>> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales >> and this is "dateline". >> is your husband michael okay, i'm sorry to tell you man,

he's been killed >> no, there god no >> she's like poison candy attractive on the outside, but deadly on the inside >> she was pure evil >> if he fell in love with her she thought the she was the en all, the all >> she had everything sh wanted but she longed for one thing more >> i'm positive. 5000% sure >> this guy was going to kill. >> then it happened. her new husband, police said murdered in their town house >> something happened at her house and she needs to get t the house, fast. >> was this crime all that i seemed >> she played such a good game and that people didn't know. >> a surprise was coming >> you don't know what t think. >> and it would arrive fro beyond the grief >> oh, my god.

>> there has not been a stor like this, ever in palm beac county history >> is she the villain? is she the victim? who knows? that is what makes her riveting? and she is infamous an probably will be forever >> hello, and welcome to "dateline. well when dalia and michae first met, it was instan fireworks. an immediate attraction that turned into a fatal attraction and to crack the case, investigators needed to know was dalia dippolito diabolical or the winning pawn in a hoa gone wrong

it would take eight years to unwind this true tale of sex lies and videotape here's dennis murphy with th sting. >> the mesmerizing story o dalia, with a fittingl preposterous ending, begins in a place where conspicuou consumption and the envy index are as high as the humidity. palm beach, florida. >> it is the winter wonderland of the wealthy you can drive over the bridg and immediately feel the rarefied air the mentions, the hedges >> palm beach post senio editor jan tuckwood, says some mainlanders can't resist the want to be a lot of palm beach >> most people on the mainland are influenced that richness is right there and how can they get a piece t piece of it? >> over the bridge, past the interstate, newlyweds dalia an mike dippolito lived in quarter million dollar condo i high and dry boynton beach not exactly the same zip cod as palm beach.

but perfectly fine for two u and comers dalia and mike had big dream like any couple young and in love aspiration she had a 20,000 dollar diamon engagement ring. he had a porsche in the garage their story for public consumption, the g rated version, was love at first sight. michael is an interim internet entrepreneur and dalia dippolito, the business woma he fell head over heels. for three months after the first meeting, marriage wa inevitable there was 18 see problem i their paradise mike dippolito was married lawyers jason brodie and jos friedman arranged a quickl divorce so the ballad of mik and dalia dippolito coul begin. >> he fell in love with her. he thought she was the end all the all. he felt as though this was it. i'm going to have a family wit her. and we're going to gro altogether >> he thought she was the real deal >> they hit it off right away. they had a lot of things i common they enjoy the same. thinks >> dalia is a rea

estate agent >> yes that's what attracted him tour her. she was successful on her ow and didn't need anyone >> are we talking about sexual attraction or is there mor going on here? >> oh, their sexua obstruction. absolutely >> with a divorce in my ca dalia dash to the courthouse t marry. and soon fell into comfortable routines morning workouts at the gym. steamy date nights at five sta hotels and love notes on the fridge they seemed he seemed to b mike is dalia's dream guy. and three months into th marriage, according to michael she told him she was ready he was thrilled, life was good but early one morning in august, 2009, it all came to an end fo the two, with a finality a certain as crime scene tap strong across the front of a condo. dalia dippolito had been located at her 6 am workout by the boynton beach police >> this is sergeant fran ramsey ma'am, i need to talk to is very urgent it involves your husband he's been in a incident >> she was instructed to get home right away.

when she arrived, she sa police cars out front. everything that spells disaste just ahead it just so happened a camera crew from the tv show "cops" was there filming an episode with boynton beach police, whe dalia got the awful. new miss i'm sergeant ranzie. i'm the one that called you. thanks for i'm sorry to call you. listen, we had a report of a disturbance at your house. >> the officer was direct with dalia. he said there been an intruder in the house and several shots were fired >> is your husband michael okay, i'm sorry to tell you, ma'am. he's been killed he's been killed, ma'am. >> no, there god no i want to see him. >> i can't let you see him ma'am. we have to do our. job >> michael dippolito her husband of six months, gunne down in their town house, th cops were telling. her but she would not be allowed to go inside to see th body >> i need you to go with these detectives, okay

do you have enemies? who would want to hurt him if you want to help your husband, you need to go to the station with these gentlemen until everything you know abou who he knows, who he's connected to >> the investigation was onl minutes old when the officer told dalia dippolito they need her cooperation an understanding what had happened >> we're going to do everythin we can, okay so, we need your help. we need to get your husband' killer, ma'am. >> let's dalia whisked off t the police station where she'd soon find out the detectives thought they knew much mor about the details of the crime than they were letting on. this case was about to get ver complicated. oh, yes. >> coming -- up the questions began it seems that undercover agent had their eyes and hidde cameras trained on dalia dippolito. and when "dateline" continues. ♪ always satisfying, gimme- ♪ blue diamond almonds. there's nothing like volunteering at the fire department. there's nothing like hitting the waves. but with my moderate-to-severe eczema it hasn't always been easy,... ...since my skin was so irritated and itchy... ...and even worse with all my gear on.

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called home from the gym to be told play police out front tha any truth or had murdered he husband michael. >> is your husband michael >> okay, i'm sorry to tell you ma'am, he's been killed. he's been killed, man. >> no, dear god. >> dalia was rushed to the boynton beach police departmen for the start of interviews. she began by telling the detectives that michael, her deceased husband, was it a sac lease week equally >> he's been trying to get off probation. and it's just been nothing but problems the whole time he's been trying to get off >> mike dippolito, she said, was a convicted felon. a swindler who built thousands of dollars from gullible investors by selling them phon currency securities. >> it was for taking money it was like -- he explained it like "boiler

room" kind of. where they would take mone from people. >> in other words, her murdere husband was a guy with enemies when he was released fro prison after seven months, h was still looking at more than 25 years of probation. he'd been ordered to mak restitution to the victims h had fleeced. an outstanding iou of $191,000 >> people weren't happy that h was getting off probation, because it's a lot of mone he's got payback >> find out who he owed, suggested dalia, and you'l find the killer. the cops listened, but changed a focused of their questioning to the couple themselves dalia and michael, the newlyweds of six months. >> we're fine. there's nothing -- >> there is no problem between you guys no financial problems? no - i mean with your family? you and him? >> no, there is nothing. i mean we're going through - his business has slowed down with, like anything, you know? >> but the cops were toyin with dalia holding back their best cards. they thought they knew so much

more about the newlyweds did they ever? let's freeze the action in the interview room for a second, and rolled everything back a few days that's when a man walked int the boynton beach pd with lurid story to tell. his married lover, he said, wa shopping for a hit man detective alex moreno didn't know what to make of thi walk-in. >> at first, when he's givin you this information, you don' know what to thank you know here's a guy who is claiming that he sleeping with a guy' wife, and now she's trying t get somebody to kill him >> quite a juicy story >> exactly >> detective moreno had th tipster run his story down fro the top. the man was name it mohamed, and he said he was a part-time actor who worked at convenience store. as he told it, he had been friends with benefits with a woman for years. they had met for the occasiona casual sex then, she asked him for help i finding a but hitman to kill her husband. >> he says, you know what? i'm sleeping with this guy's wife but, at the same time idle thi guy to be killed and that was his concern

