"I Want It Done" Newlywed Wife Freaks Out in Hubby Hit Plot

By: Ryan Smith
Topics: Daily Blotter

(Palm Beach Post)

Investigators say twice during a meeting Dalia Dippolito reported she was sure she wanted her husband killed.

Palm Beach, Fla. (CBS/AP) New bride Dalia Dippolito was not at all happy to come home and discover that her husband – who she plotted to kill — was still very much alive, say police in Boynton Beach, Fla.

"I am 5,000 percent sure I want it done," police say the 26-year-old Dalia Dippolito told an undercover officer posing as a hit man, when she was asked if she was sure that she wanted to contract a hit on her husband of six months.

But the real kicker came when Dalia Dippolito, captured on police video, came home to find an elaborately staged crime scene. Believing her husband had just been knocked off, she breaks down in crocodile tears. "No, no," she cries.

But the fake tears for her husband turned into real tears for herself as police cuffed Dalia Dippolito and dropped her into a waiting police cruiser.

"There's no reason she had to do this. She was well off. She could have just left," her husband Michael Dippolito told CBS affiliate CBS 4 Miami

Dalia Dippolito was charged with solicitation to commit first-degree murder and taken to the Palm Beach County jail, Boynton Beach Police Department spokeswoman Stephanie Slater said.

Dalia Dippolito gave an informant pictures of her husband, 38-year-old Michael Dippolito, and $1,200 for a hitman to purchase a handgun, according to a probable cause affidavit. She also offered to create an alibi for herself and detailed her husband's daily schedule.

An undercover officer posing as a hit man called Dalia Dippolito on Monday afternoon and arranged a meeting. The officer asked for $3,000 in cash and a key to the couple's home. The undercover officer later met Dalia Dippolito in a pharmacy parking lot and asked if she was sure she wanted her husband killed.

Video Courtesy of CBS 4 Miami

She laughed, according to the according to the affidavit, and said: "I will be very happy."

Dalia Dippolito discussed getaway routes, her home's security system, the location of her husband on Wednesday and the fee for the task, and the officer again asked if the woman was sure.

"I'm not going to change my mind," she responded, according to the documents.

Boynton Beach Police Sgt. Frank Ranzie described Dalia Dippolito on "The Early Show" Thursday as "calm, cool, calculated," pointing out to CBS News correspondent Kelly Cobiella she even offered options on how to kill her husband.

Ranzie added she maintained a "positive" and "motivated" attitude throughout the planning with the undercover cop.

Authorities staged an elaborate crime scene outside the Dippolito home on Wednesday morning, complete with yellow crime tape and several police vehicles.

"The bottom line is, we wanted her to believe without question that when she arrived that her husband was dead," Slater said.

Officers then contacted Dalia Dippolito at her gym and told her to come to the house. When an officer told Dalia Dippolito that her husband was dead, she broke down in tears, a video of the operation shows.

(Palm Beach Post)

Michael Dippolito, the intended 'victim'.

Dalia Dippolito was then taken to the Boynton Beach Police Department, where she was told of the investigation and arrested. Michael Dippolito, who was informed of the case Wednesday morning, was also at the police department, as was the undercover officer who Dalia Dippolito believed was going to kill her husband, according to a police news release.

Boynton Beach Police Det. Alex Moreno told CBS News Dalia Dippolito wasn't glad to know Michael Dippolito was alive.

Moreno said, "She was more in shock that he was alive."

Michael Dippolito told CBS News the news hasn't hit him yet.

"I get it, but I don't get it." He added, referring to the time of the would-be hit on his life, "Technically, if it's 10:50, I should have been dead at nine ... so I'm an hour-and-a-half on the good side, I guess."

Dalia Dippolito claims her innocence, saying, "I didn't do anything, and I didn't plot anything."

Bond had not yet been set and it was unclear if she had an attorney.

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by traffic101 August 14, 2009 2:00 PM EDT

Beautiful on the outside ONLY.

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by serenityhunter April 29, 2011 1:39 PM EDT: hey she can come marry me if she wants lol


by Just_sayin August 11, 2009 9:33 AM EDT: Perhaps he told her a "black male" was seen running from the scene because it was a black male undercover cop that she had "hired". Hard to say.; Reply to this comment


by unknowngirl2 August 11, 2009 9:20 AM EDT: @ brianbwb-2009 and samanthagreen09: one's physical beauty does not imply sanity.; Reply to this comment


by samanthagreen09 August 10, 2009 4:08 PM EDT: Why would you put a hit on your husband? Come on you are a beautiful woman. You could have got divorced and found someone else.; Reply to this comment

by ambr2006 August 8, 2009 9:59 AM EDT

I'm not the one who always target racism, but I have a problem with one of the officers who arrested the woman. He told her a "black male" was seen running the other way. I understand it was a setup to frame her, but why do African Americans seem to be part of a lie white people tell, or trying to fool a criminal. He could have very well said a tall male, or an unidentified male ran that way. Why a " black male?" Leave us out of your scheme to frame someone.

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by cbrunodog August 13, 2009 6:34 AM EDT: I agree. Maybe the cop said black male because the undercover officer/hitman was black, and therefore would play into the setup.


by brianbwb-2009 August 6, 2009 10:17 PM EDT: To Dalia,

As fine as you are, you mean to tell me you couldn't have just walked away, and probably within minutes found yourself someone with more and better you-know-what...?

I mean, look at you, there are probably 30 million men out there who would gladly make sure you were kept busy, or glowing from just finishing being busy, or recovering from soreness after being kept busy, or about to get busy yet again, and the best you could come up with was someone you wanted dead right after you married him? Dayum!

I mean, I sort of understand, with all the blue-noses preaching "wait until you're married", and such kee-rap. Ok, so you waited, but then found out too late that your choice was uhh, not, shall we say, your "style".

OK, I can get to that, you forgot the old saw "never buy a pig in a poke", but a contract hit?

C'mon girl, what happened, the creator gave you attractiveness that far above average, but then shorted you on the brains department?

Must be something in American water...; Reply to this comment