and she s informed of her husband s death, that he s been killed. i m sorry to tell you, ma am. he s been killed. he s been killed, ma am. oh, no! no. dear god, no. if you look at that video, she begins to react before she s even told the whole story. according to that sergeant who was actually making contact with her, he didn t see any tears. reporter: and when they brought her to the police station, investigators were curious to see how far dalia would push her scenario blaming the murder on one of her husband s former enemies. the detectives were carefully watching her interview on a tv monitor in a nearby room. people weren t happy that he was getting off probation because it s a lot of money he s got to pay back. she mentioned how he had enemies, he was on probation. she didn t even bother to ask how it happened. reporter: to their experienced eyes and ears, dalia was making a few mistakes in how she was telling her theory of the crime. but they wanted to push her so
dal i can t was ruia was rus police department for the start of interviews. she began by telling detectives that michael wasn t squeaky clean. mike she said was a convicted felon, a swindler who bilked thousands from gullible investors by selling them phony currency securities. it was for taking money, it was like where they would take money from people. in other words, her murdered husband was a guy with enemies. when he was released from prison after seven months, he was still looking at more than 25 years of probation. he had been ordered to make restitution. people weren t happy that he was getting probation because it was a lot of money.
and though mike describes ordering her up from an escort service, he claims even now there was a mutual attraction that went far beyond that initial transaction. when i met dalia we seemed to connect instantly. we hit it off right away. it wasn t just bed? no. it was everything about it. we just clicked, you know, be it our sex life, be it just our spare time, be it the things we liked, all that. and it just happened. reporter: three-months after they met, michael divorced his first wife and married dalia that same week. i had just purchased a home, and we re gonna start a life together. and we talked about traveling and doing things, you know, and we had, like, a future planned. reporter: but there was a hitch to michael s future, the terms of his probation prevented him from leaving south florida. so the couple consulted a lawyer and his advice was pay off that $191,000 you owe in restitution and you have a fair chance of getting the probation lifted. so that was your t
string of run-ins with the police, including one night after dinner out with dalia. they left the restaurant to find the police swarming michael s vehicle. after a search, they found cocaine stashed beneath a spare tire. i actually started crying to this cop. and i m like, look man, i haven t done anything in five and a half years. i don t know how, why or what happened. they let me go. i couldn t even believe it. and you would ve gone back to prison because you violated probation? uh, yeah. yeah, absolutely. reporter: now he didn t want to think that the light of his life could be behind something as nefarious as getting him thrown back in prison but the idea was there, maybe dalia. i said to her, i said you know, only when i m with you. my life isn t this exciting. in five and a half years on probation, i didn t have one run in with the police. i m with this girl six months. and the whole police department knows me. i might as well glow fluorescent. so, you re lookin a
you know, and dalia said she would help me with some of the money, about $90,000. and i m like, absolutely, let s do it. reporter: michael says he and dalia agreed that they would pool their money to pay off dipollito s debt. this is great. you know, she s pushing me forward, too. i thought, like, okay, i m gonna get off probation. it s very exciting for me. then the plan to get michael out of hock changed again. according to michael, another lawyer said to him, look, you own your townhouse free and clear, why not just turn the title over to dalia? then she can do money things for you, no problem. so michael gave her the deed to the town house as well as $100,000 cash. his part of the payback of the restitution debt. the money was supposed to go to his attorney but it never got there. i ll tell ya where it unraveled. as soon as i got dalia that $100,000 is where it went downhill. reporter: and he says, after dalia got that nice sized chunk of change, he started to have