he couldn't sleep with tha whole idea that this guy was going to get killed. >> the detective wondered if h was being sold a conquerable story. since this mohamed guy didn' even seem to know very muc about the woman he claimed t be sleeping with the detective challenged him >> all the information he ha was her first name he didn't know where she lived he didn't even know who he husband was. >> while they debated whethe or not the tipsters story wa credible, they knew that a lif may be on the line so, the detectives took it t the next level they enlisted mohamed as a confidential informant and gav him a story to tell hi part-time lover. that he had found her a hitman who could pull off the job >> two things could have happened either this guy was lying to us, or he was true we had invalidated the information yet. until he actually make contact. >> but mohamed, the tipster, set up a meeting with a win fo the very next day. a 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 t 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, we're also hearing what's going on in the informants car life >> hey, what's up. >> i love you. >> i love you too. >> running down the licens plates and registration yielde 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 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 talking about hirin somebody to kill her husband >> i'm prompted? he's not doing anything to get the story out of her >> what shocked us - >> honestly, you think it' worth -- you know killing over that much money >> it's not even about the

(bleep) money. it's not about the (bleep) money. well you know you'll splendi like a blink of an eye >> the meeting seems to be all business dalia produced photos of her husband for mohamed two hand over to the hitman >> i brought pictures. >> just give me one picture of him. i don't want too much paper to carry. >> dalia brought something els hitman had requested cash to buy the gun that would be used. >> i brought $1200 he's asking for $1200? >> yeah. >> where are you going to give him the money? >> today he's coming to the store >> she turns to money over >> yes >> is that a crime, detective, at that moment >> it's not enough yet we wanted to go a little bit further with this case >> the police were about t test to dalia see if she was determined to have her new husband killed coming up -- >> undercover agent tells or hey, i'm going to put two shot to the head. and it is an even face her no remorse >> you definitely want to do this >> i'm positive. like 5000% sure. >> another undercover sting an a plan is set a motion for a

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professional it's not (bleep) he gets i done that's it. >> all right, good >> so, the police instructed their informant, a man named mohamed, to help set up anothe meeting with dalia this time, it would be with th hitman, who would be of course an undercover police officer an agent same drill again meeting place outside a store. and a car wired for video an audio. >> a >> we're staying in here, right? >> all right, yeah >> okay. >> yeah. >> man, you look good. >> thank you >> in that meeting, they begin making plans she also tells our hitman wher they live. she provides a schedule wher her husband goes comes and goes in the morning. where he's going to be the nex day. she shows an intent. and the fact that she's here she is meeting with a complete stranger who she believes is a hitman she actually goes as far saying, hey, i'd rather if it happened here >> how are we going to do it successfully

if we go ahead and do it like, at the house, how do we, how soon could you do it >> she just wants it done. and the sooner the better. >> does your agent give her door out at this point >> yes he asked her more than once if she was sure if this is it was 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 >> and positive. like 5000% sure. >> the pretend hitman told her he'd use a gun give him a tap, tap. >> he gets to in the head. that's it, you know? >> our undercover agent tell her hey, i'm going to put tw in his head. meaning two shots to the head. and it doesn't even face her no remorse >> dalia and the hitman who is really an undercover cop seemed to agree that he woul kill her husband in two days time he told her to be prepared t go to the gym early that morning. >> by the time you get bac from the gym, you're going t find two thanks his dead body in th

house, all right or nothing >> all right >> the day before, he called dalia with further instructions >> tomorrow morning, you gotta be out by six. >> okay. >> does it hesitate. doesn't change your mind none of that she just says, okay. and that's it. >> the next morning, everythin was going according to plan. left dalia for the gym undercover cops telling her. >> one of our sergeants makes phone call while she's at the gym and they inform her somethin happened at her house and sh needs to get to the house, fast >> she doesn't know the details, she just know something ha happened, get home quickly >> yes and as she shows up at the house and once again, she make contact with our sergeant. and she's inform of he husband's death, that he's bee killed >> i'm sorry to tell you ma'am. he's been killed he's been killed, ma'am. >> no, there god no >> if you look at that video she begins to react before she's even told the whol story. according to that surgeon, who was actually making contact, w didn't see any tiers >> when they brought her to th police station, investigator were curious to see how fa

dalia would push for scenario, blaming the murder of one of her husband's former clients the detectives were clearl watching her interview on a tv monitor in a nearby room >> people who aren't happy tha he was getting off probation because it's a lot of money ha to pay back. >> he she mentions how he ha enemies. he was on probation. she didn't even bother to as how it happened. >> to their experienced eyes and ears, dalia who's making a few mistakes in how she wa telling her theory of th crime. but they wanted to push he some more. see if they could get her to confess to the suspected murde plot, then and there would she be obviously rattled when they landed a familiar'

face the person she believed to b the hitman >> look at this guy right here >> get over here get over here. you know who this guy is >> no. >> you've never seen before? >> no, i've never seen i before ever >> the man before her, actuall the undercover police officer, was presented to dalia hear as someone they just snapped it for the killing of her husband >> do you know her put your head up and look at her put your head up >> i've never seen him >> the detectives finally pu their cards on the table they told dalia that they knew this was the supposed hitman and that the meeting where the planned to kill her husband al recorded on tape >> that's an undercover police officer. we filmed everything that yo did. recorded everything that you did. you're going to jail solicitation of first degree murder on your husband >> i didn't do anything. >> did you hear what i jus said >> i heard what you said - >> everything you -- listen to me everything has been recorded you are photographed in th comfortable when you sat in th car in front of the cvs. what do you want to do >> oh, my god. >> rock steady to al appearances, dalia swore up an down she had nothing to do wit the death of her husband but the police had another surprise for her truly a humdinger. they were about to walk a ghos into the doorway of th interview room >> coming up - >> oh, my god. >> he's alive. >> someone is back from th grave.

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and was about to come face t face with his wife of si months, who seemed to want him dead >> i'm thinking in my head, i' lucky, i'm lucky i am like, i'm so screwed righ now. the worst day in the world >> before waking up that day michael dippolito was clueless police thought his wife of six months had hired-y hitman to kill him instead, he believed he an dalia had begun a loving new chapter together they were about to start a family she told him she was pregnant. was dalia at the gym when thos tv cameras for the reality sho "cops" captured the moment police knocked on my front door >> police department open your door i'm sorry. and with the police department can i talk to you? >> yes, for sure >> we say hey, listen, this is what we're doing were conducted in an investigation. >> he says, your wife is gonna have you killed today. you have to come with us i just looked at him and i'm like - i mean, it hit me.

