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In this episode of American Greed, this
story begins and ends with sex.
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South Florida newlywed Dahlia DiPolito
takes her husband's money.
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Dahlia was the puppeteer. She
manipulated everybody. She called the
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did what she wanted. Then she plots to
take his life.
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She was talking about having me killed,
like ordering, you know, a bologna
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sandwich.
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Didn't mean anything to her, you know,
and that's the creepy part of it. It's a
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real -life made -for -TV tale.
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Okay, I'm sorry to tell you, ma 'am,
he's been killed.
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With a femme fatale you won't soon
forget.
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She's not a sweet, little, innocent
girl.
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I didn't do anything, and I didn't want
anything.
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She will manipulate.
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But will she hire someone to kill?
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On an early August morning, newlywed
Dahlia DiPolito is at this Florida gym
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she gets a life -changing call from the
Boynton Beach Police Department.
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Ma
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'am,
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I'll tell you everything you need to
know when you get here. Okay? Thank you.
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Married just six months,
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Dahlia returns home, where cameras bear
witness as she receives the news that
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every spouse fears.
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Mr. Pulido?
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I'm Sergeant Ramsey. I'm the one that
called you. Thank you for coming. I'm
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sorry to call you. Listen, we had a
report of a disturbance at your house,
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there were shots fired.
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Is your husband Michael?
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Okay, I'm sorry to tell you, ma 'am,
he's been killed.
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He's been killed, ma 'am.
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As the news sinks in, she appears
inconsolable, and police escort her to a
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waiting car.
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At
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the
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police station, Danya is ushered into a
small room where a detective comes to
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greet her, and at first, to comfort her
as well.
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First of all, let me just tell you...
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As questioning begins, the cops lean on
her for help.
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But a few minutes in, things take a
turn.
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Are you sure that you don't know anybody
who'd want to kill your husband?
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You wouldn't want to kill my husband.
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Not at all.
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We are fine. Like, there's nothing.
There's no problems between you guys? No
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financial problems?
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No... I mean, with your family? You and
him?
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No, there's nothing.
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What this grieving widow doesn't know is
that her late husband of just half a
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year isn't dead.
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He's actually here at the station.
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receiving some shocking news of his own.
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The
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unbelievable
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story of these two star -crossed lovers
begins less than a year earlier with an
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unlikely encounter.
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I can tell you I didn't meet her in
church.
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One fateful night, with his first wife
out of town, Mike DiPolito goes looking
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for extramarital action and finds
Dahlia.
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Mike contacted Dahlia through an escort
website.
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He sees a nice, curvy, dusky, exotic
woman for like 300 bucks.
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And he's like, wow, why not?
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He paid her for her services that day,
but they had, as he described it, a very
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unusual connection.
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Typical love story.
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If Mike likes what he sees, so does
Dahlia.
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DiPolito runs a successful marketing
company, drives a Porsche, and clearly
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cash to spare.
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One date leads to others, and soon a
bond is formed.
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When I met Dahlia, we seemed to connect
instantly.
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We would spend days together and...
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We shared a lot of the same interests,
and we would do things together all the
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time, and it just, we hit it off right
away.
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Things move fast.
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But just who is the woman Mike has
welcomed into his life?
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So Dahlia grew up here in South Florida.
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My understanding is in a very strict
Catholic home.
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Went to religious school.
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You know, she could have had a nice life
in Florida, but as soon as she turned
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18... Things took a different direction
for Dahlia.
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That direction is largely dictated by a
power Dahlia possesses and knows how
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to use.
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Dahlia had learned from a very young age
that she could use her body to
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manipulate men to get money, to get, you
know, anything that she wanted.
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I mean, she owned every man in her life.
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unsettling and bizarre as to the hold
that she had on these men and what she
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could get them to do.
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Though he's not aware of it, Mike is
just one of many men under Dahlia's
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She had these really short shorts on,
this really tight, tight shirt.
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I mean, she was cute.
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Mohammed Shehadeh first met Dahlia in
the early 2000s.
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when she visited his convenience store
in Boca Raton, Florida.
