The Millionaire, the Model & the Hit Man

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Produced by Judy Rybak and Greg Fisher

[This communicative archetypal aired connected Jan. 31, 2015. It was updated connected June 9.]

This week's "48 Hours," appropriately acceptable successful Los Angeles, is simply a twisted communicative of greed and execution that, astatine times, whitethorn look similar a Hollywood blockbuster. Like immoderate bully thriller, it is 1 portion romance, 2 parts Hitchcock. But successful the end, it's each true.

"It wasn't a gag to him. It was precise serious. Get it implicit with. Be bloody, beryllium atrocious astir it, and extremity it," Rick Fuhrmann told "48 Hours analogous Troy Roberts. "He wanted her dormant and helium didn't attraction however it was done - bushed her up, chopped her caput disconnected enactment her successful ditch."

In 2012, millionaire Dino Guglielmelli asked Fuhrmann to termination the parent of his children.

"Did you ever accidental ... 'how would the children consciousness if they mislaid their mother?" Roberts asked.

"More than once," Fuhrmann replied.

And what did helium say?"

"He would say, 'They'll beryllium overmuch amended disconnected without her. ... I volition find them a bully mother. I'll adjacent person you cheque her retired archetypal to marque definite she's large and marque -- get your approval,'" said Fuhrmann.

Just 9 years earlier, this fearfulness communicative was a emotion story. Monica Olsen, a tiny municipality miss from Canada, made it large arsenic a New York manner exemplary and past moved to Los Angeles to effort her manus astatine acting.

"Monica was moving precise hard towards ... being palmy successful modeling and acting," adjacent person Olya Banar said. "She was beautiful. ...She is precise photogenic. ...if this full happening wouldn't happened we would spot her connected the large screens close now, definitely."

Banar says Monica wasn't successful Los Angeles for precise agelong earlier she was swept disconnected her feet by Dino, a charming "farm boy" from a large household successful Walla Walla, Washington.

"We each grew up successful the aforesaid location wherever my parents unrecorded currently," said Emilio Guglielmelli, Dino's brother.

Emilio Guglielmelli says Dino's archetypal emotion was music.

"He's ever been a musician, very, precise funny successful music," helium said.

Dino dropped retired of assemblage and moved to Los Angeles to beryllium a stone star, but that's not however helium would marque his fortune.

Living successful the onshore of wellness and fitness, Dino saw a request and capitalized connected it. He started making and distributing vitamins and different dietary supplements.

"There's cipher successful the satellite doesn't privation to unrecorded longer. And so, helium parlayed that into a large business," Emilio Guglielmelli explained.

Dino would yet physique the hugely palmy multilevel supplement and tegument attraction company, Creations Garden.

"Dino was a young, palmy antheral with a batch of wealth and batch of power, and erstwhile helium met Monica ... helium wanted her and helium knew however to get her," said Banar.

Six months aft they met, Dino flew Monica to Italy and proposed.

"It sounds similar a fairytale successful the beginning, due to the fact that helium projected to her successful Venice," Banar continued. "I mean it was emotion astatine archetypal sight. You don't perceive those stories happened."

The mates was joined conscionable 3 months aboriginal and Dino's brother, Gino Guglielmelli, attended the lavish wedding.

"It was beauteous fancy for me, the full thing," helium said.

Gino Guglielmelli says Dino's exemplary woman seemed to implicit his babe brother's translation from workplace lad to mogul.

"He had a palmy business. He had bully cars. I deliberation that conscionable added to the image," helium explained.

Asked what his archetypal impressions of Monica were, Emilio Guglielmelli told Roberts, "I didn't attraction for her. ...I thought she was a golden digger, and ... had different motives. I don't cognize what it was, thing astir her I didn't truly attraction for."

"...she wanted her manner that wasn't sittin' astatine home. You know, her manner was to spell to Hollywood, and immoderate they bash successful Hollywood," Gino Guglielmelli said. "They had nannies ... radical with the girls, you know, each time long. ... So he's astir apt spent much clip with 'em. Because erstwhile he'd travel location from work, sometimes she wouldn't travel backmost ... until aboriginal successful the evening."

"I deliberation she was a large woman and from what I saw of their life, I mean, they were cleanable ... together," said Banar.

But Gino lived with his member and Monica for six months aboriginal connected successful their matrimony and says helium saw occupation from the start.

"... conscionable 2 radical with the aforesaid benignant of egos and ... I deliberation she truly wanted to person a career. And I deliberation helium wanted her to beryllium a mom," helium said.

Banar says Monica was a large woman and mother, but erstwhile she wanted more, their narration changed -- and truthful did Dino.

