1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:08,140 In this episode of American Greed, this story begins and ends with sex. 2 00:00:08,900 --> 00:00:13,600 South Florida newlywed Dahlia DiPolito takes her husband's money. 3 00:00:14,140 --> 00:00:18,520 Dahlia was the puppeteer. She manipulated everybody. She called the 4 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:21,960 did what she wanted. Then she plots to take his life. 5 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:25,800 She was talking about having me killed, like ordering, you know, a bologna 6 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:26,800 sandwich. 7 00:00:30,270 --> 00:00:33,950 Didn't mean anything to her, you know, and that's the creepy part of it. It's a 8 00:00:33,950 --> 00:00:36,330 real -life made -for -TV tale. 9 00:00:36,710 --> 00:00:38,670 Okay, I'm sorry to tell you, ma 'am, he's been killed. 10 00:00:40,790 --> 00:00:44,510 With a femme fatale you won't soon forget. 11 00:00:44,810 --> 00:00:48,450 She's not a sweet, little, innocent girl. 12 00:00:49,070 --> 00:00:51,810 I didn't do anything, and I didn't want anything. 13 00:00:52,130 --> 00:00:53,130 She will manipulate. 14 00:01:01,140 --> 00:01:04,900 But will she hire someone to kill? 15 00:01:31,630 --> 00:01:38,130 On an early August morning, newlywed Dahlia DiPolito is at this Florida gym 16 00:01:38,130 --> 00:01:42,090 she gets a life -changing call from the Boynton Beach Police Department. 17 00:01:45,450 --> 00:01:46,050 Ma 18 00:01:46,050 --> 00:01:57,190 'am, 19 00:01:57,230 --> 00:02:00,430 I'll tell you everything you need to know when you get here. Okay? Thank you. 20 00:02:03,990 --> 00:02:05,150 Married just six months, 21 00:02:05,910 --> 00:02:11,070 Dahlia returns home, where cameras bear witness as she receives the news that 22 00:02:11,070 --> 00:02:12,590 every spouse fears. 23 00:02:13,750 --> 00:02:14,750 Mr. Pulido? 24 00:02:15,090 --> 00:02:18,210 I'm Sergeant Ramsey. I'm the one that called you. Thank you for coming. I'm 25 00:02:18,210 --> 00:02:21,990 sorry to call you. Listen, we had a report of a disturbance at your house, 26 00:02:21,990 --> 00:02:22,990 there were shots fired. 27 00:02:23,190 --> 00:02:24,290 Is your husband Michael? 28 00:02:25,070 --> 00:02:27,030 Okay, I'm sorry to tell you, ma 'am, he's been killed. 29 00:02:28,490 --> 00:02:29,530 He's been killed, ma 'am. 30 00:02:32,140 --> 00:02:38,480 As the news sinks in, she appears inconsolable, and police escort her to a 31 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:39,480 waiting car. 32 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:42,440 At 33 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:49,360 the 34 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:54,240 police station, Danya is ushered into a small room where a detective comes to 35 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,700 greet her, and at first, to comfort her as well. 36 00:02:58,540 --> 00:03:00,240 First of all, let me just tell you... 37 00:03:14,900 --> 00:03:18,780 As questioning begins, the cops lean on her for help. 38 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:23,060 But a few minutes in, things take a turn. 39 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:27,240 Are you sure that you don't know anybody who'd want to kill your husband? 40 00:03:27,640 --> 00:03:29,120 You wouldn't want to kill my husband. 41 00:03:30,350 --> 00:03:31,350 Not at all. 42 00:03:32,910 --> 00:03:37,130 We are fine. Like, there's nothing. There's no problems between you guys? No 43 00:03:37,130 --> 00:03:38,190 financial problems? 44 00:03:38,410 --> 00:03:42,170 No... I mean, with your family? You and him? 45 00:03:42,530 --> 00:03:43,590 No, there's nothing. 46 00:03:43,950 --> 00:03:48,950 What this grieving widow doesn't know is that her late husband of just half a 47 00:03:48,950 --> 00:03:50,630 year isn't dead. 48 00:03:51,530 --> 00:03:53,230 He's actually here at the station. 49 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:56,260 receiving some shocking news of his own. 50 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:57,800 The 51 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:08,220 unbelievable 52 00:04:08,220 --> 00:04:14,200 story of these two star -crossed lovers begins less than a year earlier with an 53 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:15,300 unlikely encounter. 54 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:18,360 I can tell you I didn't meet her in church. 55 00:04:19,180 --> 00:04:24,510 One fateful night, with his first wife out of town, Mike DiPolito goes looking 56 00:04:24,510 --> 00:04:27,630 for extramarital action and finds Dahlia. 57 00:04:27,970 --> 00:04:31,690 Mike contacted Dahlia through an escort website. 58 00:04:32,230 --> 00:04:38,430 He sees a nice, curvy, dusky, exotic woman for like 300 bucks. 59 00:04:38,650 --> 00:04:40,470 And he's like, wow, why not? 60 00:04:40,710 --> 00:04:45,370 He paid her for her services that day, but they had, as he described it, a very 61 00:04:45,370 --> 00:04:46,370 unusual connection. 62 00:04:48,490 --> 00:04:49,490 Typical love story. 63 00:04:50,860 --> 00:04:54,080 If Mike likes what he sees, so does Dahlia. 64 00:04:54,780 --> 00:05:00,240 DiPolito runs a successful marketing company, drives a Porsche, and clearly 65 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:01,260 cash to spare. 66 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:07,800 One date leads to others, and soon a bond is formed. 67 00:05:08,260 --> 00:05:12,000 When I met Dahlia, we seemed to connect instantly. 