>> you don't hear those word every day? >> no. >> the officers told michael h had to come with them righ away to the boynton beac police station, before his wif got back from the gym. getting the grab your stuff, get in the car, rather here. >> yes >> meanwhile, outside his town house, the police were startin to stage dress a phony murde scene. all to trick dalia int thinking the hitman heat apparently hired, ha successfully completed the job boynton beach police recorde those moment as did the crew from the "cops" tv show. but the murky involvement with of a tv show would later complicate accusations against dalia. at the station, the detectives cued up their own surveillance videos showing mike, the husband, dalia as she seemed to to shop for a hit man. >> i'm positive. like 5000% sure. >> then the police allowed michael to watch his wife' realtime police investigatio going on in another room dalia, who had no idea her husband was alive, told he police interviewer she had nothing to do with where

whatever had happened to him even after they brought in the undercover copped who posed as her hitman >> put your head up. >> i've never seen him >> i'm watching and i'm waitin for her to give it up. and you know what? the girl never gave it up. >> was dalia arrested an handcuffed and cameras were still rolling when police walked a very much a life michael into the doorwa of the interrogation room. >> oh, my god. >> he's alive. >> and they say, you know this guy? and i'm standing there probably twice the distance of us >> please, come here, police come here. >> i can't >> why not >> i didn't do anything. >> i heard you >> mike, come here, please come here. >> and that's when she says, come here. i love you i love you i told her, i said look, i can't. i said, you can't fix this >> now it was michael's turn t tell the police his story, warts and all. correcting for the record that love at first sight fairytale. >> i can tell you i didn't mee

her in a church. >> she's actually an escort. that's how i met her she came to my office on day. >> dalia dennis was an escort. and mike describes ordering he up from an escort service. he claims even now, there was mutual attraction that went fa beyond that initia transaction. >> when i met dalia, we seemed to connect instantly we hit it off right away >> it wasn't just bad? >> no, it was everything about her. we just clicked. you know be it our sex life be it just our spare time. be it the things we liked. all that and it just happened >> three months after they met michael divorced his first wif and married dalia that sam week >> i just purchased a home and we were gonna start a life together

we talked about traveling an doing things you know we had a future planned. >> but there was a hitch t michael's future the terms of his probation prevented him from leaving south florida. so, the couple consulted a lawyer his advice was, pay off that hundred and $191,000 i restitution, and you have fair chance of getting the probation listed so, that was your ticket t freedom? >> pay back money and yeah, ge my freedom and dalia said she would help me with some of the money. about 90,000 and i'm like, absolutely, let' do it. >> michael says he and dalia agreed that they would poo their money to pay off dippolito's debt >> this is great she's pushing me forward, too. i thought, okay, i'm going t get off probation. it's very exciting for me. >> then the plan to get michae out of hock changed again. according to michael, anothe lawyer said to him, look, yo own your townhouse free an clear. why not just turn the titl over two dalia then she can do money things for you, no problem. so, michael gave her the dee to the town house. as well as $100,000 cash his part of that payback of th restitution deck the money was supposed to go t his attorney, but it never got there. >> i'll tell you where i unraveled. as soon as i got dalia tha hundred thousand, is where i

went downhill. >> and he says, after dalia go that nice sized chunk of change, he started to have a string of run-ins with the police. including one night afte dinner out with dalia. they left the restaurant t find a police forming michaels vehicle. after a search, they found cocaine stashed beneath th spare tire >> i actually start crying t this cop i'm like, look, man. i haven't done anything in a five and a half years. i don't know how, why, or what happened they let me go they couldn't even believe it. >> and you would've gone bac to prison because you ha violated probation >> yeah. yeah absolutely >> now he didn't want to think that the light of his life could be behinds something a nefarious as getting him throw back in prison but, the idea was there. maybe dalia -- >> i said to her, you know only when i'm with you, my lif is this exciting five and a half years on probation, i didn't have one run in with police i'm with this girl, six months and the whole police departmen knows me i might as well glow flourescent.

>> so you're looking at he side we could see? >> i'm just like, i'm doing th best i can be a good husband. give her chance >> no one seem to believe she's faking it? >> no, she may have been a bad actress the day they caught on camera as far as with me, she was a academy award winner >> he says dalia also seemed t be playing the role as a expectant mother there never was a baby, wa there? >> there never was a baby. >> another thing dalia was not expecting was formal charges being filed against her. solicitation to commit first degree murder with a firearm >> hello >> hello >> a, gets me. >> but even after her arrest dalia phoned michael from jail pleading with him to get her a attorney claiming the cops had gotten i already. >> what they're saying is no true >> you said you wanted to have me killed. i heard that >> that's not true >> what's your problem how is it not true >> that's not true >> they're charging your (bleep). do you get it? >> i didn't do anything >> she won't give i up i didn't do it i didn't do it why aren't you helping me? you know i love you. over and over. i'm like, are you kidding? i said, well what do you wan me to do

>> you're supposed to get me a attorney please, so i can talk to you >> even though she would later be released under house arrest while still in jail, dalia begged the guy she was accused of trying to kill to help he find a lawyer to beat th charge michael saw the phone call a an opportunity to play let's make a deal. >> i said, get me my house bac less of all the problems and legal bills. i said, and i'll get you a lawyer >> so, listen, sign my propert back to me, and i'll help you. okay >> i'm not signing anything. >> so i can't help you >> and because of florida' strong open records law, her jailhouse phone calls and al the police surveillance tape made by the boynton beach cops would become public. they were out there viral on youtube. [noise >> those images of dalia blu who wing online would be see by thousands of viewers wh lambasted her in the comment

section. but the people with the only opinion that mattered were convened on youtube. they were in a west palm beach florida, courtroom what would a jury of her peers make of dalia and michael? >> coming up - the case heads into court an outcome more secrets >> it was like something out o the movie. it was unreal. >> people seeking their 15 minutes of fame lose all sense of judgment. and common sense >> was this whole thing a hoax when "dateline" continues.

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police sting operation, was no being argued in front of a jury, in a west palm beach florida quarters 28-year-old dalia dippolito wa accused of murdering the first degree, can they can get aroun to 30 years in prison. the she pleaded not guilty the prosecutor, liz parker would-inchers a trove of evidence audio recordings, videos including that scene, whic dalia tells an undercover cop, posing as a hit man, she wante her husband, mike dippolit dead asap. >> it was unreal, it was lik something out of a movie >> dalia already spent two years under house arrest in he mother's home, by the time the trial began in april, 2011 >> they say love is blind.

in this case, love was blind deaf and dumb. >> the jury would hear the prosecution argue that the six month marriage of michael an dalia was a fraud from the beginning. >> she made him believe this was an amazing marriage. he never wanted to believe tha his wife, the person he love more than anything, wanted t have him killed. >> the prosecutor said dalia was juggling to lovers on th side, and was trying to ge each of them, and get he husband bumped off >> she is playing all of these

guys, they are all thinkin they are the one, and the only person she cared about was herself. >> detective alex moreno rea back text messages dalia wrote about her husband to her lovers >> i really hate him, and want to see him rot >> let's get this -- arrested >> to the prosecution, her scheme was apparent. planned drugs on michael, ti off the cops and get him buste back to prison on a parole violation. >> she tries to have him arrested for months. >> the alleged motive? greed. prosecutors say she wanted t keep michaels condo and hi money, all for herself but, when the schemes did no work out, says the prosecution dalia settled on the fatal solution she would simply have michae killed so everything would b hers

the prosecution's case was airtight, with all of thos mesmerizing tapes of dalia plotting out a murder, and als the video from the cops tv show, with her, as she learned of he husband's murder but no one could have predicte dalia's defense. >> we live in the world, where people seeking their 15 minute of fame, lose all sense of judgment, and common sense >> dalia's defense attorney, michael salnick said this whol thing was a crazy story abou dalia's husbands vanity, and his thirst for fame. it was him behind the fake murder, the mastermind, just s he could be known beyond brighton beach >> mike dippolito's hopes, t orchestrate his own murder, to achieve fame and fortune, was bad prank. it was never anyone's intentio to harm anyone >> the defense argued it was all a tv pitch michael, auditioning for his big break. >> the evidence will show that the plot, with the contrac killing of mike dippolito wa never real mike dippolito hoped to captur the attention of someone i reality tv >> the defense attorney argued that dalia was in on the reality tv show idea the whole time that scene out front, with dalia whaling?

