plotting out a murder, and also that video from the cops tv show with her looking unglued as she learned of her husband s murder. what no one could have predicted, though, was dalia s defense. we live in a world where people seeking their 15 minutes of fame lose all sense of judgment and common sense. reporter: dalia s defense attorney michael salnick said this whole crazy story was in fact all about dalia s husband s vanity and his thirst for fame. it was mike who was really behind the faked murder, its mastermind, just so he could be known beyond boynton beach. mike dippolito s hoax to orchestrate his own murder to achieve fame and fortune was a bad prank. it was never anyone s intention to harm anyone. reporter: the defense argued it was all a tv pitch, michael auditioning for his big break.
and gave dalia a piece of his mind before sending her behind bars. it was weeks and months that you continued with these different schemes to try to rid yourself of your husband. it was pure evil. reporter: but that wasn t the final note in the ballad of mike and dalia. in a move that surprised the prosecution just three months after sentencing, the judge who called dalia pure evil allowed her to post a $500,000 bond. she was released from jail and was again placed under house arrest while she appealed her conviction. fast forward three years, and dalia won her appeal for a new trial. the judge in her first trial failed to properly filter jurors for potential bias and exposure to pretrial publicity. reporter: brian claypool is one of dalia s new lawyers. some of the jurors said she was guilty in front of the entire jury pool, which contaminated the jury pool.
footage by cops and boynton beach p.d., you went back to the police department and posted this on youtube. correct? correct. you knew at that time there was a pending criminal investigation of dalia dippolito, correct? correct. in the end, dalia s team contended boynton beach tv violated dalia s constitutional rights. jurors, they said, look at the motives of the man running the surveillance video and find their target dalian not guilt-oguildalia not guilty. this was a police department in love with tossed dalia under the bus. a police department can t toss a client s rights under the bus to make good television. as dalia waited for a jury of six for her fate flanked by attorneys she spoke exclusively
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. we re staying in here, right? all right, yeah, yeah. okay. man, you look good. thank you. reporter: in that meeting
find out who he owed suggested dalia and you ll 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. we re fine, like there s nothing. no problems between you guys. no financial problems no no, there s 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. let s 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 didn t know what to make of it. at first when he is giving you this information, you don t know what to think. here is a guy who is claiming that he is sleeping with a guy s