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I don't remember what she bought, but
she bought something small, and then
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minutes later she came and bought again
something small.
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Another five minutes later she came back
and bought another thing.
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I remember her saying, well, aren't you
going to ask me for my phone number?
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Soon, Mohammed and Dahlia become
friends, with benefit.
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But as they get to know each other, he
says he sees her more demanding side.
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You know, always wanted to go there,
travel there, travel there, take me
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do this, do that. You know, if she
didn't get what she wanted, you could
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heat a little bit in her.
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After a few years, Dahlia moves to
California.
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And Mohammed says they lose touch for
now.
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Out west, she promotes herself online as
a Colombian college girl looking to
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steam things up.
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Living in Orange County.
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She's supported by another doting male
admirer with whom she shares a bed.
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She had a sugar daddy and a guy named
Michael Stanley.
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This guy was a successful businessman.
He was a contractor.
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He had done very well for himself.
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When Dahlia returns to Florida around
2008, she finds a new Mike, Mike
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a man who's also found success.
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but is clearly no saint.
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Mike DiPolito had a little bit of a rap
sheet already.
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Mike DiPolito was raised on the wrong
side of the tracks in Philadelphia.
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He admitted that he had a drug problem,
had gone to rehab.
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Now, after a lifetime of troubles, Mike
finally feels that with Dahlia, he's
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found something good.
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We met, and it was everything about it.
We just clicked.
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You know, be it our sex life, be it just
our spare time, be it the things we
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like, all that. And it just happened.
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Mike quickly divorces his first wife and
marries Dahlia. And the newlyweds move
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into a condo that he purchases.
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This was their love shack. This was
their forever home.
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Right there in Boynton Beach.
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A nice, cool little quarter million
dollar condo.
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She sends him love notes.
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And things seemed like they couldn't be
much better.
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You know, Mike described that they had a
very, very active, very good sex life.
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She was a cult leader, and he was her
congregation, so that he was
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not very aware of what was going on
around him.
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Next on American Greed, hand in hand
till death do they part.
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Never saw it coming. No, never saw it
coming.
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I just, I never saw that coming in a
million years. No.
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I started giving my wife money because
she was going to provide me with the
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other half of the money for probation.
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When Mike DiPolito meets Dahlia, he
finished a two -year stint in prison for
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his role in a boiler room operation.
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Basically what we did, we represented
ourselves as trading foreign currency
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options, whereas there was no option to
be traded.
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Now he's dealing with 28 years of
probation.
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and is saddled with cumbersome
restrictions until he pays $191 ,000 in
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restitution to his victims.
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And Dahlia was always wanting to take
trips that might...
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Would have to say, I can't go because
I'm on probation and we can't do this
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we can't go to Miami for dinner. It did
become a little bit of a source of
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contention between the two of them.
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Honey, we can't leave the county. You
know, you're not even allowed to travel.
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We, you know, I didn't sign up for this.
We got to get you off probation.
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Mike has plenty of cash in the bank to
help pay off his restitution.
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But former prosecutor Elizabeth Parker
says.
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that as the convicted fraudster, if he
writes the check, questions might arise
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about its source.
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You know, the reason he's on probation
is because he scammed people, and
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certainly there is a school of thought,
you know, amongst the prosecutors, you
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know, that maybe the money that he had
currently was not legitimate funds.
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If she was writing the checks on his
behalf, it's going to look a lot better
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than if he's coming up with...
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this money that he might not otherwise
be able to account for.
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Dahlia quickly, you know, volunteered,
yes, you know, I'll help you get off
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probation. In fact, I'll pay half of
what you owe. Just send me $100 ,000 and
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I'll make up the difference, which was,
I think, around $91 ,000.
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And I'm like, absolutely, let's do it.
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You know, I'm thinking, why not? This is
great. You know, she's pushing me
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forward too.
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Soon after their wedding day, Mike
begins writing checks to Dahlia.
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He also adds her name to the new love
nest he's bought.
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But it's not long before he learns that
trusting his new wife might not have
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been the best idea.
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As soon as that wire was to be sent, the
games began.
