tonight on an all-new "20/20." >> the saga of mike and dalia dippolito was so outrageous, so unbelievable. >> their relationship was like a powder keg. those people have such sexual attracti attraction. >> the reality show "cops" is there to capture every second. >> i'm sorry to tell you, ma'am, he's been killed. >> can you imagine, you come home from a simple morning at the gym and you find out your husband has been murdered? >> i can't let you go in there, ma'am. >> is there anybody that you know that you think would want to kill your husband? >> did you ever love mike

dippolito? >> yes. i married him because i loved him. >> did you want your husband dead? >> no, absolutely not. i'm in therapy now just trying to cope with everything that's happened because it's hard. >> how do you explain, then, what we saw and what we heard on those video tapes? >> that's when dalia dippolito says the phrase that goes around the world. >> i'm 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. it's a cloudy morning in sleepy boynton beach, florida. it's just before 6:00 a.m. it's already a humid 80 degrees,

and most people are still fast asleep. but not 26-year-old newlywed dalia dippolito. >> on august 5, 2009, dalia and mike dippolito had just passed their six-month wedding anniversary. he's 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. >> he's groggy. it's early morning. you know, he's still in bed. >> she tells mike on the way out, i'm going to the gym. maybe i'll 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 beach police department detective division. i need you to call me as soon as you can, ma'am. >> a few seconds after missing the call, she calls the number and it's the boynton beach police asking her to come home.

>> okay? can you come right back to your residence, please? >> yeah, i'll meet you right now. is everything okay? >> ma'am, i'll 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, spaghetti-strap tank top. >> listen, we had a report of a disturbance at your house, and there were shots fired. >> once she arrived, that's when she was told that her husband was killed. >> is your husband michael? okay, i'm sorry to tell you, ma'am. he's been killed. >> and that's when she falls into his arms, wailing. she is screaming. she's 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 they're 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. >> dalia's father was egyptian and her mother was peruvian. >> she was born dalia mohammed. >> dalia comes from a religious family. very close-knit 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, that's a pretty glitzy county in florida. >> when people think of palm beach county, they often think of mar-a-lago, where president trump lives. he has that resort there. boynton beach, 15 miles away,

is a typical american suburb. >> it's sort of a middle class, more of a blue-collar community. >> dalia lived in a gated community. she lived there with her mother. some describe her as beautiful. she's certainly attractive, especially when she's got her hair and makeup done. >> i first met dalia dippolito back in 2015. has your story been told yet? truthfully? >> no, it hasn't. >> 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 she's 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. he's not afraid to be vulnerable. >> and he just seemed sort of like a guy you'd 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, he'd 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, i'm presenting you with an investment opportunity that i think you'll find very interesting. >> where he's 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. >> they're in love. they are determined to leave their pasts behind. so the ex-con 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 dalia's 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 wasn't happy at all, but it was done. >> if you look at the pictures of them, she has this beautiful smile. he's grinning. they're embracing each other. it looks like true love. >> from an outsider looking in, they're 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 can't help but wonder if this grieving widow is actually keeping a deadly secret. >> are you sure that you don't know anybody who would want to kill your husband? here's to the road ahead. trust toyota to be here for you.

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this is sergeant frank ramsey. uh, mam, i need to talk to you. it's very urgent when you come home. it involves your husband. there's been an incident. >> can you imagine? you've got your whole life ahead of you and you're in love and you're planning everything and then you come home from a simple morning at the gym and you find out that your husband's been murdered. >> i don't wish this on anybody. it's just beyond, you know, words. it's so hard to be able to just fully express. >> is your husband michael? okay, i'm sorry to tell you, ma'am, he's been killed. he's been killed, ma'am. >> the condo is surrounded by police cars. the street was mobbed with detectives, crime scene technicians. [ crying ] >> i can't 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 can't. >> 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 he's connected to. >> they put her in the police car, and now she's being whisked away to the police station. so they take her to the interrogation room. she's sitting in there. >> i'll explain to you what we're 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 don't want to be videotaped. >> well, you're being videotaped. that's part of it. >> and still expressing grief and sorrow and disbelief. >> they wouldn't let me see him. >> no. you don't want to see him. >> the police are treating her like a grieving widow. they're 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 husband's on probation. >> for what? >> he's -- 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. >> he's been trying to get off probation. and it's just been nothing but problems the whole time that he's been trying to get off. people weren't happy that he was getting off probation, because it's a lot of money he's 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. he's constantly running into a lot of guys that he was on probation with. it's a lot of money. it was $191,000 he has to pay back. >> he's got all these sketchy characters from his past. yeah, yeah, yeah, they're the ones. >> i guess somehow when he went away, some guys didn't 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 don't know. >> she gave very vague details about, you know, maybe people that could have been angry with him. she didn't provide law enforcement with much information at all. >> i'm asking, if you know any names, then we can run these guys down and see what they know.

>> i don't know if the one guy that i'm telling you about, pasquale, if he also went away or if he didn't. >> 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 mike's other secrets, like his substance abuse issues. >> he's a recovering alcoholic. >> dalia tells detectives that her husband, mike, struggled with demons -- alcohol and drugs. >> and so with him, it's 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?

>> mm-hmm. he had two love handles removed from here. >> and so he was laid up. he couldn't exercise. he couldn't go to the gym. >> we haven't gone since the surgery, but every morning friday, we're both at the gym. >> you're lucky. >> what? >> you're lucky you went to the gym. i don't 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, he's very -- he used to be a drug addict, and -- >> what was his drug of choice? >> crack. >> crack? i'm going to be back. what i want to do is call. right now i'm 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. >> there's no problems between you guys, no financial problems? no -- i mean, with your family? you and him? >> no, there's 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 that's what michael thought. >> what he didn't know is that dalia dippolito had another man in her life. we are running our covid-19 technology response on teams.