"Monica was astatine location -- taking attraction of kids for a mates of years and it was clip for her to ... beryllium much independent," she explained. "I deliberation Dino was frightened of losing power implicit Monica ... Started being much aggressive, much controlling towards her."

By the clip Rick Fuhrmann came into the picture, their matrimony was successful its last act.

"I knew that helium was dating each sorts of girls... due to the fact that helium liked to brag astir it," helium said.

Fuhrmann and Dino were successful concern together, supplying vitamins and supplements to the military. Fuhrmann had served arsenic an enlisted antheral years earlier and had contacts. He says that impressed Dino.

"You 2 became friends," Roberts noted.

"Close," said Fuhrmann.

And the person they got, the much Dino confided successful Fuhrmann.

"Dino told maine that Monica was a precise atrocious parent ... ever gone each the time. And -- slept astir with men, women -- drank excessively much, did drugs," said Fuhrmann.

After astir 7 years of marriage, Dino filed for divorce. Fuhrmann says helium became consumed with the thought of losing fractional his assets and custody of his children.

"Dino is, for deficiency of a amended word, a implicit power freak and a crippled player," Fuhrmann told Roberts. "...he had to beryllium 1 measurement up of everybody. ...he had to triumph astatine the extremity of the day."

Fuhrmann says erstwhile Dino was ordered to wage a whopping $55,000 a period successful alimony, helium hatched a program to person his Canadian-born woman arrested and deported and turned to Fuhrmann for help.

"With my subject background, Dino thought I was perfect," helium explained. "He would similar maine to works drugs successful her car ... travel her astir and ... telephone the constabulary erstwhile she's drivin' erratically to spot if she tin get pulled over. ... I had Monica's location keys -- Monica's car keys -- Monica's recognition paper statements showing maine everything that she's done, each spot that she's been."

Dino filed papers showing his institution was successful occupation and alimony was reduced to $25,000. But Fuhrmann says it was inactive excessively much, excessively late.

"What was the last straw for him?" Roberts asked Fuhrmann.

"He got ... an email ... from his ain lawyer to him stating that ... helium was conscionable amended disconnected to springiness her the $25,000 a period and the recognition paper ... and conscionable permission it alone. And that to him ... helium conscionable lost. His ain lawyer said, 'Dude, you conscionable -- you-- you lost. Give it up. Just pay.' That's -- it's similar asking him to halt breathing. He -- helium can't bash that," helium replied.

"So what were his instructions to you?" Roberts asked.

"This has gotta end. She's gotta go. Get it -- get it done," Fuhrmann replied. "If I wasn't gonna bash it, helium was gonna find idiosyncratic to bash it."

Fuhrmann told Dino helium would "take care" of Monica and helium did -- conscionable not the mode Dino wanted.

"Why are you inactive alive?" Roberts asked Monica Olsen.

"You know, I [laughs] I deliberation Rick had -- did the noble thing," she replied.

"Monica is truly fortunate that Mr. Guglielmelli picked the incorrect guy. Otherwise she'd beryllium dead," said Deputy District Attorney Emily Cole.

A DARK TURN

"I retrieve the archetypal clip I saw him, helium was smiling astatine me," Monica Olsen said of gathering Dino Guglielmelli.

When Monica joined Dino, she was definite helium was her happily ever after.

"He was persistent. He was charming," she said.

She ne'er dreamed their communicative would extremity truthful tragically.

"You don't deliberation that the idiosyncratic that you've created a beingness with ... tin privation to harm you and marque you suffer," she told Roberts.

Monica is precise intelligent and has a Master's grade successful planetary finance. But, she says that similar a batch of women, she was blinded by Dino's charm and the spoils of his riches.

"We went retired connected a day ... and helium said, 'You know, I person 2 level tickets, and I wanna instrumentality you to Paris,'" Monica recalled. "...throughout our marriage, helium spoiled me."

But Monica says things began to alteration successful 2008, erstwhile she decided she wanted to spell backmost to work, and asked Dino to assistance her make a skincare enactment called "Skin by Monica."

"That was kinda my baby," she told Roberts.

But Dino took charge.

"Everything was benignant of nether his control," she explained. "And I was kept retired of the loop. 'Don't inquire excessively galore questions.'"

Monica says the much questions she asked, the angrier Dino became. So she worked connected reigniting her modeling career, but that conscionable made Dino furious.

"There was a alteration successful his personality," Roberts noted to Monica.

"Huge. He went dark. I mean, it was -- it was arsenic if helium was possessed," she said.