acting, says the defense >> dalia knew mike was not harmed, and hers was a fak reaction to a fake event >> the defense put mik dippolito hard on cros examination, accusing him of dragging dalia down, with hi stupid idea of being a tv star >> this whole reality thing wa actually orchestrated by you wasn't it? >> i do not know what you ar talking about. >> the silliest thing i have ever heard i mean, completely made up >> all right, let's bring in the jury, please >> after two weeks of tria testimony, the jury agreed >> we find the defendant guilt of solicitation to commit firs degree murder. >> in the, and the judge sentenced for 20 years, an gave dalia a piece of his mind before sending her behind bars >> it was weeks, months that you continued with these different schemes, trying to rig yourself of your husband

this is pure evil. >> but that was not the fina note, in the ballot of mike an dalia. in a move that surprised the prosecution, just three months after sentencing, the judge wh called dalia pure evil, allowe her to post a 500,000 dollar

bond she was released from jail, an once again placed under hous arrest, where she repealed her conviction fast forward three years, an dalia won her repeal for a new trial. >> the judge in her first tria failed to properly filter th jurors for potential bias, and exposure to pretrial publicity >> brian claypool was one of dalia's new lawyers. >> some of the jurors said she was a guilty in front of the entire jury pool, whic contaminated the jury pool >> and so, more than seven years after dalia dippolito wa charged with hiring a hit ma to kill harassment, she woul go on trial again, >> when she heard the news she had been granted a retrial, sh was extremely overjoyed, because she felt like she woul have a second chance to have the truth be told. >> she would speak exclusively to dateline, and oh what a story should tell. this real housewife of boynton beach, so much better than reality tv >> coming up >> as far as you back string all of these things. a is husband, mike, dead? >> no. >> murder for hire, or auditio for television >> dalia dippolito was used as a pawn by the boynton beac police department to manufacture good tv. >> a cliff-hanger of an episod is coming up, when "dateline continues. u can do. just remember that k is for kidneys and kerendia. for adults living with ckd in type 2 diabetes, kerendia is proven to reduce the risk of kidney failure, which can lead to dialysis. kerendia is a once-daily tablet that treats ckd differently than type 2 diabetes medications to help slow the progression of kidney damage and reduce the risk of cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks. do not take kerendia if you have problems with your adrenal glands or take certain medications called cyp3a4 inhibitors.

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dalia dippolito was caught o tape, plotting to have her has been killed. asked trial, she mounted a defense no one saw coming, claiming it was all a bizarr reality tv publicity stunt engineered by michael. the jury did not buy it, and she was found guilty but in a case, filled with twists, the verdict wa overturned it is now time for the retrial and dalia's defense team had more troops in store here is dennis murphy with the conclusion of "the sting". >> and now, the season final of the dalia and mike dippolit show more than seven years afte dalia's outburst went viral, and five years after she was sentenced, for 20 years, for hiring a hit man to kill her

husband, she was again back in court on the same charge facing a possible 30 yea stretch. >> good afternoon, mis dippolito. >> first at a pretrial hearing as they tried to get the entir case dismissed, her new team grew a new reality tv defense. that she, her former lover, an sometimes tv extra maime mohamed, i have been planning tv presentation to be posted o social media those in court meetings were not about arranging a hit, the were all about that tv presentation >> the purpose of meeting hi was to discuss the presentation, the taping, what would be on there. >> she claims she wanted t back out of the reported t project. she insisted that mohamed wa having none of it. >> and at that point, he lifte his shirt, showed me his gun and threatened me, threatene to hurt me, hurt my family >> mohamed, the informant, denied threatening her or ar participating in a reality t

production >> the reality tv defense seem to play into this whole story. >> palm beach editor says that her defense was weirdl appropriate. >> it just seemed makes tota sense, because the whole story does not make sense. so just throw in that angle, i want to be famous. so, let's do this stunt, if it was a stunt. it is absolute weirdness >> the story did not fly wit the new judge, and a motion to dismiss was thrown out and so, in december, 2016, dalia showed up at the pal beach county courthouse once again, new trial, new jury >> we are going to have th opening statement by the attorneys. >> prosecutor craig williams version of the 2009 events wer the same as ever, although a skeleton of the full story >> it is based 100%, on miss dippolito's words, her actions and her intent 100% >> we have it all on tape, h says dalia, hiring a hit man to kil her husband. >> for $700, she wanted to boast put in her husband's head >> and then it was dalia's turned, with her defense

provided by los angeles tierne -- she says it was a reality tv production for their own 1 minutes of fame on a cops tv show >> you can't break the rules and then be rewarded b breaking the rules and that is really what this case is about. >> everybody is entitled to police investigation, that has integrity. this never really was credible police investigation. rather, dalia dippolito wa used as a pawn by the boynto beach police department to manufacture good tv, for a cop tv show. >> right kansas boynton beac undermined on investigation, when the officer had that vide posted online. >> several hours of vide footage by cops, and the boynton beach pd he went over to the police department, and show them this >> correct >> and you knew at the tim there was a pending criminal investigation of dalia dippolito, correct >> correct >> in the end, dalia's tea contended that tha constitution her constitutiona rights look at them and running the surveillance video, and find the target, dalia, not guilty.

>> this was a police department, in love with publicity and by virtue of that, the tossed dalia dippolito under the bus. a police department cannot tos a client's constitutiona rights under the bus to make good television. >> as dalia waited for a jur of six to decide her fate, flanked by her attorneys, sh spoke exclusively to dateline. >> for the past seven years, i has been a complete nightmare. >> she told us her nightmare began after she complained tha she had been the victim of domestic abuse, an accusatio her now ex husband michael

strongly denies. she says she was used by the boynton beach police >> we are here because the turned what should have been a complaint, into getting th help, questioning me and stuff into this big production for a crops tv show deadline tha they had, and they started manufacturing all of these things, creating these scenarios and putting me i these situations that look horrible >> the police say they did not ignore a domestic abuse case they were trying to stop a murder for hire plot, and thos cops tv cameras did not change the substance of their

