迪安·费耶罗似乎拥有一切。他的长相令人倾倒，魅力照亮了整个房间，在纽约有一家成功的皮肤和激光诊所。然而，有一样东西他没有，那就是为他的高端客户行医的执照。
近20年前，一名女性在他的护理下死亡，法耶洛的假医生生涯也因此中断。
在接受“20/20”的独家采访时，费耶罗现在透露了他所说的发生在这位女性身上的全部细节，这位35岁的投资银行家名叫玛丽亚·克鲁兹，她在2003年4月的一次激光治疗中去世。作为一名虔诚的天主教徒，克鲁兹从菲律宾移民到美国。她获得了福特汉姆大学的工商管理硕士学位，并在金融领域取得了成功。
“我知道在她最后的治疗过程中我喝醉了。她非常不舒服，这是一个漫长的治疗，我用了太多瓶利多卡因，”费耶罗告诉美国广播公司新闻高级调查记者大卫·斯科特。
几个月前，Faiello被指控三次无照行医。他被勒令停止治疗病人，但仍在曼哈顿下城一个朋友的公寓里继续治疗。
“这没有逻辑可言。没有正当理由。我知道这是错误的，在内心深处，我害怕会出什么问题，”费耶罗声称。
当克鲁兹开始表现出医疗困境的迹象时，费耶罗说他打电话给一个真正的医生朋友。他告诉费耶罗赶紧送克鲁兹去医院，但费耶罗不听。
“[玛丽亚]在那一点上完全是软弱无力的。我把我的头放在她的胸口，我检查她是否在呼吸，她没有生命体征，”Faiello说。
法耶洛说他把克鲁兹的尸体放在一个手提箱里，然后带回家。他说，手提箱在他的车库里放了几个星期，直到他想到如何处理它。
“在车库里，有一块板需要修理。我想到让玛丽亚成为那块石板的一部分。所以，我简直不敢相信我做到了，但这就是我所做的，”费耶罗说。
房子很快就被卖掉了。
“我无法给你一个合乎逻辑的解释，因为没有解释，”费耶罗说。
克鲁兹的家人在她周一和周二没有上班后报告了她的失踪。将近一年后，调查人员在费耶罗旧居车库的一块水泥板下发现了她的尸体。
与此同时，Faiello在因现有指控错过庭审日期后，正在哥斯达黎加潜逃。他最终被引渡到美国，并承认在克鲁兹的死亡中犯有一级伤害罪。
在服完20年刑期中的17年后，Faiello于今年早些时候获得假释。
“20/20”节目将于美国东部时间12月9日周五晚上9点播出，深入探究法耶洛的过去，采访他以前的同事、朋友和合作伙伴，包括格雷格·巴赫。负责此案的侦探们揭示了巴赫写给调查人员的信是如何导致克鲁兹失踪的新线索。
Greg Bach, Dean Faiello's ex-partner, during an interview with ABC News.
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费耶罗还谈到了他在纽约监狱阿提卡的时光，他声称在那里他从毒品和酒精中清醒过来，并专注于他的教育。他花了很多时间写作和阅读。在监狱里，他说他想到了玛丽亚·克鲁兹和她的家人。
法耶洛第一次向克鲁兹的家人公开道歉。
“我没有一天不想念玛丽亚或她的家人，为什么我表现得像个懦夫。我希望我不再是那个拿玛丽亚的生命冒险的人。我从玛丽亚那里得到灵感。她宽容并支持我。我喜欢认为，她帮助我改变和弥补了我所做的一切，我对她的家庭所做的一切，并帮助我成为一个更好的人，一天一天地，”费耶罗说。
当“20/20”与克鲁兹的家人分享他的声明时，她的姐姐回应道:“我们很久以来都想知道在那个决定命运的日子里到底发生了什么。这揭示了。读这篇文章时，我哭得很厉害。疼痛并没有真正消失。”
'Fake doctor' Dean Faiello sheds light on botched procedure that left New York woman dead nearly 20 years ago
Dean Faiello appeared to have it all. He had looks that turned heads, charisma that lit up a room and a successful skin and laser clinic in New York City. One thing he didn’t have, however, was a license to practice medicine on his high-end clientele.
Faiello's stint as a fake doctor ground to a halt after the death of a woman in his care nearly 20 years ago.
Speaking exclusively to “20/20,” Faiello is now revealing what he says are the full details of what happened to that woman, a 35-year-old investment banker named Maria Cruz, who died during a laser treatment in April 2003. A devout Catholic, Cruz had immigrated to the United States from the Philippines. She earned an MBA from Fordham University and had a successful career in finance.
“I know I was drunk and high during her final treatment. She was in a lot of discomfort, and it was a long treatment, and I used too many vials of lidocaine,” Faiello told ABC News senior investigative correspondent David Scott.
Months prior, Faiello was charged with three counts of practicing medicine without a license. He was ordered to stop treating patients, but continued doing so out of a friend's apartment in lower Manhattan.
“There's no logic to it. There's no justification. I knew it was wrong and, deep down inside, I was afraid that something was going to go wrong,” Faiello claimed.
When Cruz started showing signs of medical distress, Faiello says he called a friend who was an actual doctor. He told Faiello to rush Cruz to the hospital, but Faiello didn't listen.
"[Maria] was completely limp at that point. I put my head on her chest, and I checked to see whether she was breathing and she had no vital signs," Faiello said.
Faiello says he put Cruz's body in a suitcase he then took home. The suitcase sat in his garage for weeks, until he thought of what to do with it, he said.
“In the garage, there was a slab that had to be repaired. And the idea came to me to make Maria part of that slab. So, I just can't believe I did it, but that's what I did,” Faiello said.
The house was sold soon after.
“I can't give you a logical explanation, because there is no explanation,” Faiello said.
Cruz’s family reported her missing after she didn’t show up to work on Monday and Tuesday. Nearly a year later, investigators found her body underneath a concrete slab in the garage of Faiello’s former home.
Meanwhile, Faiello was on the lam in Costa Rica after missing court dates for his existing charges. He was eventually extradited to the U.S. and pleaded guilty to first-degree assault in Cruz’s death.
After serving 17 years of a 20-year sentence, Faiello was released on parole earlier this year.
The “20/20” broadcast airing Friday, Dec. 9, at 9 p.m. ET, delves deep into Faiello’s past, featuring interviews with his former colleagues, friends and partners, including Greg Bach. Detectives who worked on the case shed new light on how Bach’s letter to investigators led to the break in Cruz’s disappearance.
Faiello also talks about his time in Attica, the New York prison, where he claims he got sober from drugs and alcohol and focused on his education. He spent a lot of time writing and reading. Behind bars, he says his thoughts turned to Maria Cruz and her family.
For the first time, Faiello apologizes publicly to Cruz’s family.
“Not a day passes that I do not think of Maria or think of her family and why I acted like such a coward. I hope that I'm no longer the person who took such a risk with Maria's life. I get inspiration from Maria. She was forgiving and supportive. And I like to think that she's helped me to transform and atone for what I did, for what I did to her family, and helping me to become a better person, one day at a time,” Faiello said.
When “20/20” shared his statement with Cruz’s family, her sister responded: “We have wanted to know what really happened on that fateful day for such a long time. This has shed light. I ended up crying so hard while reading this. The pain doesn't really go away.”