Monica says she was ne'er the 1 sleeping astir and doing drugs -- Dino was.

And astatine the tallness of that madness, helium "created" his dense metallic stone band.

Dino dyed his hairsbreadth and polished his nails black, and told Monica it was each for show. But she says she became terrified of him and started documenting his behavior.

"When Dino started behaving truly severely -- Monica would grounds him connected her compartment phone," Olya Banar said. "...and showing these videos to everyone saying, 'Look, I don't cognize what happened to him. This is truly crazy. He's behaving similar a lunatic.'"

In 1 incidental that was recorded, Dino fired a nanny who his children loved due to the fact that she was excessively loyal to Monica.

After Dino filed for divorce, helium had refused to determination out. What Monica didn't cognize is that portion Dino was surviving successful the impermanent house, helium was already readying to get escaped of her, by paying his person Rick Fuhrmann to bash it.

"How did helium privation Monica killed?" Roberts asked Fuhrmann.

"That would -- depended connected the day," helium replied.

Fuhrmann says helium tried to support Dino blessed and stall him done the divorce, hoping it would each extremity erstwhile determination was an agreement. But things conscionable kept escalating.

"She was decidedly putting him done the wringer. And helium wanted her to suffer," Fuhrmann explained. "So I came up with this thought of letting him cognize that she was infected with AIDS, 'and past successful conscionable a substance of time, Dino, it'll each beryllium over. Don't interest astir it.' And that worked for months."

"How did helium respond erstwhile you told him that you infected Monica with HIV virus?" Roberts asked.

"How large tin you smile? It's not a joke. I mean, literally, however large tin you smile, 'cause his was beauteous big," said Fuhrmann.

Fuhrmann made it wide helium ne'er really infected Monica with the virus. It was conscionable a prevarication to stall Dino. But meanwhile, things astatine the Guglielmelli location were astir to spiral retired of control. It was the nighttime of Jan. 16, 2012.

"He was getting successful my face, close past and determination successful beforehand of the kids," Monica told Roberts. "...my archetypal happening was to get the kids removed."

Monica says she rushed the children into her country and locked the door, but earlier she could dial 911, Dino erstwhile again bushed her to it, and accused her of assaulting him.

"He said that she wrapped her hands astir his cervix and it caused scratches. And that she deed him," said Deputy District Attorney Emily Cole.

Monica Olsen was arrested and Emily Cole was assigned to the case.

"The communicative was corroborated somewhat by their daughters. So the lawsuit was filed arsenic a misdemeanor home unit case," Cole continued.

"So determination was grounds that she had struck him?" Roberts asked.

"There were pictures," said Cole.

"He showed maine a representation that his girl oregon 1 of his friends took oregon thing of this itty-bitty small cut. And I fundamentally said, 'Man up,'" Fuhrmann said. "'I've chopped myself worse shaving."

Still, Dino was capable to get a restraining bid against Monica, and was granted afloat custody of their daughters.

"I'm being fixed a restraining bid to enactment distant from my kids, to enactment distant from the house, to enactment distant from my business," Monica told Roberts.

It each sounds excessively acquainted to Leitia Devine - Dino Guglielmelli's ex-wife.

"Do you spot parallels betwixt your communicative and Monica's?" Roberts asked Devine.

"This is the aforesaid communicative almost," she replied. "At immoderate fixed moment, helium would bash thing to marque maine suffer my kids. That was his goal."

Devine says that during their divorce, Dino accused her of doing drugs and being abusive, and past took everything: their daughter, their home, and the concern they started together, Creations Garden.

"The Dino I joined was a caring and compassionate guy. The feline I divorced was callous, mean, calculating," Devine said. "The champion mode to picture it is Jekyll and Hyde."

"Looking backmost successful hindsight," said Cole, "this is precisely what helium did to his 2nd wife. He brought up home unit charges. And helium was capable to get custody of their kid past and that's precisely what it looks similar helium was doing with Monica."

Monica mislaid custody of her girls for 13 months, and past charges were yet dropped for deficiency of evidence. But that's erstwhile Dino pushed Rick Fuhrmann to execute the plan.

"The unit was connected to termination her. Three, five, seven, 10 times a week, telephone calls astatine 4:00 a.m. successful the morning, 'When's this gonna end? Are you definite you tin get it done?'" said Fuhrmann.

"There's ever problems, adjacent successful mean divorces with couples that combat implicit definite things. But you someway marque it enactment for the payment of your children. There is nary specified a conception successful his mind. It's each oregon nothing. It's 'The Hunger Games.' It's termination oregon beryllium killed," said Monica.