68 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:16,520 We would spend days together and... 69 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:20,920 We shared a lot of the same interests, and we would do things together all the 70 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:24,080 time, and it just, we hit it off right away. 71 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:26,100 Things move fast. 72 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:30,560 But just who is the woman Mike has welcomed into his life? 73 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:33,460 So Dahlia grew up here in South Florida. 74 00:05:33,980 --> 00:05:37,860 My understanding is in a very strict Catholic home. 75 00:05:39,220 --> 00:05:40,780 Went to religious school. 76 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:45,200 You know, she could have had a nice life in Florida, but as soon as she turned 77 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:49,580 18... Things took a different direction for Dahlia. 78 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:58,260 That direction is largely dictated by a power Dahlia possesses and knows how 79 00:05:58,260 --> 00:05:59,260 to use. 80 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:06,180 Dahlia had learned from a very young age that she could use her body to 81 00:06:06,180 --> 00:06:10,300 manipulate men to get money, to get, you know, anything that she wanted. 82 00:06:10,620 --> 00:06:13,800 I mean, she owned every man in her life. 83 00:06:16,409 --> 00:06:22,390 unsettling and bizarre as to the hold that she had on these men and what she 84 00:06:22,390 --> 00:06:23,750 could get them to do. 85 00:06:24,650 --> 00:06:30,690 Though he's not aware of it, Mike is just one of many men under Dahlia's 86 00:06:31,170 --> 00:06:34,370 She had these really short shorts on, this really tight, tight shirt. 87 00:06:34,650 --> 00:06:35,650 I mean, she was cute. 88 00:06:39,790 --> 00:06:43,690 Mohammed Shehadeh first met Dahlia in the early 2000s. 89 00:06:44,010 --> 00:06:47,610 when she visited his convenience store in Boca Raton, Florida. 90 00:06:48,810 --> 00:06:51,710 I don't remember what she bought, but she bought something small, and then 91 00:06:51,710 --> 00:06:53,910 minutes later she came and bought again something small. 92 00:06:54,130 --> 00:06:56,810 Another five minutes later she came back and bought another thing. 93 00:06:57,310 --> 00:07:00,970 I remember her saying, well, aren't you going to ask me for my phone number? 94 00:07:02,150 --> 00:07:06,370 Soon, Mohammed and Dahlia become friends, with benefit. 95 00:07:07,750 --> 00:07:12,970 But as they get to know each other, he says he sees her more demanding side. 96 00:07:14,190 --> 00:07:17,410 You know, always wanted to go there, travel there, travel there, take me 97 00:07:17,470 --> 00:07:21,050 do this, do that. You know, if she didn't get what she wanted, you could 98 00:07:21,050 --> 00:07:22,050 heat a little bit in her. 99 00:07:23,530 --> 00:07:25,950 After a few years, Dahlia moves to California. 100 00:07:26,530 --> 00:07:30,110 And Mohammed says they lose touch for now. 101 00:07:31,630 --> 00:07:37,530 Out west, she promotes herself online as a Colombian college girl looking to 102 00:07:37,530 --> 00:07:39,070 steam things up. 103 00:07:39,910 --> 00:07:41,150 Living in Orange County. 104 00:07:41,690 --> 00:07:46,510 She's supported by another doting male admirer with whom she shares a bed. 105 00:07:46,870 --> 00:07:50,590 She had a sugar daddy and a guy named Michael Stanley. 106 00:07:50,970 --> 00:07:54,850 This guy was a successful businessman. He was a contractor. 107 00:07:55,170 --> 00:07:56,830 He had done very well for himself. 108 00:07:59,350 --> 00:08:05,870 When Dahlia returns to Florida around 2008, she finds a new Mike, Mike 109 00:08:06,150 --> 00:08:09,550 a man who's also found success. 110 00:08:10,170 --> 00:08:11,910 but is clearly no saint. 111 00:08:12,890 --> 00:08:15,370 Mike DiPolito had a little bit of a rap sheet already. 112 00:08:15,650 --> 00:08:19,910 Mike DiPolito was raised on the wrong side of the tracks in Philadelphia. 113 00:08:20,470 --> 00:08:23,490 He admitted that he had a drug problem, had gone to rehab. 114 00:08:25,550 --> 00:08:31,530 Now, after a lifetime of troubles, Mike finally feels that with Dahlia, he's 115 00:08:31,530 --> 00:08:32,590 found something good. 116 00:08:33,789 --> 00:08:37,169 We met, and it was everything about it. We just clicked. 117 00:08:37,820 --> 00:08:42,500 You know, be it our sex life, be it just our spare time, be it the things we 118 00:08:42,500 --> 00:08:44,580 like, all that. And it just happened. 119 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:49,940 Mike quickly divorces his first wife and marries Dahlia. And the newlyweds move 120 00:08:49,940 --> 00:08:52,080 into a condo that he purchases. 121 00:08:53,060 --> 00:08:56,900 This was their love shack. This was their forever home. 122 00:08:57,100 --> 00:08:58,900 Right there in Boynton Beach. 123 00:08:59,220 --> 00:09:03,140 A nice, cool little quarter million dollar condo. 124 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:05,700 She sends him love notes. 125 00:09:06,190 --> 00:09:09,010 And things seemed like they couldn't be much better. 126 00:09:09,370 --> 00:09:15,410 You know, Mike described that they had a very, very active, very good sex life. 127 00:09:15,610 --> 00:09:22,270 She was a cult leader, and he was her congregation, so that he was 128 00:09:22,270 --> 00:09:26,250 not very aware of what was going on around him. 129 00:09:27,050 --> 00:09:31,290 Next on American Greed, hand in hand till death do they part. 130 00:09:34,990 --> 00:09:37,830 Never saw it coming. No, never saw it coming. 