It's one of South Florida's most notorious murder trials. A woman shot and killed the man she said murdered her husband.
She claimed self-defense, but evidence surfaced years later that forced investigators to have a second look.
Janepsy Carballo is just another prison inmate these days, still insisting she's innocent and that she killed Ilan Nissim in self-defense.
Carballo claims Nissim orchestrated the murder of her husband, Orlando Mesa, who was Nissim's business partner.
"He chased me through the house, he tripped on some duffle bags I had and because he tripped, I had the chance to get the first gun that I had purchased and when I turn around, he made a move and I panicked because I thought he was reaching for his gun and that's when I shot," Carballo said.
Her story didn't work at trial for several reasons. She shot Nissim five times in the back, and she was recorded by a DEA informant confessing, saying she wanted Nissim's daughter to grow up without a father just like her son.
John Friskey was the informant, "She told me how she shot and killed him. It made me very uncomfortable. I just wanted to leave."
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Carballo said she was just embellishing her story.
"I got caught up in the story. I made myself look tougher than I was," she said. "I’m a single mom, living in a man's world, so I wanted to sound tough. You can't mess with me."
The jury agreed with prosecutors that Carballo lured Nissim to her house just to kill him.
"Sometimes revenge is just an excuse but it's a lousy excuse to kill somebody, you cannot do it. You will be held accountable," said State Attorney Kathy Rundle.
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