birthday party for their daughter who was noah s age. and then, said cindy, orland told her later, not long befor he was murdered, that illa lost a big packet of cas orlando entrusted him with my husband gave illam nissi money to purchase lots to ge in the business. a lot of money? my knowledge was $180,000 and there was a robbery and th money was gone $180,000 lost in cash? that s the sort of thing makes the cops sit up and take notice tell me about the links betwee nissim and orlando what were they doing together? some small real estate, fro what we understand but all these sound lik businesses on the up and up. yes cindy began to suspect that nissim must have had a reaso to want her husband dead
jokester so, he made me laugh orly, as she called him, wa as ambitious as she was. he didn t just fix cars. he bought a couple of lunc trucks and then he branched out int real estate development. having tried marriage once cindy was reluctant to try again. but orlando? not a man inclined to entertai doubts and one weekend he invited cindy to a barbecue party. he surprised me he knew that i loved mariachis then all of a sudden, all thes mariachis, they come in singing, and he gets on his knees and h proposed so, it was exciting. that s a day you don forget never so, in short order they got married and had a baby and became a family. why d you pick noah as a name? they had a book on baby
then from the front yard, near where orlando fell, a neighbor called out. she said, i have your son. my brave neighbor, she took my son from my husband s arms when i ran to grab my son, m son was shot, full of blood. neighbors called 9-1-1. a baby s been shot. in the distance, as the caller spoke to 9-1-1, a woman screamed it was cindy how old is the baby oh, my god. 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 th ambulance.
being with him all the time that was when your life mad sense? that s what i knew. us, together, with our baby. but now, orlando was gone and little noah was wounded an suffering. and so, she took him home to care for him there, in a house that felt empty. i couldn t sleep seeing m baby suffer with the wounds. losing my husband. he was very loved by everyon in my family clearly however, there wa someone who didn t feel th same way about orlando mesa. and before long, said cindy, she and the north miami police came to the very sam conclusion about who that migh be coming up - cindy points to someone sh thinks is a possible suspect and begs for help in bringin her husband s killer t justice.
you always inquire about th investigation, so i thought he wanted to keep me close fo information. if he was maybe a suspect. and on the day of orlando s funeral, who should show u that nissim himself. that s got to be pretty bizarr to have him at the funeral whe you re thinking that you husband was killed it was. it was i immediately told the lea detective in that case the lead detective came t the funeral also and she instructed us to ac natural. not to let him suspect that we knew that he was the person. and to keep taking nissim s calls. cindy thought she could help the police solve the case. but there was a little mor involved than a pure murde investigation. the feds were in on it now said abbe rifkin, th