Sheila Davalloo Still Claims Innocence During Prison Interview With Piers Morgan

When Piers Morgan sat down inside the maximum-security Bedford Hills Correctional Facility with Sheila Davalloo, he faced a woman who seemed entirely ordinary. She was educated, well-spoken, and polite. Yet, as True Crime Central’s video of Killer Women With Piers Morgan highlights, investigators described her as one of the most dangerous people they encountered.

Sudden Violence

Her story is a bizarre mix of corporate success, intense obsession, and sudden violence. According to an overview by En-Academic, Davalloo was born in 1969 and worked as a “pharmaceutical researcher” at Purdue Pharma in Stamford, Connecticut.

On the surface, she appeared to have a perfect life. But prosecutors later argued she became trapped in a deadly love triangle. She wanted to be with her coworker, Nelson Sessler. The problem was that Sessler was in love with another coworker, a rising executive named Anna Lisa Raymundo.

On November 8, 2002, someone brutally stabbed Raymundo to death inside her own condo. The killer left almost no evidence. For months, the police had no idea who did it.

Then came a strange twist in a completely different town.

Already Married To Someone Else

An account by Ranker notes that Davalloo was married to a man named Paul Christos. In 2003, she convinced Christos to play a guessing game in their living room. She blindfolded him and handcuffed him to a chair. During the game, she stabbed him in the chest.

Christos survived the attack. An episode of Oxygen’s Snapped notes that “Sheila Davalloo admits she lied to investigators about her husband’s” injuries at first. She tried to convince everyone it was a mistake.

A Rare Interview

During her chat with Morgan, the host asked her why she was speaking out now after 15 years of silence. Sheila Davalloo said she previously felt interviews “never served any purpose” because her real battle was in the courtroom.

Piers Morgan asked about the attack on her husband. He pointed out that she stabbed Christos again in the parking lot of a hospital.

“We had a big disagreement,” Davalloo explained to Morgan. She claimed they were arguing about what story to tell the doctors. She said she threatened him with the knife, he tried to grab it, and she just lunged at him.

“I have no good explanation for any of it,” she said.

That makes sense. It is hard to find a good explanation for stabbing your husband next to an emergency room.

A Changing Story

Then her story changed. She claimed Christos was actually the one who cut her chest first that day. She told Morgan that her husband regularly beat her with his fists during their games, and that it was “consensual.” She said she finally snapped because the pain “was just too much.”

Christos denied this under oath during her trial. When Morgan asked if her husband lied to the court, Davalloo avoided a direct answer. She said she “deferred to his testimony.”

The attack on her husband blew the murder case wide open. When police looked at Davalloo’s cell phone after her arrest, they found a contact named Nelson. A New York detective called Connecticut police to see if the name meant anything. It did. It was the dead woman’s boyfriend.

A Prime Suspect

Suddenly, Davalloo was the prime suspect for the 2002 murder. Police eventually found her DNA on a bathroom sink handle at the crime scene.

Morgan asked her how her DNA got there if she wasn’t the killer.

Davalloo admitted she had only visited the apartment once for a party months before the murder. She agreed that DNA would not last that long. Instead of explaining the match, she suggested someone tampered with the evidence.

She pointed out that the sink handle was the only item that left the lab and was later resubmitted.

Representing Herself

The jury didn’t buy her theories. Sheila Davalloo made the unusual choice to represent herself at her murder trial. Because she spoke to the courtroom every day, the jurors got to know her voice well.

At the end of the trial, prosecutors replayed the anonymous 911 call made on the day of the murder. Prosecutors argued that the anonymous caller’s voice matched Davalloo’s.

“It doesn’t sound like me,” Davalloo insisted to Morgan. She remarked that even her husband could not decisively say it was her voice on the tape.

Morgan told her flatly that it sounded like her to him.

The Prison Sentence

Davalloo is currently serving a 25-year sentence for trying to kill her husband. When that ends, her 50-year sentence for murder begins. She will not be eligible for release until at least 2079.

Despite the evidence presented against her, she refuses to admit to the murder. She told Morgan she does not have a “split personality disorder” and simply was not there.

“I will, you know, till the last day that I’m alive, be working on proving my innocence in Connecticut,” Davalloo said.

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