Monica was astir to larn however close she was. Rick Fuhrmann couldn't stall Dino immoderate longer and says he's nary killer, truthful helium decided to sojourn Monica's divorcement lawyer and spill the beans.

"We had rather a elaborate discussion," Fuhrmann said. "I told him everything."

"You told him everything. That Dino wanted Monica dead," said Roberts.

"Absolutely," said Fuhrmann.

"How did your hubby privation you killed?" Roberts asked Monica.

"I mean, successful a horrific way," she explained. "He wanted to marque it look similar a cause killing. ...like I had been kidnapped successful Mexico. ...And helium wanted maine raped, and helium wanted my caput chopped off.

"It's beauteous horrific," said Roberts.

A Hollywood romance-turned-horror communicative

Monica's lawyer took Rick Fuhrmann's accusation to the territory attorney's bureau and the lawsuit of attempted execution was assigned to nary different than Emily Cole.

"I didn't automatically admit the Guglielmelli name. It was his daughters names that I recognized from the home unit case," Cole said. "That's what clicked successful my head, that I had met this feline before."

But earlier Cole could marque an arrest, her investigators needed coagulated evidence.

"The detective said ... 'Would you beryllium consenting to deterioration a wire?' And I said, 'Sure,'" Fuhrmann told Roberts.

On Oct. 1, 2013, helium did conscionable that:

UNDERCOVER TAPE

Rick Fuhrmann: You're positive?

Dino Guglielmelli: That what?

Rick Fuhrmann: You privation her dead?

Dino Guglielmelli: Oh, I'm...

Rick Fuhrmann: 100 percent?

Dino Guglielmelli: Why wouldn't I?

Rick Fuhrmann: Why wouldn't you? Good question.

THE STING

On the day of Oct. 1, 2013, Rick Fuhrmann and Dino Guglielmelli did thing they'd done galore times.

"They were conscionable gonna person luncheon and this is wherever they usually went," Emily Cole said of the Thai restaurant.

But the authoritative made definite that this clip the tables were turned.

"The detectives successful this lawsuit ... from the sheriff's section large crimes, they were sitting here, watching Dino and Fuhrmann person their lunch," said Cole.

"Was it nerve-wracking having that lunch?" Roberts asked Fuhrmann.

"Yeah. I was pissed. ...I was precise angry," helium replied. "I virtually conscionable wanted conscionable -- drawback and tally disconnected the -- different broadside of the array and conscionable wrack his encephalon a small spot and go, 'Do you recognize that you've got everything. You've got the friggin' American imagination and you're conscionable an idiot?'"

Instead, Fuhrmann acceptable astir catching a slayer connected tape:

Rick Fuhrmann: There's nary going backmost erstwhile we get up retired of this seat.

Dino Guglielmelli: I'll ne'er spell back.

"So what did Furman person to get retired of Dino?" Roberts asked Cole.

"Well, archetypal of all, helium needed to springiness him an accidental to accidental nary ... to backmost retired astatine each times. But helium needed for Dino to recognize that, astatine the extremity of this conversation, by the clip they walked retired that door, that determination was nary mode that Dino was gonna beryllium capable to halt what helium had enactment successful motion," she replied.

Dino Guglielmelli: I'll beryllium blessed erstwhile it's each implicit ... that's erstwhile I'll truly beryllium happy.

"We did precisely the aforesaid regular arsenic we've done for a year," Fuhrmann told Roberts. "It was the aforesaid speech ... Nothing was changed. Nothing was embellished. Nothing was made up."

In a infinitesimal Fuhrmann calls typical, Dino is heard justifying his tendency to person Monica killed, due to the fact that she lied during a deposition successful the home unit lawsuit against her:

Dino Guglielmelli: When she went into her deposition and lied and said that I scratched myself and acceptable her up and that she ne'er touched maine and that each those scratches came from maine going to the bath and scratching myself. She looked maine consecutive successful the eyes and said it. And that's erstwhile I knew that I wanted her to beryllium gone. That I could ne'er ever spot her oregon thing -- thing that came retired of her mouth. I knew past that she would bash thing to wounded me.

"This is simply a clip from the signaling that was made that time astatine this edifice betwixt Dino and Fuhrmann," Roberts told Cole arsenic they listened to the portion successful the aforesaid edifice wherever the signaling was made:

Rick Fuhrmann: I-- I'll inquire you a elemental question. You're positive?

Dino Guglielmelli: That what?

Rick Fuhrmann: You privation her dead?

Dino Guglielmelli: Uh-huh.

Rick Fuhrmann: 100 percent? And you're definite the girls are g -- they're fine?

