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To look at them together it's clear: Amanda Gatti lives for her 3-year-old boy, Arturo Jr.
"He's everything I asked God for," Amanda told "48 Hours Mystery" correspondent Erin Moriarty in her first American television interview. "Junior makes me complete."
In no small part, she says, because he's the spitting image of his father... a man they're both learning to live without.
"The smile is the same...just like his daddy," she said. "I miss my husband very much. I miss him when I go to sleep...I miss him when I wake up..."
It's a loss made all the more difficult by the shadow of suspicion that surrounds Amanda.
In July 2009, Amanda was arrested for murder and held before investigators shocked the world with their findings: Arturo Gatti, world class fighter who never gave up in the ring, had committed suicide.
"I knew. I knew. I knew," Amanda said in broken English. "My husband kill himself. Oh my God, my husband killed himself."
But even today, more than two years after Arturo's death, many of his friends, family and fans refuse to believe he took his own life.
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