Dippolito . Yes. I married him because i loved him. Did you want your husband dead . No, absolutely not. Im in therapy now just trying to cope with everything thats happened because its hard. How do you explain, then, what we saw and what we heard on those video tapes . Thats when Dalia Dippolito says the phrase that goes around the world. Im positive, like 5,000 sure. With evidence like that, what seems like evidence, how did she end up going to trial not once, not twice Dalia Dippolito walking out a free woman. And three times . It is reality tv on steroids. Its a cloudy morning in sleepy Boynton Beach, florida. Its just before 6 00 a. M. Its already a humid 80 degrees, and most people are still fast asleep. But not 26yearold newlywed Dalia Dippolito. On august 5, 2009, dalia and Mike Dippolito had just passed their sixmonth wedding anniversary. Hes in bed in the morning, and dalia gets up and goes to the gym at 6 00 a. M. The l. A. Fitness in Boynton Beach. Hes groggy. Its early morning. You know, hes still in bed. She tells mike on the way out, im going to the gym. Maybe ill bring you starbucks on the way home. In the middle of her workout, dal dalia receives a phone call from the Boynton Beach police. Sorry i missed your call. Please leave your message and i will return your call as soon as i can. This is Sergeant Frank ranzi, Boynton BeachPolice Department detective division. I need you to call me as soon as you can, maam. A few seconds after missing the call, she calls the number and its the Boynton Beach police asking her to come home. Okay . Can you come right back to your residence, please . Yeah, ill meet you right now. Is everything okay . Maam, ill tell you everything you need to know when you get here. There were cameras everywhere, including from the hit tv show, cops. She goes rushing up, looking very confused. You see her in her black leggings, her tight, spaghettistrap tank top. Listen, we had a report of a disturbance at your house, and there were shots fired. Once she arrived, thats when she was told that her husband was killed. Is your husband michael . Okay, im sorry to tell you, maam. Hes been killed. And thats when she falls into his arms, wailing. She is screaming. Shes saying, no, no, no, no, no. Try to calm down. No. No no from the perspective of neighbors, they see this nice eyomethiuple, and next thing and theyre all wondering, who would wanna kill Mike Dippolito . Is it random . Is it somebody that could have come into my house . My name is jillian jalali, and i have a podcast called, court junkie. This case has it all as far as true crime is concerned. Mike and dalia seemed to be a perfect match. It was truly a fairy tale. Dalias father was egyptian and her mother was peruvian. She was born dalia mohammed. Dalia comes from a religious family. Very closeknit family. And when she was 13 years old, her family moved to Boynton Beach, florida, where she essentially grew up. Boynton beach is located in palm beach cou well, thats a pretty glitzy county in florida. When people think of Palm Beach County, they often think of maralago, where President Trump lives. He has that resort there. Boynton beach, 15 miles away, is a typical american suburb. Its sort of a middle class, more of a bluecollar community. Dalia lived in a gated community. She lived there with her mother. Some describe her as beautiful. Shes certainly attractive, especially when shes got her hair and makeup done. I first met Dalia Dippolito back in 2015. Has your story been told yet . Truthfully . No, it hasnt. How would you describe your personality . Really bubbly. Very friendly. Really social. What types of values were you raised with . What was important in your family . We were constantly doing family activities, family vacations, and a lot of family dinners. Big sunday dinners. What were your hopes for her . To grow up, be married, be happy and have kids. Dalia grows up and she becomes, supposedly, a real estate agent. But the problem is that actually takes a lot of really hard work, and shes much more into the quick buck. I think she was a woman who early on decided there were certain things in life she wanted and she was going to use her sexuality to get them. Money. She wants money. Some people might call dalia a gold digger, and if she could see maybe a fast buck in someone, she was going to go for it. Enter Mike Dippolito. He says when he meets dalia, she was working as a paid escort. He met her on a website called eros. Com. He was ordering an escort to keep him company over the weekend. He ordered her like a pizza. Mike dippolito is an interesting guy. Just like dalia, he wants a lavish lifestyle. He yearns for the finer things in life. Michael dippolito was a muscular guy. He worked out. And he liked the high life, too. What was your initial impression of Mike Dippolito . Charming. What drew you to him . His personality. He was really engaging. I felt a really strong connection. So, Mike Dippolito is a very likable guy. Hes not afraid to be vulnerable. And he just seemed sort of like a guy youd see at the