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It was off to the races with the games.
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Dahlia is supposed to use Mike's money
to help him get off probation.
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But that never happened.
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I mean, anybody that ever gets in
trouble, believe me, always wants to get
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of trouble. I mean, in my day, I thought
I'd come. I thought we made this
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payment, you know, it's in a form of a
wire that's supposed to be arriving any
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day.
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The wire's not there.
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You know, my lawyer's like, I don't
know, Mike, I don't see it.
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In truth, Dahlia is blowing through
Mike's money, spending it on clothes,
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tanning, and jewelry, then withdrawing
much of it as cash.
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And that's just the first part of her
devious plan.
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She immediately realized how long that
his sentence could be if he violated his
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probation.
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In her mind, from what we gathered in
court, the easiest way to do that was to
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get him arrested.
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It's crazy when you think about it, you
know. But for a woman like her,
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you know, if she walked away with a half
a million dollars in cash and assets
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and he's cooling his butt in prison,
that's exactly where she wanted to be.
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To enact this plan, Dahlia reconnects
with an old flame, a man she hasn't seen
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in years.
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Her old lover, Mohamed Shihade.
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She said, I want you to help me, you
know, get drugs or, you know, get him to
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violate probation.
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Because she knew if she violated
probation, he'd be going away for a long
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In mid -March, she buys Mohamed a Range
Rover with $38 ,000 of her husband's
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money.
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Around this time, police records show
that Mohamed connects her with a cop who
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frequents his convenience store.
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She calls this cop.
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She says, this guy, Dipolito, he's
selling drugs, and I'll pay you.
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I will literally pay you to bust him.
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The cop turned down her shady offer, but
she's far from done.
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Over the next few weeks, numerous
agencies pay Mike unwanted visits after
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receiving anonymous tips that he's
stealing drugs.
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Five and a half years on probation, I
didn't have one run -in with the police.
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I'm with this girl six months, and the
whole police department knows me. And I
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might as well, you know, I might as well
glow fluorescent, you know. I should
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just put lights on me.
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Since getting out of prison, Mike says
he's gone clean.
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But on March 29th, in the parking lot of
an outdoor shopping mall, cops search
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his SUV and find a small amount of
cocaine stashed inside a cigarette pack.
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You know, I actually started crying to
this cop. I said, I can't believe it. I
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don't know what's going on.
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And the cop's just talking to me and
he's asking me about my sobriety. And
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like, look, man, I haven't done anything
in five and a half years.
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And, you know, I don't know how, why or
what happened.
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They let me go.
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As Dahlia drives him home that night,
Mike realizes she's the only person who
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knew they'd be at the mall.
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And that was the very first time Mike's
kind of antenna went up, and he looked
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at Dahlia, and he asked her, did you
plant these drugs?
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Did you have anything to do with it?
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And her reaction?
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Bam.
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Pedal to the metal, 100 -plus miles an
hour down the interstate. How dare you?
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How dare you accuse me of that?
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And I'm like, fine, fine, just stop,
just stop. I thought you were going to
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us.
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Next on American Greed, Dahlia puts her
dirty fingers to work.
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Double X -rated, if that's even a
rating. They were very, very steamy text
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messages.
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And lures another man into her devious
scheme.
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He strikes me as a very lonely guy.
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On the day of his wife's arrest, Mike
DiPolito tells police the reason he
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his wife has been plotting against him.
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Nobody knew we were there. Nobody had
access to my vehicle. What was the
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motivation to do that?
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You're on probation.
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At that point, yes.
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And at that point, she already had
stolen a hundred and some thousand
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from me.
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And so now I'm out a hundred thousand
dollars and she got me involved in
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scheme.
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to where I lost another $90 ,000 or
another $100 ,000 trying to, you know.
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Basically, I lost $240 ,000 with this
girl.
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After handing over $100 ,000, Mike
DiPolito says that because of his wife,
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loses nearly $140 ,000 more.
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It was like the worst kind of comedy. It
was like, who's on first? What's going
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on? Where's my money?
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Still, Mike has more that Dahlia wants.
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And she needs to make sure he doesn't
kick her to the curb.
