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. everything about it, we just clicked. be it our sex life, be it just our spare time, be it the things we liked, all that. and it just happened. three months after they met, michael divorced his first wife and married dalia that same week. i had just purchased a home, and we were going to start a life together. we talked about traveling and doing things, and we had like a future planned. 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
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 six months. we re fine. like there s nothing there s no problems between you guys, no financial problems, no i mean with your family? you and him? no, there s nothing. i mean we ve you know, we re going through his business has slowed down like anything, you know? but the cops were toying with dalia, holding back their best cards. they thought they knew so much more about the newlyweds. did they ever. let s freeze the action in the interview room for a sec and roll everything back a few days. that s when a man walked into the boynton beach p.d. with a lurid story to tell. his married lover, he said, was shopping for a hit man. alex moreno, a detective at the time, didn t know what to make of this walk-in. at first when he s giving you this information, you don t know what to think, you know? here s a gu
them in getting her husband bumped off. she s playing all of these guys. they re all thinking they re the one and the only person that she cared about was herself. detective alex moreno read back text messages dalia wrote about her husband to her lovers. i really hate him and want to see him rot. just want my life wu. let s get this [ bleep ] arrested. to the prosecution, her scheme was apparent. plant drugs on michael, tip the cops, and get him busted back to prison on a parole violation. she tries for months to have him arrested. the alleged motive, greed. prosecutors said she wanted to keep michael s condo and his money all for herself. but when the schemes didn t work out, argued the prosecution, dalia settled on the fatal solution. she d simply have michael killed so everything would be hers. the prosecution s case looked
lead prosecutor liz parker would introduce a trove of evidence, photographs, audio recordings, and videos including that sting in which dalia tells an undercover cop posing as a hit man that she wanted her husband, mike dippolito, dead asap. i m positive, like 5,000% sure. it was unreal. it was like something out of a movie. dalia had already spent almost two years under house arrest in her mother s home by the time the trial began in april of 2011. they say love is blind. in this case love was blind, deaf, and dumb. the jury would hear the prosecution argue that the six-month marriage of michael and dalia was a fraud from the beginning. she made him believe that this was an amazing marriage. he never wanted to believe that his wife, the person that he loved more than anything, wanted to have him killed. the prosecutor said dalia was juggling two lovers on the side and was trying to enlist each of
all/be all. he felt as though this was it, and i m going to have a family with her, and we re going to grow old together. he thought she was the real deal. she hit it off right away. they had a lot of things in common. dalia was a real estate agent? that s what attracted him to her that she was successful on her own and didn t need him. are we talking about sexual attraction or more going on here? oh, there s sexual attraction, absolutely. with a divorce in hand, mike and dalia dashed to the courthouse to marry and soon fell into comfortable routines. morning workouts at the gym. steamy date nights at five-star hotels. and love notes on the fridge. th he seemed to be dalia s dream guy. and three months into the marriage, according to michael, she told him she was pregnant. he was thrilled. life was good. but early one morning in august 2009, it all came to an end for the two with a finality as certain as crime scene tape strung across the front of the