They were such a lovely couple

[SeaCat]

Is it just me or are things getting even crazier lately?

Your thoughts on this one please.

Boynton Beach newlywed charged in plot to kill husband: '5,000% sure I want it done'
By SONJA ISGER

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

A Boynton Beach newlywed is in jail this morning for trying to have her husband of six months murdered. Turns out the hit man was an undercover cop.

Investigators say 26-year-old Dalia Dippolito was insistent and three times affirmed in no uncertain terms she wanted him killed - agreeing to pay $1,200 for the hit man to buy a gun and $3,000 when the deed was done.

And this morning Dippolito thought she had succeeded.

Boynton Beach police called Dippolito as she was working out at the LA Fitness gym this morning. She rushed home to find her townhome shrouded in crime scene tape and technicians dusting the front door for prints, according to police accounts.

When officials on the scene broke the news that her husband, 38-year-old Michael Dippolito was dead, she `collapsed sobbing into the police sergeant's arms.

But the grief was short lived.

Police took the would-be widow back to the station where they then revealed her husband to be alive and in the room next door.

It was only last January that the couple was issued a marriage license - a day after Michael Dippolito's divorce to another woman he married two years earlier was finalized, according to Palm Beach County Court records.

Dippolito bought their Boynton Beach townhome for $225,000 in January and the couple's marriage was official Feb. 3, 2009.

While Dalia Dippolito has no criminal record in Florida, her husband has been arrested four times in Broward County. He went to prison in 2003 for grand theft, organized fraud for $50,000 or more and telemarketing fraud - crimes committed in 2001, according to state prison records.

When Dalia Dippolito decided she wanted to be rid of her man, events transpired rapidly.

It was only Friday night when Boynton Beach police were tipped by a confidential informant that Dippolito wanted to hire someone to kill her husband.

The next day, she met the informant in a car at a Mobil gas station on Gateway Boulevard to make the arrangements.

There, police say, she also handed over $1,200 for the hit man to buy a handgun to commit the crime. She also handed over photos of her husband and their home at 1329 Via de Pepi.

She even suggested she could get her hair done in Boca Raton during the crime to create an alibi, according to the information released by spokeswoman Stephanie Slater.

Dippolito said she'd already considered how she'd lie to police. She told the informant she was certain she wanted her husband killed and "she didn't want to hear any excuses later about why it did not happen," Slater wrote.

Monday afternoon, the woman met with an undercover Boynton Beach police officer posing as the hired hit man in the parking lot of a CVS pharmacy.

Investigators say twice during this meeting Dippolito reported she was sure she wanted him killed.

"I will be very happy," she is reported to have said. She agreed to pay the 'hit man' $3,000 when the job was complete, according to the police statement.

"The undercover officer asked her one more time if she was sure about having her husband killed. She responded, 'I'm not going to change my mind. I am 5,000 percent sure I want it done. When I set my mind to something I get it done.'"


Staff researcher Niels Heimeriks contributed to this story.


(If you wish I can also post the link to the video showing both her and her (soon to be ex?) husband's reactions to the arrest.)

Cat

 

[3113]

So she was going to pay the hit man a total of $4200--or rather, give him $1200 for a gun (which I presume he'd get to keep) and $3000 for killing her husband? I'd be suspicious of any hitman with that as his going rate. Sounds awful cheap to me, but maybe even hitmen are having a hard time getting jobs these days and are willing to work cheap

 

[rgraham666]

Yeah, you pay for quality in that field.

My own thought is this woman isn't quite right in the head and her ex-husband is no catch either.

 

[jomar]

I love stories with happy endings.

 

[popcorn2721]

hey cat, post that link... please

 

[SeaCat]

hey cat, post that link... please

Here you go.

http://www.cbs12.com/video/index.php?bcpid=1137883291&bclid=1143359274&bctid=32331675001

Cat

 

[jomar]

Oops, I meant, "Springer, Springer, Springer...!"

 

[SeaCat]

Hmmm the judge has allowed her to be bonded out on Home Arrest. She is allowed one visit to their house, (under police escort.) to pick up her things.

Cat

 

[SeaCat]

And the saga goes on. This could have been written for TV.

BOYNTON BEACH - Before Dalia and Michael Dippolito's marriage problems became national news when she allegedly tried to hire a hit man to kill her husband, police were called to their Boynton Beach home three times.

The anonymous calls reported that Michael Dippolito was selling drugs. His attorney Michael Entin said those calls were futile attempts to send him to prison.

"He believed at the time he was being set up by somebody," Entin said. "These calls were anonymous and he was not involved in narcotics."

None of the calls ended in criminal charges.

Dalia Dippolito's lawyer, Michael Salnick, could not be reached for comment despite attempts by phone and e-mail.

Police got an anonymous tip March 9 that Michael Dippolito, 38, was selling steroids and the drug Ecstasy out of his home in the 1300 block of Via De Pepi. Police spokeswoman Stephanie Slater said nothing came of that investigation.

A month later, police went to the Dippolito home because the couple were arguing and screaming at each other. When police got there, they saw no physical injuries and left. The couple told police they were fighting over money.

During the next police visit, in May, Michael Dippolito claimed someone was trying to set him up, hoping he got arrested for drugs. He said it started months earlier when he and his wife were staying at the Ritz-Carlton resort in Manalapan and police came after a report about him dealing drugs out of his truck.

No drugs were found, and he was not arrested.

"Nobody knew they were going to the Ritz-Carlton," Entin said. "They were going for a romantic night."

About two weeks later, Michael Dippolito was approached by police while he was at CityPlace in West Palm Beach after a tip that he had a kilo of cocaine. Police found two bags of cocaine in a cigarette pack under his truck's spare tire, according to the police report. Without proof Dippolito knew about the drugs, he was not charged.

Weeks later, according to police, he found this note on his truck: "Bring $40,000 9:30 a.m. back to this space and put it under the car behind you. Do not tell anyone, especially your wife ..."

Dalia Dippolito, 26, told police she got a call from a woman saying she was going to kill her and her husband because he did not pay up.

Whoever that caller was, Entin said, wanted to send Michael Dippolito to prison on a probation violation.

In 2003, a Broward County judge placed Dippolito on 28 years of probation for organized fraud over $50,000, grand theft and false telephone sales, state records show. He served about seven months of a two-year prison sentence on those charges.

The fourth police visit to the Dippolitos was on Aug. 5 and has become known thoughout the country. A fake crime scene was set up and police told Dalia Dippolito her husband had been killed. He had not been. They brought her back to the police station, then arrested her, charging her with solicitation to commit first-degree murder.

Just days earlier, Boynton Beach police said, Dalia Dippolito unknowingly hired an undercover officer whom she believed to be a hit man to kill her husband for $3,000. When the "hit man" asked whether she wanted Michael Dippolito murdered, police say Dalia Dippolito laughed and said, "I will be very happy."

Staff Writers Missy Diaz and Brian Haas contributed to this report.


Cat