investigation into dalia >> did you want to have your husband, mike, that? >> no. >> were you soliciting his murder >> absolutely not, no. >> after nearly ten hours of deliberation, half of the jury seemed to agree. >> we, the jury find after deliberations still cannot reach the unanimous verdict. >> the judge was forced to declare a mistrial meanwhile, mike dippolito wa glued to the tv, besid himself. >> i will be honest i wa watching thinking, what? and i think to myself, what do these people need to see, yo know she is on video, saying sh wants to have me killed, to tw different people, one being police officer >> he says she believes th jury was distracted by the defense teams hocus focus. >> so what i say to you, i everybody in the world, it i sad to say, she is basically beat the legal system twice, now. >> you think she should do har time >> honestly, i would like to see her go and taste it. >> under house arrest, dalia went home again to her new bab boy, father by a child with man with an extensive ra sheet. on june 2nd, 2017, she went on trial again, for the third

time this time, the prosecutors who had come up short in the previous trial with thei shorthanded counter case presented the full shakespearean version of dalia story. >> she murdered her husband an cold blood, had two bullets in her. >> this time, the judg admitted testimony previousl not presented. that dalia once tried to poiso her husband. >> she told you that she researched something on th internet, about some kind of and i freeze, that is odourless, does not have a smell, doesn't have a color, and she put it i his tea. >> and that she had previously tried to hire a hitman to kill her husband before the murde for hire plot was caught o tape >> and allure text message were read out between dahlia and her lovers, in which dalia discussed framing mic by planting cocaine in his car, and then alerting the police >> we need drugs in the car, that would put him away for while. >> this time, dalia's defens was not strong enough for that onslaught of evidence. after just 90 minutes of deliberation, the jury returne its verdict. >> we find the defendant guilt of a solicitation to commi first degree murder. >> dalia dalia was taken away, her family sobbing and the following month, after pressuring victim impact statements from mike dippolito >> the girl tried killing me four or five times, handed b

an ice tea with antifreeze i it, smiled >> the judge sentenced dalia t 16 years in state prison a month later, she was back in court again, her lawyers arguing the trial was not valid, because the testimony abou dalia trying to poison her husband should never have been allowed. but, by now, she was cooked. perhaps her last ray of hope for freedom came in a petition to the supreme court of th united states, but her case wa denied and so, dalia dippolito, the real housewife of boynton beach, who became a worldwide reality tv sensation, was now in may w42222 yes, really. >> that is all for this editio of "dateline". i am natalie morales, thanks for watching i'm craig melvin >> and i'm natalie morales >> and this is "dateline."

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blessing him and my mom. >> we thought we were walkin on water >> here they were, empty nesters, all alone in thei grand house on the south hill, convinced that their successes their six grown kids, thei good life were products of a unflinching trust in god >> you know, we finally got ou of the desert. and he was going to get into the promised land. >> yes, the promised land. riches beyond imagining. as the not so dumb blonde knew so well. >> it was a madhouse, it was the wild west. >> so maybe that's why the thing on the south hill wasn't going to stay here >> my life will never be the same i'm sorry. >> it was wintertime when it happened christmas season, 15th o december 2013. a sunday evening after church. >> 911, what are you reporting

>> there's been shots. a man just came into our house and shot my husband. >> this is how our story began in an ugly splash of violenc and terror >> what are the numbers? >> he's going to shoot me. >> but was this the beginnin of the story or the end that was the evening spokane police detectives brian sesnic and mark burbridge were pulled into the strangest case of their careers. >> it was the most uniqu homicide i'd investigated, and i knew that from the first moments of my involvement. >> really? just you knew? >> yes >> it was sesnick who drov over first to the address at south hill the sort of place a homicide detective can go a whole caree without visiting a single time >> the house is in a ver upper-class neighborhood >> and the south hill, that' like where you want to be in town >> right the street that it's on, i'd never been to before

>> why would you as a homicide detective? >> there's just not crime up there in general so it was very odd >> the home the detectiv learned belonged to businessman named doug carlisl and his wife of many years elberta. first responders had arrived some time earlier, put p their crime scene tape sesnick walked into the house. >> it was just a weird scene all in all this was december 15th there's christmas music playin throughout the house >> that's bizarre. >> it was very bizarre they're very religious people, so there's religious scripture written on the walls then you have this horribl violent and gruesome murde with a body laying on the floo that you're investigating. it was a very, very odd scene. >> 63-year-old doug carlisle was lying on the kitchen floor clearly the victim of close-range shooting >> there was a lot of bloo around the body. a lot of shell casings a lot of bullets laying around >> how badly was this person

damaged? >> he'd been shot seven times. it was obviously a very brutal attack it wasn't just a one time shot and the person ran out >> clearly someone was makin sure >> correct whoever had done this, we knew they wanted to make sure h didn't survive >> and whatever happened her didn't appear to have been motivated by burglary or robbery. the entire house was locked up tight. windows, doors >> you know, he still had hi wallet he had his cell phone. walking throughout the house everything was still in place. it hadn't been ransacked nothing was missing that w could find >> it was elberta, doug's wife who'd called 911 in what sounded like a state of abject terror arriving first responders ha found her hiding in an upstair closet they took her downtown to talk to burbridge >> elberta, my name is mark. i'm going to be the detectiv on the case. >> i wanted to see my husband. they wouldn't let me see him >> the detective was ready t sympathize, of course, but his training, his instinct, his ey

told him not yet, somethin looked a little off here >> what did you make of her? >> she's unique in some of her responses, threw up red flags, made me concerned about whethe she was involved in this o not. >> what kind of responses? >> she didn't care about the police investigation all she cared about was huggin her husband and praying over him. she was upset that the patro officers wouldn't let her do that >> i want my husband >> there's nothing we can do for your husband right now >> well, i could have held him i could have told him i love him. i could have prayed for him. >> then when the investigato asked what happened elbert told a story, and neither th telling nor the story made any sense at all

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or two during his time on th force, had seen the dodges and floods of phony tears. so he paid careful, experience attention when elberta carlile told him what happened tha sunday evening in the house on south hill >> what happened tonight >> we went to church then we went to a church function nothing -- i don't know what happened hell happened. a nightmare happened

that's what happened >> okay. >> and elberta's story, said detective burbridge, jus didn't add up. >> all of a sudden i hear "it' okay, it's okay. then i hear "back off, back off, back off! " and when i heard the back off, i saw, i looke and saw a man standing there i all black. >> her story was concernin about a masked man wearing all black, coming into the house and shooting her husband and leaving and leaving her alive. made me worry that maybe she'd hired a hit man or maybe she was making up the story and sh was involved in what happened. >> the thing was, the killer saw elberta. she came right out and said so they stared at each other, sou to soul. so why would a hit man leave a eyewitness alive unless she was in on it. >> i'm worried whether she had a motive, money, jealousy, a

boyfriend, she has a girlfrien she's mad about. did she kill him herself did she hire somebody? did she get one of the childre to do it these are all my concerns. >> besides, says burbridge he's seen many people caught b sudden violence and grief, and elberta was agitated, certainly, but to his practiced eye, he emotional reaction was somehow flat as if practiced it bothered him. >> how long had you been home? >> it happened instantly when we got home, it was lik somebody ambushed him. >> the way she told her stor about a masked man killing her husband of 42 years. >> it almost seemed like it wa rehearsed or like she though about this and what could i say? >> rehearsed is a good word. >> it sounded that way to you? >> yes, it did >> but you don't have to tak it from the detective. we were able to arrange an interview with elberta, too. >> my whole life was over as i knew it. elberta told us that when sh and her husband returned fro church that evening they drove through the gate of thei property as usual.

