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Newlywed hires hitman to murder groom, CAUGHT ON VIDEO! · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: A Florida beach beauty marries her dream man and the
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  Speaker 1: two set to live happily ever after until death do
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  Speaker 1: they part. But what the twenty six year old bride
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  Speaker 1: doesn't figure on is that the hintman she hires to
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  Speaker 1: murder her groom is actually a cop oops who stings
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  Speaker 1: the bride. On video crime Stories with Nancy Grace, let's
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  Speaker 1: kick it off with our friends at Crime Watch Delhi.
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  Speaker 1: The Polito is a guy working hard to get his
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  Speaker 1: life in order. He's an ex con fresh out of
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  Speaker 1: prison for running a phony in asment scam, but after
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  Speaker 1: meeting Dahlia on an online dating site, he falls into
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  Speaker 1: a whirlwind romance. He called her up, made an arrangement,
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  Speaker 1: she showed up at his office. He liked what he saw.
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  Speaker 1: Within a short period of time, he divorced his wife
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  Speaker 1: and he found himself married to Dahlia. Reporter and crime
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  Speaker 1: writer Mark Ebner says Dahlia is a woman who knows
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  Speaker 1: where she wants to go in life and waste a
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  Speaker 1: very little time getting there. He claims, after the honeymoon,
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  Speaker 1: her next destination is Michael's bank account to the tune
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  Speaker 1: of two hundred and forty thousand dollars. She put her
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  Speaker 1: claws in him so fast in a six month time span,
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  Speaker 1: managed to take all of Michael Dippolito's money. She managed
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  Speaker 1: to get his home deeded over to her. But all
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  Speaker 1: that is not enough. She has everything she wants, but
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  Speaker 1: she reportedly wants it all to ourself. Guys, what you're
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  Speaker 1: hearing is the plot laid out by friends of the groom.
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  Speaker 1: But what really happened? Joining me right now an all
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  Speaker 1: star panel. Brian Claypool, lawyer for Dahlia di Polito, Dodtor,
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  Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall's psycho analysts, Joining us at Beverly Hills On
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  Speaker 1: and stuff at Dr Bethany Marshall, James Shelnutt twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: years Metro major case swat now lawyer, and Ray Kiputo,
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  Speaker 1: lead news anchor Orlando News w DBO. Ray, what happened? Well, Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: these two it's a really good looking couple. You see
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  Speaker 1: pictures of them. Dahlia was a Catholic schoolgirl and and
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  Speaker 1: Mike was a you know, asquiring investor who had a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of trouble. But they hit it off quick
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  Speaker 1: and they were they were married. This whirlwind romance, this
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  Speaker 1: happened down in boytant Beach, ray by Pound being sport
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  Speaker 1: and you know these two, it's just they were like
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  Speaker 1: fire and ice, it seems, because everything wasn't as it
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  Speaker 1: appeared on the surface. Well you can say that again.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen to our phrase At ABC twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Terry Parker, investigative reporter for WPPF twenty five News, covered
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  Speaker 1: the story. So this guy, Mohammed walks into the Boyton
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  Speaker 1: Beach police station and he says, I know a woman
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  Speaker 1: who's trying to hire a hitman to kill her husband.
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  Speaker 1: She asked if I knew someone who can kill her
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  Speaker 1: husband for her. The man, Mohammed Shahati, was recorded as
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  Speaker 1: he talked to detectives about his one time lover, Dalia.
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  Speaker 1: To Polito, he tells police he's speaking out to save
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  Speaker 1: the man's life. He's scared for the guy. Yes, because
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  Speaker 1: she's really, I mean, that's serious on getting this done.
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  Speaker 1: It's quite a story if true, because while he can
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  Speaker 1: describe Dahlia, she maybe five six five seven, dark black hair,
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  Speaker 1: should good looking girl, really good looking girl. Actually he
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  Speaker 1: can't even tell cops her last name or her address.
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  Speaker 1: By the time, we didn't know what to believe. We
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  Speaker 1: were kind of, you know, weren't sure what we had.
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  Speaker 1: They had the reserve patients. They had to say, let's
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  Speaker 1: see some proof. To get proof, the cops make Muhammed
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  Speaker 1: a confidential informant. He arranges to meet Dahlia at this
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  Speaker 1: gas station. Cops are staked out as their mystery woman arrives.