gym. Maybe not too bright, but working hard and trying to have a fun life. Mike describes his first meeting with dalia. That she was sweet, almost naive. Give me some insight into what it was like when you first met. We got into Outdoor Activities and stuff. We got bikes, and we started biking together. What do you think michael saw in you . My personality, who i was. My sense of humor. We talked about all kinds of things. We watch the news together. We were big movie people. We both like starbucks, big coffee drinkers. Mike had a very difficult upbringing, and i think he really yearned to feel loved and to feel safe and taken care of. He had this void that needed to be filled. And she made him feel like he had never felt before. But the problem that mike had was that he was married at the time. They start an affair. A hot and heavy and steamy affair. He said the sex was unbelievable. Did you have any scruples about getting involved with a man who was still married . No. I was told that he was going through the divorce proceedings. He had actually sent me papers showing that he was going through the divorce process. Not only did Mike Dippolito have a wife, he also had a checkered past. Long before he met dalia, hed gone to prison for running a boiler room stock operation. He was conning old people over the phone. They would call people up, and they would sell them these penny stocks. Convince them that these were going to become stocks that were going to be worth a lot of money, but in actuality, were just scams. Basically like the movie the boiler room. Listen, im presenting you with an Investment Opportunity that i think youll find very interesting. Where hes cold calling people and trying to get them to invest in foreign currency. He was ripping people off. Along the way, he was definitely making enemies. Mike pled guilty to organized scheme to defraud, unlicensed telemarketing, and grand theft. And he served a total of two years in Florida State prison, followed by 28 years probation. Theyre in love. They are determined to leave their pasts behind. So the excon and his former escort are in this whirlwind romance, and six months later, they are married. The way that it happened it was impulsive and it felt right. You went down to the county courthouse . The courthouse, the same day, applied for a license. It took a couple of days for it to legally be official and everything. This was a shock to dalias mother, randa mohammed. And she showed me her ring. I was like, wow, you got engaged . She says, no, we got married. And you thought what . I wasnt happy at all, but it was done. If you look at the pictures of them, she has this beautiful smile. Hes grinning. Theyre embracing each other. It looks like true love. From an outsider looking in, theyre the happiest couple. And that brings us back to that hot august morning in 2009. Mike dippolito is dead. He has apparently been murdered in his house. And the big question is, why . Who would want to do this . Police cant help but wonder if this grieving widow is actually keeping a deadly secret. Are you sure that you dont know anybody who would want to kill your husband . Heres to the road ahead. Trust toyota to be here for you. Your toyota dealers are offering so many ways for you to save, including 0 financing and attractive leases on our most popular toyotas, like camry, rav4 and tacoma. And toyota will defer your payments up to 90 days. You can even shop and buy online from the comfort of your home. All from the brand you trust. Today and tomorrow. Toyota. Theres new quickdissolve nurtec. 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Hes been killed, maam. The condo is surrounded by police cars. The street was mobbed with detectives, crime scene technicians. [ crying ] i cant let you in there. We have to do our job. We have to find his killer. She says, i want to see my husband, and the police say, no, you cant. If you want to help your husband, you need to go to the station with these guys and tell us everything about who he kn knows, who hes connected to. They put her in the police car, and now shes being whisked away to the police station. So they take her to the Interrogation Room. Shes sitting in there. Ill explain to you what were going to do, okay . They turn the camera on once dalia steps into the room to watch her demeanor and to see how she was behaving. I dont want to be videotaped. Well, youre being videotaped. Thats part of it. And still expressing grief and sorrow and disbelief. They wouldnt let me see him. No. You dont want to see him. The police are treating her like a grieving widow. Theyre doing their investigation into who would want to kill her husband. Listen, is there anybody that you know that you think would want to kill your husband . My husbands on probation. For what . Hes for stock fraud. Stock fraud . And in fact, she tries to steer the investigation to the victims that mike had previously scammed money from. Has he spent any time in prison . How much . Um, two years in prison and five years on probation. Going on six