26-year-old woman, dalia dippolito, the same woman who would later be seen on that videotape as the grieving widow. police officers didn t have to wait long before the informant s story was confirmed. this woman in the car really appeared to be in the market for a trigger man. less than a minute or so, she begins talking about hiring somebody to kill her husband. unprompted? he s not doin dental work to get this story out of her no. which, you know, which shocked us. honestly, you think it s worth you know killing over that much money? it s not over the [ bleep ] money. like you don t [ bleep ] get it? like it s not even about the [ bleep ] money. like, you know that money, we ll spend it, like, in the [ bleep ] blink of an eye. reporter: the meeting seemed to be all business. dalia produced photos of her husband for mohamed to hand over to the hit man. i brought pictures. no, just give me one picture of him. i don t want to carry too much paper. reporter: dalia br
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
and he threatened me. he threatened to hurt me. he threatened to hurt my familye reporter: mohamed the informant denied 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 dou this stunt, if it was a stunt.t it just adds to the weirdness. reporter: the story didn t fly with the new judge, and the motion to dismiss was thrown t out. so in december 2016, dali ashowed up the at palm beach county courthouse once again, new trial, new jury. we re going to have opening statements by the attorneys. reporter: bryan claypool s opening statements were the