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  Speaker 1: So to you, Brian Claypool, renowned attorney joining me out
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  Speaker 1: of la the lawyer for Dahlia Dippolito, the so called
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  Speaker 1: black widow, Brian Claypool, I guess everybody is teaming up
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  Speaker 1: against your poor client, Dahlia Dippolito. Here, you've got a
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  Speaker 1: former boyfriend, and I'm sure I'm using that term ephemistically,
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  Speaker 1: but you've got a former boyfriend who walks into the
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  Speaker 1: cops station and says, Hey, my lover, Dahlia Dippolito is
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  Speaker 1: trying to kill her husband. What is he lying to
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  Speaker 1: or Nancy. One thing you're missing about Muhammad's first interaction
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  Speaker 1: with the law enforcement was that he also said that
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  Speaker 1: Dahlia conveyed to him that she was being domestically abused
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  Speaker 1: and that either she was going to die or either
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  Speaker 1: he was going to die. That's the exact first phone
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  Speaker 1: call he makes. And that's the point that we were
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  Speaker 1: making in the trials, which was, look, the police department
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  Speaker 1: did nothing to investigate domestic abuse, and they did everything
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  Speaker 1: to make good TV for the cops television. Hold on
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  Speaker 1: just a moment, Did she call police and report domestic violence? Don't?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know whether she called to report. Then wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute, you know what. That's why you win so
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  Speaker 1: many cases, Chroice Layton. You get people hook lying and
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  Speaker 1: sincre because you just said, Jackie, did he just say
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  Speaker 1: that the police never investigated all the domestic abuse. But
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  Speaker 1: you're telling me you don't know if you're client, your client,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got a pretty good try record choice Layton,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't know whether she ever called cops and
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  Speaker 1: said I just got hit, I'm being abused. Well, Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: this case was always about Dahlia's constitutional rights violated. That's
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  Speaker 1: why I took the case. And everybody's seen that video
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  Speaker 1: tape where Dahlias says she's five thousand percent sure she
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  Speaker 1: wants her husband killed, But they don't see behind the
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  Speaker 1: scenes about the police department Blin Beach PD pressuring Muhammed.
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  Speaker 1: Can I get back to you claiming that she was
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  Speaker 1: a domestic abuse victim. How long had she been married
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  Speaker 1: to her room she was? She did claim that she
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  Speaker 1: was domestically abused, and that's in the recording. How long
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  Speaker 1: were they married. I don't remember the exact amount of
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  Speaker 1: months they were married, but Nancy, you married a few months.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how long they were married when it
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  Speaker 1: was reported, who jumped in and said five months? Is
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  Speaker 1: that Caputo? It's Ray Ray Capputo w DBO. So they're
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  Speaker 1: married five months? They renowned defense attorney, and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that with a box assault because Troy Slett.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me. Brian clay Tool is a well known trial
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  Speaker 1: lawyer who represented Dolia Dippolito's won a lot of cases.
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  Speaker 1: Just told me that police fail to investigate domestic abuse.
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  Speaker 1: But you cannot tell me, Brian Claypool that she ever
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  Speaker 1: told police she was a victim of domestic abuse. Correct.
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  Speaker 1: When a woman is domestically abused, she tells her friends, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: if I go missing, it's my husband who did it.
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  Speaker 1: She never says, look, either he's going to die or
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to die. In thirty years of private practice
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  Speaker 1: and working with domestic violence victims. I have never heard
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  Speaker 1: that line. Usually they're afraid for their own lives. They're
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  Speaker 1: not threatening the life of their spouse. Guys, hold on
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  Speaker 1: just a moment, Let's take a listen to our friends
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  Speaker 1: at ABC twenty twenty. She gets into muhammad Silver Lexus.
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  Speaker 1: While you can't quite see them on the hidden camera
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  Speaker 1: cops had installed, you can sure hear them talking about
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  Speaker 1: a hitman whose guys. She gets in the car and
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  Speaker 1: she meets up with the informant. We realized that this
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  Speaker 1: guy was credible or what I mean. But you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm telling nobody yet, nobody's going to be able
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  Speaker 1: to point a finger. I mean, she's just talking about
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  Speaker 1: it the way like she's ordering lunch. Randy Schultz is
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  Speaker 1: a columnist for the Sun Sentinel newspaper. You think this
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  Speaker 1: is just so cold, not really acting like the typical
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  Speaker 1: newly wedge, shall we say. Mohammad tells Dahlia the hitman
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  Speaker 1: wants twelve hundred dollars to buy a gun. She comes prepared.
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  Speaker 1: She has a wad of cash in her bag and
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  Speaker 1: counts it out and hands it over and shortly afterward
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  Speaker 1: gives him a photo of Mike white my picture. Really,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna give him a finger pen fall over And
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  Speaker 1: at that moment the detectives realized, Ah, we've got her.
