True crime stories and courtroom dramas are fascinating for many, but how about a true crime story filled with hilarity, impossible claims, and ridiculous scenarios? If interested, step right this way to the Dalia Dippolito circus! In 2009, a young Florida prostitute named Dalia Dippolito married one of her clients. Six months into the marriage, she found herself dissatisfied and started to look for a way to exit the marriage while filling her pockets with her husband's money. This was the beginning of the Dalia Dippolito murder-for-hire plot, where she really believed she could get away with murdering her spouse like the famous black widow killers.Word reached the local police (via one of Dalia's former lovers) that she was interested in hiring someone to kill her husband, Mike Dippolito. The police then arranged for an undercover cop to pose as a hit man, who met with and recorded Dalia's enthusiasm for having her husband killed. The Boynton police then staged a murder scene at the couple's townhome, when no one was at home. When Dalia returned, the police broke the "news" that her husband had been murdered. What followed was an eight-year circus of the Dalia Dippolito murder trial: three trials, one mistrial, two convictions, and even more absurd excuses and stories spun by the defendant. To find out more about the amusing and idiotic tale of Dippolito, read on below.
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A whirlwind courtship led to a marriage between a Boynton Beach escort and one of her clients. Dalia and Mike Dippolito had only been married six months in 2009 when she decidedShe wanted out.Dippolito did not want to leave empty-handed; she aimed to get all her husband's money and belongings. She planned two methods. First, she decided tobring in two of her loversto bankrupt her husband. When that failed, she started looking for a hired killer.
An informant contacted the police, giving them Dippolito's plans. Police set up a sting where an undercover informant met Dippolito to discuss the hit. The recording showed she paid $1,200 as a deposit and was set on killing her husband.
She recorded stating she was "5,000% sure" she wanted her husband dead.
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Dalia Dippolito openly boasted to the undercover cop that she knew how to.She figured out how to manipulateher husband.She laughed, saying she could fool him and everyone else. No one suspected her involvement in his murder. She flirted with the supposed "hired killer," telling him he thought she was a "cute little girl," but she was actually "tough."
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Boynton police acted when the undercover "hired killer" returned with the recording showing Dippolito wanted someone to kill her husband. Officers staged the home to look like a murder happened. When Dalia returned, officers told her her husband was dead. Dippolito immediately threw a loud,Dippolito put on a tearful show of emotion., which the officers later said was fake.
She believed the murder happened as she ordered.
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After the police staged the "murder," Dalia Dippolito was arrested and charged with plotting to kill her husband. Police booked her. When offered a call, she did not contact a lawyer or family. Instead, she actuallyShe called her husband from jail., the man she paid to kill him. The call was recorded, and Mike Dippolito's disbelief was clear. She begged him for help repeatedly.
He denied everything he saw or heard was real (the police tapes proved her guilt). Mike Dippolito repeatedly told her he could not help after what she tried to do.
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As a former escort, Dippolito had many contacts and former lovers. Before planning to have her husband killed, she used other ways to profit from removing him. She tried to get help fromTwo former lovers.Mike Stanley testified that she wanted his help wiping out Mike Dippolito's bank account or perhaps finding a way to arrest him for violating probation from a past conviction.
Dippolito told Stanley she wanted this so she and Stanley could reunite. Stanley called the US Department of Treasury, reporting Mike Dippolito continued illegal money scams. Stanley also transferred the Dippolito's $225,000 townhome into Dalia Dippolito's sole name.
That was not enough for the woman. She found help from another, unnamed lover. This man told local police that Dippolito planned to have her husband murdered.
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The long-running Fox TV reality show,COPS.filmed in Boynton Beach, Florida, on Dippolito's arrest day. One of her attorneys during her second trial, Brian Claypool, claimed he investigated the film crew's presence and suspected the city police department wascooperating with theCOPS.COPS.team to place Dippolito on the episode filming in Boynton. He also suggested the police hid evidence and information that showed Dippolito as innocent.
He stated convicting Dippolito would reward the local police department for "lying and cheating."
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Dalia Dippolito thought texting was the best way to talk to the supposed hired killer, providing more evidence she was not clever enough to communicate with her purported killer viaShe used text messages to talk to the supposed killer.Those messages later became evidence against her in three separate trials.
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By the start of her first trial, Dalia Dippolito created anelaborate ruse to explain how and why the murder plot was fake. She claimed the whole setup aimed to become famous on YouTube as a reality star, and a viral video would get her a shot at her own show.She claimed the murder plan was fake for an acting job. She said the whole setup was to become a YouTube reality star, hoping a viral video would get her on a show.
She denied wanting to kill her husband, Mike, or have him killed. The murder plot against him was totally fake.
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Weeks after her second conviction and sentencing, Dalia Dippolito appeared in the news again. Now, she faced accusations of plotting a. A phone call showed her describing how someone in another prison escaped by drone, which made people in her prison think about doing the same.
Attorney Brian Claypool told the media Dippolito's comments came from just a few seconds of a ten-minute call. She discussed her toddler son and going to church.
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Dalia Dippolito's first trial ended in 2011 with a 20-year prison sentence and a conviction. The court later overturned that conviction, and a second trial happened in 2016. That trial resulted in a mistrial. Dalia then began house arrest, which may have lasted some time, but she started...Dippolito immediately asked for a third trial.
Local and state residents complained about the millions of dollars the government spent on this case. The third trial, which started in June 2017 and finished two weeks later, did not make Dippolito more liked by the public.
The third trial ended quickly with another conviction. This time, Dippolito received a 16-year sentence. When asked for a reaction, her ex-husband replied with a wordplay: "I am 5,000% happy with the result."
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