard Levine, Monica Sementilli’s defense attorney, pressed Christopher Austin on whether Monica was involved in the plan to kill her husband, Fabio Sementilli.
- Christopher Austin said that he never communicated directly with Monica Sementilli.
- Austin said Robert Baker told him that “his girl” said she was in an “abusive” relationship and “wanted him [Fabio Sementilli] gone.” After the murder, Baker told Austin it was for the “insurance money.”
- After Christopher Austin was arrested, he asked to speak with detectives and someone from the district attorney’s office and was never offered a “deal” for a reduced sentence. Austin provided investigators with the information they needed to help further the investigation.
- Christopher Austin pled guilty to second-degree murder and the personal use of a knife in January 2025. Austin will be sentenced on April 30, 2025, and faces 16 years to life in prison.
DAY 23 – 3/4/25
- The State’s star witness and co-defendant, Christopher Austin, testified.
- Christopher Austin said he never communicated with Monica Sementilli about planning her husband’s death but received all his information from her lover, Robert Baker.
- Austin testified that Robert Baker told him Monica Sementilli “did not like her husband and wanted him gone.”
- Christopher Austin told the jury that he and Robert Baker attempted to kill Fabio the day before his murder, on January 23, 2017, and that Monica Sementilli allegedly texted Robert Baker that she was sending him (Fabio) to the store. Austin said he was unable to follow through with the crime against Fabio Sementilli.
- Austin stated that he met Monica Sementilli in Los Angeles while playing racquetball at the LA Fitness in Woodland Hills, and she invited Baker and Austin to her home, where she served pizza and took them on a tour of her house, specifically the backyard.
DAY 22 – 3/3/25
- Jurors heard jailhouse phone calls and conversations between Monica Sementilli and Robert Baker following their arrest.
- Gessica Sementilli told law enforcement that her mother told her that “they killed him” during an interview on the night of the murder. She clarified that she thought her mother was referring to the “Knock, knock Burglars.”
- Detective Mitzi Roberts said that a Facebook message on January 26, 2017, led her to the investigation of Christopher Austin. Roberts was able to make a connection Robert Baker and Austin through phone and bank records.
DAY 21 – 2/28/25
- Fabio and Monica Sementilli’s daughter, Gessica, testifies.
- Gessica Sementilli said her mother was “in shock, crying, screaming, and talking nonsense” when she arrived home on the day of her father’s death. She continued by saying that her mother, Monica, was sad, carrying her father’s sweater and sleeping in his bed.
- Gessica Sementilli tells jurors about the morning she saw Robert Baker in her mother’s bed in 2016. She went into her mother’s room to put on makeup and saw Baker sleeping when she was leaving the room. Gessica called her mother, who told her Baker had had too much to drink the night before.
- Los Angeles County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Odey Ukmpo testified that Fabio Sementilli suffered seven sharp force or incise wounds to his face, jawline, neck, chest, and inner thigh, and two superficial wounds to his left arm. No defensive wounds were found on his hands, wrist, or inner forearms.
DAY 20 – 2/27/25
- Detective Mitzi Roberts returns to the witness stand.
- Monica Sementilli continued to communicate with Robert Baker after their arrest for the murder of Monica’s husband, Fabio Sementilli.
- Jail letters show that Monica Sementilli signed her letters using the initials “M.B.” for Monica Baker, Mrs. Baker, and Monica.
- Robert Baker purchased two prepaid cell phones from T-Mobile six days after the murder. Baker used a fake name and address to activate the phones, a ZTE Flip Phone and an LG smartphone. The flip phone was in Monica Sementilli’s purse at her arrest, and the LG smartphone was never located.
- Over 200 sexually graphic photographs and videos of Monica Sementilli and Robert Baker were found in Baker’s Dropbox Account, SD Cards, and Monica’s iCloud account. Some photos were taken while Monica Sementilli was in Toronto for her late husband’s funeral.
- Monica Sementilli and Robert Baker exchanged 95 messages through the encrypted app Viber on the day of Fabio Sementilli’s murder. There were 180 messages exchanged between the two the day before. Prosecutors said in the opening statements that there was a failed attempt to kill Fabio while he was out picking up takeout for his family.
DAY 19 – 2/26/25
- Monica Sementilli contacted DCH Ford of Thousand Oaks after receiving a letter concerning the lease on Fabio’s Ford F150. She was given several options but opted to purchase a brand-new Ford Mustang GT, a vehicle more than the value of her late husband’s truck. Monica allegedly gave conflicting information, telling family and police she wanted to keep the truck but told the dealership that her husband was killed in the vehicle and needed to get rid of it.
