This guy was going to get killed. Ooand then it happened. Her new husband murdered in their townhouse. She needed to get to the house fast. 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. There has not been a story like this ever. Is she the villain . Is she the victim . Who knows . That is what makes her riveting. 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 dalia and mike seemed madly in love. And then dalia 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. Here is Dennis Murphy. The mesmerizing story begins in a place where consumption and the envy index are high. Palm beach florida. It is the Winter Wonder land of the wealthy. You can drive over the bridge and feel the rarefied air of the mansions. Jan tuckwood says some cant resist. Most are glueinfluenced, the richness is right there. How can they get a piece of it. They lived in a high end condo, fine for two up and comers. They had big dreams like any couple young and in love. Aspirational at the very least. She had a 20,000 diamond eng e engagement ring. He had a porsche in the garage. Their story for public consumption, the g rated 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. But a problem in their paradise. Mike was married. Lawyers jason and josh arranged a Quickie Divorce so the ballad of mike and dalia could begin. He felt as though this is it and im going to have a family with her and well grow old together. They hit it off right away. They had a lot of things in common. Dalia is a real estate a little. Agent. And she was successful and didnt need more. Sexual attraction or more going on . Sexual attraction, absolutely. With the divorce in hand, they dashed to the courthouse to marry and soon fell into comfortable routines. Morning workouts at the gym, steamy date nights at five star hotels and love notes on the fridge. He seemed to be dalia hes dream guy. And three months into the marriage according to michael, she told him she was pregnant. He was thrilled. Life was good. 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 Sargent Frank ranzie, Boynton BeachPolice 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 about 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. Oh 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 gonna 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 began. It seems that undercover agents had their eyes and hidden cameras trained on dalia. When when the sting continues. When when the sting continues. King and we never gonna stop all strength, no sweat. Just in case you forgot all strength. No sweat secret. All strength. No sweat. You may have gingivitis. When you brush, and the clock could be ticking towards bad breath, receding gums, and possibly. Tooth loss. Help turn back the clock on gingivitis with parodontax. Leave bleeding gums behind. Parodontax. Welcome back. Dalia had gone to the gym one morning and returned home to what seemed like a nightmare. Police were outside her florida condo with news that her husband, mike, had been killed. But there was more to the story. Much more. Turns out detectives already knew quite a bit about dalia thanks to a tipster and an elaborate hidden camera investigation. Here is Dennis Murphy with moore. Dalia had been called home from the gym to be told by police that an intruder had murdered her husband michael. Sorry to tell you, maam, hes been killed. Dal i cant was ruia was rus Police Department for the start of interviews. She began by telling detectives that michael wasnt squeaky clean. Mike she said was a convicted felon, a swindler who bilked thousands from gullible investors by selling them phony currency securities. It was for taking money, it was like where they would take money from people. 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. People werent happy that he was getting probation because it was a lot of money. 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. No problems between you guys. No financial problems no no, theres nothing. His business had slowed down, you know. But the cops were toying with dalia. They thought they knew so much more about the nudely wedding whos. Did they ever. Lets freeze the action in the Interview Room for a second and roll everything back a few days. That is when a man walked into the Boynton Beach pd with a story to tell. His lover was shopping for a hit man. The detective didnt know what to make of it. At first when he is giving you this information, you dont know what to think. Here is a guy who is claiming that he is sleeping with a guys wife and now shes trying to get somebody to kill him. Pretty juicy story. Exactly. The detective had the story run the man down from the top. Mohammed said he was a hart time being parttime actor who worked at a Convenience Store and was friends with benefits for years. And then she asked him for help in finding a hitman to kill her husband. He said im sleeping with this guys wife but at the same time, i didnt want this guy to be killed. But the detective wondered if he was being sold a story since this mohammed guy didnt know very much about the woman he claimed to be sleeping with. All the information he had was her first name. Didnt know where she lived, didnt even know who her husband was. While they debated whether or not the stipulatipster he story credible, a life was on the line. So the detectives enlisted mohammed as a confidential informant and gave him a story to tell his parttime lover, that he found her hitman who could pulling off the job can be. Either this guy was lying to us or it was true. We hadnt valley dated tu hadn information yet. 