and the reason? it was me 20th. exactly one month after that hit on orlando mesa. cindy was home alone, packing to move. then suddenly, an unexpected guest was at her door, said cindy. not just any guest. illam nissim. practically forced his way in, she said. peppered her with questions about her husband s business. he started asking me about my husband s warehouse. if i had my husband keys. and i said, i don t know where he keeps his keys. that s when he became aggressive and he said that i knew more than what i was telling him. she watched him in terror she said, as he walked around the house. as he looked outside and saw that her dogs were securely leashed, unable to help her. then, she said, it got very scary indeed. and he grabbed me. that s when he attacked me. i was able to get away from him. he reached out to grab me
oh, my god. oh, my god. cindy held her son for dear life. orlando tried to speak. all he was asking was, honey, tell me how s the baby? is the baby okay? then an agonizing decision. ride in the ambulance with her baby? or stay by her dying husband? of course, i was torn in two, but my main concern was my baby. so, i jumped immediately in the ambulance. as cindy sped away to the hospital with noah, the paramedics worked on orlando where he fell, but it was too late. they could not save him. detective felix guadarrama of the north miami police department went to the hospital to check on the boy and deliver the bad news. that s the toughest part of my job. how did she take it? she obviously became even more upset. everybody started crying. it was just horrible to hear news like that. but little noah would make it. would be okay.
communication that already existed there. but the big issue of course was that dea audiotape. i knew what was gonna happen. this tape is the one in which she seems to confess. she s not confessing. she said that i shot that man in self-defense. i thought he was armed. it s not a confession. did he have a weapon on him when they found him? i think he did. remember, the defense argued that cindy was exaggerating wildly when she talked to the dea s friskey. embellishing to make herself look tough. but if you listen carefully, they said, you can hear one thing cindy did say on that tape that was true. the one thing prosecutors ignored. five, big words. i had to defend myself. i had to defend myself. now that, said the defense, was
again. he scratched my neck. he ripped my shirt. he chased me through the house. cindy said she ran to the living room, where she kept her newly purchased gun. and nissim, right behind our, tripped on some bags she was packing. and when i turned around, he made a move, and i panicked because i thought he was reaching for his gun. and that s when i shot. and i ran out of the house and i call 9-1-1. somebody just tried to kill me. and i fired. and i ran to the street. hurry up. i need you to try to calm down, so i can understand you. somebody tried to kill me. had she stopped it? were there others with him? she kept running. and she s frantically saying they re chasing me. they re chasing. back at the house, police found nissim on the floor. he was very dead. they finally caught up with cindy a few blocks away. drove her to headquarters.
pony rides, a piñata, a cake. cindy, remember, had always been an ambitious person. now that she was a family breadwinner, in 2010, two years after the murder, she and a partner opened a clinic that specialized in managing pain, located in nearby broward county, just north of miami. she hired this man to help get the business going. his name is john friskey. i was selling her computers and helping her get set up. pain management clinics were popping up all over south florida just about then, and some of them were suspected of being so called pill mills , where unethical doctors got rich writing prescriptions for narcotics like oxycontin. in broward county, i think there was 100 and some odd pain clinics, which is more than mcdonald s. detective rob weir was part of a dea task force set up to investigate these pill mills. and while cindy insisted she