- Monica Sementilli footed the bill for a birthday celebration weekend for Robert Baker in Las Vegas, including a dinner at a 5-star restaurant and table service at a strip club.
- Detective Mitzi Roberts, LAPD, presents a timeline of events on the day of Fabio Sementilli’s murder. Roberts used call records and social media to piece together the movements of Monica Sementilli and Robert Baker.
DAY 18 – 2/25/25
- Monica Sementilli introduced herself as “Monica Baker” because she said her Italian name was too long to pronounce.
- Robert Baker’s friend Ron Ray told jurors about a cut on Robert’s hand when he and Monica visited Las Vegas in March 2017.
- Monica Sementilli told Robert Baker’s friends that she did not plan to move to Las Vegas with Baker but planned to purchase a home for him.
- Jurors see surveillance videos of Monica Sementilli and Robert Baker meeting up near Baker’s apartment and visiting a bar and comedy club. Sementilli and Baker were monitored leaving LA Fitness together and traveling to Baker’s apartment, less than five miles from the gym.
DAY 17 – 2/24/25
- Investigators never recovered the weapon used in the murder of Fabio Sementilli.
- Robert Baker transferred money between two of his bank accounts for Christopher Austin, the third accomplice, to access to purchase airline tickets and other expenditures.
- Fabio Sementilli’s friend testified about the marriage of Monica and Fabio, also spoke about Monica’s money woes.
DAY 16 – 2/21/25
- Investigators never recovered the weapon used in the murder of Fabio Sementilli.
- Robert Baker transferred money between two of his bank accounts for Christopher Austin, the third accomplice, to access to purchase airline tickets and other expenditures.
DAY 15 – 2/20/25
- While in lock-up in Van Nuys, CA, immediately after their arrest, Monica Sementilli tells Robert Baker while in custody that she was “afraid” they would find Viber, an encryption app, on her cell phone.
- Monica Sementilli told police that she could not remember the passcode to her iPhone. Police later determined that the passcode was the birth year of Robert Baker.
- Detective Chris Gable listened to the jailhouse recordings and never heard Monica Sementilli ask Robert Baker if he murdered the father of her children.
- Monica Sementilli was placed in a jail cell with an undercover officer where she answered questions about her husband’s, Fabio Sementilli, murder.
DAY 14 – 2/19/25
- Investigators lure a trap for Monica Sementilli and Robert Baker to see whether they were communicating about the investigation and life insurance money.
- Monica Sementilli told investigators that she did not know her lover’s, Robert Baker, last name and that he had only visited her home once.
- Robert Baker attempted to communicate with Monica Sementilli following a preliminary hearing in October 2017. He left two decipher code sheets on the railing of the intake stairwell.
DAY 13 – 2/18/25
- Jurors heard testimony from a cybersecurity investigator who compiled all electronic data for Monica Sementilli and Robert Baker’s cell phone, social media, web searches, and encryption apps.
DAY 12 – 2/11/25
- Detective Steve Castro of the Valley Bureau Homicide Division asked the insurance company not to process Fabio’s life insurance claim until the beneficiaries had been cleared from the investigation.
- Trackers were placed on Monica Sementilli and Robert Baker’s vehicles in February 2017.
- Detectives with the Narcotics and Gang Division helped surveil Monica Sementilli and Robert Baker. Monica was observed kissing Baker outside of a bar. The two moved to another bar, where Monica was seen kissing the bouncer. The night ended with Baker abruptly leaving Monica sitting in the passenger seat of her Ford F150 and Baker hopping on a city bus to go home.
- Monica Sementilli had access to her home security system on her cell phone beginning in June 2016.
- WATCH: Fabio Sementilli’s Sister Says Family is Estranged From His Daughters
DAY 11 – 2/10/25
- A forensic accountant testified that Fabio Sementilli did not have a will at the time of his death, and his wife, Monica Sementilli, would obtain over $2 million dollars in marital assets.
- Monica Sementilli told her family after Fabio’s death that she wanted to move out of the Woodland Hills home.
DAY 10 – 2/7/25
- Monica Sementilli “never purchased a permanent resting place” for her husband’s cremated remains, Mirella Sementilli, Fabio Sementilli’s sister, told the jury.
