Post continues after video. When Dalia was taken to the police station for questioning after that scene outside her house, she was asked, "Is there anyone that you know that would want to kill your husband? It took a few seconds for Dalia to digest the 'gotcha' moment. Despite being told the hitman she paid was in fact an undercover cop, she was quick to claim she "didn't do anything" before breaking down into tears. It wasn't the first time Dalia had tried to kill her husband, Michael.
She'd previously laced his Starbucks tea with antifreeze, but he'd spat it out after one sip. She'd also planted drugs on him and called police in an attempt to get him arrested for violating his probation. None of it worked. Then, after reconnecting with an old boyfriend, Dalia shared her desire to kill her husband. But the ex-boyfriend took the information directly to police and then worked with them on the sting operation that would eventually put Dalia behind bars.
Later Michael would tell the media, as reported by crime podcast CaseFile , his wife looked like she was doing nothing more than "ordering a cheese sandwich" while plotting his assassination. Dalia during her trial for plotting to murder her husband. While organising the murder, Dalia was simultaneously getting her husband's assets into her name, and cajoling another former lover with sexts and promises of a future together, while convincing him to help her freeze Michael's bank account and steal cash.
Michael Dippolito hadn't had the easiest and most law-abiding of lives. He'd been in prison, had drug problems and met Dalia when he paid her for sex, while cheating on his first wife, Maria. Despite the way their relationship ended, Maria told the Palm Beach Times , "The man she fell for was a sweet, caring boyfriend. There was nothing that he wouldn't do for me. We had plans Dalia had lied about her pregnancy while plotting to murder Michael. Immediately, police in Boynton Beach, where she lived, began working with the informant to set up an elaborate sting operation.
They taped meetings between Delilah — real name: Dalia Dippolito — and her old friend. They styled an undercover cop to pose as a hit man. They recorded her saying she was "5, percent sure" she wanted her husband dead. Within days, the police arrested Mrs.
Dippolito in spectacular fashion. They set up a fake crime scene. They let Mrs. Dippolito believe the murder had been committed, having an officer break the news of her husband's death. When she sobbed dramatically, the cops made sure her antics were caught on video. The case seemed like a slam-dunk for the cops: Gold-digging, plastic-surgery-loving wife tries to murder hubby!
But deeper investigation would uncover a more complex story. Dalia might be ruthless and conniving, but her husband has a troubling rap sheet of his own. Their marriage was built on a rickety foundation of lies, jilted lovers, and bizarre financial deals. Both would suffer the consequences when their high-rolling romance imploded.
Dalia Mohammed was born in New York, the eldest of three children. The family moved to Boynton Beach when Dalia was Dalia attended Santaluces High School in Lantana.
The year Dalia turned 18, her mom filed for divorce, alleging in court documents that her dad had a girlfriend on the side. Her dad eventually moved to Maine, while Randa Mohammed and the children remained in Boynton. By November , according to court documents, Dalia was attending college and working. The friend said she "took his ring, took some money, divorced him. By , she was back in Florida long enough to get a real estate license.
When the informant spent time with her, he noticed a change in her persona. She spoke with the polite yet petulant tone of a woman accustomed to getting her way. Once she was in an interrogation room, police recorded her reaction as they revealed to her that not only was her husband still alive, but that they had taped her conversations with the friend and the supposed hit man, who was really an undercover Boynton Beach police officer.
At the time, the Dippolitos had been married for just six months. They also argued that she wanted him out of the way so that she could rekindle a relationship with an old boyfriend. Dalia Dippolito has always denied that she wanted her then-husband dead. At her first trial, her attorney claimed that she knew she was being recorded by police and that her husband came up with the idea of creating a murder-for-hire video in hopes of posting it online and gaining reality TV fame.
Her attorneys argued their hit man scenario was fake and that she and the friend were acting. In , Dalia Dippolito went to trial for the first time and was found guilty of solicitation to commit first-degree murder.
The judge, who called the murder-for-hire plot "pure evil," sentenced her to 20 years in prison. It was so senseless for a girl, my wife … to take those steps to do that. It was so unnecessary. But an appeals court judge ruled in that the jury for her first trial was improperly selected and tossed out the conviction. The Boynton Beach Police Department denied any wrongdoing and said they were gathering evidence against Dalia Dippolito.
The men and women of the Boynton Beach Police Department did an incredible job on this case, and Mike Dippolito is alive and well today because of it.
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