Im positive like 5,000 sure. This guy was going to be killed. Then it happened. Her new husband, police said, murdered in their town house. Something happened at her house and she needs to get to the house fast. No, no. Was this crime all that it seemed . She played such a good game that people didnt know. A surprise was coming. You dont know what to think. And it would arrive from beyond the grave. Oh, my god. There has not been a story like this ever in Palm Beach County history. Is she the villain . Is she the victim . Who knows . That is what makes her riveting and she is infamous and probably will be forever. The sting. Hello and welcome to dateline extra. Im craig melvin. What started as an instant attraction transformed into a fatal attraction. In the beginning dahlia and Mike Dippolito seemed madly in love. Then dahlia was told mike had been shot dead. There was more than one twist in this case, and it would take investigators nearly a decade to unravel the tale of sex, lies, and videotape. Heres Dennis Murphy. Reporter the mesmerizing story of Dalia Dippolito with a fittingly preposterous ending begins in a place where conspicuous consumption and the envy index are as high as the humidity. Palm beach, florida. It is the Winter Wonderland of the wealthy. You can drive over the bridge and immediately feel the rarified air, the mansions and the hedges that hide the mansions. Reporter Palm Beach PostSenior Editor jan tuckwood, says some mainlanders cant resist the wannabe allure of palm beach. Most people on the mainland are influenced. That richness is right there. And how can they get a piece of it . Reporter over the bridge, past the interstate, newlyweds dalia and Mike Dippolito, lived in a quartermilliondollar condo in high and dry Boynton Beach. Not exactly the same zip code as palm beach but perfectly fine for two upandcomers. Dalia and mike had big dreams like any couple young and in love. Aspirational, at the very least. She had a 20,000 diamond engagement ring. He had a porsche in the garage. Their story for public consumption, the grated version, was love at first sight. Mike was an internet entrepreneur and dalia the businesswoman he fell head over heels for. Three months after their first meeting, marriage was inevitable. There was a teency problem in their paradise. Mike dippolito was married. Lawyers jason brodie and Josh 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 endall, beall. He felt as though this was it and im going to have a family with her and were going to grow old together. He thought she was the real deal . They hit it off right away. They had a lot of things in common. They enjoyed the same things. Dalia is a Real Estate Agent . Yes. And thats what attracted him to her. Was that she was successful on her own and didnt need him. Are we talking about sexual attraction, or is there more going on here . Oh, theres sexual attraction. Yeah, absolutely. Reporter with the divorce in hand, mike and dalia dashed to the courthouse to marry, and soon fell into comfortable routines. Morning workouts at the gym, steamy date nights at fivestar hotels, and love notes on the fridge. He seemed to be dalias dream guy. And three months into the marriage, according to michael, she told him she was pregnant. He was thrilled. Life was good. But early one morning in august 2009, it all came to an end for the two, with a finality as certain as crime scene tape strung across the front of the condo. Dalia had been located at her 6 00am workout by the Boynton Beach police. This is Sergeant Frank ramsey, Boynton Beach, Police Department. Is everything okay . Maam, i need to talk to you. Its very urgent. When you come home, 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. It just so happened a camera crew from the tv show cops was there, filming an episode with Boynton Beach police, when dalia got the awful news. Ms. Dippolito . Im sgt. Ranzie. Im the one that called you. Thank you for coming. Im sorry to call you. Listen, we had a report of a disturbance at your house. Reporter the officer was direct with dalia. He said thered been an intruder in the house and several shots were fired. Is your husband michael . Okay, im sorry to tell you, maam, hes been killed. Hes been killed, maam. No no oh, no i want to see him. I cant let you see him, maam. We have to do our job. 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. I need you to go with these detectives, okay . Oh no. No. Does he have enemies . Is there anyone who would want to hurt him . Oh no. No, no. If you want to help out your husband you need to go to the station and tell these gentlemen and tell us everything you know about who he knows and who hes connected to. Reporter the investigation was only minutes old and the officers told dalia theyd need her cooperation in understanding what had happened. Were going to do everything we can, okay . So we need your help. We need to get your husbands killer, maam. Reporter dalia was whisked off to the Police Station where shed soon find out that the detectives thought they knew much more about the details of the crime than they were letting on. This case was about to get very complicated. Oh, yes. Coming up the questions begin. It seems that undercover agents have their eyes and hidden cameras trained on mrs. Dippolito. When the sting continues. My husband would have been on the sidelines. 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Heres Dennis Murphy with more. Reporter Dalia Dippolito had been called home from the gym to be told by police out front that an intruder had murdered her husband, michael. Is your husband michael . Okay, im sorry to tell you, maam, hes been killed. Hes been killed maam. Oh, no no reporter dalia was rushed to the Boynton BeachPolice Department for the start of interviews. She began by telling the detectives that michael, her deceased husband, wasnt exactly squeaky clean. Hes been trying to get off probation. Uhhuh. And its just been nothing but problems the whole time that hes been trying to get off. Reporter Mike Dippolito, she said, was a convicted felon, a swindler whod bilked thousands of dollars from gullible investors by selling them phony currency securities. It was for taking money of like, he explained 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 twentyfive years of probation. Hed been ordered to make restitution to the victims hed fleeced, an outstanding i. O. U. Of 191,000. People werent happy that he was getting off probation, because its a lot of money hes got to pay back. Reporter find out who he owed, suggested dalia, and youll find the killer. The cops listened, but changed the focus of their questioning