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  Speaker 1: This is real. She just handed him twelve hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: in a picture of the husband that she wants murdered.
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  Speaker 1: Time Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, we are talking about
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  Speaker 1: a gorgeous young beach beauty who marries the man of
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  Speaker 1: her dreams till death do they part. But the one
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  Speaker 1: thing she did not count on is that the hitman
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  Speaker 1: she hired to murder her groom was in fact an
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  Speaker 1: undercover cop. And with me special guest, the lawyer for
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  Speaker 1: Dahlia Dippolito, Brian Claypool. Take a listen to our friend
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  Speaker 1: Amy roback. Dahlia never backs off. I don't want no
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  Speaker 1: police say. Dahlia thinks she is meeting an actual hitman
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  Speaker 1: and his cherry red convertible. He makes his plan crystal clear,
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  Speaker 1: a burglary gone wrong that leaves Mike dead. Maybe he's work,
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  Speaker 1: he's not net work. Then he gets to a head
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  Speaker 1: the undercover detect If he really wants to nail Dollia,
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  Speaker 1: make sure he's got it on tape and on camera.
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  Speaker 1: That she is really going to pay him to kill
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  Speaker 1: her husband, and he says, are you sure, Dahlia, now
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  Speaker 1: when it's gone you know mine? No, that's not like
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  Speaker 1: anyone positive like about them che there it is. The
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  Speaker 1: press would have a field day with this line. Listen again,
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  Speaker 1: she's five thousand percent sure, posited like, well, brite about them,
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  Speaker 1: PC Charotte, Well when I'm going to give them. No,
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  Speaker 1: she wasn't just one hundred percent sure. She was five
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  Speaker 1: thousand percent sure that she wanted her husband killed. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you're right, Brian Claypool, the lawyer for Dolia did Polido.
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  Speaker 1: You're right. She doesn't say one hundred percent year or
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  Speaker 1: two hundred percent year, but five thousand percent sure. You
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  Speaker 1: brought it up, so I played it for you. Response,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in my response is that that she was
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  Speaker 1: pressured into having that meeting with the undercover police officer.
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  Speaker 1: Just prior to that she was she was she had
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  Speaker 1: a meeting with Muhammed, the undercover informant, where he was
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  Speaker 1: pressuring her. Then there were police officers all around this restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: That that interaction was recorded by the police department and
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  Speaker 1: it was destroyed by the police department. So my argument
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  Speaker 1: in the case was that Dalia had a large she
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  Speaker 1: had a big bark, but a very small bite. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: she never even did you know, the stancy. In the
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  Speaker 1: second trial, I got the undercover hitman to admit that
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  Speaker 1: Dalia never even gave him a key to Mike's apartment,
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  Speaker 1: and she didn't get him a picture of Mike Deppolito,
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  Speaker 1: And he admitted that shows that she lacked the proper
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  Speaker 1: intense to have him killed. And that's why we almost
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  Speaker 1: won the second trial. Yeah, Key were there almost. But
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  Speaker 1: let me understand something. You're saying she didn't hand over
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  Speaker 1: a photo, but it's my understanding. She did hand over
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  Speaker 1: a photo, twelve hundred dollars cash and a photo of Mike.
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  Speaker 1: She handed over a photo to her ex boyfriend Mohammed.
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  Speaker 1: Now when it went to the undercover police officer, not
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  Speaker 1: the informant. When she's pressured into meeting the undercover pressure her,
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  Speaker 1: who's pressure or the police department made probably over a
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  Speaker 1: hundred phone calls they were forcing, They were forcing Mohammed
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  Speaker 1: the informant to call her, call her, call her. Mohammed's like, look, dude,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to be involved in this anymore. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to be in the middle of this. They're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you are going to be No, no, no, no, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not listening to what you're saying about Mohammed because he's
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  Speaker 1: not charged with tempton murder. Who pressured your client, Dahlia
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  Speaker 1: di Polito to pay a hit man money? The police?
