And wife was what it seemed and the final chapter in this case would take nearly everyone by surprise. Heres dennis murphy. Reporter palm beach county, florida cab bad place to live if you suffer from the i want me some of that. The cars, the polazzos on the water, a conspicuous consumption and envy index as high as the humidity. Within touching distance, all of that great, great wealth. It s range roefrts in front of you and behind you at the stoplight. Wonderful, pricey restaurants. Luxury hotels. For a person who has a propensity for greed, it is either the Perfect Place for them to live, as it tickles their greed, or the worst place. Reporter which bring us to our newlyweds you are about to meet, dalia and mike dip politte toe. They had big dreams, like any couple young and in love, aspirational at the very least. She had a 20,000 diamond engagement ring. Check. He had a porsche in the garage. Check. And they lived together in a quarter Million Dollar condo, not exactly in the right zip code but it was a perfectly fine starter place for two up and comers. Their story for public consumption, the grated version, was love at first sight. Mike was an internet entrepreneur and dalia, the business woman he fell head over heels for. Three months after their first meeting, marriage was inevitable. Susan spencer wendle is a reporter for the palm beach post. She had a connection. Reporter there was a teensy problem in their paradise. Mike dippolito was married. Lawyers brody and friedman arranged a Quickie Divorce so the ballad of mike and dalia could begin. He fell in love with her. He thought she was the end all, be all. He felt as though this was it and im gonna have a family with her and were gonna grow old together. He thought she was the real deal . They hit it off right away. Need a lot of things in common. They enjoyed the same things. Dal gentleman Real Estate Agent . Thats what attracted him to her, she was successful on her own and didnt need him that played more into everything that went on. We talking about sexual attraction or more going on here . Oh, theres sexual attraction, absolutely. Reporter with the divorce in hand, mike and dalia dashed to the courthouse to married and soon fell into comfortable routines, morning workouts at the gym, steamy date nights at fivestar hotels and love note on the fridge. He seemed to be dalias dream guy and three months into the marriage, she told her husband she was pregnant. Michael was thrilled, life was good. But early one morning in august 2009, it all came to an end to the two with a finality as certain as crime scene tape sprung across the front of the con development dalia had been located at her 6 a. M. Workout by the Boynton Beach police u. This is Sergeant Frank ram circumstance Boynton BeachPolice Department. Everyone all right . Maam, i need talk to you it is very urgent, it involves your husband, theres been an incident. Reporter she was instructed to get home right away. When she arrived, she saw police cars out front, everything that spells disaster just ahead. This is a police videotape of dalia getting the news. Ms. Dippolito . Im sergeant ram zucker the one that called you. Thank you for coming. Sorry to call you. Listen, wed reported disturbance at your house. Reporter the officer was direct with dalia. He said theres been an intruder in the house and several shots were fired. Your husband, michael, okay, im sorry to tell you you maam, hes been killed. [ crying ] he has been killed, maam. Reporter Michael Dippolito, her husband of six months, gunned down in their townhouse, the cops were telling her, but she would not be allowed to go inside to see the body. You want to help yourhood, you need go to the station and talk to these guys. Reporter the Homicide Investigation was only minutes old and the officers told dalia theyd need her cooperation in understanding what had happened. We are going to do everything we can, okay . So we need your help. We need too get your husbands killer, maam. Reporter dalia is whisked off to the Police Station where shed soon find out that the detectives knew much more about the details of the crime than they were letting on. This case was about to get very complicated. Coming up are you sure that you dont know anybody who would want to kill your husband . The questions begin. It seems that undercover agents had their eyes and hidden cameras trained on mrs. Dippolito. When the ballad of mike and dalia continues. Want strong, beautiful hair . U introducing clear scalp hair beauty therapy. Like good soil is to a tree so is a wellnourished scalp the right foundation for strong, beautiful hair. 99 of hairs natural nourishment comes from the scalp. Had their eyes and hidden clear. 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He planned like boiler room kind of, where they would take money from people. Reporter in other words, her murdered husband was a guy with enemies. When he was released from prison after seven months, he was still looking at more than 25 years of probation. He had been ordered to make restitution to the victims he fleeced, an outstanding iou of 191,000. People werent happy he was getting off probation, because it was is a lot of money hes got paid back. Reporter find out who he owed, suggested dalia, and youll find the killer. The cops listen bud changed the focus of their questioning to the couple themselves, dalia and mikal, the newlyweds of six months. Are you sure that you dont know anybody that would want to kill your husband . You wouldnt want to kill him . Not at all . Like theres nothing. No problems between you guys . No financial problems, i mean, with your family, you and him . No, theres nothing. His business lowed down if anything. Reporter but the Police Officers knew much more that morning, so much more. Nonetheless, the grieving widow was taxing their patience. Okay. The games over with, okay . Theres no more games with you and i. Now we are going to get down to serious business. Reporter interrogators hadnt let on to dalia that hers wasnt a fresh name to them. In fact this moment inside the Police Interview room was the culmination of an investigation that was already a week old. In what would become just a sensational case, and for a brief while as popular as piano playing cats on youtube, began when a man walked into the Police Station here one evening and said add strange story to tell, a married lover of his h. Detective alex moreno didnt know what to make of this walkn first, he is giving you the information, you dont know what to think. Here is guy sleeping with a guys wife and now she is trying to get somebody to kill him. Pretty juicy story. Exactly. Reporter detective moreno had his tipster run his story down from the top. The man was named mohammed, he said he was a parttime actor who worked at a convenience store. Hes told it he had been friends with benefits with a women for years. They met for the occasional casual sex. Then, she asked him