131 00:09:38,250 --> 00:09:43,010 I just, I never saw that coming in a million years. No. 132 00:09:53,670 --> 00:09:58,030 I started giving my wife money because she was going to provide me with the 133 00:09:58,030 --> 00:09:59,550 other half of the money for probation. 134 00:10:07,020 --> 00:10:14,020 When Mike DiPolito meets Dahlia, he finished a two -year stint in prison for 135 00:10:14,020 --> 00:10:16,280 his role in a boiler room operation. 136 00:10:17,140 --> 00:10:21,380 Basically what we did, we represented ourselves as trading foreign currency 137 00:10:21,380 --> 00:10:24,340 options, whereas there was no option to be traded. 138 00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:29,420 Now he's dealing with 28 years of probation. 139 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:35,680 and is saddled with cumbersome restrictions until he pays $191 ,000 in 140 00:10:35,680 --> 00:10:37,680 restitution to his victims. 141 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:42,760 And Dahlia was always wanting to take trips that might... 142 00:10:42,970 --> 00:10:47,410 Would have to say, I can't go because I'm on probation and we can't do this 143 00:10:47,410 --> 00:10:50,950 we can't go to Miami for dinner. It did become a little bit of a source of 144 00:10:50,950 --> 00:10:52,770 contention between the two of them. 145 00:10:53,030 --> 00:10:57,950 Honey, we can't leave the county. You know, you're not even allowed to travel. 146 00:10:58,150 --> 00:11:02,110 We, you know, I didn't sign up for this. We got to get you off probation. 147 00:11:04,110 --> 00:11:07,710 Mike has plenty of cash in the bank to help pay off his restitution. 148 00:11:08,350 --> 00:11:10,870 But former prosecutor Elizabeth Parker says. 149 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:15,800 that as the convicted fraudster, if he writes the check, questions might arise 150 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:16,800 about its source. 151 00:11:17,560 --> 00:11:21,580 You know, the reason he's on probation is because he scammed people, and 152 00:11:21,580 --> 00:11:26,040 certainly there is a school of thought, you know, amongst the prosecutors, you 153 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:30,180 know, that maybe the money that he had currently was not legitimate funds. 154 00:11:30,460 --> 00:11:34,880 If she was writing the checks on his behalf, it's going to look a lot better 155 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:37,000 than if he's coming up with... 156 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:42,860 this money that he might not otherwise be able to account for. 157 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:48,620 Dahlia quickly, you know, volunteered, yes, you know, I'll help you get off 158 00:11:48,620 --> 00:11:54,380 probation. In fact, I'll pay half of what you owe. Just send me $100 ,000 and 159 00:11:54,380 --> 00:11:57,720 I'll make up the difference, which was, I think, around $91 ,000. 160 00:11:58,560 --> 00:12:00,620 And I'm like, absolutely, let's do it. 161 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:05,840 You know, I'm thinking, why not? This is great. You know, she's pushing me 162 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:06,840 forward too. 163 00:12:08,110 --> 00:12:12,410 Soon after their wedding day, Mike begins writing checks to Dahlia. 164 00:12:16,410 --> 00:12:20,470 He also adds her name to the new love nest he's bought. 165 00:12:21,170 --> 00:12:26,330 But it's not long before he learns that trusting his new wife might not have 166 00:12:26,330 --> 00:12:27,510 been the best idea. 167 00:12:28,310 --> 00:12:32,110 As soon as that wire was to be sent, the games began. 168 00:12:32,370 --> 00:12:34,430 It was off to the races with the games. 169 00:12:35,690 --> 00:12:39,170 Dahlia is supposed to use Mike's money to help him get off probation. 170 00:12:40,430 --> 00:12:41,810 But that never happened. 171 00:12:42,670 --> 00:12:46,130 I mean, anybody that ever gets in trouble, believe me, always wants to get 172 00:12:46,130 --> 00:12:49,690 of trouble. I mean, in my day, I thought I'd come. I thought we made this 173 00:12:49,690 --> 00:12:53,750 payment, you know, it's in a form of a wire that's supposed to be arriving any 174 00:12:53,750 --> 00:12:54,749 day. 175 00:12:54,750 --> 00:12:56,050 The wire's not there. 176 00:12:56,370 --> 00:12:59,010 You know, my lawyer's like, I don't know, Mike, I don't see it. 177 00:12:59,470 --> 00:13:04,710 In truth, Dahlia is blowing through Mike's money, spending it on clothes, 178 00:13:04,990 --> 00:13:09,630 tanning, and jewelry, then withdrawing much of it as cash. 179 00:13:10,310 --> 00:13:13,830 And that's just the first part of her devious plan. 180 00:13:14,330 --> 00:13:21,150 She immediately realized how long that his sentence could be if he violated his 181 00:13:21,150 --> 00:13:22,150 probation. 182 00:13:22,250 --> 00:13:26,290 In her mind, from what we gathered in court, the easiest way to do that was to 183 00:13:26,290 --> 00:13:27,269 get him arrested. 184 00:13:27,270 --> 00:13:33,650 It's crazy when you think about it, you know. But for a woman like her, 185 00:13:33,830 --> 00:13:38,510 you know, if she walked away with a half a million dollars in cash and assets 186 00:13:38,510 --> 00:13:44,090 and he's cooling his butt in prison, that's exactly where she wanted to be. 187 00:13:44,870 --> 00:13:50,950 To enact this plan, Dahlia reconnects with an old flame, a man she hasn't seen 188 00:13:50,950 --> 00:13:51,950 in years. 