Monica Sementilli, Who Plotted Her Husband’s Demise with Her Lover, Sentenced to Life With out Parole

Monica Sementilli has been sentenced to life in jail in her late husband, Fabio Sementilli’s homicide, in line with a information launch from Los Angeles District Lawyer Nathan J. Hochman.

Monica, 53, was sentenced with out the potential of parole on Monday, June 23, two months after she was convicted of 1 rely of homicide with particular circumstance allegations involving monetary acquire – and one rely of homicide whereas mendacity in wait within the January 2017 dying of Fabio.

On Friday, April 11, Monica was discovered responsible after proof confirmed that she conspired along with her lover, Robert Louis Baker, to homicide Fabio — the 49-year-old Canadian hair government and father of three — to gather thousands and thousands in life insurance coverage advantages.

“The individual accountable wasn’t a stranger however the lady we had welcomed into our household for over 20 years,” Fabio’s sister Loretta Picillo advised the choose earlier than the Monday, June 23 sentencing, in line with Los Angeles Instances. “We handled her like household and he or she betrayed all of us.”

“Monica Sementilli betrayed the one that beloved and trusted her most,” DA Hochman mentioned within the information launch. 

“Her calculated scheme to revenue from her husband’s dying price a sort and gifted man his life and devastated a household,” Hochman continued.

Prosecutors mentioned Monica concocted the plan to kill Fabio with Baker, a convicted intercourse offender and ex-porn-actor-turned-racquetball teacher, to doubtlessly gather Fabio’s $1.6 million life insurance coverage cash.

Through the trial, prosecutors alleged that Baker and his confederate Christopher Austin, each sporting hoodies, jogged as much as the couple’s Woodland Hills dwelling on Jan. 23, 2017, snuck onto the property and attacked Fabio whereas he was dwelling alone within the yard watching tv.

Fabio was attacked from behind and suffered seven stab wounds to the neck, chest and thigh. His femoral and carotid arteries had been lower.

After Fabio was murdered, Baker and Austin then ransacked the couple’s bed room. On the time, they stole Fabio’s 2008 Porsche 911 and the DVR from the storage the place the house safety footage was saved. 

Austin, 39, pleaded responsible to second-degree homicide in January and was later sentenced to 16 years to life in jail in Might, per CBS Information. Throughout his trial, he testified that Monica had purposefully left the door of their dwelling unlocked the day of the homicide and that Baker had advised him she needed Fabio “gone,” per the Instances.

“Every part he did he did after he bought a textual content message, which advised me he was speaking to her by way of textual content message,” Austin mentioned, in line with the Instances. “I didn’t hear him speak to her on the telephone … however every little thing occurred in sequence.”

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In the meantime, Baker, 63, entered a no-contest plea to killing Fabio in July 2023 and was sentenced to life with out parole.

Throughout Monica’s trial, he denied that she had something to do with the homicide. “I murdered him as a result of I needed her,” he testified, the Instances reported. “She had nothing to do with it.”