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that interrogation room, there is still a lot about her investigators don't know about her. ♪ >> she uses men for their money or to get into their lives so then she can then extract their money. >> she knew how to use her sex appeal, and she had a lot of it, to get her way. and that's what she did very successfully with men, including mike dippolito. >> she wanted mike's 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 32-year-old jordanian national. he was a quasi-actor.

>> in fact, if you go to the site for mohamed's 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 convenience store business, and i had actually walked into his store, and that's where we struck up conversation, and we both had middle eastern background, and so we just ended up developing a friendship. >> and you stayed in touch for how many years? >> throughout the course of, um, maybe like 15 years. >> so you considered him a close personal friend. >> i considered him a friend. i wouldn't say close. ♪ fantasy >> they began a flirtation, which was very heavily sexually charged. >> when she needed something,

they would rekindle that old flame, so to speak. >> if she needed to vent about a guy she was dating or a relationship that she was in, she would talk to him. >> so, in july of 2009 after dalia was married to mike, she reached out to mohamed once again as she had done over time. she starts a narrative with him about michael dippolito. >> dalia told mohamed that she was physically abused, that he was controlling, and that she just needed out of the marriage. >> were there any stresses on the marriage? >> we got into little arguments and things, but it wasn't anything major. >> but dalia tells mohamed that her husband is abusive, emotionally abusive, so much so that a regular divorce isn't going to cut it. so she wants mike out of her life for good and turns to mohammed for help. >> she wants for a more permanent solution to her problems. >> dalia confides in mohamed

that she wants mike dippolito killed. >> they meet at a gas station in boynton beach. dalia tells mohamed that she's desperate, that she needs to have mike killed. >> it's a common thread throughout these types of cases -- beautiful woman and they often involve allegations of abuse. >> mohamed is really nervous that if mike dippolito is killed, that law enforcement would come back to him, and he didn't want that to happen. and he didn't want mike to be killed. >> mohamed shihadeh is actually the person that called police and said that dalia dippolito was planning to murder her husband. >> we had a gentleman come into the police department advising they had some information in reference to a young lady who wanted her husband killed. >> they capture this first

conversation that they had with mohamed on a tape recorder. >> okay, tell us what happened. >> she asked if i knew someone who could kill her husband for her. i said basically, no, i i don't want. she tells me he's the nicest sweetest nerd, but she can't stand him. >> so at first we don't know what we have. >> you ever see him? >> no. the last name i don't know. >> at the time, we didn't know what to believe. here's a gentleman who walks in. according to him, he's had a sexual relationship with this young lady, but he wasn't sure exactly where she lived, or her last name. >> describe her. >> she's maybe 5'6", 5'7." dark black hair green eyes. she's a good looking girl, really good looking girl actually. >> the fact that somebody was going to get killed, it was bothering his conscience. >> did she ask you to find someone for her? >> yes. >> so, after that first interview, law enforcement

realizes that they're going to need to talk to mohammed again. >> what cops want mohamed to do next is bold and risky -- they want to set up a sting. >> they say we want you to put a wire on, and we want you to get her to outline this plan to kill her husband. >> so mohamed morphs into a confidential informant. >> we have the informant contact the suspect by phone and set up a meeting so we can i.d. her. >> the mobil gas station was one of those places where they met before in the past, so we decided to make that the location. >> all right, you good to go? >> yeah, i'm good to go. >> so police outfit mohammed's car with some cameras and they put a wire on him. >> hey, what's up? >> and a few seconds later, she begins talking about getting her husband killed. >> there's no small talk. mohamed and dalia launch right into a secretly recorded conversation, detailing dalia's

murderous intentions. >> at first it seems like her motive might be mike's money. >> honestly, you're -- kill him over that much money? >> its not even over the [ bleep ] money. like it's not even about the [ bleep ] money. >> dalia has no idea that every word coming out of her mouth is being caught on camera. >> okay, well, all i'm trying to say is this guy is a professional. this is not [ bleep ]. all he does is get it done and that's it. it's done. >> right. >> this is where he actually says he was going to introduce her to a hitman. >> i know him. he's good at it. >> we realized that this guy was credible. >> but now, how am i supposed to know what day he's going to do it? >> we were shocked how easily she talked about getting her husband killed. >> he might like tell you to get out of town or something for like a day. >> i'm not going out of town. >> you even hear her during the conversation her talk about no one would ever believe that she could be capable of murder.

>> his mom is not going to get suspicious of you or anything like that? >> why me? like, do i know what [ bleep ] killing somebody is? no one is going to be able to point a finger at me. >> she ended up bringing $1,200 in cash. she believed that that money was gonna be given to the hitman to buy a gun. >> alright, i try. >> she also brought two pictures. >> i have a picture of him right now. and you're sure everything else is okay? >> yeah. >> you're sure, sure? >> how much sure do you want planning a murder? come on. stop, yo. >> she's made a down payment on death. >> and now, dalia dippolito is about toe to come face to face with an assassin. >> sure you want to kill this dude? >> but little does she know she's walking into a trap. is now more important than ever. that's why we're offering our best unlimited deal. switch and get four lines of unlimited for just $100 a month. that's right - four lines, for $100 bucks! if that's not enough, to really amp this up, we're including four amazing iphone 11s, on us, when you trade in iphone 6ss or newer, in any condition.

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after mohamed shihadeh alerts boynton beach police to dalia's deadly plan, dalia meets face-to-face with that hitman.

>> what she doesn't know is this hitman she is about to meet is actually detective widy jean, an behind ton beach police officer working undercover for this case. >> they agreed on a location which was a cvs parking lot in the city of boynton beach. i pretty much parked in this exact spot right here. we had two cameras in the car. the cameras were positioned in the back seat. you can't help being a bit nervous as you're doing this. >> remember there's 1,000 things that can go wrong. >> she parked and then got into the car and she said, hey. >> hey. >> hey. >> dalia shows up to the meeting with widy, and she's wearing a cute little sundress. she's almost flirtatious with him in the car. >> she wanted to make sure that she caught my attention, my eyes. the way she was dressed pretty much i'm like, okay, she wants to show off her body. so, you know i have to give her a compliment. i told her, hey, you know, you look good.