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To buy time, she comes to him with news.
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She's pregnant.
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You know, she went as far as to be
taking prenatal vitamins and reading
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books with me and picking baby names.
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She was, A, buying time, B, diverting
his attention
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from the fact that she was embezzling
all his money, and C...
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Getting his sympathy, she knew what she
was doing. She was evil.
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Whatever her motivation, Dahlia can only
maintain her pregnancy story for so
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long. Any day, he's going to figure out
that that's a lie, too. So she's really
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backed into a corner.
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With the clock ticking, Dahlia turns to
a third lover for help, Mike Stanley,
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the man she once lived with in
California.
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Not having spoken to Stanley for months,
Dahlia begins to send him text
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messages.
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She knew the right buttons to press.
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She knew the right things to say.
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And it's a couple of text messages.
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She'd set the hook and reel him right
back in again. It was almost like magic.
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Before long, they're reunited.
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And Dahlia and Stanley text about having
her husband's probation violated.
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And planting drugs in his car.
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She also recruits him to play a role in
her scheme.
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She tells Mike Stanley that
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She needs him to play a fake lawyer and
to call Mike DiPolito and give him legal
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advice.
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The advice DiPolito receives?
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To get off probation, he needs to move
his townhouse solely into his wife's
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name. Mike DiPolito's sitting there
saying, well, you know, there's a lawyer
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here. This is the advice.
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God, I'm going to get off probation.
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All right, let's do it. And sure enough,
they get in the car and they travel to
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the title company and they transfer the
house out of Mike's name and solely into
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Dahlia's name. On paper, she thinks she
owns that property.
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But the reality was Florida is a 50 -50
mutual
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property state. In other words, it
doesn't matter.
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whose name is on the deed, the only way
she could have become the sole owner of
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that condominium is if he wound up dead.
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And so, at the end of July, Dahlia meets
her old lover, Mohamed Shehadeh, at a
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gas station near the interstate in
Boynton Beach.
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He says that during their meeting, she
asks him about a hitman.
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and then tries to steal a gun he has in
his car.
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I didn't know if she was going to do
something with the guns or if she was
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to give them to somebody to do something
for them. So the first thing I thought
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was my defense.
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You know, obviously they're registered
to me. They're in my name.
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They're legally held in me.
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You know, when your guns are gone
missing, whatever happens to those guns
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on your liability. So I did what I could
to protect myself.
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I swear.
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On July 31st, 2009, Mohammed goes to the
Boynton Beach Police Department to talk
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about his stolen weapon.
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First, she grabbed my gun out of my
glove compartment. I went inside to grab
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Red Bull and pack of cigarettes.
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I came back. I put my wallet back in the
glove compartment.
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Didn't see my gun.
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Seen a purse next to her. I opened her
purse.
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I seen my gun in her purse.
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I took the gun out of the purse, put it
back in the glove compartment.
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I got really mad. I told her to get the
hell out of the car.
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But that's not all he has to say.
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She asked if I knew someone who can kill
her husband for her.
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I said, basically, no, I don't.
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And when did she ask you that?
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Yesterday. Yesterday?
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Okay.
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Are you scared for the guy?
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Yes.
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Next on American Greed.
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Police draw Dahlia to a well
-constructed crime scene.
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But there's something they aren't
telling her. I just think it's
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murder porn with a twist. And the twist
is, there's no murder.
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It's the day after Mohammed Shahadeh
first
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ratted out his lover to the cops.
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Now he's working for them.
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Are you good to go? Yeah, I'm good to
go. All right.
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At their request, he's told Dalia
DiPolito that he can get her a hitman.
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And they're watching as Dalia gets in
his car.
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She has no idea Mohammed is wearing a
recorder, and that he's even told police
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that with her, they shouldn't hide it in
his pants.
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You know, when you meet somebody in the
car, in the parking lot, you know, stuff
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happens, so pants was the wrong place to
put it.
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Mohammed's concerns prove unfounded.
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The only business they get down to is
discussing a hitman, working out an
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initial down payment for his deadly
services.
