Monica Cimentilli
Appearances
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
The 911 call in the Hollywood hairdresser murder. And investigators explore links between six violent deaths and a group called the Zizians.
Did Monica show any emotion? Yeah, I would say she's... This is the most emotional we've seen her since trial began. She was crying, dabbing her eyes. And this audio...
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
The 911 call in the Hollywood hairdresser murder. And investigators explore links between six violent deaths and a group called the Zizians.
The actual defendant completely proclaims his innocence.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
The 911 call in the Hollywood hairdresser murder. And investigators explore links between six violent deaths and a group called the Zizians.
Right. The state has alleged that Monica, um, who had been shopping at the time when the murder happened, that Monica knew that Fabio was home alone at that time and that she had passed that information along to her lover, Robert Baker. The prosecution also said that during this time, she knew that Isabella was on her way home.
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The 911 call in the Hollywood hairdresser murder. And investigators explore links between six violent deaths and a group called the Zizians.
And so Monica knew that Isabella would have been the one to find her dad dead.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
The 911 call in the Hollywood hairdresser murder. And investigators explore links between six violent deaths and a group called the Zizians.
Monica sounds very emotional. She sounds shocked. She sounds like she's hyperventilating and she sounds like she's sobbing. But on the stand, the original detective on the case testified that both him and his partner noticed that while she sounded like she was sobbing.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
The 911 call in the Hollywood hairdresser murder. And investigators explore links between six violent deaths and a group called the Zizians.
Now, on cross-examination, that detective said it wasn't something that he had documented in his police report at the time. And so I think the defense was trying to point out that perhaps Monica was in such shock, so upset. So maybe she didn't cry and, you know, and people grieve differently.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
The 911 call in the Hollywood hairdresser murder. And investigators explore links between six violent deaths and a group called the Zizians.
You'll recall that after the murder, the killers drive away in Fabio's Porsche, Christopher Austin and Robert Baker. Those are the two murderers involved in this case. And the Porsche is found a couple days later, and detectives find blood in the Porsche. And the DNA comes back to Robert Baker. They have this information probably a couple weeks into their investigation, but they don't tell Monica.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
The 911 call in the Hollywood hairdresser murder. And investigators explore links between six violent deaths and a group called the Zizians.
But meanwhile, they're having these phone calls with Monica, and she is asking about the DNA results.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
The 911 call in the Hollywood hairdresser murder. And investigators explore links between six violent deaths and a group called the Zizians.
If you're looking at it through the prosecution lens, that could be suspicious that, you know, does she seem overly concerned about these results? But if you look at it through the defense lens, of course, Monica would want to know because she wanted investigators to catch the killer. Right. But it was a very interesting point that the calls highlighted.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
The 911 call in the Hollywood hairdresser murder. And investigators explore links between six violent deaths and a group called the Zizians.
Yeah, you can hear Monica raising to investigators that there's issues with her being able to get this insurance, life insurance payout.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
The 911 call in the Hollywood hairdresser murder. And investigators explore links between six violent deaths and a group called the Zizians.
And as the calls go on, it seems as if she's getting increasingly agitated that she can't get the payout.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
The 911 call in the Hollywood hairdresser murder. And investigators explore links between six violent deaths and a group called the Zizians.
Yeah. And I think that's a big point for the defense is that Monica had two teenage daughters to support. She didn't work herself. Naturally, you would be worried about how you're going to provide for your children.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
The 911 call in the Hollywood hairdresser murder. And investigators explore links between six violent deaths and a group called the Zizians.
Yeah, so... The defense was saying that they knew that Robert Baker was the killer as early as February of 2017. Yet they didn't arrest him, and they let him walk around for another four months before he was arrested in June. And why would you do that?