Murder-for-hire plot featured on 'Cops' headed to trial
Murder-for-hire plot featured on 'Cops' headed to trial, If the State of Florida's attempted murder-for-hire case adjoin Dalia Dippolito unfolds like a absoluteness show, maybe that's because it was fabricated with television in mind.
Dippolito, 33, became the key amount in a appropriate copy of TV's "Cops," which formed with Boynton Beach badge to appearance her allegedly conspiring to annihilate her newlywed husband. But this wasn't the appearance she wanted: Her aegis attorneys say the absolute artifice was an act, and that she was assuming for badge in an absurd advance to actualize agreeable for her own absoluteness TV appearance pitch.
The Boynton Beach administration had been planning ride-alongs with the "Cops" aggregation for months if they said a abundant case appeared out of boilerplate in the summer of 2009: Mohamed Shihadeh, who owns analysis cashing food and delis, absolved in with a blue tip, adage his above lover had asked him for advice award a hit man to annihilation her husband.
Born Dalia Mohamed in New York, Dippolito acquired a Florida absolute acreage license, but her new bedmate Michael Dippolito — a bedevilled con-man — said they met if he alleged for her casework as a prostitute. He said the sex was great, affair followed and they affiliated as bound as they could.
But the badge adviser said she capital his money: about $250,000 in accumulation and their $225,000 townhouse, which the new bedmate had paid for in banknote and put in her name just canicule afore she allegedly planned to accept him killed.
Detectives apprenticed the "Cops" blur aggregation to appear quickly. They aswell active Shihadeh, his buzz and his car, and had him acquaint Dippolito to clandestine administrator Widy Jean, who would play the hit man.
"Cops" got affluence of video, some of which the badge acquaint on YouTube even afore their case was closed:
— A 23-minute chat area she tells the credible hit-man she's "5,000 percent sure" she wants her bedmate dead, and promises $7,000 for the job.
— The arena at her townhouse two canicule later, area badge breach the account to Michael Dippolito.
— The aforementioned house, now amidst with chicken abomination arena tape, area Dalia Dippolito avalanche bawl assimilate the chest of a detective who says her bedmate has been murdered.
— Her videotaped interrogation, area she denies accomplishing annihilation amiss and suggests to detectives that her husband's above abomination ally could be the killers.
Nowhere in this recorded affirmation did Dalia Dippolito acquaint the adventure she would afterwards accompany to court: That she, her bedmate and Shihadeh were all above admirers of absoluteness TV and were alone pretending. She claims that they had dreamed up an absurd but innocent video project, in which she would play the allotment of a arduous newlywed, and afresh angle TV producers to appoint them.
Michael Dippolito and Shihadeh abjure this story.
She was bedevilled in 2011 and bedevilled to 20 years in prison, but an appellate cloister chaotic the adjudication because her attorneys weren't accustomed to ask jurors alone about their ability of the case.
She affairs to use the aforementioned aegis in her May retrial, but her new attorneys, Mark Eiglarsh and Brian Claypool, are emphasizing a twist: They say the badge were so absorbed on impressing "Cops" that they threatened Shihadeh with arrest if he abdicate getting their informant, and that he in about-face affected her at gunpoint to accommodated the pretend hit man.
Shihadeh denies aggressive her, with or afterwards a gun, but agrees that detectives pressured him.
Boynton Beach Badge Chief Jeffrey S. Katz bidding aplomb that Dippolito will afresh be convicted.
"Our accountability rests in the enactment of evidence, not in adroit consequence administration techniques," he said in a statement. "Whether it's the allegorical Twinkie aegis or Ms. Dippolito's aboriginal absoluteness TV story, aegis attorneys accept a continued history of attempting to authorize reasonable doubt. That's what they are assassin to do."
She affiliated Michael Dippolito, who says he ran an online business company, in January 2009, 5 canicule afterwards his annulment from his aboriginal wife. Freed from prison, he still owed $191,000 in amends to the victims he defrauded in a adopted bill scheme, but was sending anniversary just $10 or so a month, while apartment his banknote and affairs liposuction for his adulation handles, a Porsche, an SUV, and, for his mother, a condo. He charcoal on probation.
The arch affirmation adjoin her is Dippolito herself, as she appears in the commuter bench of the credible hit-man's red Lexus convertible. They altercate options for payment, affairs of attack, his break and her alibi. They accede on a date — the afterward Wednesday — and he tells her to appointment the gym as cover.
He aswell cautions that there's no abetment out already she leaves the car, and questions whether she'll be able to handle the burden of getting interrogated by detectives.
"No, I'm not gonna, you know, I'm a lot tougher than what I look. I apperceive you see me and you like go, 'What a beautiful little girl' or whatever," she says, bedlam nervously. "But I'm not."
Two canicule later, badge converged on the Dippolitos' home afterwards she hit the gym, and "Cops" got its money shots.
With cameras rolling, Dippolito holds his arch in his hands, allegedly abashed that his new helpmate capital him dead. Then, with the acreage taped off to attending like a abomination scene, she shows up, and added tears flow. Videos appearance her bawl with detectives, afresh afresh if her bedmate — actual abundant animate — was brought afore her, and already more, if she was taken abroad in handcuffs.
Shortly afterwards her aboriginal balloon in 2011, Dalia Dipplolito did brilliant in a absoluteness show. The "Cops" appropriate can still be watched online.
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