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To make sure the job gets done, she
gives Mohammed a
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picture of her home and two photos of
the man she wants dead.
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As she plots her husband's death, Dahlia
hardly seems worried about getting
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caught.
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And
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with
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that, she hands over the cash.
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As soon as she hands him money, done
deal.
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They could have swooped in and made a
bust right there.
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They didn't. This story is just
beginning to play itself out.
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After having Mohammed make an intro,
cops are watching two days later as
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goes to meet the so -called hitman,
who's actually an undercover police
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Even though the consequences of this
meeting are dire, Dahlia bats her
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as though she's meeting a new escort
client.
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Dahlia listens intently as he explains
what he has planned.
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She likes what she hears.
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So they discuss a fair price, and she
gives him directions to the love nest
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shares with Mike.
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As they make plans, Dahlia agrees to
clear out at the appointed time.
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And Dahlia let this supposed murderer
know just how certain she is.
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Dahlia is 5 ,000 % sure.
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And so, on the morning of August 5th, as
she prepares to leave her house, It
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seems that a slight worry may be
crossing her mind.
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Just not for the husband who she thinks
will soon be dead.
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At the end of the day, she doesn't know
this hitman from Adam, and she doesn't
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want him taking her assets, taking her
jewelry. She leaves and she goes to the
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gym. She had over $30 ,000 worth of
jewelry in her expensive
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Prada bag.
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Dahlia DiPolito is a horrible person,
right to the core. All you have to look
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is the fact that she cleared out the
house of all the valuables on the very
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of this intended hit to make sure that
no matter what, she got hers.
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When Dahlia heads to the gym, cops clear
Mike out of his home and get to work
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constructing the perfect scene for their
big reveal.
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The entire street is blocked off.
There's police cars everywhere.
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There's crime scene tape.
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They had one guy stationed at the door
looking like he was lifting prints. You
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know, they had everything in place. They
had cameras going.
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And there was no murder. It was just all
to see her reactions. And they really
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wanted to make her believe that Mike
DiPolito was dead.
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I'm Sergeant Ramsey. I'm the one that
called you. Thank you for coming. I'm
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sorry to call you. Listen, we had a
report of a disturbance at your house,
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there were shots fired.
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Is your husband Michael?
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Okay, I'm sorry to tell you, ma 'am,
he's been killed.
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He's been killed, ma 'am.
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Generally, that kind of shocking news
that is given to somebody, it takes a
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for it to register.
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But before he said the word killed.
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She's already crying. Okay, I'm sorry to
tell you, ma 'am, he's been killed.
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The tape is a wondrous thing to behold.
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She thinks she's zooming them.
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They know that they're zooming her.
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We're going to do everything we can,
okay?
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So we need your help. And everything is
just all coming together into this
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dramatic moment where she falls apart in
this false grief.
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And then it's just pure histrionics from
then out all the way through.
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Next on American Greed, the cops have a
surprise for Danyam.
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There's no more games with you and I.
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Now we're going to get down to serious
business.
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I want to know if you know this guy.
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Come here.
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Bring this guy in here.
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This investigation has been going on
since Friday night.
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Fortunately, you know, we ended up
getting ourselves involved in, you know,
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preventing this from happening to you.
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You say it doesn't surprise you at all,
huh? No.
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It's like a bad movie, you know.
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On August 5th, 2009, Boynton Beach
police are talking to both Mike DiPolito
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his wife Dahlia, who doesn't yet know
what she's stepped into.
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And seems more than confident that she
can find a way out.
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Dolly is sitting there thinking, they
don't have anything on me.
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They don't know.
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00:30:24,411 --> 00:30:28,319
Are you sure that you don't know anybody
who would want to kill your husband?
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You would want to kill him.
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Not at all.
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But she has no idea the evidence that
law enforcement had until they start to
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unfold that evidence piece by piece.
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I want to know if you know this guy.
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Come here.
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Put this guy in here.
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This guy is the undercover cop whose car
Dahlia sat in just days ago, saying she
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was 5 ,000 % sure she wanted him to kill
her husband.
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You know who this guy is?
