love at first sight fairytale. i i can tell ya i didn t meet her in a church. she is actually an escort. that s how i met her. she came to my office one day. reporter: dalia denies she was an escort. 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 h
they left the restaurant to find the police swarming michael s vehicle. after a search, they found cocaine stashed beneath the 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 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 at her sideways? i m just like, i m doin the best i can to be a good husband, give he
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 fissure 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 ticket to freedom? pay b
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
reporter: dahlia was rushed to the police department for the start of the interviews. she began by telling detectives that michael, her deceased husband, wasn t exactly squeaky clean. he s been trying to get off probation, and it s been nothing but problems the whole time he s been trying to get off. mike dippolito, she said, was a convicted felon. it was for taking money. like, he explained like boiler room , kind of where they would take money from people. reporter: 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 d been ordered to make restitution to the victims he d fleeced, an outstanding i.o.u. of $191,000. people weren t happy that he was getting off probation, because it s a lot of money he s got to pay back. reporter: find out who he owed, suggested dalia, and