- Monica Sementilli refused an offer to have security at the home following the death of her husband. She said that they [she and her two daughters] were not scared, commenting they would rely on “Sementilli power.”
- On a couple of occasions, Monica Sementilli allegedly told family members that she “did not want any more visitors” or “wished people would leave her alone” following Fabio’s death.
- Mirella Sementilli said family and friends gathered at her brother’s house following a wake three days after this murder. A guest, Deborah Obad, told Mirella she needed “help to get [the person] out” of the home. That guest turned out to be Robert Baker.
- A family friend assisted Monica Sementilli with drafting a letter to send to the Los Angeles Police Department and the insurance company to expedite Fabio’s insurance claim.
- On cross-examination, Jake Gibson, a digital forensic investigator, said that the screenshot of Detective Gene Parshall’s email that he was drafting a letter to release the insurance funds was sent to one of Monica’s friends and not her lover, Robert Baker.
DAY 9 – 2/6/25
- James Duggan, Chief Security Officer for Coty testified that Monica Sementilli asked him for help with life insurance money.
- Jake Gibson, digital forensic investigator for the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office, testified to digital evidence tying Monica Sementilli to Robert Baker, including an email chain with instructions on how to access the home security DVR at the Sementilli’s home.
- Gibson testified that there were naked photos and videos on an SD card in a deleted state.
- Among the searches in Monica Sementilli’s web history was one for “Do the police has the right to tap my cell phone”
DAY 8 – 2/5/25
- Monica Sementilli submitted insurance claim forms through Fabio Sementilli’s company’s policy. The payout to the children was processed after Monica’s arrest for the death of her husband.
- Communication between Monica Sementilli and Coty’s Human Resources Director, Henry Meyer, began pleasantly but then “ramped up,” with Monica accusing Meyer of “ignoring” her or “being too slow” in processing the insurance claim.
- Fabio Sementilli’s coworker, Sally Schoen, described being “freaked out” while visiting the Sementilli home. Monica Sementilli and her daughters insisted on showing her the backyard of the home, which made her uncomfortable.
DAY 7 – 2/4/25
- Fabio Sementilli’s oldest son, Luigi Sementilli, took the stand
- Luigi Sementilli, who was in grad school at the time of his father’s death, said his younger sister, Gessica called him “freaking out,” saying, “Someone killed dad.”
- Monica Sementilli allegedly told Luigi on the night of the murder, “not to worry, because a ‘hefty’ life insurance policy money is coming to you.”
- Luigi Sementilli told jurors about remembering when he was eight or nine years old, his father, Fabio, and his stepmother, Monica, allegedly had arguments about extramarital affairs. He blames Monica
- Sementilli for destroying his family, which led to his father divorcing his mother.
- When detectives contacted Luigi about his father’s death, he said he was “shocked” but not in “disbelief.”
- Fabio Sementilli’s last phone call was to his boss, Salvatore Mauceri, CEO of Wella /Coty. After leaving a voicemail for Mauceri, he then sent a text message to Mauceri moments before he died.
- Mauceri told jurors he was in a meeting when Fabio called him. He then began receiving phone calls through Facebook asking about Fabio’s wellbeing, and one caller telling Mauceri that “Fabio was dead.”
DAY 6 – 2/3/25
- Jurors heard more recorded phone conversations between Monica Sementilli and Detective Gene Parshall following the death of her husband. Monica pressed detectives for information and any leads in the case and testing of evidence.
- On cross-examination, Detective Ryan Verna, LAPD, was questioned why the decision was made not to arrest Robert Baker following the testing of DNA evidence. Although Monica Sementilli was not a suspect at the time, Verna said, “It was not until later that he [and his partner Detective Gene Parshall] had an ‘inkling’ that there was something more” referring to Sementilli and Robert Baker’s involvement.
- Detective Verna said that it took the perpetrators seven minutes to commit the brutal attack and stage the home before fleeing the Sementilli home. Phone records indicate that Fabio called someone at work at 4:46 p.m., and his stolen Porsche was seen leaving the area around 4:53 p.m. Fabio Sementilli’s daughter, Isabella, arrived home one minute later.
- Matt Nurse, Monica Sementilli’s personal trainer, told jurors that Monica said “she was unhappy” and thought her husband was cheating on her. When he asked why she would not get a divorce, she responded, “Why throw away 20 years,” Monica Sementilli said.
