The Widow of Woodland Hills

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🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Celebrity hairdresser Fabio Sementilli is brutally murdered in his backyard. A security camera helps investigators identify unlikely suspects and an illicit affair. Josh Mankiewicz reports. Blayne Alexander and Josh Mankiewicz go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’   Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/4cKdxFV Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4kEW6NuH3bhvuozZtITALF

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0:00.0	Tonight on Dateline.
0:02.0	It was heartbreaking to listen to her trying to save her dad.
0:12.0	Just too much.
0:15.0	Why would someone do this to my brother?
0:17.0	Hey everybody, Fab here.
0:19.0	He was an icon in the hairdressing industry.
0:21.5	Jackie Chan and Jennifer Love Hewitt, many other celebrities as well.
0:25.5	She said it was a home invasion robbery.
0:29.5	Somebody killed him.
0:30.3	They took his car, they took money.
0:32.0	I saw the video of the two guys running.
0:33.8	No question, those are your killers.
0:35.3	No question.
0:36.2	This was definitely a coordinated planned attack
0:39.2	probably took him out right away.
0:42.0	This was about killing it. This wasn't about
0:43.4	stealing anything. 100%.
0:45.0	Somebody masterminded all this.
0:47.6	Duped everybody, including
0:49.3	my brother. They just sit back and say it.
0:51.4	How could this be?
0:53.1	The last name you expected to hear.
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