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No. You've never seen him before?
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I've never seen him before, ever. Do you
know her?
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Put your head up and look at her. Put
your head up.
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I've never seen him.
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What were you doing coming out of her
house?
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He's not here.
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00:31:28,750 --> 00:31:32,210
You're going to jail today for
solicitation of murder. You're under
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That's an undercover police officer.
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What do you want to do?
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What do you want to do here? I didn't do
anything.
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00:31:40,350 --> 00:31:41,970
Listen to me. I didn't do anything.
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You're going to jail.
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00:31:45,301 --> 00:31:48,179
Tell me you didn't do anything.
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00:31:48,180 --> 00:31:49,230
I didn't do anything.
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You're going to jail today.
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Police have Dahlia dead to rights.
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And after putting her in cuffs, they
have another surprise.
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The husband she wanted dead survived her
best efforts.
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And they walk him by her open door.
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Come here.
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As she leaves the police station,
charged with a
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single count of solicitation to commit
first -degree murder,
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Dahlia declares her innocence before an
already gathering media frenzy.
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She continues to make the claim from
behind bars that same day, placing an
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unexpected call to her husband.
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Amazingly, after trying to have him
killed, she wants him to help her hire a
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lawyer and tries to convince him that
this is all one big misunderstanding.
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how you're going to actually have the
nerve to sit here and lie to me now.
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00:33:25,650 --> 00:33:26,700
I don't understand.
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Like, I heard you say it, Dahlia. I saw
your mouth do it.
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00:33:33,090 --> 00:33:34,140
Okay?
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00:33:35,250 --> 00:33:39,310
I can't help you even if I wanted to. Do
you get it? Why don't you want to?
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00:33:40,170 --> 00:33:42,490
It's out of my hands. You're not even
trying.
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00:33:42,491 --> 00:33:45,929
It's different if you're trying. You're
not even trying. What could I possibly
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do for you?
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I don't get it. What could I do?
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You're not even trying.
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As she again attempts to manipulate him,
Mike makes his wife an offer.
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While she's locked up, he'll look after
her mother if she gives him back his
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townhouse.
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Next on American Greed, a questionable
decision by police officers.
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It just boggles my mind that they
allowed the cop show to be part of this.
459
00:34:49,179 --> 00:34:51,300
Will it give Dahlia a shot at freedom?
460
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:55,860
This is a case about a rogue police
department.
461
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,010
Okay, I'm sorry to tell you, ma 'am,
he's been killed.
462
00:35:09,740 --> 00:35:10,960
He's been killed, ma 'am.
463
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:16,020
If the saga of Dahlia DiPolito seems too
good to be true...
464
00:35:16,380 --> 00:35:19,380
Some observers say there's a reason why.
465
00:35:20,100 --> 00:35:25,480
You couldn't have handed the media a
better story. It has sex.
466
00:35:25,700 --> 00:35:28,200
It has a murder plot.
467
00:35:28,460 --> 00:35:31,240
It has a femme fatale.
468
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:35,140
It really has all the elements for good
TV.
469
00:35:35,460 --> 00:35:37,700
Why? Because it was good TV.
470
00:35:37,900 --> 00:35:39,500
They put on an amazing show.
471
00:35:39,740 --> 00:35:44,639
As the sting was ramping up, The Boynton
Beach Police Department invited the
472
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:48,020
show Cops to film the final hours of
their operation.
473
00:35:49,620 --> 00:35:52,990
You need to come with me to the police
station. You're not in trouble.
474
00:35:53,260 --> 00:35:55,540
Your wife has hired a person to kill
you.
475
00:35:55,920 --> 00:36:00,700
In the years ahead, the department's
decision will come back to haunt them.
476
00:36:01,240 --> 00:36:08,119
I just, it just boggles my mind that
they allowed the cop show to be part
477
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:11,400
of this. Essentially, what they were
doing was...
478
00:36:11,740 --> 00:36:16,520
Setting up her original defense, the
reality show defense.
479
00:36:23,860 --> 00:36:30,420
When Jalya goes to trial in 2011, her
lawyers try to say she's not a criminal.
