when he was released from prison after seven months, he was still looking at more than 25 years of probation. he d been ordered to make restitution to the victims he had fleeced. an outstanding iou of $191,000. people weren t happy that he was getting off probation, because it s a lot of money he s got payback. find out who he owed, suggested dalia, and you ll find the killer. the cops listened, but changed a focused of their questioning to the couple themselves. dalia and michael, the newlyweds of six months. we re fine. there s nothing there is no problem between you guys? no financial problems? no i mean with your family? you and him? no, there is nothing. i mean we re going through his business has slowed down with, like anything, you know? 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 second,
skeleton of the full story. it is based 100%, on miss dippolito s words, her actions and her intent. 100%. we have it all on tape, he says. dalia, hiring a hit man to kill her husband. for $700, she wanted to boast put in her husband s head. and then it was dalia s turned, with her defense provided by los angeles tierney she says it was a reality tv production for their own 15 minutes of fame on a cops tv show. you can t break the rules and then be rewarded by breaking the rules. and that is really what this case is about. everybody is entitled to a police investigation, that has integrity. this never really was a credible police investigation. rather, dalia dippolito was used as a pawn by the boynton
i m not signing anything. so i can t help you. and because of florida s strong open records law, her jailhouse phone calls and all the police surveillance tapes made by the boynton beach cops, would become public. they were out there viral on youtube. [noise] those images of dalia blue who wing online would be seen by thousands of viewers who lambasted her in the comments section. but the people with the only opinion that mattered were convened on youtube. they were in a west palm beach, florida, courtroom. what would a jury of her peers make of dalia and michael? coming up the case heads into court and outcome more secrets. it was like something out of the movie. it was unreal. people seeking their 15 minutes of fame lose all sense of judgment. and common sense. was this whole thing a hoax? when dateline continues.
husband bumped off. she is playing all of these guys, they are all thinking they are the one, and the only person she cared about was herself. detective alex moreno read back text messages dalia wrote about her husband to her lovers. i really hate him, and want to see him rot. let s get this arrested. to the prosecution, her scheme was apparent. planned drugs on michael, tip off the cops and get him busted back to prison on a parole violation. she tries to have him arrested for months. the alleged motive? greed. prosecutors say she wanted to keep michaels condo and his money, all for herself. but, when the schemes did not work out, says the prosecution, dalia settled on the fatal solution. she would simply have michael killed so everything would be hers. the prosecution s case was airtight, with all of those mesmerizing tapes of dalia
she told us her nightmare began after she complained she d been the victim of domestic abuse, an accusation her ex-husband michael strongly denies. you know, questioning me and stuff into this big production for a cops tv show deadline that they had, and they just started manufacturing all of these things and creating these scenarios and putting me in these situations that look horrible. the police say they did not ignore a domestic abuse case. they were trying to stop a murder for hire plot. and those cops tv cameras didn t change the substance of their investigation into dalia. did you want to have your husband, mike, dead? no. were you soliciting his murder. absolutely no. after nearly ten hours of deliberation, half of the jury seemed to agree. to the judge, we the jury,