years. Oh, my god. And what was that for . It was for taking money. Like, he explained it, like boiler room kind of, where they would take money from people. She tells them that he had been in prison before for fraud, that he was on probation, and that he still owed restitution, almost 200,000 to several victims. Hes been trying to get off probation. And its just been nothing but problems the whole time that hes been trying to get off. People werent happy that he was getting off probation, because its a lot of money hes got to pay back. She tells them that mike was just about to get off on probation early, and the people that he has scammed money from were very angry and upset about this. Well, when you say people, who are you talking about . People that were involved before . A little bit of everything. Hes constantly running into a lot of guys that he was on probation with. Its a lot of money. It was 191,000 he has to pay back. Hes got all these sketchy characters from his past. Yeah, yeah, yeah, theyre the ones. I guess somehow when he went away, some guys didnt go away. They you mean went away, he went to prison . Right. Okay. They left the country. And so somehow he was dealing with some of these guys because they thought he owed them and i dont know. She gave very vague details about, you know, maybe people that could have been angry with him. She didnt provide Law Enforcement with much information at all. Im asking, if you know any names, then we can run these guys down and see what they know. I dont know if the one guy that im telling you about, pasquale, if he also went away or if he didnt. She starts to kind of give names and tell them that there are possibilities of people that maybe had wanted to see mike dead. Is it pasqualie or pasqual . Pasqual. Then dalia starts spilling some of mikes other secrets, like his Substance Abuse issues. Hes a recovering alcoholic. Dalia tells detectives that her husband, mike, struggled with demons alcohol and drugs. And so with him, its very important to be on a schedule, know what i mean . Have a system and be very organized with everything. Get up every day, go to the gym, go to starbucks. He would go to aa meetings. He felt it was so important to keep regimented. He did that to make sure that he stayed sober. And in fact, he would have otherwise been at the gym with dalia, except he was recovering from liposuction surgery. We were supposed to go to the gym. Oh, both of you were supposed to go . Mmhmm. He had two love handles removed from here. And so he was laid up. He couldnt exercise. He couldnt go to the gym. We havent gone since the surgery, but every morning friday, were both at the gym. Youre lucky. What . Youre lucky you went to the gym. I dont know if you know, he was shot. He was shot twice. And i want you to know all of this. Do you know this . Not exactly. I mean, they told me he was shot. He was found in the bedroom. He was shot twice in the head. She brought up every negative detail of his life in those moments after she learned that he had been killed. Well, you know, hes very he used to be a drug addict, and what was his drug of choice . Crack. Crack . Im going to be back. What i want to do is call. Right now im going to go out and get in touch with the officers at the scene. And i want to see if the house was burglarized. Hang on one second. Thank you. So, when the police exit and dalia was still being videotaped as they leave the room, she starts crying. [ crying ] a few moments later, the detective comes back in and he has one more question. Theres no problems between you guys, no financial problems . No i mean, with your family . You and him . No, theres nothing. In that police interview, dalia paints a rather rosy picture of their relationship no problems, no drama. But what everyone would soon learn is there actually was trouble in paradise. Everything seems great. At least thats what michael thought. What he didnt know is that Dalia Dippolito had another man in her life. We are running our covid19 Technology Response on teams. Teams has given us the possibility to continue to innovate. I can bring them in, i can actually share my screen and show the xrays. We can do that in a visit like this. Were living on teams. Its as simple as that. Great parenting new ziploc grip n seal. Easier to grip and open for the worlds greatest parents. Sc johnson frustrated that clean clothes you want to wear always seem to need an iron . 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And thats what she did very successfully with men, including Mike Dippolito. She wanted mikes house. She wanted all of his money. She decided hey, i got to figure out a way to get his stuff. She had several men wrapped around her fingers. One of those men was a florida businessman, mohammed shihadeh. He was a 32yearold jordanian national. He was a quasiactor. In fact, if you go to the site for mohameds talent agency, his online portfolio is still there. He really enjoyed playing poker and gambling in las vegas. How did you know mohamed . I met him a long time ago. He had a Co