- Monica Sementilli texted her friend and racquetball league member, Elyse Bleuel, following the death of her husband. Sementilli wrote in a text message that she needed Bleuel to come over because she “needed her.” A month after Fabio’s death, she never heard from Monica again.
- WATCH: ‘She Was Really Worried About Money’: Monica Sementilli’s Friends Testify
DAY 5 – 1/31/25
- The jury heard several audio recordings, including Monica Sementilli’s first interview with police on the day of the murder and several phone calls that she made to detectives to see if there were updates in the case.
- Detectives Ryan Verna and Gene Parshall were able to put together a timeline for the day of the murder using surveillance video from a neighborhood security camera.
- Monica Sementilli told investigators that she could not remember her racquetball coach’s last name and only knew his name was “Rob.”
- Monica Sementilli called Detective Gene Parshall numerous times, to ask for updates on the case. She asked for updates on the case, DNA evidence, and an estimate “of when the insurance policy money could be released.”
DAY 4 – 1/30/25
- Prosecutors presented crime scene photos of the Sementilli home and evidence leading to the arrest of Monica Sementilli, wife of the victim Fabio Sementilli, her lover, Robert Louis Baker, and Christopher Austin.
- Jurors heard testimony from first responders and one of the lead investigators.
- Detective Ryan Verna told jurors that Robert Baker became a suspect in the case on February 14, 2017, after a DNA results revealed that Baker was at the crime scene.
- On cross-examination, Detective Verna said, “I was not investigating an affair,” when questioned if the relationship between Monica Sementilli and Robert Baker.
- Officer Gabriel Rebolledo, the first officer to arrive on scene, said that one of Fabio’s daughters, Isabella, told him that “she felt guilty she had gotten her new car stolen,” and thought that led the people responsible for the theft to her home.
- The Sementilli’s housekeeper, Delia Riviera Pacheco, testified and told jurors what she observed on the day of the murder in January 2017. The home was thoroughly cleaned and nothing was out of place when she left the home just after two in the afternoon.
DAY 3 – 1/29/25
- Beth Silverman, Assistant District Attorney, told jurors that Monica Sementilli had two different faces. One she presented to family and friends and the one that shows the “cheating, lying, manipulator that she truly is.”
- “This is not a case where Monica Sementilli went looking for Robert Baker….this is a case where Robert Baker was looking for Monica Sementilli,” Blair Berk, defense attorney, told jurors. The defense intends to show that it was Baker was the sole “mastermind” in the death of Fabio Sementilli.
- Defense attorney Blair Berk told jurors the motive could not have been about insurance money because Monica Sementilli was not the sole benefactor on a life insurance policy her husband purchased and one through his employer. Fabio Sementilli chose to have his children as the benefactors.
- The state called their first witness, Daryl Yoshihashi, Los Angeles Fire Department Firefighter and Paramedic, who responded to the Sementilli home after a resident of the home, Isabella Sementilli, called 911 to report the brutal assault on Fabio Sementilli.
- On the day that Monica Sementilli and Robert Baker’s arrest, the two were together in Monica’s brand-new black Mustang GT. Baker was driving. Police placed them in the back of a patrol car, together, and a video recording captured them talking, sometimes whispering. At one point Monica allegedly tells Baker, “Deny everything and don’t talk.”
- Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery and Homicide unit conducted surveillance of Monica Sementilli and Robert Baker following Fabio’s death. The two were seen together at bars, comedy club, and trips to Las Vegas.
DAY 2 – 1/28/25
- Trial proceedings were postponed on Tuesday due to one of the prosecutors involved in a vehicle accident on the freeway.
- The state will continue its opening statements on Wednesday morning.
DAY 1 – 1/24/25
- Prosecutor Beth Silverman delivers the State’s open.
- Tells the jury that cell phone data shows that Baker was so close that he connected to the Sementillis WIFI.
- Says the defendant liked buying shoes and going in trips, came from a Catholic Italian family and divorce was not an option.
- Says the defendant also needed money and knew that is she divorced Fabio, she would lose all her things and have no money…if she brought Baker to the family they would never forgive her….
- Says the only option was murder.
- Tells the jury that Christopher Austin — who was also arrested in the murder plot and pled guilty to second-degree murder and the personal use of a knife in exchange for truthful testimony against the defendant — stated that the defendant planned the murder in order to collect insurance money.
- WATCH: ‘Lust, Greed, Betrayal’: Prosecution’s Case Against Monica Sementilli