Gal-slay Suspect Busted At Resort

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February 27, 2004 -- SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Fugitive "killer" quack Dean Faiello was nabbed yesterday quaffing a drink at the pool bar of a swanky Costa Rican beach resort.
Cops and immigration agents busted the phony cosmetic surgeon - suspected of killing Manhattan investment banker Maria Cruz and burying her in a concrete coffin - at the Hotel Villas Playa Samara in the Pacific Coast town of Samara.

Faiello, 44, was in swimming trunks and enjoying a drink with his new lawyer, Moises Vincenzi, when the officers arrived to take him. He seemed surprised but didn't resist.

Using the name Diego Faiello, the quack checked into the hotel Tuesday, renting a three-bedroom villa for $285 a night. Yesterday, he paid for five more nights - in cash.

Vincenzi, a famed criminal attorney in Costa Rica, later said Faiello was unaware he was the target of an international manhunt.

"He didn't know they were looking for him," the lawyer claimed.

Asked, then, why Faiello had hired a lawyer, Vincenzi replied, "He was nervous."

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