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A fake skin doctor behind a successful laser clinic in New York City who let a woman die on his operating table and later tried to stash the body now says: 'There's no logic to it, there is no justification.'
In a new interview with ABC 20/20 that will air on Friday, Dean Faiello reveals that he was high and drunk when he performed a procedure on 35-year-old investment banker Maria Cruz in April 2003.
When he realized his patient dead, Faiello put her body in suit case and drove her to his home in New Jersey where he buried her in his garage.
In clips seen by DailyMail.com, Faiello says: 'Deep down inside, I was afraid something was going to go wrong.' Cruz was there to have a black mark removed from her tongue, a condition caused by antibiotics.
In a new interview with ABC 20/20 that will air on Friday, Dean Faiello reveals that he was high and drunk when he performed a procedure on 35-year-old investment banker Maria Cruz in April 2003
Maria Cruz, a devout Catholic and Filipino immigrant, was a graduate of Fordham University
Faiello attributes Cruz's death to an overdose of lidocaine which resulted in the Filipino native collapsing into convulsions.
The quack goes on to say that he had more than a dozen appointments with Cruz, who he describes as being 'quiet and shy,' at his clinic in his Manhattan clinic.
During the piece, Faiello says that he lied to clients and never told them that he was not a licensed MD, despite performing many procedures that required a licensed doctor.
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On his official website, Faiello stated that he that he had a Master of Science degree and that he was a Certified Professional Electrologist.
Speaking about the moment Cruz began to convulse, Faiello says: 'I used too many vials of lidocaine.' He also says: 'I know I was high and drunk during her final treatment.'
The fake doctor said: '[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.'
After he realized that Cruz had passed away, Faiello drove her corpse to his home in Newark, New Jersey, in a suitcase and buried her under a concrete slab in his garage.
He describes it in the interview saying: '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 added: 'I can't give you a logical explanation, because there is no explanation.'
He then got a 90-day travel visa allowing him to travel and stay in Costa Rica. Eventually, Faiello was arrested shortly after Cruz's body was found in February 2004.
During his time in Costa Rica, Faiello lived in a luxurious villa and spent his days by the pool while bragging about his medical career in New York City