>> he says i'll get the gate you get the door >> did everything look prett much the same as when you left >> no. no it just didn't feel right. i started heading up the stair and i got all the way to the top of the stairs and i starte down the hall when i heard muffled noices headed right down the stairs, got back to the bottom of th stairs and i called out to doug, "doug, is somebody here" and i looked to my left. the man was standing right i front of the doorway >> how far away from you >> ten feet at the most. nine feet. and i looked at him. and it was a man all in black and he had a mask on and he had a gun pointed where i knew my husband was standing >> you couldn't see doug >> i couldn't see doug i only saw this man in black he had a mask on only thing i could see was his eyes and he looked at me. he never moved the gun and he blinked three times, an i thought, why is he blinkin at me? >> i would think why is that guy in my house holding a gun? >> what i thought was oh, my god, what do i do? he's going to kill me before i get up the stairs.

i pulled myself up the rail, u the stairs, because my leg wouldn't work. and i was just starting down the hall when i heard multiple shots. >> did you realize right awa what must have happened? >> oh, absolutely. i knew my husband had to hav been shot. so i thought, i could hide >> elberta ran toward a closet on the home's second floor, sh said, shut the door and called 911. >> my god. he's going to hear me. >> stay on the line for me okay >> oh, my god. somebody shot my husband oh, god hurry. he's going to find me. i'm hiding in the closet >> okay. i want you to stay on the line >> do you remember what it fel like in there, what you felt like >> oh, sheer desperation just sheer desperation and this overwhelming need t go to my husband i wanted to go to him. i wanted to comfort him. i wanted to tell him i loved him. i wanted to tell him, it's going to be okay i wanted to pray for him >> oh, please hurry. please >> when the police arrived they found elberta in th closet >> i want to go to my husband.

they said they're working on him. and i said no, i want to go se him, please let me go to m husband. and they said no, you can't go down there >> did you ever get to see him that night >> no. no >> now elberta found herself face-to-face with detectiv burbridge, trying to get lim to believe a story about a masked killer who stared right at her and yet left her aliv to tell the tale that sounds a little made up almost >> yes, it does. sounds hollywood >> have you ever heard of case where someone laid eyes o a witness to him killing someone and didn't take an action >> i've never had that happen. >> so you would have expecte -- >> something, yes. at least an attempt. >> but there was something i

elberta's story that night tha did make sense before the murder as she and doug drove to church she sai they saw something out o place. >> there was a van kind of sitting up against the curb. a white van. >> like it didn't belong there or something >> yeah. >> a white van as police canvassed th neighborhood after the murder, a witness across the stree said she saw it too. >> she had come home aroun 5:00 that evening and noticed white van parked in front of her house. and it was parked in a way tha made her nervous to the point she thought maybe someone was breaking in. >> why would she be suspicio of a van >> a van she'd never see before, and in tha neighborhood, everyone knows everyone >> the question was, what di the white van have to do wit the murder of doug carlile, or the cops wondered with his wife, elberta. coming up, a neighborhoo security camera. what tales would it tell >> we actually saw that suspec and saw the path that he ran >> could you tell who it was >> all you could really see is that it was a subject.

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hill, beat cops and detectives fanned out around neighborhood utterly unused to violent crime. but downtown at police headquarters >> this is a secure building so if you need to go somewhere knock on the door, okay? >> i'm in jail >> the victim's wife, elbert carlile, told a crazy stor about a man in black burstin into the house killing her husband, looking her square in the eye but leaving her alive. so, burbridge wondered, did sh hire him >> in my world, wives kill husbands the relationship is probability. >> but then up at the hous they heard a curious story fro a neighbor that very evening for a couple hours before the shooting mysterious white van was parke

just across the street from th carliles'house >> 911, what are you reporting >> hi. i called crimestoppers because there's a suspicious vehicle i front of my house 30 minutes ago and now they just came bac and sitting there and i' really freaked out >> of course, in many if not most neighborhoods in america, a parked white van might not attract a bit of attention >> maybe i'm just bein paranoid, but it's reall bizarre that a van would be in this neighborhood. >> but this is the south hill, after wall nondescript white vans don't just show up and hang around here so the neighbor noticed. and then doug carlile winds up murdered >> we didn't know if it wa related or not, but it was obviously something that w considered immediately >> and again, this being the south hill, another neighbor

had the wherewithal to provide a special kind of help >> a homeowner in th neighborhood had a video camer that covered his driveway, and we picked up what we thought was the van about two hour before the murder. >> here it is, that video. and sure enough, a white van coming and going on the street of south hill that night but did it have anything to do with the murder? and what about that man in black elberta said she saw if he actually existed hired killer or whatever he must have waited somewher around the house for the carliles to get back fro church he could have killed dou carlile, then possibly escaped in that white van. no one saw anyone going out th front door, but what about bac here, behind the house they called in a tracking dog, stood back and watched >> basically, the track went through some arbor vitae over a little fence through th neighbor's back yard and in the very back corner of their yard is a gate that wa

left open. and just before the gate there was a puddle of water. and there was a good footprint in that puddle of water. and it was apparent it was fairly recent. >> could be your guy >> could be our guy. just beyond that, just outside the gate was what appeared t be a welding glove lying in th leaves >> a welding glove >> a welding glove so right away we thought i this something that may have been dropped but it was odd enough and in a place we knew the suspect ha run after the incident that we ended up collecting it a evidence >> not really knowing whethe that had anything to do with your murder. >> correct we didn't know you know, in something lik this, where it's a complet whodunit, you take everythin and hope something ends up helping your case. >> they kept looking so did the dog just beyond where the weldin glove was found was a smal wooded area, and across th street, an elementary school which meant maybe the school's security system could get them a picture of the guy >> another detective was abl

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as police combed the south hil looking for evidence and suspects in the murder of doug carlile, his wife elberta ha no idea that her behavior ha raised alarms. >> who cares about stupi evidence >> but police 101. the victim's nearest and dearest often becomes prim suspect number one and elberta, with her wild story, was no exception. then detective burbridge was able to get a close look at th early evidence, and especially that video of the running ma in black and -- >> immediately it became apparent to me that whoever di this had reconnoitered the scene and spent time plannin it because of the very elaborate escape route it made me concerned tha elberta was probably telling the truth about who wa involved and what happened >> when he saw all tha planning including the videotape showing the man in black he felt it was far les likely that elberta carlile wa anything but a victim. but in her brain, whil detectives kept going over thi question or that, two thoughts blocked out all else, he desire to see her husband an an overwhelming need to tell her children what happened >> i went to call them and i couldn't see the numbers i couldn't - i was just frantic and i said to the police, help me

and then i thought wait, you can't help me, you don't eve know who i'm looking for >> but finally in the town o moses lake the phone rang in the home of shane carlile. >> i received a call from my mother we were hanging ornaments on the christmas tree she said in just kind of a screaming panic, shane, your dad, your dad, he was shot six times. >> you called everybody? >> yeah. the thought hadn't even sunk i yet, it was just a straight up okay, let's get to work, let's figure out what we have to do. i started contacting everybody and you know, to have to liste