480
00:36:30,740 --> 00:36:34,560
She's the victim of her husband's desire
for fame.
481
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:40,140
The evidence will show that the plot for
the contract killing of Mike DiBellito.
482
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:42,200
was never real.
483
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:44,520
It was a stunt.
484
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:51,480
It was a hoax, a ruse, a plan that Mike
DiPolito, whether he'll admit it or not,
485
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:56,640
hoped to capture the attention of
someone in reality TV.
486
00:36:57,620 --> 00:36:58,900
Mike's take on this?
487
00:36:59,240 --> 00:37:01,140
The silliest thing I've ever heard.
488
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:06,079
I mean, completely made up. And to walk
in that courtroom and to make that
489
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,160
accusation and to not back it up at all,
490
00:37:10,830 --> 00:37:13,150
you know, is even sillier.
491
00:37:13,410 --> 00:37:16,070
Mike DiPolito, however, had other ideas.
492
00:37:16,350 --> 00:37:20,150
And the result has been devastating to
Dahlia DiPolito.
493
00:37:22,590 --> 00:37:26,190
Prosecutor Elizabeth Parker calls Mike
as the first witness.
494
00:37:27,010 --> 00:37:28,870
I thought we had a good marriage.
495
00:37:29,270 --> 00:37:30,530
We had some issues.
496
00:37:31,530 --> 00:37:36,009
She also presents the many texts in
which Dahlia and her lover Mike Stanley
497
00:37:36,010 --> 00:37:37,810
plotted against her husband.
498
00:37:37,811 --> 00:37:41,449
She speaks to him for eight minutes. And
during that phone call, she gets a text
499
00:37:41,450 --> 00:37:43,130
from her husband, Mike DiBellito.
500
00:37:43,131 --> 00:37:47,249
And she texts Mike DiBellito back while
she's still on the phone with Mike
501
00:37:47,250 --> 00:37:48,770
Stanley. And she says, love you.
502
00:37:49,770 --> 00:37:53,690
And she lets the undercover police
videos speak for themselves.
503
00:37:53,691 --> 00:37:57,709
By the time you get back from the gym,
you're going to find two things. Dead
504
00:37:57,710 --> 00:37:59,990
body in the house, all right, or
nothing.
505
00:38:00,370 --> 00:38:01,420
All right.
506
00:38:01,900 --> 00:38:06,759
After a two -week trial, the jury takes
less than three hours to decide Dahlia's
507
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:11,899
fate. That's account one. We find the
defendant guilty of solicitation to
508
00:38:11,900 --> 00:38:12,980
parts -degree murder.
509
00:38:13,340 --> 00:38:17,100
DiPolito returns to court the next month
for sentencing.
510
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:21,959
I'll find you guilty, I'll adjudicate
you guilty, and I'm sentencing you to 20
511
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:26,399
years in the Department of Corrections.
I think that I'm sorry, it's my fault, I
512
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,240
did it, would have gone a long way.
513
00:38:28,730 --> 00:38:33,670
Dahlia once said she's 5 ,000 % sure she
wanted her husband dead.
514
00:38:34,130 --> 00:38:37,870
And when he leaves the courtroom, he
voices his opinion.
515
00:38:38,330 --> 00:38:43,249
I wish we were never here. And as far as
the sentence, I'm 5 ,000 % happy with
516
00:38:43,250 --> 00:38:44,310
it. That's all for now.
517
00:38:46,250 --> 00:38:51,509
But that's not all for Dahlia. Okay, and
at what point in time during this
518
00:38:51,510 --> 00:38:55,830
questioning did Sergeant Sheridan
finally tell you about my address?
519
00:38:57,930 --> 00:38:58,980
At the end.
520
00:38:59,030 --> 00:39:05,749
In 2014, she's granted a new trial on
appeal and begins preparations with a
521
00:39:05,750 --> 00:39:06,810
team of attorneys.
522
00:39:07,410 --> 00:39:10,670
Are you aware whether Cops was filming
the staged crime scene?
523
00:39:11,290 --> 00:39:13,790
Yes, Cops was filming the staged crime
scene.