189 00:13:52,060 --> 00:13:54,580 Her old lover, Mohamed Shihade. 190 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:59,360 She said, I want you to help me, you know, get drugs or, you know, get him to 191 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:00,360 violate probation. 192 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:04,700 Because she knew if she violated probation, he'd be going away for a long 193 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:11,620 In mid -March, she buys Mohamed a Range Rover with $38 ,000 of her husband's 194 00:14:11,620 --> 00:14:12,620 money. 195 00:14:12,680 --> 00:14:17,720 Around this time, police records show that Mohamed connects her with a cop who 196 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:20,000 frequents his convenience store. 197 00:14:20,570 --> 00:14:21,790 She calls this cop. 198 00:14:21,990 --> 00:14:28,090 She says, this guy, Dipolito, he's selling drugs, and I'll pay you. 199 00:14:28,890 --> 00:14:33,610 I will literally pay you to bust him. 200 00:14:33,970 --> 00:14:38,990 The cop turned down her shady offer, but she's far from done. 201 00:14:39,770 --> 00:14:45,190 Over the next few weeks, numerous agencies pay Mike unwanted visits after 202 00:14:45,190 --> 00:14:48,370 receiving anonymous tips that he's stealing drugs. 203 00:14:59,170 --> 00:15:02,590 Five and a half years on probation, I didn't have one run -in with the police. 204 00:15:02,810 --> 00:15:08,150 I'm with this girl six months, and the whole police department knows me. And I 205 00:15:08,150 --> 00:15:12,030 might as well, you know, I might as well glow fluorescent, you know. I should 206 00:15:12,030 --> 00:15:13,030 just put lights on me. 207 00:15:15,170 --> 00:15:18,050 Since getting out of prison, Mike says he's gone clean. 208 00:15:18,700 --> 00:15:23,840 But on March 29th, in the parking lot of an outdoor shopping mall, cops search 209 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:29,060 his SUV and find a small amount of cocaine stashed inside a cigarette pack. 210 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:33,420 You know, I actually started crying to this cop. I said, I can't believe it. I 211 00:15:33,420 --> 00:15:34,420 don't know what's going on. 212 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:39,060 And the cop's just talking to me and he's asking me about my sobriety. And 213 00:15:39,060 --> 00:15:41,340 like, look, man, I haven't done anything in five and a half years. 214 00:15:42,180 --> 00:15:46,080 And, you know, I don't know how, why or what happened. 215 00:15:46,420 --> 00:15:47,420 They let me go. 216 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:53,620 As Dahlia drives him home that night, Mike realizes she's the only person who 217 00:15:53,620 --> 00:15:54,900 knew they'd be at the mall. 218 00:15:55,460 --> 00:15:59,820 And that was the very first time Mike's kind of antenna went up, and he looked 219 00:15:59,820 --> 00:16:03,160 at Dahlia, and he asked her, did you plant these drugs? 220 00:16:03,380 --> 00:16:05,160 Did you have anything to do with it? 221 00:16:05,500 --> 00:16:07,160 And her reaction? 222 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:08,560 Bam. 223 00:16:09,380 --> 00:16:14,880 Pedal to the metal, 100 -plus miles an hour down the interstate. How dare you? 224 00:16:15,260 --> 00:16:16,960 How dare you accuse me of that? 225 00:16:17,180 --> 00:16:20,400 And I'm like, fine, fine, just stop, just stop. I thought you were going to 226 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:21,400 us. 227 00:16:21,500 --> 00:16:26,480 Next on American Greed, Dahlia puts her dirty fingers to work. 228 00:16:26,980 --> 00:16:31,140 Double X -rated, if that's even a rating. They were very, very steamy text 229 00:16:31,140 --> 00:16:32,140 messages. 230 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:35,580 And lures another man into her devious scheme. 231 00:16:36,140 --> 00:16:38,320 He strikes me as a very lonely guy. 232 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:56,360 On the day of his wife's arrest, Mike DiPolito tells police the reason he 233 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:58,540 his wife has been plotting against him. 234 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:02,760 Nobody knew we were there. Nobody had access to my vehicle. What was the 235 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:04,240 motivation to do that? 236 00:17:04,460 --> 00:17:05,459 You're on probation. 237 00:17:05,460 --> 00:17:06,880 At that point, yes. 238 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:11,099 And at that point, she already had stolen a hundred and some thousand 239 00:17:11,099 --> 00:17:12,099 from me. 240 00:17:12,300 --> 00:17:16,579 And so now I'm out a hundred thousand dollars and she got me involved in 241 00:17:16,579 --> 00:17:17,579 scheme. 242 00:17:17,819 --> 00:17:21,579 to where I lost another $90 ,000 or another $100 ,000 trying to, you know. 243 00:17:22,140 --> 00:17:25,359 Basically, I lost $240 ,000 with this girl. 244 00:17:26,079 --> 00:17:33,040 After handing over $100 ,000, Mike DiPolito says that because of his wife, 245 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:35,220 loses nearly $140 ,000 more. 246 00:17:36,380 --> 00:17:40,640 It was like the worst kind of comedy. It was like, who's on first? What's going 247 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:41,800 on? Where's my money? 248 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:45,180 Still, Mike has more that Dahlia wants. 