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  Speaker 1: Here's my argument. But for I thought you said this
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  Speaker 1: was a movie script one time, well no, let's focus
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  Speaker 1: on your question. But for the police department pressuring Mohammed
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  Speaker 1: to pressure Dahlia, Mohammed is the one that set up
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  Speaker 1: the meeting with the undercover hit man Dahia. Didn't this
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  Speaker 1: all happened within a seventy two hour window because that
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  Speaker 1: was the Cops TV show timeline to get this script
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  Speaker 1: done in the Norton Dancer, you're aware of this. In
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  Speaker 1: a normal undercover operation, it could take a month or
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  Speaker 1: many months to get this accomplished. They were, they were,
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  Speaker 1: they were on an accelerated plan to get her on
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  Speaker 1: tape to try to kill her husband, and she would
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  Speaker 1: have never done pause. We're all I gotta cut through
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  Speaker 1: this and understand what you're saying with me. Is veteran
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  Speaker 1: trial lawyer Brian Claypool who represented Dahia to police at trial. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there have been two trials. Now you're saying now today
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  Speaker 1: that she, Doli de Polito, was pressured by her friend
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  Speaker 1: Mohammed via police, police pressure, Mohammed Mohammed pressures her to
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  Speaker 1: have a hitman with a meeting with a hitman. All right, coercion,
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  Speaker 1: But isn't it true. At another trial, the defense was
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  Speaker 1: that the entire thing was actually a script. That the
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  Speaker 1: script was basically a screenplay for a movie she wanted,
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  Speaker 1: a reality show she wanted to do and they were
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  Speaker 1: acting it out. Yeah, that was the first trial that
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  Speaker 1: I did not conduct, and I will concede to you
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  Speaker 1: that that argument was farcical. That was a silly argument
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  Speaker 1: that Dahlia's attorney put forward to the jury. And we
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  Speaker 1: had an entirely different whist on the case that was
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  Speaker 1: based on due process violations carried out by the point
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  Speaker 1: in Beach pet. Let me go now to Ray Kaputo,
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  Speaker 1: the lead anchor for morning news WDBO. Ray, there've been
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  Speaker 1: a couple of trials for Dollia di Polto. At one trial,
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  Speaker 1: explained to me the script defense. Yeah, well, here's the thing,
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  Speaker 1: Mohammed the gentleman that she was talking to and Ic
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  Speaker 1: gentleman loosely. I don't know him. He was a part
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  Speaker 1: time actor, and Dahlia says that him Munke were in
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  Speaker 1: on kind of doing a reality show based on an
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  Speaker 1: episode of Birth. Did you say, Mike the husband was
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  Speaker 1: in on it. That's what Dahlia says. Now he enemic
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  Speaker 1: an episode of burn Notice that had a similar storyline
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  Speaker 1: and they wanted to post it on YouTube and get famous,
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  Speaker 1: and this is you know. Brian said that it was farcical,
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  Speaker 1: and I agree because here's the thing, Nancy. The idea
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  Speaker 1: of getting femis on YouTube is really a modern thing
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand and nine, and it was still kind
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  Speaker 1: of evolving because they had that partner program and that
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  Speaker 1: just launched it like the very end of two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and seven, where people can start getting paid for their videos.
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  Speaker 1: So I keep getting paid on YouTube. Wasn't like this
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  Speaker 1: big idea that everybody now wants to do, like the
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  Speaker 1: loggers and people. So it just doesn't make sense then
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  Speaker 1: that somebody will be doing that. I hear what you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about, the intricacies of putting posting video online and
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  Speaker 1: getting paid for it or not getting paid for it,
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  Speaker 1: But I'm concerned about the trial, and I'll tell you why,
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  Speaker 1: because you James Shellnutt twenty seven years Metro major case
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  Speaker 1: swat Now lawyer. Here's the thing about multiple trials. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: you say at the first trial, there is a certified
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  Speaker 1: transcript of that. So if you have a completely different defense,
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  Speaker 1: such as I was forced by the cops to try
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  Speaker 1: to put a hit on my husband, everything you said
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  Speaker 1: the first trial can come in cross examination. You can say, well,
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  Speaker 1: whoa whoa wall. Wait, now you're saying the cops and
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  Speaker 1: made you do this, But last trial you said this
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  Speaker 1: was all part of a script you made up as
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  Speaker 1: a reality series with you the hitman and to your
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  Speaker 1: husband that he was in on it. That's not true.
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  Speaker 1: Then you're stuck with what you said at that first trial.
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  Speaker 1: What about it, y'all? Nutt oh, I agree one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the credibility is completely impeached at that point.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's going to be hard to
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  Speaker 1: go back and retract that. You know, if you take
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  Speaker 1: a look at this, and you know, I'll do respect
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  Speaker 1: to Brian. Always got a client to defend. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: I've done criminal defense in the past. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you take a look at it, nothing is consistent
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  Speaker 1: with what this lady is claiming as being a domestic
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  Speaker 1: violence victim. You know, she she was with this guy
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  Speaker 1: a very short period of time. They were traveling. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, in addition to that, you know that this
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  Speaker 1: supposedly was going to occur. This hitman was supposed going
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  Speaker 1: to kill her husband. She's going to a gym she
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  Speaker 1: regularly went to. You know, if you take a look
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  Speaker 1: at the whole situation, nothing adds up. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that was mentioned a minute ago
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  Speaker 1: is this thing happened quickly. You know, the police are
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  Speaker 1: going to have a concern that they need to move quickly.
