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 guy who s claiming that he s sleeping with a guy s wife. and now, she s trying to get somebody to kill him. it s a pretty juicy story. exactly. reporter: detective moreno had the tipster run his story down from the top. the man was named mohamed and he said he was a part-time actor who worked at a convenience store. as he told it, he d been friends with benefits with a woman for years. they had met for the occasional casual sex. then she asked him for help in finding a hit man to kill her husband. he says, you know what, yeah. i m sleeping with this guy s wife. but at the same time, i didn t want this guy to be killed. and that was his concern. he couldn t sleep with that whole idea that this guy was gonna get killed. reporter: but the detective wondered if he was being sold a cock and bull story since this mohamed guy didn t seem to even know very much about
dalia s outburst went viral reporter: and five years after dalia was sentenced to 20 years for hiring a hitman to kill her husband, she was back again in court on the same charge facing a possible 30-year stretch. good afternoon, ms. dippolito. afternoon. reporter: first, at a pre-trial hearing in february as they tried to get the entire case dismissed, dalia s new team road-tested a new reality tv defense, this time dalia was blaming her former lover mohamed the informant and sometimes tv extra. and so we were all gonna work on an actor s presentation to put up on social media. reporter: those in-car meetings weren t about arranging a hit, she said. they were all about that tv pitch. the purpose of meeting him was to discuss the presentation and, you know, taping what was gonna be on there. reporter: she claimed she had wanted to back out of the purported tv project, but she insisted mohamed was having none of that. and at that point, he lifted his shirt and show
said he was a part-time actor who worked at a convenience store. as he told it, he d been friends with benefits with a woman for years. they met for the occasional casual sex. then she asked him for help in finding a hit man to kill her husband. he says, you know what, yeah. i m sleeping with this guy s wife. but at the same time, i didn t want this guy to be killed. and that was his concern. he couldn t sleep with that whole idea that this guy was gonna get killed. reporter: but the detective wondered if he was being sold a cock and bull story since this mohamed guy didn t seem to even know very much about the woman he claimed to be sleeping with. the detective challenged him: all the information he had was her first name. he didn t know where she lived. he didn t even know who her husband was. reporter: while they debated whether or not the tipster s story was credible, they knew that a life may be on the line. so the detectives took it to the next level. they enlisted moha
her a hit man who could pull off the job. two things coulda happened. either this guy was lying to us or it was true. we hadn t validated the information yet until he actually makes contact. reporter: mohamed, the tipster, set up an assignation with the woman for the very next day. the car that he drove to the gas station meeting point had been rigged by police technicians for pictures and sound. undercover agents nearby would be watching the whole time to find out who this woman was, where she lived, who her husband was and just what the heck was going on. she came down the street. came into the gas station. immediately, we picked up the car. and not only are we watchin her, we re also hearing what s goin on in the informant s car, live. hey, what s up? i love you. i love you, too. reporter: running down the license plates and registration yielded the name of a 26-year-old woman dalia dippolito, the same woman who would later be seen on that videotape as the grieving
we re fine, like there s nothing, you know you have no problems between you guys. no financial problems no i mean with your family, you and him. no, there s nothing. i mean, we, you know, we re going through his business has slowed down like anything, you know. reporter: 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. detective alex moreno 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 guy who s claiming that he s sleeping with a guy s wife. and now, she s trying to get somebody to kill him. it s a pretty juicy story. exactly. reporter: detective moreno had