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 showed me his gun. and he threatened me. he threatened to hurt me. he threatened to hurt my family. reporter: mohamed the informant denies threatening her or participating in a reality tv production. the reality tv defense seems to play into this whole story. reporter: palm beach post senior editor jan tuckwood says dalia s defense was weirdly appropriate. it just seems to make total sense because the whole story doesn t make sense. so, you just throw in that angle. i wanna be famous, so let s do this stunt, if it was a stunt. it just adds to the weirdness. reporter: the story didn t fly with the new judge, and the motion to dismiss was thrown out. and so just last week, dalia showed up at the palm beach county courthouse once again new trial, new jury and dalia s defense team,
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 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
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 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
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