Mirella Sementilli
Appearances
Dateline NBC
The Widow of Woodland Hills
Just too much. Why? Why would someone do this to my brother?
Dateline NBC
The Widow of Woodland Hills
I didn't know him. I didn't know who he was. What did he look like? He was an older person, bad hair. Bad choice in clothing. I remember following him into the house, and I can see bald spots at the back of his head. So he's just this scruffy guy. Scruffy, and his leather jacket, or his plastic jacket, was peeling. And I thought, oh, he's probably up to no good. Does Mr. Pleather have a name?
Dateline NBC
The Widow of Woodland Hills
So as I was walking by her mom, she goes, oh, now that she's a widow, these men are going to prey on her.
Dateline NBC
The Widow of Woodland Hills
Yeah, and he's there. Again, when the mother said, these people are going to prey on her now, it clicked because my mom was a widow. And it's true. We were always protective of my mom because it would always be these stray men and people who wanted to try and take advantage of my mom.
Dateline NBC
The Widow of Woodland Hills
I love her. Of course I still love her. I think I blacked out. I'm hoping this is not true because I can't make any sense out of this. I'm so sorry.
Dateline NBC
The Widow of Woodland Hills
She said, this is Fabio's house, and we have to charge that mountain, because he used to always say it, cementilli power and charge that mountain. If you ever had any, you know, pitfalls, he'd always say, you got to get up and charge that mountain.
Dateline NBC
The Widow of Woodland Hills
He's an educator. He was an icon. He was award-winning. So it was only a matter of time that they were going to give him the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Dateline NBC
The Widow of Woodland Hills
We get a phone call. I think I blacked out. And I was just out of breath, hyperventilating, that I'm hoping this is not true. Because I can't make any sense out of this.
Dateline NBC
The Widow of Woodland Hills
She had to be the mastermind because he's just the muscle. He doesn't know when Fabio's ins and outs are.
Dateline NBC
The Widow of Woodland Hills
Monica telling me that they killed Fabio. It was a bad line, bad connection, and it was on and off. They killed Fabio. And I'm like, what? Can you say that again? I remember asking over and over again until the phone went dead. I don't know if I passed out. I don't remember what happened.
Dateline NBC
The Widow of Woodland Hills
So he was pretty much the king of Greenlaw. He had hockey street nights. My mom always opened up the house for him to have friends over.
Dateline NBC
The Widow of Woodland Hills
Yes. While I was going to hairdressing school, I would be downstairs working on models. And he'd come down and start playing the drums. And it wasn't always nice, you know.
Dateline NBC
The Widow of Woodland Hills
Mistaken identity. I thought maybe they thought he was somebody else.
Dateline NBC
The Widow of Woodland Hills
Absolutely not. It was just, you know, the wrong place at the wrong time in my mind.