reporter: now: the season finale of the dalia and michael dippolito show more than seven years after 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.ge afternoon. reporter: first, at a no 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. 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 inisep purported tv project, but she ba insisted mohamed was having none of that. and at that point, he lifte
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 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 cred
they enlisted mohamed as a confidential informant, and gave him a story to tell his part-time lover, that he d found her a hit man who could pull off the job. two things could have 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 watching 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 t
next level they enlisted mohamed as a confidential informant, and gave him a story to tell his part-time lover, that he d found 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
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 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 cr