Dino Guglielmelli: They're wholly fine. All they request is their dad.

Rick Fuhrmann: All they -- each they request is their dad.

"So this is important due to the fact that ... this was a wide declaration that helium wanted his woman dead?" Roberts asked.

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"No substance the consequences," Cole affirmed. "...he wants her dormant careless of who it's gonna hurt."

Dino Guglielmelli: It's similar a imagination travel true. Seriously. I mean, you know, she's done truthful -- she's tried truthful hard to wounded maine for truthful agelong and done truthful much, you know, evil things.

"Three oregon 4 times I gave him the mode out. ...'Are you definite you privation her dead? When I get up retired of this seat, it's done, it's over,'" Fuhrmann said. "I deliberation his words were, 'It's been a agelong time, but wherefore wouldn't I'"

Dino Guglielmelli: Why wouldn't I?

Rick Fuhrmann: Why wouldn't you? Good question?

"'But what are the kids gonna bash for a mother?' 'Don't interest astir it. I'll find a bully one,'" Fuhrmann told Roberts.

Rick Fuhrmann: By the clip we're retired of lunch, it's already done. You conscionable request to fig retired however to wage me.

Dino Guglielmelli: Oh, I'll wage you. I--

Rick Fuhrmann: How much?

Dino Guglielmelli: You already told maine however much.

Rick Fuhrmann: $80,000?

Dino Guglielmelli: That's what you told me.

Rick Fuhrmann says that successful earlier conversations astir sidesplitting Monica, Dino had made it wide helium wanted it done portion she was traveling abroad. So Fuhrmann told Dino that portion they were astatine lunch, Monica was connected abrogation successful Mexico, wherever she would dice that day.

Dino Guglielmelli: Are you tellin' maine it's gonna beryllium done today? Are you serious?

Rick Fuhrmann: Yes, erstwhile I permission this room.

Fuhrmann convinced Dino that a hired assassin successful Mexico would termination Monica earlier they had clip to digest their lunch:

Dino Guglielmelli: I don't privation to-- I don't privation to cognize anything.

Rick Fuhrmann: Well, determination you go. I'm not gonna archer you then.

Dino Guglielmelli: I'll work astir it successful the paper.

Rick Fuhrmann: Yes, you will. Mexican paper, maybe.

Painfully alert of the sting operation, Monica was hiding retired successful a edifice country successful Beverly Hills. That night, Dino went location to his daughters, presumably reasoning their parent was dead.

"The pursuing day, the signaling was brought to me. We listened to it and past I filed the case," Cole told Roberts.

Dino Guglielmelli was arrested astatine his location successful Valencia, California, successful beforehand of his daughters, and was charged with attempted murder.

"They saw him being arrested," said Monica.

The girls were taken into protective custody and Monica had to prime them up astatine the jail.

"What I don't recognize is wherefore the hate?" Roberts asked Monica. "The deep-seated choler and hatred towards you?"

"You cognize -- that's a question for him," she replied.

It's a question Troy Roberts would yet get to inquire Dino implicit the phone.

THE WHY BEHIND THE HOW

The lone mode "48 Hours" analogous Troy Roberts could inquire Dino Guglielmelli wherefore helium wanted his wife, Monica, killed was via telephone. Dino is being held successful a installation successful Corcoran, California, which doesn't let cameras.

"My archetypal question to you is ... what mistakes did you make? What are you blameworthy of?" Roberts asked Dino.

"Well, I would accidental I'm astir apt -- I could accidental that ... I'm blameworthy of allowing myself to -- to beryllium betrayed and manipulated. I'm blameworthy of moving excessively hard. I'm blameworthy of trusting excessively much," helium replied.

Dino says helium is the unfortunate here. He calls Rick Fuhrmann a maestro conman who Dino says convinced him they could marque millions selling vitamins and supplements to the military. When that con started to unravel, Dino says Fuhrmann acceptable him up for attempted murder.

"So you're not taking immoderate work for this?" Roberts asked.

"No. I'm -- I'm -- no. Ask Fuhrmann," Dino said, "Why did helium bash it? After 2 years successful a manipulation connected a subject contract, and -- and each this stuff, wherefore did helium bash that? He didn't person to. I wasn't going retired trying to find idiosyncratic to sound disconnected my wife."

Prosecutor Emily Cole confirms that Rick Fuhrmann did so con Dino into reasoning determination was a large declaration coming his way.

"Rick forged Department of Defense documents to pb Mr. Guglielmelli to judge that determination was immoderate large concern deal. And Mr. Fuhrmann explains that helium did that successful bid to support Mr. Guglielmelli happy. Because a blessed Dino doesn't wanna termination his wife," Cole explained.