for help in finding a hitman to kill her husband. He says, you know what, yeah, im sleeping with this guys wife, but at the same time, i didnt want this guy to be killed. And that was his concern. He couldnt sleep with that whole idea that this guy was going to get killed. Reporter detective wondered if he was being sold a cock and bull story, since this mohammed guy didnt seem to 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 didnt know where she lived. He didnt even know who her husband was. Reporter while they debated whether or not the tipsters story was credible, they knew that a life maybe on the line, so the detectives took it to the next level. They enlisted mohammed as a confidential informant and gave him a story to hell his parttime lover, that he found hear hitman who could pull off the job. Two things gonna happen, either this guy is like to us or it was true. We hadnt validated the information yet until he actually makes contact. Reporter mohammed the tipster set up ans a signation 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. Not only are we watching her, we are also hearing what is going on in the informants car. Live. Reporter running down the license plates and registration yielded the name of 27yearold Dalia Dippolito. And the Police Officers didnt have to wait long before the informants story was confirmed. This woman in the car was definitely in the market or for a triggerman. Less than a minute or so she begins talking about hiring somebody to kill her husband. Unprompted . He is not doing devil work to get this story out of her . No. Which shocked us. Reporter the meeting was a all business dalia produced photos of her husband to mohammed to hand over to the hitman. Dalia brought Something Else the hitman had requested, cash to bite gun that would be used. I brought 1200. He is asking for 1200 . When are you going to give him the money and [ bleep ] . Today. She turns the money over . Yes. That a crime detective, at that moment . Its not enough yet. We didnt have enough yet. 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Reporter so the police instructed their informant, a man named mohammed, to set up another meeting with dalia this time it would be a with the hitman, who would be, of course, an undercover Boynton Beach police detective. Same way again, at a store and in a car wired for video and audio. In that meeting they begin making plans and she also tells our hitman where they live. She provides a schedule where her husband goes and comes and goes in the morning, wheres gonna be the next day. That shows, what, her state of mind or resolution . Shows the intent and the fact that here she is meeting with a complete stranger who she believes is a hitman. She actually goes so far as saying, hey, i rather it happen here. She just want it is done and the seen the better. Does your agent give her a door out at that point . Yes. He asked her more than once if she was sure if this is what she wanted done. She laughs about it and says, yeah, once i set my mind to do something, i do it. Im positive. Lining 5,000 sure. Reporter pretend hitman told her he would use a gun, give him a tap tap. Undercover agent tells her, hey, im going to put two in his head, meaning two shots to the head and doesnt even phase her. No remorse. Reporter dalia and the hitman who is really a cop agrees he will kill her husband in two days. He tells her to be prepared to go to the gym early that morning. By the time you get from the gym, you are going to find two things, dead body in the house, all right, or nothing. All right. Reporter the night before, he calls dalia with further instructions. Tomorrow morning, you got to be out by 6. Okay. Undercover agent tells her, hey, i need you out of the house by 6 00 in the morning. When she agrees are, doesnt hesitate, doesnt change her mind, nah nah nah, she just says, okay. And thats it. Reporter the next morning, everything is going according to plan. Dalia leaves for the gym. Undercover cops tailing her. One of our sergeants makes a phone call while she is at the gym and they inform her that something happened at her house and she needs to get to the house, fast. She doesnt know details, just knows something has happened, get home quickly . Yes. And she shows up at the house and once again, she makes contact with our sergeant and she is informed of her husbands death, that he has been killed. Sorry to tell you that he has been killed. If you look at that video, she begins to react before she is even told the whole story. According to that sergeant who was actually making contact with her, he didnt see any tears. Reporter and when they bring her to the Police Station, investigators are curious to see how far dalia will push her scenario, blaming the murder on one of her husbands former enemies. The detectives are carefully watching her interview on a tv monitor in a nearby room. People werent happy that he was getting on probation because it is a lot of money these pay back. She mentioned how he has a lot of enemies, he was on probation. She didnt even bother how to ask how it happened. Reporter to their experienced eyes and ears, dal gentleman making a few mistakes in how she is telling her theory of the crime but they want to push her some more, see if they can get her to confess to her murder plot then and there. Would she be obviously rattled when they let in a familiar face you the person she believes is the hitman . Get over there get over here. You know who this guy is . No. Youve never seen him before . Ive never seen him before. Ever. Reporter the man before her, actually the Undercover Policeman is presented to dalia here as someone they just nabbed for the killing of her husband. Do you know her . Put your head up and look at him. Ive never seen him. Reporter detectives finally put their correspondent the table. They tell her that they know this was the sun posed hitman and the meeting where they planned to kill her husband is caught on tape u. That is an Undercover Police officer. We filmed everything that you did, recorded everything that you did. Youre going to jail for solicitation of firstdegree murder of your husband. I didnt do anything. Did you hear what i just told you . I heard what you said. Everything listen to me. Everything has been recorded. You were photographed in the convertible when you sat in his car, in the front of the cvs. What do you want to do . Reporter rock stead i do all appearances, dalia swore up and down she had nothing to do with the death of her husband. But the police had another surprise for her. Truly a humdinger. They were about to walk a ghost to the doorway of the interview room. Coming up oh, my god someone is back from the grave. When the ballad of mike and dalia continues. [ male announcer ] take dayquil. [ ding ]. And spend time on the slopes. Take alkaseltzer plus cold cough. [ buzz ]. And spend time on the chair. For nondrowsy 6symptom cold flu relief. Take dayquil. Use