to everybody's cries and screams over the phone >> the carliles'eldest was a her daughter's ballet recital. >> he goes dad's been shot and i said what do you mea dad's been shot? dad has been killed. >> and so she greeted he daughters after the recita with the news about grandpa. >> they loved their grandpa. he was the greatest to all three of them. they had really good relationships with them. >> it was a relationship tha almost wasn't for any of them. >> doug and bertie, as he like to call her, were teenaged sweethearts, married young and as often happens, even a their family grew thei marriage shriveled what happened? >> life happens. >> bertie found god. doug did not >> the closer i got to the lord, it's like the further we got apart. >> until it became clear t bertie, she won't go int detail, that she and doug were doomed, unless - >> i did something drastic i left him without his knowledge. >> take the kids with you? >> of course >> so you went off on your own

with four kids >> mm-hm no job, no nothing yeah to a city i didn't know. >> to seattle. 350 miles from the little town in oregon where they lived bac then her church kept her going. well, doug, here's the story according to bertie. he kept guns, said bertie, lot of them. and lost and alone, he decided to use one on himself. >> as he crawled toward thos guns, he said he heard thi horrid voice that said "he's mine." and then he heard another voic that said "no, he's not. he belongs to me." and he said it was a thunderous, authoritative, shook the whole room voice and the next thing he knew, he felt arms picking him up and putting him on the bed >> he told you this. >> yes, he told me this months later. >> quite a story the one that got doug saved an back with his family after that, he started a excavation business, and as hi

kids grew up, six of them, man followed him it became the family business. >> he's a salesman, you know he can talk you into something >> a charmer >> yeah. totally. total charmer. >> what was his business philosophy was he a numbers-crunching guy or was he a handshake guy? >> he was a handshake guy. he expected his word and a handshake was good and he knew it was he expected that of others and that isn't always true >> and there were setbacks two bankruptcies trouble with the irs a string of failed businesse and fallings-out with business partners who accused doug of being less than honest and o not paying his bills how would doug react to those? >> he never gave up. and we always took care of wha we owed. and we would move forward. >> and, as he entered mid-life doug carlile seemed conten doing deals while his sons

shane and seth ran the business >> he'd give the shirt off his back to anybody. he just had a huge heart he had enough room in it for everybody. huge heart >> and taught you what you know >> absolutely. every aspect of business every aspect of life >> when the kids were grown, doug and bertie ended up i spokane, to be near thei favorite church, whose pasto preached the prosperity gospel that is, the idea that god rewards true belief with financial success. well, they certainly looke successful when they bough that sprawling house on th south hill >> they wanted to get an older house like that. it's something they loved. but they also always wanted al the family to come for all the holidays and spend it with them >> so there's a bedroom fo everybody.

>> we all had our own room worked out pretty good >> did it look to you as i your dad and your mom were finally at the place where the were on the top of the hill? >> they were doing the best ever saw them do they were happy. they had got it. they'd figured it out. >> but now, doug carlile was dead and detectives tallied up th signs of his earthly wealth. still parked in the drive, elberta's new mercedes doug's new pickup. and inside in doug's office, documents detailing th family's fortune >> there was a lot of financia paperwork. and the ones that struck m immediately was there was loan paperwork that it appeared mr. carlile had filled out for different businesses and the had his net value at between 6 and 12 million depending which piece of paper you looked at >> and then there were the documents the detectives couldn't read. that is, the ones written in arabic who was doug carlile

successful, god-fearin businessman? or what? coming up -- >> i remember him telling us you know, i'm going to mak millions of dollars, and thi is going to be it. this is going to be for ou family we're all going to be rich >> investigators took a hard look at doug's busines practices. had he made any enemies? >> they may have a reason to b pretty mad at him. >> our suspect list kept growing. >> i was running thi investigation at one point i about eight directions, trying to eliminate a lot of business partners see if mr. carlile had a secret life. >> even seasoned detective were in for a surprise >> i just don't believe in coincidences like that >> when "dateline" continues downy will soften your clothes without dyes or perfumes. the towel washed with downy is softer, and gentler on your skin. try downy free & gentle. ♪ ♪

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no getting around it spokane detectives burbridge and sesnick took a look at the clues dug up that first night. surveillance videos showing white van circling the area. elberta's story about a masked shooter dressed in black the video of a black-clad ma running away all that could mean only one thing. this was a hit, a professional killing. which begged the question, why would anyone want to kill beloved, god-fearing grandfather, murdered whil christmas music surrounded his big old house. >> it was almost a surreal scene.

the house is decorated for christmas. christmas music playing. >> perhaps some answers woul come from what detectives foun in doug's office documents half in english, hal in arabic. and those they could read were very interesting indeed. >> there was prefilled out paperwork promising 100% retur on investment in 90 days i you'd invest in their company. >> so it aparred that your victim had been promisin people huge returns on investment >> correct he had a whole binder with paperwork and it included name of people who had bought int this and invested. >> wait a minute, who offers a 100% return so fast? was this for real? the names, reports, and record all seemed to be related to on

thing. >> we ended up finding a lot o paperwork related to the oil business in north dakota >> the oil business? why that doug carlile, remember, was an excavator, not an oil man. but of course a whole army o ambitious, hard-working men ha fled established careers t grab for a piece of the wealth dangled so enticingly by north dakota's oil-fracking boom thus, were prairie towns o sudden steroids and man camp bursting with pent-u testosterone by the time doug met his awful fate in 2013 the wild blac gold rush around the bakken oi fields had peaked. but investors looking for a bi payday wouldn't have known tha yet. and with great was of eage cash they chased a stake i what they hoped might be billions still in the ground apparently, doug carlile was one of them. according to family, he go turned onto oil by a friend wh knew a guy >> he told us about nort dakota hey, it's booming there. you should go check things out and see what's happening >> first, doug partnered in trucking company that served north dakota's many oil rigs an outfit called blackstone, started by the guy his frien introduced him to. and then opportunity knocked

one of those opportunities of lifetime, ordained from above, according to doug. >> the whole thing kind of fel into his lap and i think he thought tha that was his calling from god, was to move forward in tha lease. >> an oil lease, that is a lease that would give doug and any partners he could brin in the exclusive right to dril for oil on 640 acres of land o the mha indian reservation the catch was that sort of opportunity doesn't come cheap so you had to raise some money >> oh, yeah. the lease was almost $ million. >> and to raise that dou carlile tapped his friends around washington state, his business partners, even hi kids >> i put $100,000 into it. it wasn't for a return o anything it was to help him with hi dream to fulfill that. >> but the next step t fulfilling doug's dream wa even more daunting finding investors to pay for drilling as many as eight well on the property. and that price was muc steeper. more than $100 million but the potential payoff was immense. and doug firmly believed god's will a reward for his faith.