to the couple themselves, dalia and michael, the newlyweds of six months. Were fine, like theres nothing, you know theres no problems between you guys, no financial problems . I mean with your family you and him. No, theres nothing. I mean, we you know, were going through his business has slowed down like anything, you know. Reporter 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. Lets freeze the action in the Interview Room for a sec and roll everything back a few days. Thats when a man walked into the Boynton Beach p. D. With a lurid story to tell. His married lover, he said, was shopping for a hit man. Alex moreno, a detective at the time, didnt know what to make of this walkin. At first, when hes giving you this information, you dont know what to think, you know. Heres a guy whos claiming that hes sleeping with a guys wife. And now shes trying to get somebody to kill him. Its 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 parttime actor who worked at a convenience store. As he told it, hed been friends with benefits with a woman for years. Theyd 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. 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 but the detective wondered if he was being sold a cock and bull story since this mohamed guy didnt 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 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 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 parttime lover, that hed 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 hadnt 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, were also hearing whats going on in the informants car, live. Hey, whats up . I love you. I love you, too. Reporter running down the license plates and registration yielded the name of a 26yearold woman, Dalia Dippolito, the same woman who would later be seen on that videotape as the grieving widow. Police officers didnt have to wait long before the informants 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. Hes not doing dental work to get this story out of her. No. Which, you know, which shocked us. Honestly, you think its worth you know killing over that much money . Its not even over the [ bleep ] money. Like you dont [ bleep ] get it . Like its not even about the [ bleep ] money. Like, you know that money, well 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 dont want to carry too much paper. Reporter dalia brought Something Else the hit man had requested cash to buy the gun that would be used. I brought 1200. Hes asking for 1200 . Yes. When are you going to give him the money and [ bleep ] . Today. Hes coming by the store. She turns the money over . Yes. Is that a crime, detective, at that moment . Its not enough yet. We didnt have enough yet. We wanted to go a little bit further with this case. The police were about to test dalia and try to get their evidence on camera. Coming up our undercover agent tells her hey, im going to put two shots to the head and it doesnt even faze her. No remorse. You definitely want to do this . Im positive, like 5,000 percent sure. Another undercover sting. And a plan is set in motion for a deadly house call. When the sting continues. T lit with free curbside pickup, fast delivery from your walmart store, or gifts shipped right to your door. Lets end the year celebrating. Lets end the year celebrating. We try to soothe it with this. Cool it with this. And relieve it with this. But new preparation h soothing relief is the 21st century way to do all three. Everyday. Preparation h. Get comfortable with it. Sprinting past every leak in our softest, smoothest fabric. Shes confident, protected, her strength respected. Depend. 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Youre sure, though, that this [ bleep ], like, its solid . Yo, this guys a professional. Its not [ bleep ]. All he does is get it done and thats it, you know . Right. All right, good. Reporter so the police instructed their informant, a man named mohamed, to help set up another meeting with dalia. This time it would be with the hit man who would be, of course, an Undercover Police officer an agent. Same drill again. A Meeting Place outside a store. And a car wired for video and audio. Hey . Hey. Were staying in here, right . All right, yeah, yeah. Okay. Man, you look good. Thank you. Reporter in that meeting they began making plans. She also tells our hit man where they live. She provides a schedule where her husband goes comes and goes in the morning, where hes going to be the next day. It shows her intent. And the fact that here she is meeting with a complete stranger who she believes its a hit man. She actually goes as far as saying, hey, id rather if it happened here. How are we gonna do it successfully if we go ahead and do it at, like, at the house, like, how do we how do we how soon could you do it . She just wants it done and the sooner the better. Reporter does your agent give her a door out at this 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. You definitely want to do this . Im positive, like, 5,000 sure. Reporter the pretend hit man told her hed use a gun. Give him a taptap. He gets two in the head. Thats it. You know . Our undercover agent tells her, hey, im going put two in his head, meaning two shots to the head, and it doesnt even faze her. No remorse. Reporter dalia and the hit man, who was really an undercover cop, seemed to agree that he would kill her husband in two days time. He told her to be prepared to go to the gym early that morning. By the time you get back from the gym, you are going to find two things his dead body in the house, all right . Or nothing. All right. Reporter the day before, he called dalia with further instructions. Tomorrow morning, youve got be out by 6 00. Okay. Doesnt hesitate, doesnt change her mind, none of that. She just says, okay. And thats it. Reporter the next morning, everything was going according to plan. Dalia left for the gym. Undercover cops tailing her. One of our sergeants makes a phone call while shes at the gym. And then we inform her that something happened at her house and she needs to get to the house fast. She doesnt know details. She 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 shes informed of her husbands death, that hes been killed. Im sorry to tell you, maam. Hes been killed. Hes been killed, maam. Oh, no no if you look at that video, she begins to react before shes 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 brought her to the Police Station, investigators were curious to see how far dalia would push her scenario blaming the murder on one of her husbands former enemies. The detectives were carefully watching her