249 00:17:46,030 --> 00:17:49,470 And she needs to make sure he doesn't kick her to the curb. 250 00:17:50,630 --> 00:17:53,970 To buy time, she comes to him with news. 251 00:17:54,570 --> 00:17:55,570 She's pregnant. 252 00:17:55,770 --> 00:17:59,630 You know, she went as far as to be taking prenatal vitamins and reading 253 00:17:59,630 --> 00:18:01,810 books with me and picking baby names. 254 00:18:02,230 --> 00:18:08,730 She was, A, buying time, B, diverting his attention 255 00:18:08,730 --> 00:18:13,730 from the fact that she was embezzling all his money, and C... 256 00:18:14,629 --> 00:18:18,810 Getting his sympathy, she knew what she was doing. She was evil. 257 00:18:19,550 --> 00:18:24,910 Whatever her motivation, Dahlia can only maintain her pregnancy story for so 258 00:18:24,910 --> 00:18:30,490 long. Any day, he's going to figure out that that's a lie, too. So she's really 259 00:18:30,490 --> 00:18:31,670 backed into a corner. 260 00:18:34,310 --> 00:18:39,670 With the clock ticking, Dahlia turns to a third lover for help, Mike Stanley, 261 00:18:40,030 --> 00:18:42,390 the man she once lived with in California. 262 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:48,740 Not having spoken to Stanley for months, Dahlia begins to send him text 263 00:18:48,740 --> 00:18:49,740 messages. 264 00:18:50,620 --> 00:18:53,220 She knew the right buttons to press. 265 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:58,160 She knew the right things to say. 266 00:19:01,180 --> 00:19:03,960 And it's a couple of text messages. 267 00:19:07,300 --> 00:19:12,540 She'd set the hook and reel him right back in again. It was almost like magic. 268 00:19:13,770 --> 00:19:15,670 Before long, they're reunited. 269 00:19:16,050 --> 00:19:21,470 And Dahlia and Stanley text about having her husband's probation violated. 270 00:19:24,390 --> 00:19:27,130 And planting drugs in his car. 271 00:19:33,750 --> 00:19:37,230 She also recruits him to play a role in her scheme. 272 00:19:37,910 --> 00:19:41,250 She tells Mike Stanley that 273 00:19:42,730 --> 00:19:47,890 She needs him to play a fake lawyer and to call Mike DiPolito and give him legal 274 00:19:47,890 --> 00:19:48,890 advice. 275 00:19:54,730 --> 00:19:56,710 The advice DiPolito receives? 276 00:19:57,290 --> 00:20:03,210 To get off probation, he needs to move his townhouse solely into his wife's 277 00:20:03,210 --> 00:20:08,170 name. Mike DiPolito's sitting there saying, well, you know, there's a lawyer 278 00:20:08,170 --> 00:20:10,250 here. This is the advice. 279 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:13,440 God, I'm going to get off probation. 280 00:20:14,260 --> 00:20:18,840 All right, let's do it. And sure enough, they get in the car and they travel to 281 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:23,000 the title company and they transfer the house out of Mike's name and solely into 282 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:27,420 Dahlia's name. On paper, she thinks she owns that property. 283 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:34,660 But the reality was Florida is a 50 -50 mutual 284 00:20:34,660 --> 00:20:37,240 property state. In other words, it doesn't matter. 285 00:20:38,030 --> 00:20:44,630 whose name is on the deed, the only way she could have become the sole owner of 286 00:20:44,630 --> 00:20:48,950 that condominium is if he wound up dead. 287 00:20:53,570 --> 00:20:59,470 And so, at the end of July, Dahlia meets her old lover, Mohamed Shehadeh, at a 288 00:20:59,470 --> 00:21:02,170 gas station near the interstate in Boynton Beach. 289 00:21:02,430 --> 00:21:06,790 He says that during their meeting, she asks him about a hitman. 290 00:21:07,210 --> 00:21:09,930 and then tries to steal a gun he has in his car. 291 00:21:10,430 --> 00:21:13,050 I didn't know if she was going to do something with the guns or if she was 292 00:21:13,050 --> 00:21:15,890 to give them to somebody to do something for them. So the first thing I thought 293 00:21:15,890 --> 00:21:16,890 was my defense. 294 00:21:17,070 --> 00:21:19,290 You know, obviously they're registered to me. They're in my name. 295 00:21:19,650 --> 00:21:20,850 They're legally held in me. 296 00:21:21,070 --> 00:21:25,370 You know, when your guns are gone missing, whatever happens to those guns 297 00:21:25,370 --> 00:21:28,570 on your liability. So I did what I could to protect myself. 298 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,000 I swear. 299 00:21:38,220 --> 00:21:44,120 On July 31st, 2009, Mohammed goes to the Boynton Beach Police Department to talk 300 00:21:44,120 --> 00:21:45,340 about his stolen weapon. 301 00:21:46,100 --> 00:21:50,140 First, she grabbed my gun out of my glove compartment. I went inside to grab 302 00:21:50,140 --> 00:21:51,480 Red Bull and pack of cigarettes. 303 00:21:51,980 --> 00:21:54,660 I came back. I put my wallet back in the glove compartment. 304 00:21:55,020 --> 00:21:56,020 Didn't see my gun. 305 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,220 Seen a purse next to her. I opened her purse. 306 00:21:58,420 --> 00:21:59,540 I seen my gun in her purse. 307 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,080 I took the gun out of the purse, put it back in the glove compartment. 308 00:22:03,360 --> 00:22:05,440 I got really mad. I told her to get the hell out of the car. 309 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:07,940 But that's not all he has to say. 310 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,560 She asked if I knew someone who can kill her husband for her. 311 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,120 I said, basically, no, I don't. 312 00:22:15,340 --> 00:22:16,520 And when did she ask you that? 313 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:18,960 Yesterday. Yesterday? 