begged the guy she was accused of trying to kill to help her find a lawyer to beat the charge. michael saw the phone call as an opportunity to play let s make a deal. i said, get me my house back less of all the problems and legal bills, i said, and i ll get you a lawyer. listen, sign my property back to me, and i ll help you. i m not signing anything. i can t help you. because of florida s strong open records law, her jailhouse phone calls and all the police surveillance tapes made by the boynton beach cops would become public. they were out there viral on youtube. those images of dalia boo-hooing online would be seen by thousands of viewers who lambasted her in the comments section. but the people with the only opinion that mattered weren t convened on youtube. they were in a west palm beach florida courtroom. what would a jury of her peers make of dalia and michael?
no. he says dalia also seemed to be playing the role as an expectant mother. there never was a baby, was there? never was a baby. another thing dalia was not expecting was the formal charge being filed against her. solicitation to commit first-degree murder with a firearm. but even after her arrest, dalia phoned michael from jail, pleading with him to get her an attorney, claiming the cops had gotten it all wrong. what they re saying is not true. you sent him out to have me killed. i heard that. that is not true. how is that not true? they re charging your ass, don t you get it? she won t give it up. i didn t do it. why aren t you helping me? i love you and over and over. i m like, are you kidding? i said, what do you want me to do? you re supposed to get me an attorney, please, so i can talk to you. even though she would later be released under house arrest, while still in jail, dalia
i m thinking in my head, i m lucky, i m lucky, but i m like i m so screwed right now. the worst day in the world. before waking up that day, michael dippolito was clueless police thought his wife of six months had hired a hit man to kill him. instead he believed he and dalia had begun a loving new chapter together. they were about to start a family. she told him she was pregnant. dalia was at the gym when those tv cameras from the reality show cops captured the moment police knocked on mike s front door. police department. open your door. i m with the boynton police department. can you talk to you? yes, for sure. we say, listen, this is what we re doing. he says, your wife is going to have you killed today. you have to come with us. and i just looked at him, and i m like i mean it hit me. you don t hear those words every day. no. the officers told michael he had to come with them right away to the boynton beach police station before his wife got back
would help me with some of the money, about $90,000. and i m like, absolutely. let s do it. michael said he and dalia agreed that they would pool their money to pay off dippolito s debt. this is great. you know, she s pushing me forward too. i thought, like, okay, i m going to 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 townhouse as well as $100,000 cash, his part of that payback of the restitution debt. the money was supposed to go to his attorney, about you it never got there. i ll tell you where it unraveled. as soon as i got dalia that $100,000 is where went downhill. and he says after dalia got that nice size chunk of change, he started to have a string of run-ins with the police, including one
her. i ve never seen him. i m just watching and waiting for her to give it up, and you know what? the girl never gave it up. dalia was arrested and handcuffed and cameras were still rolling when police walked a very much alive michael into the doorway of the interrogation room. oh, my god. he s alive. and they say, you know this guy? and i m standing there probably twice the distance of us. come here, please. come here. you can t. you can t fix it. why not? i didn t do anything. i heard you. mike, come here, please. come here. that s when she says, come here, i love you, i love you. i told her, look, i can t. you can t fix this. now it was michael s turn to tell the police his story, warts and all. correcting for the record that love at first sight fairy tale. i can tell you i didn t meet her in church. she s actually an escort. that s how i met her. she came to my office one day. dalia denies she was an escort, and though mike describes ordering her up fr