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, and not only are we watching her, we are also hearing what is going on in the informants car live. Running down the license plates and registration yield the name of a 26yearold woman, dalia, the same woman who would later be seen on videotape grieving widow. Police officers didnt have to wait long for confirmation. The woman 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. Hes not doing dental work to get the story out. Which shocked us. The meeting seemed to be all business. Dalia produced photos for of her husband for mohammed to hand over to the hitman. Dalia brought Something Else the hitman had requested. Cash to buy the gun that would be used. I brought 1200. He is asking for 1200 . When are you going to give him the money . Today. Shall i turns the money over. Yes. Is that crime at that moment . 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 ill put two shots to the head. No remorse. Another undercover sting. And a plan is set in motion for a deadly house call. When the sting continues. L. When the sting continues [farmers bell] burke a rock and wreck. Seen it. Covered it. At farmers insurance, we know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum welcome back. Dalia was sitting in a police Interview Room after she had just been told that her husband was dead. With cameras rolling, the scene was remarkable. Not for what was being said, but for what both sides were holding back. Dalia thought she was playing the cops but did not know that they had recorded Something Else which would prove quite damning for dalia. Here again is Dennis Murphy. With the help of a confidential informant, the Police Department had apparently confirmed that woman named dalia wanted to hire a hitman to kill her hufs and husband and it alo be caught on tape. 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 hitman 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 hitman 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 somethin, i do it. You definitely want to do this . Im positive, like, 5,000 sure. Reporter the pretend hitman 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 gonna put two in his head, meaning two shots to the head, and it doesnt even phase 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, you gotta 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 she is 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. Dear god, 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 interview on a tv monitor in a nearby room. People werent happy that he was getting off probation because its a lot of money hes got to pay back. She mentioned how he had enemies, he was on probation. She didnt even bother to ask how it happened. Reporter to their experienced eyes and ears, dalia was making a few mistakes in how she was telling her theory of the crime. But they wanted to push her some more, see if they could get her to confess to her suspected murder plot then and there. Would she be obviously rattled when they led in a familiar face, the person she believed to be the hitman . Bring this guy in here. Get over here. 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 Police officer, was presented to dalia here as someone theyd just nabbed for the killing of her husband. Do you know her . Mm. Put your head up and look at her. Put your head up. Ive never seen him. Reporter the detectives finally put their cards on the table. They told dalia that they knew this was the supposed hitman. And that meeting where they planned to kill her husband . All recorded on tape. Thats an Undercover Police officer. We filmed everything that you did. We 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, but i didnt do anything. Everything you listen to me. Everything has been recorded. You were photographed in the convertible when you sat at his car in the front of cvs. What do you want to do . Oh, my god. Reporter rock steady to 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. Someone is back from the grave. Some things are too important to do yourself. Get customized security with 24 7 monitoring from xfinity home. Awarded the best professionally installed system by cnet. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Call, click or visit a store today. This is the hoyer hours top stories. President trump took time on Christmas Eve to air his grievances about the impeachment process. The president delivered a sharp rebuke to democrats accusing nancy pelosi. And thousands of antigovernment protestorses clashed with police in hong kong. They smashed shop windows and police fired tear gas. Now back to dateline. Welcome back. Investigators thought they had caught dalia on camera orchestrating a plot to kill her husband, yet she was telling them that she was innocent. Was it possible that police somehow had it wrong . It was time for detectives to see if the other half of the marriage could provide any explanation. Once again, here is Dennis Murphy. Reporter imagine for a minute youre Dalia Dippolito. Homicide detectives in a Police Interrogation room are accusing you of plotting your husbands murder. Dalia didnt know it then, but her husband Michael Dippolito was still very much alive, and was about to come face to face with his wife of six months, who seemed to want him dead. Im thinkin in my head, im lucky. Im lucky. But im like, im so screwed right now. The worst day in the world. Reporter before waking up that day, Michael Dippolito was Clueless Police thought his wife of six months had hired a hit man to kill him. Instead, he believed he and dalia had begun a loving new chapter together. They were about to start a family. She told him she was pregnant. Dalia was at the gym when those tv cameras from the reality show cops captured the Moment Police knocked on mikes front door. Police Department Open your door sorry, im srgt. Sheridan from the boynton Police Department. Yes, hi. Can i talk to you . Yes, for sure. We say, hey, liste