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Shirt and showed me his gun. >> mohammad denied threatening her. >> the reality tv defense seems to have played into this story. >> dahlia's defense was weirdly appropriate. >> it seems to make total sense because the whole story doesn't make sense. you just throw in that angle, i want to be famous, so let's do this stunt, if it was a stunt. it just adds to the weirdness. >> the story didn't fly with the new judge and the motion to dismiss was thrown out. and so in december 2016, dahlia showed up at the palm beach county courthouse once against, new trial, new jury. >> we're going to have the ...

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, you know -- >> there's no problems between you guys, no financial problems no -- i mean with your family, you and him? >> no, there's nothing. i mean, we, you know, we're going through -- his business has slowed down like anything, you know. >> reporter: but the cops were toying with dalia, holding back their best cards. they thought they knew so much more about the newlyweds. did they ever. let's fr...

Was guilty in front of the entire jury pool, which contaminated the jury pool. >> reporter: and so -- more than seven years after dalia dippolito was charged with hiring a hit man to kill her husband, she would go on trial again. >> when she heard the news that she had been granted a retrial, she was extremely overjoyed because she felt like she would have a second chance to have the truth be told. >> reporter: she would speak exclsively to "dateline." and oh, what a story she'd tell, this real housewife of boynton beach. so much better than reality tv. >> coming up -- >> he just started manuf...

Next level. they enlisted mohamed as a confidential informant, and gave him a story to tell his part-time lover, that he'd found her a hit man who could pull off the job. >> two things coulda happened. either this guy was lying to us or it was true. we hadn't validated the information yet until he actually makes contact. >> reporter: mohamed, the tipster, set up an assignation with the woman for the very next day. 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...

License plates and registration yielded the name of a 26-year-old woman -- dalia dippolito, the same woman who would later be seen on that videotape as the grieving widow. police officers didn't have to wait long before the informant's story was confirmed. this woman in the car really appeared to be in the market for a trigger man. >> less than a minute or so, she begins talkin' about hirin' somebody to kill her husband. >> unprompted? he's not doin' dental work to get this story out of her -- >> no. which, you know, which shocked us. >> honestly, you think it's worth you know killing over tha...