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 . Thats what makes her riveting and she is infamous and probably will be forever. Hello and welcome to dateline. When dalia and Mike Dippolito met it was instant fireworks. An immediate attraction that turned into a fatal attraction and to crack the case investigators needed to know was she diabolic or unwitting pawn in a hoax gone wrong . It would take eight years to unwind this true tale of sex, lies and videotape. Heres Dennis Murphy with the sting. Reporter the mesmerizing story of dalia begins in a place where the humidity is hi, palm beach. It is the winter wonderland. You can drive over the bridge and feel the rarefied air, the mansions and hedges that hide the mansions. Reporter jan tuckwood said some mainlanders cant resist the wannabe allure of palm beach. Most people are influenced that richness is right there and how can they get a piece of it. Reporter past the interstate newlyweds dalia and mike lived in a 250,000 condo, not exactly the same zip code as palm beach but fine for two up and comers. Dalia and mike had big dreams like any Company Young and in love. Aspirations at the least. She had a 20,000 diamond engagement ring. He had a porsche in the garage. Their story for public consumption 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 teensie problem in their paradise, Mike Dippolito was married. Lawyers jason brody 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 end all be all. 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. Had a lot of things in common. Enjoyed the same things. Dalia is a real estate agent. Thats what attracted her to him. Are we talking about sexual attraction. Theres sexual attraction, absolutely. With a divorce in hand, mike and dalia dashed to the courthouse to marry and soon fell into comfortable routine, 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 00 a. M. Workout by the Boynton Beach police. This is Sergeant Frank ramsey. I need to talk to you. Its very urgent. It involves your husband. 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 when dalia got the awful news. Miss dippolito. Im the one that called you. Thank you for coming. Listen, we had a report of a disturbance at your house. Reporter the officer was direct with dalia. He said there had been an intruder in the house and several shots were fired. Is your husband michael . Im sorry to tell you, maam, hes been killed. No. I cant let you go, man. Reporter michael, her husband of six month, gunned down in their town house 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 . If you want to enemies you have to go to the station and tell us everything you know about who he knows, who hes connected to. Reporter the investigation was only minutes ole and the officers told dalia theyd need her cooperation in understanding what happened. Well do everything we can. We need your help. We need to get your husbands killer, manual. Reporter dalia was whigsked off to the Police Station where shed find out the detectives thought they knew much more about the details than they were letting on. This case was about to get very complicated. Oh, yes. Coming up, the questions began, it seems that undercover agent has their eyes and hidden cameras trained on mrs mrs. Dippolito. Whats up . When dateline continues ft. 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She began by telling the detectives that michael, her deceased husband wasnt exactly squeaky clean. Hes been trying to get off probation and its just been nothing but problems the whole time that hes been trying to get off. Mike, she said, was a convicted felon, a swipdz ler who bilked thousands of dollars from gullible investors by selling them phony currency securities. It was for taking money. It was like he 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 to the victims he fleeced, an outstanding iou of 191,000. People were mad because he was getting probation. Find out who he sewed aowed youll find the killer. They changed the questioning to the newlyweds. We were fine. Like theres nothing no problems between you guys. No financial problems. With your family, you and him . I mean, theres nothing. We were going through his business slowed down like anything. The cops were toying with her. Holding back their best cards. They thought they knew so much more point 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 pd with a lurid story to tell. His married lover was shopping for a hit man. Detective alex moreno didnt know what to make. At first when hes giving you this information you, you dont know what to think. Heres a guy claiming hes sleeping with a guys wife and now shes trying to get somebody to kill him. Pretty juicy story. Exactly. Reporter he had the tipster rung down his story. His name was mohamed. A parttime actor who worked at a convenience store. He had been friends with benefits with a woman for years. They had 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 this guy was going to get killed. Reporter the detective wondered if he was being sold a cock and bull story since he didnt claim to know much about the woman she was sleeping with. All the information he had was her first name. He didnt know where she lived. He didnt though who her husband was. Reporter while they debated whether or not the tipsters story was credit they knew a life may be on the line so the detectives took it to the negative level. They enlisted mohamed as a confidential informant and gave him a story to tell his parttime lover. He found her hit man. Two things could have happened either this guy was lying to us or it was true. We hadnt validated it yet till he makes contact. Reporter mohamed set up an appointment and the car was rigged for pictures and signs. Undercover agents would watch 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, we picked up the car and not only are we watching her were hearing whats going on in the informants car, live. Hey, whats up . I love you too. Yeah, you love me 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 triggerman. Less than a minute she begins talking about hiring somebody to kill her husband. Unprompted. Hes not doing dental work to get the story out of her. Honestly killing over that much money. Even its not even about the [ bleep ] money. Well spend it like in the [ bleep ] blink of an eye. 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. Just give me one picture. Reporter dalia brought Something Else the hit man requested, cash to buy the gun to be used. I brought 1200. Hes asking for 1200. Yeah. When are you going to give him the money today. Reporter she turns the money over . Yes. Is that a crime, detective. Its not enough yet. We didnt have enough. We wanted to go further with this case. The police were about to test dalia to see if she was determined to have her new husband killed. Coming up undercover agent tells her, ill put two shots to the head and doesnt even faze her, no remorse. Im positive. Another undercover sting and a plan is set in motion for a deadly house call when dateline continues. 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With the help of a confidential informant the boing ton beach Police Department had apparently confirmed that a woman named Dalia Dippolito wanted to hire a hit man to kill her husband and it all seemed to be caught on tape. Youre sure that its like solid . Yo, this guy is a professional. Right. All right, good. Reporter so the police instructed their informant 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 gonna 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 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 hit man . 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 . 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 hit man. 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 oh, my god. Someone is back from the grave when dateline continues. With relief of your worst symptoms, including itchy throat. Plus an immediate blast of cooling sensation. Feel the clarity and l