"Is determination a subject contract?" Fuhrmann asked. "There's subject contracts fixed each day. I peculiarly americium seeking 1 for supplements. And I'm inactive moving connected it today, and that's truly each I'll accidental with that."

"Our investigation-- brought guardant the accusation that Mr. Fuhrmann ... lone spent a twelvemonth successful the subject ... helium had a precise basal subject inheritance ... helium was honorably discharged connected injury," Cole explained. "Rick Fuhrmann is simply a chameleon due to the fact that he'll beryllium immoderate you privation him to be."

And conscionable similar Emily Cole, "48 Hours" recovered Richard Fuhrmann hard to pin down.

"Are you a deed man?" Roberts asked Fuhrmann.

"No," helium replied.

"Have you ever killed somebody?"

"Not connected U.S. soil. That's it. Move on," said Fuhrmann.

"But you person killed someone, Roberts pressed.

"Move on," said Fuhrmann.

"He'll accidental and bash ... what helium thinks you privation him to do," Cole said. "I deliberation Dino and Mr. Fuhrmann were precise akin successful that respect. And I deliberation that's wherefore they got on truthful well."

But portion it was evident that Rick Fuhrmann was a phony, the conspiracy to termination Monica was precise real:

Rick Fuhrmann: By the clip we're retired of lunch, it's already done. You conscionable request to fig retired however to wage me.

Dino Guglielmelli: Oh, I'll wage you. I --

Rick Fuhrmann: How much?

Dino Guglielmelli: You already told maine however much.

Rick Fuhrmann: $80,000?

Dino Guglielmelli: That's what you told me.

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"I've listened to the portion ... and it's precise wide ... connected the portion ... you wanted your woman killed and you were consenting to wage $80,000 to marque it happen," Roberts commented to Dino.

"Well ... the full wealth facet had travel up galore times astir him wanting wealth and needing money, and I'd been paying him wealth for a agelong time. I dunno however overmuch wealth I paid him. I deliberation I -- successful total, I-- I paid him astir apt $50,000 to unafraid the subject contract. And it was always, 'Well, however are you gonna get maine the wealth and wherever is the wealth gonna travel from?' That was a question each the time," helium replied. "...by the clip an hour-and-a-half luncheon was up and helium asked maine those questions -- I was-- you know, was it astir sidesplitting somebody? I truly didn't deliberation anybody was going to beryllium dead, I mean, I'm conscionable answering the question ... I cognize what the portion appears to beryllium like, but I didn't instrumentality immoderate of it seriously, I truly didn't."

Dino claims it was Rick Fuhrmann who wanted to get escaped of Monica, due to the fact that she was trying to sabotage his subject contract.

"He convinces maine that Monica is calling them and trying to termination the contract. So he's like, 'You know, I wanna get her retired of the country, I privation thing I tin bash ... to get escaped of her.' I'm like, 'Richard, don't speech similar that, conscionable -- we'll conscionable wage her erstwhile the declaration happens.' 'No, no, no, we're not gonna get the contract, bash you recognize what she's doing? She's sending letters to them,'" said Dino.

"Are you saying to me, Dino, that Rick Fuhrmann was the 1 that projected sidesplitting Monica?" Roberts asked.

"All the time, yeah. I ne'er -" Dino replied.

"And you nev -- and you ne'er said that?"

"No," said Dino.

"You ne'er said that?"

"No."

The much Roberts pressed Dino astir what helium said connected the tape, the much helium blamed Rick Fuhrmann and the little his communicative made sense.

"Well, connected the tape, it's precise wide that you understood that erstwhile the luncheon with Rick was over, determination was nary turning back, that helium was going to termination Monica," said Roberts.

"He said that to maine galore times. 'There's nary turning backmost erstwhile this happens.' He -- helium would say, 'There's nary turning back, we don't wage the radical successful the subject contract, they're gonna termination some of us.' I mean, these were things that helium utilized to accidental each the time. I didn't instrumentality immoderate of it seriously. I mean, it's -- it was mean protocol for him to support -- speech similar that," said Dino.

But "48 Hours" listened to the full portion and determination is nary mistaking what Dino and Fuhrmann were discussing. Even Dino's member agrees.

"Did you perceive the recordings betwixt your member and Rick Fuhrmann?" Roberts asked Emilio Guglielmelli.

"Yes," helium replied.

"What did you marque of it?"

The recordings benignant of talk for themselves," Emilio Guglielmelli said. "... they had a speech astir sidesplitting Monica."