>> thank you. >> she clearly thought she was talking to a hitman. and to her, this was something that had to be done. >> how soon can we get everything going? >> well, that's up to you. >> i need it done like this week. >> we were shocked how easily she talked about getting her husband killed. >> she gave me definitely a sense of urgency. you cannot wait to make it happen. you got make it happen. you have to make it happen this week. >> i'll give you a quick breakdown of what i've done so far. we talked about money, how much money she's going to pay me. at one point, she said, well, i thought that i, you know i already gave you 12 hundred dollars. went to buying my heat, my gun, okay? a couple hundred, you know, for other people to do things, you know what i mean? when i had to explain to her, $100 is -- $1,200 is nothing. i had to buy a gun, i had to buy a phone, i had to buy this car.

>> as she starts talking, what's going on in the minds of the police officers is wow, this woman is real. this plot is real. >> as a matter of fact, i've already spent more money, you know, just to get here. >> right. >> i was trying to tell her, look, however which way you want it done, i'll do it. >> when she's meeting with the hit man, he's telling her, look, there's no turning back. when i leave you today, you have no way to reach me. >> i explained to dalia that after today, she wouldn't be able to find me to cancel this whole plan that we put together. >> when it's done, you're not going to have an opportunity to change your mind. >> and that's when dalia dippolito says the phrase that goes around the world. >> i'm positive. like, 5,000% sure. >> okay. >> there's no changing, no, like there's no changing. i'm positive. like 5,000% sure. >> the line is classic. i'm like so it's like, you know, she is so committed to this. >> i didn't think she was going

to be that open. when i say i'm going to do something, i'm going to do it. >> i'm a lot tougher than what i look. and you're like, oh, what a cute little girl or whatever but you know, i'm not, i'm not. >> she told me she may look like an innocent girl but she's a whole lot tougher than she looks. the most surprising thing about my meeting with dalia was how adamant she was in making sure that this was done. >> all right, wednesday morning. by the time you get back from the gym you're going to find a dead body in the house, all right? >> all right. >> as the boynton beach police department are preparing for their starring role in this true crime drama, "cops" television show are like flies on the wall, recording every bit of it. >> our police officers, our detectives, our professional staff, they every day are doing things in our community to keep people safe and to save lives. and for us, it was a great to showcase that and to let the

community and the larger community know what these heros are doing every day. >> now the boynton beach police say the show had been interested in the department for several months. arguably, their cameras never captured a scene quite like this one. they are about to hit the jackpot. >> everybody knows why we're here. chashki, you and brian will go with me. frank or somebody will call the wife. >> just like the undercover instructed her to leave the house, she did. >> she grabs a smoothie. she grabs her purse. and she says, "bye, mike," and she goes off to the gym. >> dalia is at the local l.a. fitness, but back at her condo, police are there setting up an elaborate trap. >> that looks good, i like it. >> we had set up a fake crime scene around the house. yellow tape around the streets, around the house. make it look like her husband had gotten killed inside the house. >> at 6:21 a.m. as dalia dippolito was working out, that's when she misses that call from the sergeant at the

boynton beach police department. >> sergeant ramzi, can you help you? >> yes, is this miss dippolati, please? >> dippolito. >> he intentionally pronounces her name wrong to throw her off. >> once he got her on the phone, told her that something had happened and we needed her to come to the house. >> they needed to break some news to her. >> is everything okay? >> no, ma'am, i need to talk to you. >> is he okay? >> ma'am, i'll tell you everything you need to know when you get here. >> as dalia approaches, she sees what's really a crime scene. she sees police, tape blocked off. >> so, the condo is surrounded by police cars. there's a crime scene van. there's crime scene tape. her apartment's roped off with the tape. >> the front door to the townhouse is wide open with black fingerprint dust everywhere. >> dalia arrives from l.a. fitness from going to the gym. >> she rushes up. dalia dippolito doesn't know she's being set up right now. >> and a really buff police

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>> when the police asked dalia if she wanted her husband killed by any chance, she denied it, completely denied it, no. >> you wouldn't want to kill him, i hope. not at all? >> we are fine. like, there's nothing. >> dalia dippolito is pretending she knew nothing about this, and the police are pretending like her husband is actually dead. >> did you want your husband dead? >> no, absolutely not. >> did you want any harm to befall him? never? >> no, never. >> suddenly, the tide begins to turn, and the police get tough with dalia. >> they've had enough with her charade and with her lies. >> police are thinking that by ushering in that would-be hitman, the man she paid to murder her husband, surely that

will get her to come clean. >> do you know her? put your head up. >> i've never seen him. >> what were you doing coming out of her house? get him out of here. >> inside i was kind of laughing because i knew that i spent a good 25 minutes talking to her. and hearing her saying that she's never met me was pretty shocking. >> she denies ever meeting him, and she doesn't know who he is. >> and then the detective all of a sudden goes from being the grandfatherly figure that he had been into more of an aggressor. >> you're going to jail today for solicitation for murder. you're under arrest. that's an undercover police officer. we filmed everything that you did, recorded everything that you did. you're going to jail for solicitation of first-degree murder of your husband. >> i didn't do anything. >> did you hear what i just told you? >> i heard you, but i -- >> everything -- listen to me. everything has been recorded.