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  Speaker 1: If this lady is really serious, or anyone's really serious
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  Speaker 1: about killing a spouse in a case, they may lose patience.
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  Speaker 1: They may want it done then. And if the person
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  Speaker 1: that she's dealing with, the undercover officer, doesn't do it,
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  Speaker 1: she's liable to hire somebody who actually isn't an undercover
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  Speaker 1: officer and who will do it, and we'll do it
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  Speaker 1: before they can react. Time Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: we are talking about a beach beauty who marries her
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  Speaker 1: dream man to live happily ever after her after, But
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  Speaker 1: what she didn't count on was a hitman she hired
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  Speaker 1: to murder her husband was actually an undercover cop with me.
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  Speaker 1: Were now to attorney Brian Claypool, who represented Dahlia de
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  Speaker 1: Pilito at one of her trials, And you gotta think
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  Speaker 1: through what Claypool's up against. He's already had one trial
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  Speaker 1: that he had nothing to do with, where the defense
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  Speaker 1: was actually this was part of a reality show's script
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  Speaker 1: and the husband was in on it. He stuck with
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  Speaker 1: that as he heads in to trial number two. Take
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  Speaker 1: a listen to ABC's Amy Robock. Dolia never backs off.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want now. I'm not gonna you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a lot precker than what I love. And you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: what a cute little birl, But I'm not thank you.
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  Speaker 1: But I think for man, sure everything's gonna think. The
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  Speaker 1: not so cute little girl agrees to a plan. She
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  Speaker 1: will leave the house early Wednesday morning, six thirday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Sure enough, she's at this gym around six am Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: leaving Mike Depolito home alone in bed, still recovering from
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  Speaker 1: liposuction from two weeks before. At this point, the police
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  Speaker 1: have all the evidence they need. These are either experienced officers.
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  Speaker 1: You know that you have enough. You have a case done.
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  Speaker 1: End of story, but not end of television show. Television show.
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  Speaker 1: Voice for you. That's right. Turns out a reality show
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  Speaker 1: has come to Boyton Beach video and the timing couldn't
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  Speaker 1: be better. They'll be able to film the last part
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  Speaker 1: of the police investigation. You're hearing our friend Amy Robot
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  Speaker 1: straight back out to Rate Caputo, lead news anchor Morning
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  Speaker 1: News w DBO. So what happens next. She's at the
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  Speaker 1: gym when the hit goes down, the supposed hit. Yeah, Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what. She wanted to be on
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  Speaker 1: reality TV. And she got on it all right because
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  Speaker 1: the cops were filming an episode of that show. So
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  Speaker 1: they bring her back from the gym to this staged
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  Speaker 1: crime scene and they got this all on video, and
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  Speaker 1: they get her reaction when they tell her that Mike
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  Speaker 1: has been murdered. Now, of course he's still alive and
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  Speaker 1: this is all stage. But I'll tell you she puts
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  Speaker 1: on a type of act that would have been great
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  Speaker 1: for reality TV. She starts wailing, she she tremor starts,
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  Speaker 1: you know, kind of hunching over. But one thing you
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  Speaker 1: don't see is you see tears, you know. And this
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  Speaker 1: woman puts on quite an act thinking, you know, considering
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  Speaker 1: the videos that we saw before that she you know,
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  Speaker 1: was behind this. She puts on quite an act trying
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  Speaker 1: to sell the fact that she was upset that Mike
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  Speaker 1: apparently was murdered. Okay, take a listen. The TV show
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  Speaker 1: cameras are rolling when police wake up Mike. That's officer
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  Speaker 1: and Morino at the door. Your wife was tired of
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  Speaker 1: person to kill you. But yeah, I was totally in
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  Speaker 1: shock that this was going on. I was very surprised.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, because then it hit me like, this
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  Speaker 1: is a this is a mess. They drive them on
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  Speaker 1: way and transformed the street to make it up here
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  Speaker 1: they're really investigating Mike's murder. The TV show Cops along
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  Speaker 1: with Boyton Beach Police have cameras rolling. When a detective
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  Speaker 1: calls Dahlia at the gym, we're at your residence, man,
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  Speaker 1: can you come right back to your residence police? She's
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  Speaker 1: back in a flash, and now watch carefully. You be
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  Speaker 1: the judge of what happens next. Is your husband, Michael, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry to tell you man, he's been killed. We
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  Speaker 1: know the cops are acting. What about Dahlia. Okay, Brian Claypool,
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  Speaker 1: you're stuck with that video and audio at trial number two,
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  Speaker 1: what do you make of it? Yeah, here, here's what
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  Speaker 1: we argued. You just heard Amy Roeback say the police
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  Speaker 1: officers were acting as well. But I argued in the
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  Speaker 1: second trial, is that the fact that the police department
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  Speaker 1: went to such an extreme to set up a staged
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  Speaker 1: crime scene. And then Nancy after that, that the media
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  Speaker 1: person at Point Beach PD takes that video clip that
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  Speaker 1: you just played for your listeners and she posts that
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  Speaker 1: posts it online for the world to see, and it
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  Speaker 1: goes viral internationally within seven minutes. And the fault is
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  Speaker 1: that that's Dhlia Dippolito's fault. She's the one out of
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  Speaker 1: the street crying. I mean, as I love to say,
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  Speaker 1: Meryl Street, don't worry, Okay, you're safe because but she
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  Speaker 1: certainly put on a performance. Well look, I know that
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  Speaker 1: you're in love with that. That that's her crying. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I am stage crime scene. I'm surprised you haven't brought
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  Speaker 1: up the shy t latte yet. To listen at the
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  Speaker 1: end and rager said that I was just waiting for
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  Speaker 1: my aunts to poison him before she hired the hit man.