"Dino made it wide much than erstwhile that helium wanted her dead," Roberts noted. "And helium was consenting to wage $80,000 to person it done."

"Yes, yeah," Emilio said. "Yes. Yes, helium did."

"Does that astonishment you?"

"Yes, it does astonishment me. And ... I genuinely believe, though, the full concern snowballed retired of control," Emilio told Roberts. "I believe, successful my heart, determination whitethorn beryllium -- you cognize however guys talk, everybody gets mad, you accidental things and whatever. ...he could say, 'I privation she was gone.' Somebody'd say, 'Oh, I tin get escaped of her for you if you want.' ... the feline -- was a existent blowhard, and -- and I could spot the concern wherever he'd say, 'Oh, I tin instrumentality attraction of that. No occupation -- I tin bash that bash that for you. Sure, spell ahead.'"

"Richard told maine the full time, 'I don't cognize Monica, but I hatred her guts.' 'What she's done to you and those children, she should beryllium deported, she should beryllium this, she should beryllium that,'" Dino told Roberts implicit the phone. "I mean, to the extent of the deception here. ...I'm not lying. I'm telling you the truth. Yeah, I fell into a subject declaration wherever I was blinded by that ... I conscionable benignant of ignored it, due to the fact that that was my focus. And that was wrong. ...it does amusement a weakness successful maine being greedy. I should person recognized what was going on, and I'll ne'er forgive myself for that..."

But to Emily Cole this wasn't astir a phony subject declaration oregon Rick Fuhrmann. This was a clear-cut lawsuit of execution for prosecute by Dino Guglielmelli:

Rick Fuhrmann: And you're definite the girls are g-- they're fine?

Dino Guglielmelli: They're wholly fine. All they request is their dad.

Rick Fuhrmann: All they n-- each they request is their dad?

There was conscionable 1 problem: Cole's prima witnesser was an alleged conman.

"Were you acrophobic astir putting Rick Fuhrmann connected the stand?" Roberts asked Cole.

"To an extent," she replied. "He had his ain credibility issues. And that was brought guardant successful the preliminary hearing. There were a lotta things that the defence lawyer brought up that didn't marque him look great."

The defence portrayed Fuhrmann arsenic a fraud who manipulated Dino with a fictional multimillion-dollar subject declaration for supplements. Cole knew that would hap again if Fuhrmann was called arsenic a witnesser successful beforehand of a jury.

"But the lawsuit wasn't Mr. Fuhrmann. It was the tape," she said.

But would the portion beryllium capable to person a jury?

A PROSECUTOR'S DILEMMA

Nine months aft Dino Guglielmelli was caught connected portion and charged with attempted execution for trying to person his woman killed, authoritative Emily Cole was preparing for trial. The grounds from the portion had the imaginable to nonstop Dino Gugilemelli distant for life.

"When Mr. Fuhrmann tells him that erstwhile helium leaves this room, helium can't alteration the information that Monica's gonna beryllium killed and Mr. Guglielmelli agrees to that, that is Mr. Guglielmelli pointing the proverbial weapon astatine Monica," said Cole.

Dino Guglielmelli: And there's nary mode for them to, like, travel way it backmost to me, right?

Rick Fuhrmann: No, that's wherefore I asked you astir the money.

Cole had coagulated grounds connected that tape, but she besides had a problem: Rick Fuhrmann himself. Just earlier trial, she decided she wasn't going to instrumentality immoderate chances, and made a stunning decision. She offered Dino a deal: plead blameworthy to attempted execution successful the second-degree and service lone 9 years successful prison.

"He had ne'er spent a time successful jailhouse erstwhile to this incident. He didn't person a record. ...Mr. Guglielmelli didn't perpetrate unit connected anyone either," Cole explained. "And I deliberation this was a just sentence."

"I deliberation my beingness is worthy much than that," Monica told Roberts. "To maine ... the intent shows the transgression mind. ... The intention. So if I effort to termination you and the slug misses you by fractional an inch, americium I little of a transgression due to the fact that I don't person a bully aim? Is helium little of a transgression due to the fact that Richard came forward?"

Asked if she wanted the lawsuit to spell to trial, Monica told Roberts, "Yes. Absolutely.

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"I was shocked. I retrieve calling asking them, 'Why are you offering him a plea?'" Fuhrmann said. "What I got backmost was, 'Don't interest astir it. He'll ne'er instrumentality it. ... Don't interest astir it. He's going distant for life.'"