you were photographed in the convertible when you sat in his car in front of cvs. what do you want to do? >> i don't think for a second that she thought that investigators in the interrogation room were going to turn on her. >> listen to me. >> i didn't do anything. >> you're going to jail. >> i didn't do anything. i didn't do anything. >> can you talk about that moment when you realize the tabled were turned? >> i panicked. i was just completely frozen. i couldn't move. i couldn't really process and digest everything that was going on. >> shockingly, the boynton beach police department media director posted the video of the staged crime scene. >> the boynton beach police uploaded the video the same day. >> this was our way of getting video to our local media. we uploaded the video just as we did dozens of other videos. >> we see this stunning video of this takedown, this woman crying

and wailing. we'd never seen anything like it. >> it's always a risky move for the authorities to release any information during an investigation, but florida is one of the most open states in the country when it comes to sharing information with the public. >> in a matter of hours we were getting phone calls from national and international media. >> need to take you to the station. >> i thought it was going to be a very hot story. >> there's the jilted husband. there's money. there's video. >> if you want to help your husband, okay? if you want to help your husband. >> we were stunned. we were delighted. >> when law enforcement confronts her with all of the evidence that she wants mike dippolito dead, dalia denies that. >> listen to me. >> i didn't do anything. >> you're going to jail. >> i didn't do anything. please, i didn't do anything. >> she's sticking to her script. she's crying. >> and with the spotlight on dalia, the grand finale is about to unfold.

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give me three words to describe yourself. who is dalia dippolito? >> compassionate. >> three words? liar, liar, liar. >> it wasn't like, kill him softly, don't hurt him. blow the guy's brains out, can i get a cheese sandwich with that? >> i see somebody who's struggling. >> how is she struggling if she's 5,000% sure? >> that was the purpose of. >> you were acting in those

types. >> yeah. >> liar, liar, liar. >> the defense rocks the community. this was all for a reality show. she knew she was being taped. she and mike wanted to be stars. >> the thing about reality tv is anybody can do it, anybody can become famous. >> i don't know what reality show a 40-year-old felon could be on. >> they wanted to post it on youtube to try to get acting parts. that was the plan. >> it was so far out of left field that they might just believe it. >> even now, 11 years after the story first broke, the twists keep coming in the dalia dippolito story. on august 5, 2009, dalia dippolito's life changed forever. >> thank you for coming. i'm sorry to call you. >> first, police tell her

her husband is dead. >> is your husband michael? okay, i'm sorry to tell you, ma'am, he's been killed. >> then she's told she's been caught on tape planning his murder. >> you're going to jail. >> i didn't do anything. please, i didn't do anything. >> don't tell me you didn't do anything. >> i didn't do anything. >> you're going to jail today. >> you kept saying, i didn't do anything. just over and over and over again. was that all you could think of to say? >> they were accusing me of trying to have my husband killed, and i didn't, so that's what i kept continuously telling them. >> when they turn the tables, she doesn't fess up. she just keeps denying everything. and lacking that confession, they kept trying to shock her more and more. >> and this is the part where what happens in that police department will go down in the history of detective work. this is a masterstroke. >> the ultimate shock. you could call it a resurrection of sorts. police tell her that her dead

husband isn't actually dead. >> your husband is well and alive. >> thank god. >> oh, yeah, thank god. >> could i see him, please? >> no, he doesn't want to see you. >> they bring mike in. look, your husband's alive. we've got you. >> oh, my god. >> see, he's alive. >> the show, "cops," is at the station capturing mike's reaction. >> come here, please. come here. >> she keeps begging him to come inside the room, which he doesn't. >> mike, come here. come here, please! >> she sees her husband. and he's alive. what? you're alive? >> this is a dead man walking and talking. you never see this happen. >> i can't. i can't fix this. >> why not? i didn't do anything! >> i heard you. >> mike, come here, please. come here. >> all of her skills as a femme fatale start rolling in. >> meek, mike! come here. come here, baby. come to me.

>> with cameras rolling inside and outside the interrogation room it is reality on steroids. >> i don't know what's going on. please. >> for mike dippolito, it's a surreal love story that quickly turned into a nightmare. >> he never saw it coming. for mike, this was a whirlwind romance. he was head over heels in love with dalia. >> i met dalia, and we got along very well. there was never any friction. how can i say -- uh -- we orb our -- our sex life was incredible. >> meanwhile, the entire time she's plotting behind his back. >> there's this side to his wife he has no idea about. >> mike dippolito insists that the accusations made by dalia dippolito that he's abusive are totally false. still, dalia secretly wants out of the relationship. and authorities say if she can get out with a pile of mike's money, that's even better.

>> mike dippolito still owed $191,000 restitution, and he was on probation for decades. if he could make that restitution, he could make an argument to get off probation. >> but he says dalia told him she could help him with that. >> dalia said, if you can come up with $100,000, i will take $91,000 of my own, i'll put it with your money, and we'll send it to the lawyer together. it was her responsibility to wire the money to mike's lawyer. >> she says she's helping him. he think that she is. but in reality, she's doing anything but helping him. >> soon, mike notices odd things are starting to happen. >> before i met her, i don't think i had a run-in with the police since i've been home from prison. i meet her, i run into to the cops more than i ran into the cops probably ever in my life. >> mike will soon find out that

someone is trying to frame him for crimes he didn't commit. >> on two occasions, drugs were planted in his vehicle. >> mike decides to take dalia away for a couple of days to the ritz-carlton. mike is stopped by a police officer, and the police officer tells mike that they had received an anonymous call saying that he was dealing drugs out of his tahoe. >> he goes, do you mind if we search? i said, absolutely, go ahead. he searched the truck. didn't find anything. it was very odd. then the next day i go to get gas in the truck, and i find a bag of pills. it looked like cocaine in there, and that's when that hit me. i said, "wait a minute -- you

know, somebody put this in my truck and called the police on me. >> authorities say dalia figures he's an ex-con, and if she can get him sent away for drugs, he'll be gone for a really long time and she's home free. >> i remember i looked at dahlia. i said, "did you put drugs in my truck?" she adamantly denied it. so i let it go. fine, fine. you know, every instincts telling me it doesn't make sense. >> in fact, according to authorities, what she's really trying to do is get mike dippolito out of her life. >> and that $100,000 he'd given to dalia, she was supposed to wire it to his lawyer, but she hadn't. >> i knew clearly she stole my money. she's telling me she's going to get it back, and i'm doing everything in my power to believe her. >> he just stays in the relationship. he seemed to be, i don't know, for lack of a better word, a chump for love. >> your ex-husband, michael, claims you stole a lot of money from him. money that was supposed to be used to pay his restitution. did that happen? >> no, it's money that he was hiding. >> police say that after her plot to try to get him jailed doesn't work, she ups the ante. one morning, he gets a knock at the door.

