Case update: On April 11, 2025, a jury found Monica Sementill, 53, Close to murder and conspiracy For the murder of her husband Fabio, with financial benefits and special circumstances of murder, lying while waiting.
Fabio Sementillly There was a superstar in beauty business. He started making hair in Toronto, Canada, and eventually went to Los Angeles when he was promoted to an executive post in Well. He settled in a house in Woodland Hills with his wife Monika and two of his teenage daughters.
On January 23, 2017, Fabio was in his backyard by Pool when two people entered the house and stabbed him. According to prosecutors, the suspects staged the scene to look like a robbery. But when the detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department started investigating the murder, they said that they found blood in the scene which was not related to Fabio. And he said that he also found evidence that his wife had a relationship at that time.
January 23, 2017 | 3:26 PM: Alibi of Monica Sementilli
The day Fabio died, the prosecutors said that the neighbor’s security camera was captured Monica Sementillly Leaving home in your Black Ford F-150 pickup truck. She was leading the target where the prosecutors said she was establishing her Alibi. According to prosecutors, before entering Monica Store, there is a video where it appears that a person found in Monica’s truck. Prosecutors said the person was Robert Baker, a local racketball coach, Monica had a relationship about a year before Fabio’s murder. Monica’s defense lawyers have disputed the interpretation of the prosecution of the video from the parking lot. According to District Attorney, Monica then moved alone to Lakshya Store and started shopping.
January 23, 2017 | 4:18 PM: suspects caught on camera
A neighbor’s security camera jogged two hood figures while jogging near Fabio’s house at the time of murder. According to the prosecutors, the person in Green Hoodi was a baker. And the prosecutors said that the baker and the unknown co-princely man entered the Sementilli house and attacked Fabio from behind. He then staged the scene to look like a robbery.
January 23, 2017 | 4:32 PM: Monica Sementilli targeted the day of her husband’s murder
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At 4:32 pm on the day of Fabio’s murder, Monica Sementillly was seen out of the target store on a surveillance video and according to the prosecutors, she was corrected on her phone and possibly monitoring her house -monitoring cameras. The prosecutors also said that at the time of Fabio’s murder, the phone records revealed that Monica’s iPhone was connected to the IP address of her home and her phone was consuming large amounts of data to suit streaming live video.
The prosecution said in the pre-testing movements that Monica was monitoring comling and going to her home to enters the fabio “without any interruption”. “But according to Monica’s defense team, there is no evidence that can prove what she was really watching on her phone at that time. In court documents, Raksha extended the possibility that Monica could strengthen the TV show from a distance.
January 23, 2017 | 4:53 PM: Gate Away Car
Hooded Joggers were spotted on the same neighbor’s security camera near the Sementillly Home, about 35 minutes later, 4:53 pm. The prosecutors said that the baker and his unknown co-princelys were leaving the crime site. According to detectives, the murder was discovered two days after the discovery of Porsche, which was about five miles from the Sementilli house. The prosecutors also said that Baker’s blood was found inside the Porsche.
January 23, 2017 | 4:54 PM: A daughter’s heartbreaking discovery
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Just a minute after the occupation of the Black Porsche, the vehicle of Monica and Fabio’s daughter Isabella was captured on a security camera as she is returning home. Isabella, who was 16 years old, discovered her father’s body and called 911. A few minutes later, Monica returned home.
February – June 2017: Investigation of Fabio Sementilli’s murder
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As detectives began an investigation into Fabio’s murder, they said that they discovered DNA at the crime site related to Baker. His DNA was in the database as he was a registered sexual criminal. According to prosecutors, Baker cut off his left index finger when he killed Fabio and hence his blood was on the spot.
According to the indictment, the investigators also learned that Baker, who was leading Fabio in the year, worked in thousands of calls and texts to Monica.
In February 2017, a Lapd detective went to his home to visit Monica. The prosecutors said that when the investigator asked Monica about Baker, he told him that he was not sure about his last name.
For the next few months, investigators said they surveyed Monica and Baker’s secret romance and stated that the relationship continued after Fabio’s assassination. According to District Attorney, the couple traveled to two trips to Las Vegas and Mertal Beach together.