314 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:20,880 Okay. 315 00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:25,860 Are you scared for the guy? 316 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:29,040 Yes. 317 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:32,660 Next on American Greed. 318 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:36,660 Police draw Dahlia to a well -constructed crime scene. 319 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:43,940 But there's something they aren't telling her. I just think it's 320 00:22:43,940 --> 00:22:49,980 murder porn with a twist. And the twist is, there's no murder. 321 00:23:16,340 --> 00:23:22,900 It's the day after Mohammed Shahadeh first 322 00:23:22,900 --> 00:23:24,760 ratted out his lover to the cops. 323 00:23:25,260 --> 00:23:27,520 Now he's working for them. 324 00:23:28,980 --> 00:23:31,400 Are you good to go? Yeah, I'm good to go. All right. 325 00:23:32,490 --> 00:23:37,150 At their request, he's told Dalia DiPolito that he can get her a hitman. 326 00:23:37,830 --> 00:23:40,310 And they're watching as Dalia gets in his car. 327 00:23:42,130 --> 00:23:47,150 She has no idea Mohammed is wearing a recorder, and that he's even told police 328 00:23:47,150 --> 00:23:51,010 that with her, they shouldn't hide it in his pants. 329 00:23:52,130 --> 00:23:55,730 You know, when you meet somebody in the car, in the parking lot, you know, stuff 330 00:23:55,730 --> 00:23:58,370 happens, so pants was the wrong place to put it. 331 00:24:00,730 --> 00:24:03,110 Mohammed's concerns prove unfounded. 332 00:24:04,110 --> 00:24:10,310 The only business they get down to is discussing a hitman, working out an 333 00:24:10,310 --> 00:24:12,830 initial down payment for his deadly services. 334 00:24:15,570 --> 00:24:22,290 To make sure the job gets done, she gives Mohammed a 335 00:24:22,290 --> 00:24:25,970 picture of her home and two photos of the man she wants dead. 336 00:24:29,690 --> 00:24:35,530 As she plots her husband's death, Dahlia hardly seems worried about getting 337 00:24:35,530 --> 00:24:36,530 caught. 338 00:24:38,370 --> 00:24:39,070 And 339 00:24:39,070 --> 00:24:49,650 with 340 00:24:49,650 --> 00:24:53,970 that, she hands over the cash. 341 00:24:54,610 --> 00:24:58,990 As soon as she hands him money, done deal. 342 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:01,680 They could have swooped in and made a bust right there. 343 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:06,820 They didn't. This story is just beginning to play itself out. 344 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:13,340 After having Mohammed make an intro, cops are watching two days later as 345 00:25:13,340 --> 00:25:19,100 goes to meet the so -called hitman, who's actually an undercover police 346 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:32,640 Even though the consequences of this meeting are dire, Dahlia bats her 347 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,360 as though she's meeting a new escort client. 348 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:56,060 Dahlia listens intently as he explains what he has planned. 349 00:26:04,499 --> 00:26:06,740 She likes what she hears. 350 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:12,380 So they discuss a fair price, and she gives him directions to the love nest 351 00:26:12,380 --> 00:26:13,380 shares with Mike. 352 00:26:16,060 --> 00:26:21,660 As they make plans, Dahlia agrees to clear out at the appointed time. 353 00:26:28,679 --> 00:26:34,120 And Dahlia let this supposed murderer know just how certain she is. 354 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,000 Dahlia is 5 ,000 % sure. 355 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:53,720 And so, on the morning of August 5th, as she prepares to leave her house, It 356 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,620 seems that a slight worry may be crossing her mind. 357 00:26:57,140 --> 00:27:01,660 Just not for the husband who she thinks will soon be dead. 358 00:27:02,660 --> 00:27:07,360 At the end of the day, she doesn't know this hitman from Adam, and she doesn't 359 00:27:07,360 --> 00:27:12,380 want him taking her assets, taking her jewelry. She leaves and she goes to the 360 00:27:12,380 --> 00:27:18,940 gym. She had over $30 ,000 worth of jewelry in her expensive 361 00:27:18,940 --> 00:27:19,940 Prada bag. 362 00:27:20,460 --> 00:27:25,680 Dahlia DiPolito is a horrible person, right to the core. All you have to look 363 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:31,180 is the fact that she cleared out the house of all the valuables on the very 364 00:27:31,180 --> 00:27:36,560 of this intended hit to make sure that no matter what, she got hers. 365 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:42,720 When Dahlia heads to the gym, cops clear Mike out of his home and get to work 366 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,780 constructing the perfect scene for their big reveal. 367 00:27:48,140 --> 00:27:52,220 The entire street is blocked off. There's police cars everywhere. 368 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:54,240 There's crime scene tape. 369 00:27:54,480 --> 00:28:00,140 They had one guy stationed at the door looking like he was lifting prints. You 370 00:28:00,140 --> 00:28:03,560 know, they had everything in place. They had cameras going. 