>> we knocked on his door, and we actually woke him up. >> alls i see is a bunch of cops, and i'm like, oh, boy. >> police department. open the door. >> i hesitantly open the door. >> he didn't know what was going on. >> i thought they were there to arrest me. >> and then we ended up telling him what we were there for. >> you have to come with us. your wife is going to have you killed today. >> your wife has hired a person to kill you. >> relax. just take it easy. >> clearly this just hits him like a ton of bricks. he literally takes a step back. >> we ended up taking him out of the house and driving him straight to the boynton beach police department. >> you already know why we're here. your wife hired somebody to kill you. >> i also played a little bit of audio where she says, i'm 5,000% sure that i want him killed.

>> i'm positive, like, 5,000% sure. >> it wasn't like, you know, kill him softly. don't hurt him. it was like, you know, just blow the guy's brains out and can i get a cheese sandwich with that? >> even from behind bars, dalia is not finished trying to manipulate mike dippolito when she makes an astonishing phone call. >> hello? >> hello? >> hey, it's me. >> yeah, what's up? >> nothing. mike, can you please come here? >> is she ready to confess, or is this something else? >> everybody asks, "why did i take phone call?" i had to take the phone call. but three derm recommended ingredients. pro-retinol plus hyaluronic acid and vitamin c. all in one powerful cream. revitalift does so much more than just hydrate. it visibly reduces wrinkles. firms. and brightens. now that's triple power. new revitalift triple power moisturizer from l'oreal. we're worth it.

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as dalia dippolito is being led out of the boynton beach police department and over to the palm beach county jail, she has an audience. >> the press, having seen the video released by police, is there to greet her. >> already the media is out there with their cameras, capturing it. >> i didn't do anything and i didn't plot anything. >> you were headed to jail. what was that first night like? >> it was a complete nightmare. i wasn't even officially in jail as the tapes were getting released, and they were already all over the news. they were everywhere. >> till death do them part, and it's all caught on video. >> the hours since the police released the tape to youtube, the name dalia dippolito is making the rounds, and is making a big, giant splash on cable tv. >> bombshell tonight -- >> a newlywed in boynton beach, florida.

>> work it, work it, cry. problem. ruh-ro. the hitman is a cop. >> i could just watch the video over and over. it just is one of those clips that never gets old. the crying, the screaming, the bending over. meryl streep, wherever you are tonight, don't worry, you're safe. >> you became a headline around the world. everyone knew your name. >> it was awful. >> while in jail, dalia makes a few tearful phone calls, first, to her mother. >> hello? >> mom, i'm in jail. but i didn't do anything. i didn't do anything. >> you didn't. i know you didn't. i know you didn't, okay? how many times did i told you to leave that guy? how many times did i tell you? >> but her next phone call is unfathomable. from the jail, she calls mike, the man police say she has just tried to have killed and offers him no apologies.

>> hello? >> hey, it's me. >> yeah, what's up? >> nothing, mike. can you please come here? >> everybody asked me, why did you take the phone call? i had to take the phone call. i had to hear what she was going to say. i couldn't help myself to not take that phone call. >> mike, please, i need an attorney. can you please help me? >> you said you wanted to have me killed. i heard that. >> that is not true. that is not true. >> how is it not true? >> how can you believe that? >> i heard your voice. >> frankly, it's unbelievable that dalia called her husband, the victim in this case, the target of her actions, the person she wanted dead, to ask him to help her. >> it is just unbelievable to listen to. the fact that she thought that she could demand that mike help her is just on another level. >> and he's even trying to give her advice as to what to do while she's in jail. >> you're going to be running around in there for a little

while, a couple of days. you need to just try and [ bleep ] just go with it, and keep to yourself. and don't say a lot. i know she's never been in there before. i mean, it's not a nice place. i tried to tell her, stop acting, you know, the way you're acting or you're going to have a rough time in there. >> mike, i love you. don't do this to me. i'm sitting here. everybody treated me awful here. >> things get spelled out for mike that he was a very lucky man. >> prosecutors say that mike had actually survived an earlier attempt on his life. >> when mohamed shihadeh was giving a statement to police, he told them that dalia had poisoned mike's starbucks iced tea with antifreeze. so law enforcement, they just ask him, was there ever an incident with iced tea? and mike then realized that he

was a lot closer to his demise than he ever realized. >> she went out and came back with some starbucks iced teas. i take a sip and i -- i spit it out so fast. it was terrible and i didn't think anything of it. i only took one sip. i was sick for about two weeks. >> dalia's attorney said she never poisoned mike. >> mike doesn't end up helping her find an attorney, but the attorney she does find ends up presenting one bizarre, wacky, intriguing defense. >> it was a stunt. it was a hoax, a ruse, a plan that mike dippolito hoped to capture the attention of someone in reality tv. >> you were acting on those tapes? >> yes. >> it didn't make an iota of sense to me. >> it was so far out of left field that they might just believe it. "i'm fine." everyone does it.