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  Speaker 1: That wasn't true at all. There's no evidence of that
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  Speaker 1: and no investigations. But let me make one more quick point.
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  Speaker 1: The whole the whole point in cross exam of the
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  Speaker 1: media director was that there is a pending criminal investigation ongoing.
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  Speaker 1: You don't jeopardize or contaminate an investigation by circulating this
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  Speaker 1: video worldwide. That was our argument. Her due process rights
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  Speaker 1: were violated. Well, if she had trying to kill her husband,
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  Speaker 1: hired a hitman and carried on doublish, she's physically doubling
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  Speaker 1: over in grief. She did that, not the coss Nancy. Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: You're one of the brightest people I've ever met. There's
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  Speaker 1: a legal doctrine called fruit of the poisonous tree. You've
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  Speaker 1: heard of that. Our argument was that that stage videotape,
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  Speaker 1: that that tape, or Dahlia's five thousand percent short that
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  Speaker 1: is all toxic and contaminated and the result of unconstitutional
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  Speaker 1: violations by the went In Beach Police department. Okay, did
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  Speaker 1: they make Muhammed come in the friend Mohammed and say hey,
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  Speaker 1: my ex lover is planning a hit. FYI, nobody. The
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  Speaker 1: police didn't make that happen. What they did do was
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  Speaker 1: doing get an undercover cop to pose as a hit man,
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  Speaker 1: and that's absolutely constitutional. She didn't have to take that meeting.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't was the atm There was an audio tape.
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  Speaker 1: There was an audio tape of the police officer laughing
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  Speaker 1: at Mohammed when he went in because he couldn't remember
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  Speaker 1: her name. They weren't even taking this that's serious. And
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  Speaker 1: then Ray Ray, actually one of your other guests, made
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  Speaker 1: a good point that I actually made to help Dalia
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  Speaker 1: almost win the second trial. Ray just said, oh wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute, Dalia could have hired somebody else to go
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  Speaker 1: kill Mike. That's why they needed to explanise this investigation.
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  Speaker 1: But I argued, what at trial was the police department
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  Speaker 1: never even called up Mike. They never even called this
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  Speaker 1: sky up and to say, hey, Golia might kill you.
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  Speaker 1: You might want to get somebody to protect you or
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  Speaker 1: get a security guard, because they never took it serious,
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  Speaker 1: and all they were doing was setting up a view
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  Speaker 1: they were trying. Okay, doctor Bethany Marshall, there's something toxic,
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  Speaker 1: all right, but it's not the cops. I'm just listening
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  Speaker 1: to all these facts and trying to assess the mindset
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  Speaker 1: of diet Polito, and it seems to me that she's
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  Speaker 1: one of these rare female sociopaths who uses her sexuality
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  Speaker 1: and charm to preferentially relate to men so that she
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  Speaker 1: can get something from them. That this is her emo
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  Speaker 1: in the world. And she turns on that same kind
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  Speaker 1: of charm in this YouTube video. So when I looked
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  Speaker 1: at it, the cops says, you know, your husband said,
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  Speaker 1: she burst into tears, And you and I both know
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  Speaker 1: that when you get bad news, first stage is shocked, right,
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  Speaker 1: you can't believe it. You're trying to take in the information,
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  Speaker 1: you're rejecting it all at the same time, she is
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  Speaker 1: prepared for this. She starts crying big crocodile tears. But
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  Speaker 1: then she cozies up to the police officer who has
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  Speaker 1: just given her the so called bad news, kind of
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  Speaker 1: presses her body up against him a little bit. He
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  Speaker 1: has his arm around her waist. It's a very sexualized interaction.