524
00:39:14,050 --> 00:39:18,889
This time around, her lawyers still
argue Dahlia was set up for a shot at
525
00:39:18,890 --> 00:39:20,170
reality TV fame.
526
00:39:20,860 --> 00:39:25,859
Just not by Mike. They argue that the
Boynton Beach, Florida Police Department
527
00:39:25,860 --> 00:39:31,699
overstepped its authority by creating
this fake crime scene and producing a
528
00:39:31,700 --> 00:39:35,839
video, a video that they say was good
television, all created, they say,
529
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:37,840
for the reality TV show Cops.
530
00:39:41,500 --> 00:39:47,500
When the second trial begins in late
2016, seven years after Dahlia's arrest,
531
00:39:48,090 --> 00:39:51,090
America is undergoing a major societal
shift.
532
00:39:53,750 --> 00:39:59,430
Michelle Quesada covers the proceedings
for WPTV in West Palm Beach.
533
00:39:59,750 --> 00:40:02,430
It was great timing for her defense
team.
534
00:40:02,690 --> 00:40:07,949
You need to pay attention in this case
to the conduct of the Boynton Beach
535
00:40:07,950 --> 00:40:08,969
Police Department.
536
00:40:08,970 --> 00:40:13,309
There was so much animosity between
society and police officers in so many
537
00:40:13,310 --> 00:40:16,130
cities across the country, and they used
this.
538
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:20,000
and were able to make the argument,
well, this was a rogue police
539
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:26,680
This purported investigation had zero,
zero integrity, none.
540
00:40:28,020 --> 00:40:33,099
Boynton Beach police declined offers to
be interviewed by American Greed, but
541
00:40:33,100 --> 00:40:37,539
say they have always stood by the
principled work of their detectives in
542
00:40:37,540 --> 00:40:43,179
case. For Dahlia's defense team,
however, attacking the police department
543
00:40:43,180 --> 00:40:44,230
winning strategy.
544
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:51,059
On the record at this time, I'm now
declaring this case mistried by virtue
545
00:40:51,060 --> 00:40:53,830
the fact that the jury cannot reach
unanimous verdict.
546
00:40:54,540 --> 00:40:59,679
Even though Dahlia and her lawyer
celebrate, six months later, the case
547
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:01,440
a jury for a third time.
548
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:08,139
We, the jury, find as follows. As to
count one, we find the defendant guilty
549
00:41:08,140 --> 00:41:11,990
solicitation to commit first -degree
murder as charged in the information.
550
00:41:12,940 --> 00:41:15,740
Once again found guilty at sentencing.
551
00:41:16,220 --> 00:41:20,619
Her attorneys reveal that during years
of home detention, Dahlia's become a
552
00:41:20,620 --> 00:41:21,670
mother.
553
00:41:21,980 --> 00:41:26,260
It's a fact that in the end gains her
little sympathy from the judge.
554
00:41:27,380 --> 00:41:31,819
It's my job to pass sentence, and that's
what I'm doing. So it's 16 years with
555
00:41:31,820 --> 00:41:33,760
credit for 163 days time served.
556
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:40,160
Dahlia did not respond to a request from
American Greed for comment.
557
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:43,700
Her days as a vicious vixen now behind
her.
558
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:48,239
She has plenty of time to think about
the scheming and plotting that got her
559
00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:49,290
here.
560
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:56,719
While she continues to appeal her case,
many are left to wonder how this insane
561
00:41:56,720 --> 00:42:01,580
tale of love, lies, and lust could
really be true.
562
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:04,440
Hey, it's Florida.
563
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:09,640
It really does boil down to that. It's
Florida.
564
00:42:14,090 --> 00:42:19,529
The cruel Internet fraud leaves a trail
of broken parts and empty wallets. Every
565
00:42:19,530 --> 00:42:23,089
day they're out there trolling the
Internet looking for unsuspecting
566
00:42:23,090 --> 00:42:25,150
American Greed, coming up next.
567
00:42:25,670 --> 00:42:27,310
CNBC, get yours.
568
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:31,910
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