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♪ we begin with the trial of a florida woman arrested for plotting to kill her husband. >> your trial. can you describe what that experience was like for you? >> confusing. really difficult. the cameras were there. the tv shows were actually filming the whole thing as i'm entering the courthouse. >> dalia dippolito entered the courthouse in a buttoned up white sweater to meet the men and women who will likely decide her fate. >> i have never had a case as a prosecutor that was so strong. >> i'm a lot tougher than what i look. i know you came here, and you're like oh, what a cute little girl or whatever, but i'm not. >> you will see how determined she was to have mike dippolito, her husband, killed. in eng sta wants to make sure these jurors

don't believe that dalia is this little, innocent figure, and that she is a much darker, more evil person. >> he asks her, are you sure you want to kill him? without hesitation, as if she had ice running through her veins, she says, there's no changing. i'm determined already. >> my biggest concern, the evidence seemed to be overwhelming, but you have mike, who's got a shady past. i knew the defense would make him out to be a conman. >> please tell us your name. >> michael dippolito. >> what's awesome about this case is that the jury actually gets to hear from the victim. in a plot to kill somebody, the victim is almost always dead. >> i don't know how to explain it. i just don't know. >> he was a likeable character. i knew that i just needed to get

him on the stand for long enough to have the jury like him, too. what did you think of your marriage? >> i thought it was great. having fun with my wife, getting off probation i thought. you know? >> did the defendant seem happy? >> yes. >> he completely owns up to his past. >> i'm a convicted felon. you know, i go to probation every month and report. i hold my head up as high as i can. >> on cross-examination, when dalia dippolito's lawyer keeps asking him and keeps repeating the word probation, mike dippolito fights back and makes the entire courtroom laugh. >> you're like a parrot. >> a parrot? >> yeah. >> what does that mean? i've been called a lot of things. what's a parrot? >> did you do that on probation? were you on probation? did you do that on probation, were you on probation? you know what i'm talking about. i'm just having fun with it. i'm with you. >> you're having fun with me? >> well let me ask you something. is this fun, mr. dippolito? >> this sucks, okay. it's ridiculous.

i am not -- we're not here because of me. you might as well put me up next. what are we doing here? >> but another mike is about to make an entrance into the trial, mike stanley, an ex-boyfriend of dalia's. >> you're going the meet mike stanley. >> who prosecutors say discussed with dalia planting the drugs in mike dippolito's truck. >> so, the prosecution introduced tons of text messages between dalia and mike stanley. >> they were talking about everything they wanted to do once dippolito was out the way. >> so their x-rated conversation is read on the stand by boynton beach detective alex moreno. >> do you want my hot, tight body all over you? >> you can just see how uncomfortable this police officer is as he's reading these steamy text messages. >> love you so much. i'm so horny for you. >> some of the stuff was kind of cheesy. i mean, i had to read it up on the stand. it was not my best moment. >> baby, i love you and i only

want to [ bleep ] you. >> she's telling mike stanley, once this guy's gone, you and i can have the life we've imagined. i will have michael's money. we'll have this condo. everything will be good. >> greed was the very basic core of why dalia did this. >> parker says when dalia's plan to put her husband back in prison failed, that's when she took things a step further. >> yeah, but killing somebody come on, nobody's going to be able to point a finger at me. i'm determined. >> you're positive? >> i'm positive. like 5,000% sure. >> after the prosecution rests, now it's the defense's turn. and they are going to use that infamous video for their own purposes. >> that's where this novel defense theory came into play, a defense theory that was actually a little hard to believe. >> the plot for the contract killing of mike dippolito was never real. >> he comes up with a defense that rocks the community, which is -- this was all for a reality show.

she knew she was being taped. she and mike wanted to be stars. so they came up with this idea, and it was all a hoax. it was mike dippolito's idea. and mike dippolito was in on it. and she's not guilty. >> it was a stunt. it was a hoax, a ruse, a plan, that mike dippolito hoped to capture the attention of someone in reality tv. >> dalia's lawyers claim that mike and dalia dippolito wanted to be famous. they wanted to be like the stars of "cheaters" and "jersey shore." >> salnick presents a computer forensic expert who found that dalia had searched, "reality shows" on her computer. >> the website name is -- it says welcometorealitytvcastingcall.

come. >> it fits with his obsession with about his appearance, his vanity. and others might be interested in his reality. >> i was shocked. i mean, where was the evidence that this was a reality show plot? >> i didn't do anything. please, i didn't do anything. >> at no time does she ever stand up and say, well, hold on a minute. this was all -- michael, mohamed, wait a minute, this is all a setup. we were all acting, right? wouldn't be that the first thing out of your mouth if you're about to be arrested? >> and not only that, mike dippolito strenuously denied that it had anything to do with reality tv tryouts. >> did you ever have aspirations to be on a reality show? >> no. >> did you ever act out any scenarios with the defendant for a reality show? >> no. the dumbest thing i've ever heard. i couldn't even believe they made something like that up. don't know what reality show a 40-year-old man -- a 40-year-old convicted felon could be on. >> this defense received a fair amount of eyebrow raising. >> she didn't want to kill her husband, she just wanted to be on a reality show. >> a pretty shocking twist in the case of a florida wife

caught on tape taking a contract out on her husband. >> we've got to bring in our legal analyst dan abrams on this one. and, dan, all of us of us just shook our heads when we heard this. >> i've seen a lot of wild and crazy defenses in my day, and this is certainly one of the wildest and one of the craziest. the reaction to this defense was, are you kidding me? this is an almost impossible defense to win. and so i think in order for it to succeed, dalia dippolito would have to take the witness stand. >> judge, the defense is going the rest. >> but dalia does not end up testifying. >> it was a daily, yes, you're going to testify. no, you're not going to testify. >> did you want to testify? >> yes, i did. >> she's like poison candy -- attractive on the outside but deadly on the inside. >> i was confident in the case that i had presented, but i was truly concerned that it was such a bizarre defense. >> i've been advised the jury has reached a verdict.