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  Speaker 1: So here, as she supposedly learns that her husband is dead,
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  Speaker 1: she becomes very sexualized in her relationship with the police officer.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that that small fact just has stood
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  Speaker 1: out to me about this case all about you know
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  Speaker 1: what you men, you mentioned something that triggered what Brian
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  Speaker 1: claypol just said about claims that Dollie Dippolito had tried
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  Speaker 1: to poison the husband. This is after just six months
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  Speaker 1: of marriage. They're on the honeymoon phase. Reports that Dolly
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  Speaker 1: dip Plito, the ex lover turn informant, testifies de Polito
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  Speaker 1: tried to poison her husband before she hired a hit
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  Speaker 1: man to kill him. Well, that's neither here nor there.
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  Speaker 1: That's background information for you. But then men are just
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  Speaker 1: wallets for her. Men are need satisfying objects. That's all
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  Speaker 1: they are. Troye excuse me, Brian Claypool, I've got a
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  Speaker 1: question for you. Your client, Dahlia to Polito, was she
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  Speaker 1: ever a hooker? Absolutely not her art Her contention was
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  Speaker 1: that they mess at a Starbucks coffee shot. This is
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  Speaker 1: just this is just fantasy and that the media wanted
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  Speaker 1: to propagate to make this a sex to your story.
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  Speaker 1: But she was not as pretty sexy as it is.
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  Speaker 1: Time stories with Nancy Grace, guys were talking about Dahlia
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  Speaker 1: did Polito with me are renowned trial lawyer that represented
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  Speaker 1: her at trial too, And I gotta tell you, I've
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  Speaker 1: never seen anybody fight as hard as Brian Claypool did
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  Speaker 1: at trial. But sadly for him, there are some hurdles
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  Speaker 1: you just can't get over. Listened to this. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: j Ramsay, I'm not going to call you. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for comment. I'm sorry to call you. Listen. We had
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  Speaker 1: to report of a disturbance at your house and there
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  Speaker 1: were shots fired as your husband, Michael, Okay, I'm sorry
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  Speaker 1: to tell you. Man, he's been killed. He's been killed.
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  Speaker 1: Then try to find up right now. We need to
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  Speaker 1: we need to get I can't look. We have to
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  Speaker 1: do our job. You want to find his killer. We
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  Speaker 1: need you to calm down. I need you to go
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  Speaker 1: with these detectives. Okay. Is you have enemies? Is there
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  Speaker 1: anyone that would want to hurt Okay, who would want
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  Speaker 1: to hurt him? Witnesses said he saw a blackmail running
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  Speaker 1: from me. I can't let you see him them, dam
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  Speaker 1: I cannot do this right now. I need you. I
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  Speaker 1: need you to take the station. I can't go with
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  Speaker 1: these detective. If you want to help your husband, okay,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to help your husband. You need to
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  Speaker 1: go to the station with these gentlemen and tell us
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  Speaker 1: everything you know about who he knows, who he's connected to.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry, we've already taken carry dogs without him a
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  Speaker 1: control for right now, everything's under control. Okay, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: letting that soak in for just a moment. Um, take
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  Speaker 1: a listen to this. They bring in Officer Witty Gee,
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  Speaker 1: the supposed hit man from the car. He's over here.
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  Speaker 1: You know who this guy is, You've never seen him before.
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  Speaker 1: She just stared at him. Um, she says she didn't
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  Speaker 1: know him and in call it a resurrection. Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: Police have another surprise for Delia to polito. Please come here,
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  Speaker 1: how you come here? She sees her husband and he's
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  Speaker 1: a love. The show Cops captures this moment as well.
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  Speaker 1: Come here, please, God here, come here. Please. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to jail today, crystalssitation murder. You're under arrest. Did you
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  Speaker 1: hear what I just told you? You kept saying I
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  Speaker 1: didn't do anything. I didn't do for anything? Was that
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  Speaker 1: all you could think of to say? They were accusing
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  Speaker 1: me of trying to have man? I think hold then,
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  Speaker 1: I think it. So police have her in the station.
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  Speaker 1: They then bring in the hitman, the undercover cop and go,
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  Speaker 1: you know this guy, goes no, She's on tape negotiating
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  Speaker 1: with the hitman. Then they bring in the husband and
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  Speaker 1: she learns for the first time that he's actually alive.