>> we thought we were walkin on water this is a miracle. >> i remember him telling us i'm going to make millions o dollars and this is going to b it and this is going to be for our family and you know, we're all going to be rich >> we sat on the couch one day and he said, what would you do if you had all the money you could ever want? i said so, if we had this mone then we would use it to serv the lord, to serve ministries, to serve people, our family. >> but now all those goo intentions, all those dreams were gone. now detectives slogged through the paperwork on doug carlile' desk those documents in arabi turned out to be a scam a co man was trying to run on doug. but doug they could see ha been making promises too t investors. promise he couldn't keep

and he must have known it. 100% return practicall overnight? impossible >> many of these were partners who had come in, and now he ma have owed them a tremendou amount of money. >> correct >> they may have a reason to b pretty mad at him. >> and our suspect list kept growing. >> how many partners did tha guy have anyway? >> about ten that we could find, there may be more. >> detective burbridge began calling doug's partners an discovered most of them live in or around washington. any one of them who could be considered a person of interes was hundreds or thousands of miles away from spokane th night doug was murdered. >> it concerned me greatly i just don't believe i coincidences like that >> coincidences that they were not there? >> yes, sir. >> that they may have planne not to be there when something happened

>> yes, sir. >> how did you know which on to target? >> i was running thi investigation in about eight different directions trying to eliminate a lot of busines partners, seeing if mr carlile had a secret life, did he owe somebody else some money, because he had a lot of failed business dealings in his other businesses and so i had a lot of concerns >> angry ex-business partners? angry current business partners? what, if anything, did she hav to do with it? >> yeah. i mean, obviously, i didn' know at the time what he was doing. >> coming up - detectives learn about a charismatic couple knee-deep i doug's oil venture >> they looked like ken an barbie, their perfectly whit teeth and tans >> did they know anything abou the murder and then finally, investigator have someone to question >> i researched his criminal history and knew he had a very significant criminal history so i was concerned, was he m hit man? >> we're going to start talkin about some things honestly here >> okay. that's fine. >> people tell me you're the shooter. >> when "dateline" continues >> when "dateline" continues

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inconsolable >> instantly, that night, that night, i lost everything >> elberta's eldest daughter melanie left her own family fo a while to stay with her mom try to keep her sane >> she would wake up screaming every single night and there was nothing i coul do besides just hold her it was horrible. >> the very thing the carliles hoped would create wealth, security, happiness had brough instead nothing but grief. but remember, this, th evidence suggested, was a hi job. somebody must have ordered doug's execution so now the detectives try to figure out who >> did you guys have any

disputes with anybody? >> yes >> inevitable probably, when high stakes investors go after a prize like an oil lease, and doug had been promisin potential investors return that so far just hadn' materialized any number of partners might have felt they'd been taken fo a ride but who? elberta, who was no longer a suspect, offered a possibility >> who did he have a dispute with >> his name is james henrikson >> james henrikson he was the man who had gotte doug interested in the oil pla

in the first place the man with his wife sara were known as the barbie and ken of the oil patch this guy worked for them his name is rick airy. >> for lack of a better term they stuck out like a couple o turds in a punch bowl. >> well, one way to put it james met sarah at a drive-thr coffee stand she was a barista. >> what was he like? >> he was very cool, calm, collected, you know. older man, good-looking. it was fun fun and we'd always go out he was nice. it was easy. i never thought i'd ever marry him or go do business with him >> but that's what she did they moved to the oil patch in 2011, got married in minot north dakota, and by 2013 he was the charismatic face of major trucking operation calle blackstone, and she was th blond on his arm and the senio company official

sarah signed the checks. blackstone was the busines doug first invested in, before he got interested in the oil lease. it was a big operation 100 trucks hauling water to an from oil fracking sites. very profitable. james let it be known that h was backed by a billion-dollar trust fund >> i was like, this guy's winner >> a lot of money around they were doing well >> absolutely. >> was your company making money? >> yes, it sure seemed like it >> and james was tough and buff and all man. >> it would be 20 degree outside and he'd be wearing t-shirt. everyone else has a little shiver he's standing there shiverin but he's making sure his arm are pumped up. >> he's a buff guy >> yeah. he wants you to see his guns he's showing them off. and their perfectly white teet and their tans

they looked like ken and barbie they didn't fit in at all. >> not a nickname sarah took to, mind you >> no, i feel like i hav somewhat of a brain, i don't want to be called just a barbie >> well, you're living in town of men. >> mm-hmm. 92 to 1. >> all jacked up o testosterone >> oh, yeah. it was rough i hated it it was miserable every day was a plan on how to get out. but -- >> with him presumably >> yeah, we wanted to leave th oil field, but he just saw s much opportunity and money he was like one day we'll ge there.

>> doug carlile liked james an sarah's entrepreneurial style lot. so when the chance to buy an oil lease came up they went in on it together james kicked in $600,000 doug only $40,000. they needed $2 million remember yet doug was saying he'd b taking over. there were disputes, then, ove control and money an accusations flew in fact, said doug's son set -- >> he basically said i'm concerned with what james is going to try to do >> that was serious. >> and he said that if anythin happens to me, you know, it' james henrikson. >> but like the other partners james henrikson was far away

when doug was killed, 700 mile away in watford city, nort dakota detectives pinged his phone an confirmed it and then something happene that seemed straight out o some noir detective novel. detective burbridge put out plea for information fro anybody who'd done busines with doug carlile, and what do you know in walked a guy who could just as easily been a murder suspec himself. >> robert, thanks for coming down voluntarily >> his name was robert delao career criminal, gang member and sometimes a police informant. he'd served time in prison o manslaughter, drug, weapon charges. >> i had researched hi criminal history and knew he had a very significant crimina history. so i was concerned was he my hit man or what was hi involvement in this? >> delao knew doug carlile he also knew james henrikson why was he here? to tell the cops just in cas they were wondering, that he didn't have anything to do wit the murder >> did you drive somebody up there? >> no, no, no, i had nothing t do with it, nothing. >> but burbridge had seen thing or two he pushed. >> we're going to start talkin about some things honestly and i'm going to have a hear to heart with you. >> okay. that's fine, that's fine

>> people are telling me you'r the shooter. >> i say hell no you know what? that night i was in watfor city, north dakota >> you went after him pretty hard, right? actually accused him of murder >> i did >> how did he respond to that? >> he denied it and didn't eve flinch >> did you think he was your guy? >> i did not think he was th guy. >> so why did you do that? >> sometimes you do things, tr to pressure people or put them under pressure to see thei reaction and he did not flinch. >> the detectives asked dela to take a polygraph, and h did. did he pass the test >> yes, he did >> so curious, certainly, but real lead? or a dead end? hard to know so burbridge and his team of investigators kept working other leads. and christmas happened sort of. >> it was really a rough christmas. i look back on pictures. we had smiles on our faces but you weren't really smiling and my mom, it was so hard t watch her. because she wanted to give the grandkids gifts but she wa chst le almost like zombieyou cv you know, but nobody felt like family w feelinga debilitating l too. oever their patriarch ght not be done. we armeelves. i spent $10,00 a security csystem aroun the house. went oought an attac a german shepherd >> meanwhile, the deives hit the road sotruly shockingiscove ug carlin't the only he oil patchd goings-o co up --for this investigato tantalizing ti his ngertips >> i clicked on it and a flyer came up that basically sai beware of these two people >> and then a potential suspec gives cops the brush-off >> he leaned out the door an

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