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now closing arguments continue in the dalia dippolito murderer for hire trial. this case will go to the jury before lunch. >> it was a typically hot day in florida. but that is not why dalia dippolito was sweating. she was facing up to 30 years behind bars. >> waiting for the verdict, what was that like? >> it's nerve wracking. it's just really stressful, really tense. >> i've been advised that the

jury has reached a verdict. >> the jury took just three hours to come to a decision. >> we find the defendant guilty of solicitation to commit first-degree murder. >> i was numb. it wasn't at all what i was expecting to hear. and never had the impression or the understanding from their attorney that losing was a possibility. everything was always, you know what? we got this. >> wow. >> we have really good poker faces apparently. >> we all just said, well, she's guilty. it was just kind of unanimous. >> and the defense didn't present anything that really represented this was for a reality tv show. >> and she said, i am 5,000% sure. and that's -that did it for me. >> there is absolutely no moral justification for your conduct. it was pure evil. i'm sentencing you to 20 years in the department of corrections. >> i looked at her in that courtroom, and i just said to

myself, man, this is sad. i wish we never here and as far, hay >> that seemed to be it. case closed. except this was nowhere near the end of this story. >> everybody thinking, bye-bye, dalia, that's it. but turns out she got an appeal. >> in the last hours, the black widow, dalia dippolito, set to walk free? >> the appeals court tosses out the conviction. >> dalia's lawyers argue there was a problem during jury selection. and then three years later, a court agrees. and so dalia dippolito is getting a new trial. >> were you surprised? >> the first piece of good news throughout the whole process. >> so, now we move on to dalia, round two. that's right. she's coming back a second time. and this time, there's a new cast of players. >> for the second trial, dalia

hires two high-profile lawyers she's seen on tv, mark eiglarsh and brian claypool. >> defense attorney brian claypool. nice to see you both. >> i am 5,000% sure dalia dippolito is innocent. >> dalia's new lawyers allow her to speak publically for the first time. and that's when i had the opportunity to exclusively interview her. your every move is monitored. clearly, the strategy was for dalia to try and undergo a bit of an image rehabilitation. >> when people here the name dalia dippolito, what do you think comes to mind? >> everything negative. >> give me three words to describe yourself. who is dalia dippolito? >> understanding, sweet, and compassionate. >> because it was a pretrial interview, dalia's lawyers wouldn't let her discuss certain parts of the case, particularly those videotapes. >> i'm positive.

like 5,000% sure. >> did you hire a hitman to kill your husband? >> no. >> how do you explain then what we saw and what we heard on those videotapes? >> i'd like to be able to explain that to you right now, but i can't because the attorneys legally have told me that we're saving that for our day in court. >> in our interview, dalia's lawyer, brian claypool, reiterated that reality tv defense that we saw in her first trial. >> dalia, her ex, mike, and this gentleman mohamed were all part of this, uh, collaboration to put together a youtube video of a scene where they're hiring somebody to kill somebody. they wanted to submit that, post it on youtube to try to get acting parts. that was the plan. it got out of control. >> i'm positive. like, 5,000% sure. >> 5,000% sure. not 100% sure, not 1,000% sure,

but 5,000% sure. how do you explain that? >> i look at that video and i see somebody who's struggling with whether she's really sure. >> she's struggling with -- >> why, well -- >> how is she struggling if she's 5,000% sure? >> well, you might find that humorous, but when i hear people say they're sure, i'm 110% sure. she's trying to overcompensate. >> as for mohamed, he denies working with mike and dalia to make a video to try and get acting jobs. >> mike dippolito says he's never even met mohamed. >> what do you say to people who say you're just denying the undeniable? that this is an open and shut case? >> that now with the attorneys that i have, so much is coming to light to where it would just be insane to not believe me.

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>> walking on the sidewalk right now, this doesn't happen very often. >> no, this doesn't happen at all. this is the first time i've had a walk in a long time. >> yeah, your every move is monitored. i took a rare walk with dalia dippolito outside her lawyer's office while she was on house arrest awaiting her second trial. she was living at her mother's house, tethered to an ankle bracelet. >> this is what it looks like and it doesn't come off at all. >> you've been living under house arrest for the better part of five years, nearly six years. what's been the hardest part? >> not knowing when it's over. not being able to leave. watching everybody around you being able to come and go as they want. and i can't -- i can't do that. >> after dalia's first trial,

she was convicted. prosecutor liz parker wrote a book about it called, "poison candy." s ist shote ab you. she was poison candy. sweet, delicious, mouthwatering on the outside, but deadly within, and designed to cripple the innocent. what's it like hearing those words? >> hurtful. it -- when i found out that book was out, i was suicidal. >> do you think people will change their minds about you when they hear from you in your second trial? >> i'd like to believe so. >> it's at a pretrial hearing, part of an attempt by her lawyers to get the case dismissed, where dalia finally has her chance to tell her side of the story under oath. >> raise your right hand. do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?

you will take the witness stand on my right. >> it's not unusual at all for a defendant to take the stand in a pretrial hearing, as long as it's not in front of a jury. >> good afternoon, ms. dippolito. >> good afternoon. >> she actually takes the stand, and she gets up and describes the -- i was acting, she says. i was acting. >> we worked together on an acting project. we were all going to work on an actors presentation to put up on social media. >> that did not go well for dalia. under cross-examination, the prosecutor, he just tore her story apart. okay, first of all, where's the script? where are the notes? wouldn't you have production notes? >> where was your script this day? >> what do you mean, where was it? >> where was it? >> it wasn't there. we looked at the script, but we didn't take it with us. >> the prosecution punches holes in this reality-tv defense. one of the questions was, if this is all about reality tv, how come you can't clearly see your face, you know, with the cameras in the back of the car?

