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you sure you want to kill this dude? reporter: the prosecution s case looked airtight with all those mesmerizing tapes of dalia plotting out a murder, and also that video from the cops tv show with her looking unglued as she learned of her husband s murder. what no one could have predicted, though, was dalia s defense. we live in a world where people seeking their 15 minutes of fame lose all sense of judgment and common sense. reporter: dalia s defense attorney michael salnick said this whole crazy story was in fact all about dalia s husband s vanity and his thirst for fame. it was mike who was really behind the faked murder, its mastermind, just so he could be known beyond boynton beach. mike dippolito s hoax to orchestrate his own murder to achieve fame and fortune was a bad prank. it was never anyone s intention to harm anyone. reporter: the defense argued it was all a tv pitch, michael auditioning for his big break. the evidence will show that
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 some more, see if they could get her to confess to her suspected mur