uh-huh. and it s just been nothing but problems the whole time that he s been trying to get off. reporter: mike dippolito, she said, was a convicted felon, a swindler who d bilked thousands of dollars from gullible investors by selling them phony currency securities. it was for taking money of 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 twenty-five 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 you ll find the killer. the cops listened, but changed the focus of their questioning to the couple themselves, dalia and michael, the newlyweds of si
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 her a chance. no reason to believe she s faking it with you? no. i mean, she may have been a bad actress the day they caught her on camera, but as far as with me, she was an academy award winner. reporter: he says dalia also seemed to be playing the role as an expectant mother. there never was a baby, was there, mike? never was a baby. reporter: another thing dalia was not expecting was the formal charge being filed against her, solicitation to commit first-degree murder with a firearm. hello. hello. hey, it s me. reporter: but even after he
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 a 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 wo
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 her a chance. no reason to believe she s faking it with you no. i mean, she may have been a bad actress the day they caught her on camera, but as far as with me, she was an academy award winner reporter: he says dalia also seemed to be playing the role as an expectant mother. there never was a baby, was there, mike? never was a baby. reporter: another thing dalia was not expecting was the formal charge b
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 ticket to freedom? pay back the money and yeah and get my freedom 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