>> how come you can't see any of it? >> i wasn't the one taping it. i don't know. >> she had so many holes in her story. it made no sense. >> her true self shined through. she was so not convincing at that pretrial hearing under oath that the court ruled against her. >> she loses the hearing, and so the motion to dismiss the case fails. >> nine months later, it's dalia's second trial. >> high profile trial getting under way today in palm beach. >> dippolito getting a chance at freedom after her first conviction was overturned. >> trial two was handled quite a bit differently by the prosecution. they were gonna stick to those videos, and that was it. they didn't even call michael dippolito to testify. >> because the rest of the evidence was so powerful, my prosecutors felt that they would just go with the slimmed down version of the case. >> the words on those videos

prove the crime charged. >> in the second trial, dalia's lawyers abandon this reality tv defense. >> the defense focused on the misconduct, they said, of the boynton beach police department. they were trying to flip the script and put all the blame on the police. >> so far, no mention of that reality show acting defense that she had talked about previously. >> gone is this reality tv nonsense. now they're leveling their charges against the boynton beach police department, because boynton beach had brought "cops" in. >> that opening theme song "bad boys" is so synonymous with the show, a show that is supposed to put a spotlight on the good work police do every day. ♪ bad boys, bad boy, what you gonna do ♪

♪ what you gonna do when they come for you? ♪ >> at the beginning the boynton beach police department really wanted to highlight their professionalism by participating with the "cops" television show. but at the trial, the defense really hammered them and went after them, effectively putting them on trial. >> this is a fake crime scene, right? >> yes. >> it's all pretend, right. it's all made up, right? >> yes. >> and you think that's a good use of taxpayer money? >> my opinion doesn't matter. >> the presence of the "cops" tv show created a frenzy within the boynton beach police department to manufacture good television. they tossed dalia dippolito under the bus. they made this way more than it ever was, and they could care less about her constitutional rights. >> the boynton beach police say there was no wrongdoing. and they were just trying to gather evidence. >> "cops" filming with the boynton beach police department had nothing to do with this investigation.

it was just a coincidence as far as timing was concerned. >> then the defense pulls out its ace card, and it's a showstopper. >> claypool gets up. he's making this dramatic, dramatic closing argument, and he just throws off like it's nothing -- give her that freedom back to go home to her family and her infant son. >> by the way, if you send her to prison you're going to be separating her from her infant son. >> we all sort of were like -- the reporters in the back row. we're all sort of, like, did i just hear that she has a child. >> the latest bombshell was dropped last night during closing arguments. >> turns out it was the appliance repairman. he came to her house. they fell in love. she got pregnant and she had a baby, all on house arrest. >> and right now we're on verdict watch in the dalia dippolito retrial. >> i think there was a general

expectation that she would be convicted. >> a bombshell announcement in the murder-for-hire case against dalia dippolito. >> we, the jury, feel we cannot reach a unanimous decision. >> the jury telling the judge late today they are deadlocked. >> i must declare a mistrial at this time. there were three votes for guilty and three votes for not guilty. >> courtroom shocker. dalia dippolito walking out a free woman after a judge declared a mistrial in her murder for hire retrial. >> i could count on one finger the number of people in this country who thought we had a chance in this case. >> whenever you don't get a conviction, you're disappointed. but i knew that we had a great team, and we would do it again and perhaps do it a little differently. >> immediately after trial number two, the state attorney, dave aronberg, said, "we are taking her to trial again." >> there was not a second when

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heading into the third trial, prosecutors are certainly hoping they can finally close the book on this case. >> we knew she tried to commit murder, and she had gotten away with it thus far. and until we heard the word guilty, we were going to be able to exhale fully. >> this is the third time dippolito has been on trial for this murder for hire case. >> the prosecutors for the third trial this time went back to the original strategy of putting on more of a prosecution. >> we wanted the jury to get more context. we wanted the jury to see michael dippolito. introduce yourself to the jury, for the record. >> hi, my name is mike dippolito. >> by humanizing the victim, you impress upon them truly the importance of this case. it's vitally important that they put him on the stand. >> did her arrest for solicitation to commit first-degree murder shock you? >> yes. >> would it work? well, in this third trial, it

didn't take long for the jury to make its decision. >> a verdict for the woman on trial in a murder for hire. >> well, some say three times a charm, but not for dalia dippolito. >> she was found guilty in 90 minutes. i mean, we were all a bit stunned. there was apparently no doubt in the jurors' minds. >> 16 years behind bars, that is the sentence for dalia dippolito. >> dalia dippolito expressionless inside a palm beach county courtroom today moments after learning her fate. >> dalia's current release date is 2032. if she serves the entirety of that sentence, she'd be 49 years old when she's released. >> dalia in jail heads up a bible study group. she misses her child dearly. her mom has stepped up immensely to help take care of her little boy. he's a preschooler, and he comes to visit his mom in jail at least once a month. and dalia has described him as

being very playful, you know, very happy, very outgoing. she is still determined to get a new trial and to get vindicated. >> dalia's attorneys have tried to get the verdict thrown out again. >> her case, she tried to get her case all the way up to the u.s. supreme court. >> earlier this year, the u.s. supreme court declined to hear dalia's appeal. >> the dalia dippolito saga is finally over. the reality show is done. the last chapter has been written. >> we're still fighting, and we're going to file a federal brief to attempt to get a new trial for dalia. >> after she left the prosecutor's office, elizabeth parker became mike dippolito's attorney and even helped get him off probation. >> he paid all of the restitution that was owed to the victims. >> mike got engaged and seems to be moving forward with his life. >> how much do you love this guy. >> i love him a lot. >> it's nice. sometimes it's hard to accept something that's good happening

to you. >> he's very lucky to be alive. >> it's not been an easy journey for him. he truly thought dalia was the love of his life. >> did you ever love mike dippolito? >> yes. i married him because i loved him. i was in a relationship with him because i loved him. >> and now? >> now i wish i never would have met him. >> i feel the same way. i wish -- i wish i would have made a left and not a right, trust me.

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