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Damning Video of Wife Hiring a Hit Man is Released
Airdate: 11/18/2009
In video that shocked the nation, a young wife appeared to break down after being told that her newlywed husband had just been killed.
But police say 26-year-old Dalia Dippolito was shedding crocodile tears, and that she had hired a hit man to murder her husband. Now, just-released video reveals more of the dramatic sting operation that resulted in her arrest.
"I didn't do anything and I didn't plot anything," she said during the arrest.
She met with a close friend, but what Dalia Dippolito didn't know was that the friend had contacted police, telling them that Dalia wanted her husband dead. The friend agreed to be part of a sting operation. He told Dalia that he knew a hit man, and allowed police to set up a hidden camera in his car.
A chillingly calm Dippolito discussed the details of the murder, including her husband's schedule and her alibi. She handed over $1,200 for the hit man and photos so the killer could identify her husband.
There's also surveillance video of Dalia meeting with an undercover cop, who she believed was the hit man.
"Sure you want to kill this dude?" he asked.
"I'm positive, like 5,000 per cent sure," she told him.
They even discuss getaway routes for the hit man. Then she gave him directions to her house. Within days, Dippolito came home to the fake crime scene, and broke down into hysterical sobs.
For the first time video of Dippolito's police interrogations has been released. When the undercover cop who posed as a hit man enters the room, Dippolito denied ever having seen him.
After Dippolito maintained her innocence, the detective told her that her husband, Michael Dippolito, was alive. Then he appeared outside the room.
Dippolito's shell-shocked husband, who says that Dalia worked as an escort when he met her, also sat down with police, showing no sympathy for his wife. "Whatever she gets she deserves," he said.
Dippolito will go on trial for solicitation to commit first degree murder. She has pled not guilty.
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