michael he had to come with them right away to the boynton beach police station before his wife got back from the gym. so, grab your stuff, get in the car. we re outta here. yes. reporter: meanwhile, outside his townhouse, the police were starting to stage-dress a phony murder scene, all to trick dalia into thinking the hit man she had apparently hired had successfully completed the job. reporter: boynton beach police recorded those moments, as did the crew from the cops tv show. but the murky involvement of a tv show would later complicate accusations against dalia. reporter: at the station, the detectives cued up their own surveillance videos showing mike the husband dalia s two meetings as she seemed to shop for a hit man. i m positive, like five thousand percent sure. reporter: then the police allowed michael to watch his wife s real-time police interrogation going on in another room. dalia, who had no idea her husband was alive, told her police interviewer she had
dalia had been located at her 6:00am workout by the boynton beach police. this is sargent frank ranzie, boynton beach police department. is everything okay? ma am, i need to talk to you. it s very urgent. when you come home, it involves your husband. there s 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? i m sgt. ranzie. i m the one that called you. thank you for coming. i m sorry to call you. listen, we had a report about a disturbance at your house. reporter: the officer was direct with dalia. he said there d been an intruder in the house and several shots were fired. is your husband michael? okay, i m sorry to tell you, ma am, he s been killed. he s been killed ma am. oh no! oh no. i want to see
who posed as her hitman. put your head up and look at her. put your head up. i ve never seen him. i m watchin . and i am just watching and i m waitin for her to give it up. and you know what? the girl never gave it up. we re going to go ahead and arrest. reporter: dalia was arrested and handcuffed. and cameras were still rolling when police walked a very-much alive michael into the doorway of the interrogation room. oh, my god. he s alive. and they say, you know this guy? and i m standin there, probably from twice the distance of us. come here please. come here. i can t. you can t fix this. why not? i didn t do anything to you. i heard you. mike, come here please. come here. and that s when she says, come here. i love you. i love you. and and i told her. i said, look, i can t. you know, i said you can t fix this. reporter: now it was michael s turn to tell the police his story warts and all, correcting for the record that love at first sight
said. dalia hiring a man to kill her husband. two bullets put in her husband s head for nothing. then dalia s turn with defense presented by attorney crien claypool saying the police trapped dalia in a reality tv production for their own 15 minutes of fame on the cops tv show. you can t break the rules and then be rewarded by breaking the rules. that s 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 was used as a pawn by the boynton beach police department to manufacture good tv for the cops tv show. dalia s attorney say boynton police undermined its own investigation when the public information officer had the video posted online. within several hours, video
string of run-ins with the police, including one night after dinner out with dalia. they left the restaurant to find the police swarming michael s vehicle. after a search, they found cocaine stashed beneath a spare tire. i actually started crying to this cop. and i m like, look man, i haven t done anything in five and a half years. i don t know how, why or what happened. they let me go. i couldn t even believe it. and you would ve gone back to prison because you violated probation? uh, yeah. yeah, absolutely. reporter: now he didn t want to think that the light of his life could be behind something as nefarious as getting him thrown back in prison but the idea was there, maybe dalia. i said to her, i said you know, only when i m with you. my life isn t this exciting. in five and a half years on probation, i didn t have one run in with the police. i m with this girl six months. and the whole police department knows me. i might as well glow fluorescent. so, you re lookin a