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  Speaker 1: It was all a sting. What can you imagine went
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  Speaker 1: through your client's mind at that moment with me? Veteran
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  Speaker 1: trial lawyer Brian Claypool, who represented Depolito at trial. Now,
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  Speaker 1: before you give Claypool too hard of a time, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta remember that this trial was tried one time before
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  Speaker 1: he got the case, so he stuck with that transcript
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  Speaker 1: where Dahlia Dippolito has taken the stand given all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of statements contrary to what he then must argue to
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  Speaker 1: a jury. So what's going through her mind? Brian? How
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  Speaker 1: did you put it to the jury when she sees
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  Speaker 1: the hitman come in and she says, no, I've never
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  Speaker 1: seen him in my life, when the cops have her
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  Speaker 1: on video and audio negotiating a hit with him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he answered, before him answer that question, I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: recognize you made a great point, so de Ray about
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  Speaker 1: the first trial where she said it for reality TV.
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  Speaker 1: So what we had to do in the second trial
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  Speaker 1: is we had to we couldn't call her as a
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  Speaker 1: witness because of what you said and raised that we
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  Speaker 1: could not call her as a witness because then the
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  Speaker 1: prosecutors would have taken that testimony under oath from the
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  Speaker 1: first trial and would have completely gutted the argument we
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  Speaker 1: were making in the second trial. It's the first point
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to make. Second point as to this video,
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  Speaker 1: when they're bringing in Witty Jean and they're bringing in
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  Speaker 1: Mike Pippolito, what I argued was I didn't go into
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  Speaker 1: the mind of Dahlia. I just said, look, this is
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  Speaker 1: completely inappropriate police practices. In fact, what is the Cops
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  Speaker 1: TV show doing in a police station when they're about
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  Speaker 1: to arrest a woman for alleged solicitation to commit murder?
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  Speaker 1: Completely inappropriate, out of bounds and unconstitutional. Okay, can we
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  Speaker 1: now address your client in jail after hiring a hitman
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  Speaker 1: to kill her husband, and she sees the hit man
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  Speaker 1: walk into the police station and then says, well, I
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  Speaker 1: don't owe him. I mean the fact that she lied,
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  Speaker 1: it looks that clearly. I agree with you, that's that's nonsensical.
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  Speaker 1: She should have said she knew who he was and
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  Speaker 1: she and she made a mistake on that. But with
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  Speaker 1: respect to Mike, I mean, what would you what would
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  Speaker 1: you expect her reaction to be when Mike walks in.
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  Speaker 1: She's been told that Mike has been killed, and now
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  Speaker 1: Mike walks in. So she was genuinely surprised at that.
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  Speaker 1: I bet she was. Regarding the hintman you said she
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  Speaker 1: made a mistake, she outright lied because she couldn't say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know him, I hired him to kill my husband.
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  Speaker 1: So she said, no, I've never seen him. Look, she
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: didn't hire him to kill her husband. Look, she was
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: supposed to pay fifteen thousand dollars. Who who? Who? Who
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: goes on and tries to kill somebody on credit? She gave?
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  Speaker 1: She gave a lot of people would be so surprised
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  Speaker 1: at how many people I'm telling you, you keep saying, please, please, please,
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  Speaker 1: many many people put a down payment on a I
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  Speaker 1: mean you just saw it. A tiger came you putting
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  Speaker 1: down a payment on a much Yeah, you put a
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  Speaker 1: payment on a hit and you pay the rest with
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  Speaker 1: the deed is done. As a matter of fact, that's
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  Speaker 1: pretty much sob Maybe not that cheap, that she really
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  Speaker 1: didn't want it done. That's what I argued in this
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  Speaker 1: second case, almost one, she didn't give any money. You
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  Speaker 1: know what, You know what, Brian Claypool, if I'm ever
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  Speaker 1: charged with murder, get ready because you're still you're still
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  Speaker 1: you're going down swinging, You're still fighting for Dahlia di Polito. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: whether you agree with this defense attorneys or not, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't, you gotta respect somebody that never gives up.
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  Speaker 1: So bottom line right now, to Ray Caputo, lead news
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  Speaker 1: anchor w DBA Morning News, where does the case stand now?
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  Speaker 1: Bottom line? Bottom line, she is serving sixteen years in
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  Speaker 1: prison in a woman's prison in the o'calla and Marion County,
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  Speaker 1: and she's not getting out for a while. Man Nancy
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  Speaker 1: Grace Clime story signing off, good Bye sand