June 14, 2017: Monica Sementillly and her then lover Robert Baker arrested
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Lapd detectives said they came with one Plan to record Monica and Baker secretly While they were together. On June 14, 2017, Monica and Baker were pulled into her mustang under the guise of a traffic stop and it was reported that the car they were driving could have been stolen. According to the prosecution, the authorities handcuff Monica and Baker and put them on the back seat of a police car, wired for sound to record them.
The spy who had been investigating Monica and Baker for months, said that they were listening to them from a van standing nearby. And when investigators said that Monica was recorded by telling Baker, “Somebody must have talked. Someone is doing this with us.” The couple were then taken to the Lapd van Nuies station, where they were placed in separate cells and questioned about the killing of Fibio by detectives.
Later that day, investigators said that he told Monica that Baker’s blood was found at the crime site. According to detectives, Monica explained why Baker’s blood would be inside her house. He told them that he “cracked” the baker on a finger with a racket and shed blood to everyone in the racketball court, so he gave him a towel and then brought the bloody towel home with him.
August 14-18, 2017: The Grand Jury Hearing
The prosecution presented its case to a grand jury in August 2017. She described Monica’s works on the day her husband was killed in detail and said she was establishing her elbi for the time of murder.
The prosecutors also presented evidence that six months before Fabio’s murder, Monica interacted with a security camera company to upgrade the system at her home. The upgrade allowed her to reach her surveillance cameras with her cellphone. According to the prosecution, Monica upgraded Robert Baker to the log in credentials and user manual for his safety system on the same day.
In the months after Fabio’s murder, the prosecutors said that when Monica was posting on social media that she was hurting her husband’s death, she was secretly spending time with Baker. Monica and Baker’s friends testified that they went on double dates and saw affectionate behavior between the two. At the conclusion of the hearing, Monica and Baker were inspired by a grand jury for murder and conspiracy.
August 31, 2017: Defendants “not guilty”
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On August 31, 2017, both Monica Sementillly and Robert Baker argued for “not guilty” for the killing of Fabio Sementillly.
Monica presents her case protecting Semmentilli
On January 3, 2018, Monica’s defense team filed a resolution to separate the prosecution against her. Amid his arguments, he said that during the hearing of the grand jury, the prosecution offered evidence of Monica’s character which was irrelevant.
The defense said, “The evidence presented against Ms. Sementillly established that she was a woman who was a relationship that she wanted to be secret. Any additional allegations that she wanted to kill her husband, or benefited from her murder, or took advantage of her murder with Mr. Baker, was based on pure speculation.”
Raksha also said that the prosecution did not communicate between Baker and Monica which was a proof of an agreement to kill Fabio. Raksha also raised the issue with a surveillance footage at the parking lot, which the prosecutors claimed to be seen by Baker in Monica’s truck. He said in his speed that “… the quality of the video is so granular, and the focal point is so far, so that it is unaware of being border,” and you can’t leave a person’s truck.
July 7, 2023: Robert Baker’s dramatic petition change
On July 7, 2023, Baker changed his petition “No guilty” from “no competition.” When he was sentenced, the judge explained to him that the “no competition” petition is essentially similar to the “guilty” petition and asked if he understood that Baker replied, “Yes, sir.” Baker was sentenced to life in jail without the possibility of parole. Monica’s lawyers had earlier tried to separate their case from Baker, which was refused by the judge. By arguing “no competition”, Baker created a significant change in the court proceedings. Now, Monica will be tried separately to kill her husband, Fabio, without a baker.
February 24, 2024: “48 hours” talks to Robert Baker
Went to see “48 hours” Robert Baker in jailAnd said that Monica had nothing to do with Fabio’s murder and she never knew that he was a killer of Fabio. Baker also told “48 hours” that he is no longer in contact with Monica and has not decided if he would testify in his testing.
April 11, 2025: A convict decision
Two days of discussions, 10-mites, two-women jury found Monica Sementilli, 53, Close to murder and conspiracy For the murder of her husband Fabio, with financial benefits and special circumstances of murder, lying while waiting.
6 May, 2025:
Christopher Austin, a close friend of Robert Baker, convicted a second degree killing and sentenced to 16 years in May, for her role for her role in the killing of Fabio Sementillly.
June 23, 2025: sentenced to life
Monica Sementillly was sentenced to life in jail without the possibility of parole. She is planning to appeal.