371 00:28:03,820 --> 00:28:08,100 And there was no murder. It was just all to see her reactions. And they really 372 00:28:08,100 --> 00:28:10,600 wanted to make her believe that Mike DiPolito was dead. 373 00:28:12,250 --> 00:28:15,290 I'm Sergeant Ramsey. I'm the one that called you. Thank you for coming. I'm 374 00:28:15,290 --> 00:28:19,070 sorry to call you. Listen, we had a report of a disturbance at your house, 375 00:28:19,070 --> 00:28:20,070 there were shots fired. 376 00:28:20,230 --> 00:28:21,370 Is your husband Michael? 377 00:28:22,130 --> 00:28:24,110 Okay, I'm sorry to tell you, ma 'am, he's been killed. 378 00:28:25,590 --> 00:28:26,590 He's been killed, ma 'am. 379 00:28:28,410 --> 00:28:35,330 Generally, that kind of shocking news that is given to somebody, it takes a 380 00:28:35,330 --> 00:28:36,450 for it to register. 381 00:28:37,370 --> 00:28:39,530 But before he said the word killed. 382 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,380 She's already crying. Okay, I'm sorry to tell you, ma 'am, he's been killed. 383 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:48,160 The tape is a wondrous thing to behold. 384 00:28:48,460 --> 00:28:50,400 She thinks she's zooming them. 385 00:28:51,180 --> 00:28:53,800 They know that they're zooming her. 386 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:56,700 We're going to do everything we can, okay? 387 00:28:56,900 --> 00:29:01,600 So we need your help. And everything is just all coming together into this 388 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:08,200 dramatic moment where she falls apart in this false grief. 389 00:29:12,300 --> 00:29:16,500 And then it's just pure histrionics from then out all the way through. 390 00:29:20,820 --> 00:29:26,180 Next on American Greed, the cops have a surprise for Danyam. 391 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:28,400 There's no more games with you and I. 392 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:30,600 Now we're going to get down to serious business. 393 00:29:30,860 --> 00:29:32,260 I want to know if you know this guy. 394 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:34,560 Come here. 395 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:35,840 Bring this guy in here. 396 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,460 This investigation has been going on since Friday night. 397 00:29:51,260 --> 00:29:55,080 Fortunately, you know, we ended up getting ourselves involved in, you know, 398 00:29:55,100 --> 00:29:56,540 preventing this from happening to you. 399 00:29:57,980 --> 00:30:00,860 You say it doesn't surprise you at all, huh? No. 400 00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:03,280 It's like a bad movie, you know. 401 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:09,820 On August 5th, 2009, Boynton Beach police are talking to both Mike DiPolito 402 00:30:09,820 --> 00:30:13,300 his wife Dahlia, who doesn't yet know what she's stepped into. 403 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,920 And seems more than confident that she can find a way out. 404 00:30:19,380 --> 00:30:23,000 Dolly is sitting there thinking, they don't have anything on me. 405 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:24,360 They don't know. 406 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:27,920 Are you sure that you don't know anybody who would want to kill your husband? 407 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:29,600 You would want to kill him. 408 00:30:30,940 --> 00:30:31,940 Not at all. 409 00:30:32,820 --> 00:30:39,300 But she has no idea the evidence that law enforcement had until they start to 410 00:30:39,300 --> 00:30:42,280 unfold that evidence piece by piece. 411 00:30:43,050 --> 00:30:44,490 I want to know if you know this guy. 412 00:30:45,770 --> 00:30:46,770 Come here. 413 00:30:46,930 --> 00:30:48,050 Put this guy in here. 414 00:30:48,490 --> 00:30:54,750 This guy is the undercover cop whose car Dahlia sat in just days ago, saying she 415 00:30:54,750 --> 00:30:59,370 was 5 ,000 % sure she wanted him to kill her husband. 416 00:30:59,810 --> 00:31:00,890 You know who this guy is? 417 00:31:01,130 --> 00:31:02,790 No. You've never seen him before? 418 00:31:02,990 --> 00:31:05,570 I've never seen him before, ever. Do you know her? 419 00:31:06,350 --> 00:31:08,430 Put your head up and look at her. Put your head up. 420 00:31:08,630 --> 00:31:09,630 I've never seen him. 421 00:31:10,090 --> 00:31:11,930 What were you doing coming out of her house? 422 00:31:14,870 --> 00:31:15,870 He's not here. 423 00:31:28,750 --> 00:31:32,210 You're going to jail today for solicitation of murder. You're under 424 00:31:33,350 --> 00:31:34,830 That's an undercover police officer. 425 00:31:35,210 --> 00:31:36,250 What do you want to do? 426 00:31:37,350 --> 00:31:39,610 What do you want to do here? I didn't do anything. 427 00:31:40,350 --> 00:31:41,870 Listen to me. I didn't do anything. 428 00:31:42,230 --> 00:31:43,810 You're going to jail. 429 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:47,800 Tell me you didn't do anything. 430 00:31:48,180 --> 00:31:49,180 I didn't do anything. 431 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,000 You're going to jail today. 432 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,160 Police have Dahlia dead to rights. 433 00:31:56,980 --> 00:32:00,400 And after putting her in cuffs, they have another surprise. 434 00:32:01,660 --> 00:32:05,400 The husband she wanted dead survived her best efforts. 