"I went each the mode to the past 2nd earlier I took the deal. But my ma -- my full household pleaded with maine to instrumentality the woody ... I wasn't going to." Dino told Roberts by phone. "I thought a 1/5 accidental was truly worthy taking the risk, and I told 'em each that. I didn't deliberation a assemblage was going to find maine guilty. But aft my ma said, 'Please, conscionable instrumentality the deal,' I took the deal."

Dino is serving his clip astatine a authorities situation successful Corcoran, California. He volition beryllium eligible for parole successful 2021.

"He volition get retired angry. He volition get retired vengeful. And helium volition get retired reasoning that the crippled inactive needs to beryllium won," said Rick Fuhrmann.

Despite suspicions that Fuhrmann is simply a conman, helium has not been charged with immoderate crime. His biggest fearfulness is erstwhile Dino is released.

"That's what's scary for me," helium said. "There's isn't immoderate uncertainty successful my caput that ... my beingness would beryllium successful danger."

And Monica fears for her information arsenic well.

"I cognize that my husband's precise resourceful. He whitethorn person asked Rick, but helium could person asked galore different radical too," Monica said. "He had a batch much than $80,000 astatine his disposal to person maine killed."

"So bash you judge ... wealth volition beryllium waiting for him erstwhile he's released?" Roberts asked.

"If helium has power implicit it from situation past absolutely, helium volition person entree to -- respective millions," Monica replied.

Dino's brother, Gino, insists determination is nary wealth left.

"She claims that there's four-and-a fractional cardinal dollars overseas. OK. Go find it. His 2nd wife, 'Oh, there's $20 cardinal overseas.' Go find it. How travel nobody's uncovering it? Seriously ... Where is it?" Gino Guglielmelli said with a laugh. "Honestly, the guy's successful prison. Can't idiosyncratic spell get it?"

"Do you person immoderate sympathy for Monica?" Roberts asked Emilio Guglielmelli.

"No. I deliberation she -- I deliberation she beauteous overmuch brings connected each of her misfortune herself. But -- I didn't similar her before, truthful I'm surely not gonna similar her now," helium replied.

"What if your member was really associating with a existent deed man? Monica could beryllium dormant today," Roberts noted.

"I guess, by the tape, it's astir apt true. But, I judge that my brother, successful his concern world, astir apt knew much susceptible people, if helium wanted thing similar that done, than Richard Fuhrmann. That's wherefore I deliberation it was conscionable a -- thing said betwixt 2 guys that spiraled retired of control," said Emilio Guglielmelli.

"Does Monica person immoderate crushed to fearfulness for her information aft you are released from prison?" Roberts asked Dino.

"Of people not. I conscionable privation ... to instrumentality attraction of my kids. I privation to wage kid support. I privation to beryllium a good, providing national and a good, providing father," helium replied.

But Dino mightiness person a hard clip with that. Monica is present backmost is proceeding with the divorcement -- warring for the location and immoderate wealth is left. She has afloat custody of their daughters.

"How bash you marque them set to a caller life, knowing that their father's alive, knowing that their father, you know, is successful prison?" said Monica.

"Do they cognize wherefore he's successful prison?" Roberts asked.

"Yes. They saw him being arrested. So, they were -- they were precise contiguous that morning," Monica replied. "Vendela, my youngest, she said -- she said, 'You know, Mommy, God gave Daddy a timeout.'"

But Dino inactive claims helium is the victim.

"I've been criminalized, Troy,," helium said. "It's conscionable -- destroyed my life. And -- I don't get it, I don't recognize wherefore everyone wants to onslaught me, and this feline acceptable maine up."

"Monica is fortunate because, successful the end, Rick Fuhrmann is not a killer. He is idiosyncratic that mightiness crook the information oregon omit the truth, but he's not a killer. And that's what saved Monica," said Cole.

Monica's main interest present is her children.

"I cognize his volition is to reunite himself with the kids and ... instrumentality those children distant from me. I cognize that that's --" said Monica.

"Is that 1 of your top fears?" Roberts asked.

"Do I deliberation astir it? Yes. Am I gonna unrecorded successful fearfulness each day? No. I'm not gonna let this antheral to bash this to me. No," she replied. "I mean connected truly making thing of my acquisition and not shying distant from what happened, due to the fact that I deliberation that if idiosyncratic tin look astatine my beingness and what I've been done and larn from it, past I've done thing right."

"Anything other you privation to say?" Roberts asked Dino earlier a signaling interrupted the telephone with a warning: "You person 30 seconds remaining."

"You know, its 15 minutes of fame has turned into 30 seconds of fame," helium replied.

In September 2019, Dino Guglielmelli was released connected parole aft serving much than six years. His parole ended connected June 9, 2021.

Troy Roberts

Correspondent, "48 Hours"

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