435 00:32:05,780 --> 00:32:08,060 And they walk him by her open door. 436 00:32:25,230 --> 00:32:26,230 Come here. 437 00:32:26,670 --> 00:32:33,550 As she leaves the police station, charged with a 438 00:32:33,550 --> 00:32:36,390 single count of solicitation to commit first -degree murder, 439 00:32:37,270 --> 00:32:42,030 Dahlia declares her innocence before an already gathering media frenzy. 440 00:32:55,660 --> 00:33:00,340 She continues to make the claim from behind bars that same day, placing an 441 00:33:00,340 --> 00:33:02,280 unexpected call to her husband. 442 00:33:04,780 --> 00:33:09,760 Amazingly, after trying to have him killed, she wants him to help her hire a 443 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:14,700 lawyer and tries to convince him that this is all one big misunderstanding. 444 00:33:22,190 --> 00:33:25,150 how you're going to actually have the nerve to sit here and lie to me now. 445 00:33:25,650 --> 00:33:26,650 I don't understand. 446 00:33:26,850 --> 00:33:31,970 Like, I heard you say it, Dahlia. I saw your mouth do it. 447 00:33:33,090 --> 00:33:34,090 Okay? 448 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? 449 00:33:40,170 --> 00:33:42,490 It's out of my hands. You're not even trying. 450 00:33:42,850 --> 00:33:45,930 It's different if you're trying. You're not even trying. What could I possibly 451 00:33:45,930 --> 00:33:46,929 do for you? 452 00:33:46,930 --> 00:33:48,510 I don't get it. What could I do? 453 00:33:48,710 --> 00:33:49,710 You're not even trying. 454 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:55,100 As she again attempts to manipulate him, Mike makes his wife an offer. 455 00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:01,380 While she's locked up, he'll look after her mother if she gives him back his 456 00:34:01,380 --> 00:34:02,380 townhouse. 457 00:34:36,129 --> 00:34:41,710 Next on American Greed, a questionable decision by police officers. 458 00:34:42,190 --> 00:34:48,670 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 --> 00:35:08,520 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 --> 00:35:44,640 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 --> 00:35:52,440 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 --> 00:36:08,120 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 --> 00:37:06,080 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 --> 00:37:36,010 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 00:37:38,150 --> 00:37:41,450 She speaks to him for eight minutes. And during that phone call, she gets a text 499 00:37:41,450 --> 00:37:42,770 from her husband, Mike DiBellito. 500 00:37:43,610 --> 00:37:47,250 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 00:37:54,490 --> 00:37:57,710 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 --> 00:38:01,370 All right. 506 00:38:01,900 --> 00:38:06,760 After a two -week trial, the jury takes less than three hours to decide Dahlia's 507 00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:11,900 fate. That's account one. We find the defendant guilty of solicitation to 508 00:38:11,900 --> 00:38:12,900 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 --> 00:38:21,960 I'll find you guilty, I'll adjudicate you guilty, and I'm sentencing you to 20 511 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:26,400 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 --> 00:38:43,250 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 --> 00:38:51,510 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 --> 00:38:58,930 At the end. 520 00:38:59,030 --> 00:39:05,750 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 --> 00:39:18,890 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 --> 00:39:25,860 Just not by Mike. They argue that the Boynton Beach, Florida Police Department 527 00:39:25,860 --> 00:39:31,700 overstepped its authority by creating this fake crime scene and producing a 528 00:39:31,700 --> 00:39:35,840 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 --> 00:40:07,950 You need to pay attention in this case to the conduct of the Boynton Beach 535 00:40:07,950 --> 00:40:08,950 Police Department. 536 00:40:08,970 --> 00:40:13,310 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 --> 00:40:33,100 Boynton Beach police declined offers to be interviewed by American Greed, but 541 00:40:33,100 --> 00:40:37,540 say they have always stood by the principled work of their detectives in 542 00:40:37,540 --> 00:40:43,180 case. For Dahlia's defense team, however, attacking the police department 543 00:40:43,180 --> 00:40:44,180 winning strategy. 544 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:51,060 On the record at this time, I'm now declaring this case mistried by virtue 545 00:40:51,060 --> 00:40:53,500 the fact that the jury cannot reach unanimous verdict. 546 00:40:54,540 --> 00:40:59,680 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 --> 00:41:08,140 We, the jury, find as follows. As to count one, we find the defendant guilty 549 00:41:08,140 --> 00:41:11,940 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 --> 00:41:20,620 Her attorneys reveal that during years of home detention, Dahlia's become a 552 00:41:20,620 --> 00:41:21,620 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 --> 00:41:31,820 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 --> 00:41:48,240 She has plenty of time to think about the scheming and plotting that got her 559 00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:49,240 here. 560 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:56,720 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 --> 00:42:19,530 The cruel Internet fraud leaves a trail of broken parts and empty wallets. Every 565 00:42:19,530 --> 00:42:22,730 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.