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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Did a scorned hairstylist hire a hit man on Tender
- 0:12Speaker 2: of all places to brutally assassinate her ex boyfriend and,
- 0:18Speaker 2: wait for it.
- 0:19Speaker 1: His teen daughter?
- 0:21Speaker 2: This according to cops. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories.
- 0:25Speaker 2: Thank you for being with us.
- 0:27Speaker 3: A New Jersey woman is accused of attempting to hire
- 0:30Speaker 3: a hitman off popular dating app Tender.
- 0:35Speaker 1: Could this be?
- 0:37Speaker 2: Did the scorned hairstylist want revenge so badly she wanted
- 0:42Speaker 2: to assassinate her ex boyfriend and his teen daughter? How
- 0:47Speaker 2: did the teen daughter get roped into this? You know,
- 0:51Speaker 2: I've got an all star panel to make sense of
- 0:53Speaker 2: what we know right now. But joining me in addition
- 0:57Speaker 2: to an all star panel is a very special guest.
- 1:00Speaker 2: This is a man, a former husband, a father, who
- 1:06Speaker 2: endured a hit shot nine times when his ex wife
- 1:13Speaker 2: wanted to gain control of money that was meant to
- 1:17Speaker 2: raise their son. Joining me, Baron Lee, shot nine times,
- 1:24Speaker 2: all ordered by your wife. Now, I've always been amazed, Baron.
- 1:29Speaker 2: If I may call you that, I feel.
- 1:31Speaker 1: Like I know you. We've discussed your case.
- 1:33Speaker 2: I've talked to you and thought about you so many
- 1:35Speaker 2: times since the incident. What went through your mind as
- 1:40Speaker 2: you were lying there?
- 1:42Speaker 1: I'm sure you can.
- 1:42Speaker 2: Process all of the facts that here you were just
- 1:46Speaker 2: out in the parking lot, minding your own business. And
- 1:48Speaker 2: why you, of all people, why were you assailed by
- 1:53Speaker 2: unknown guys and shot nine times?
- 1:57Speaker 1: What went through your mind?
- 1:58Speaker 4: I realized diet at gaining moment, and then I was wondering,
- 2:03Speaker 4: you know who? Actually, at the time I knew who
- 2:06Speaker 4: who was ordering a hit on me. I just didn't
- 2:09Speaker 4: know who the shooter was at the time.
- 2:10Speaker 2: I mean, you were shot point blank. I will never
- 2:15Speaker 2: forget it. All in a bid by your ex wife
- 2:19Speaker 2: to gain control of that money set aside to help
- 2:23Speaker 2: raise your son. How has your son reacted to what
- 2:28Speaker 2: happened to you, Baron?
- 2:30Speaker 4: Well, my son's non mobile, nonverbal, so fortunately he doesn't
- 2:33Speaker 4: have a trauma to deal with like other kids would
- 2:36Speaker 4: have had to, so he has no idea what happened.
- 2:40Speaker 2: You know what, Thank goodness that this did not weigh
- 2:43Speaker 2: on his mind on top of everything else, and that
- 2:46Speaker 2: was a considerable amount of money to help raise him
- 2:50Speaker 2: to secure his future, which he is going to need.
- 2:54Speaker 1: Why did she do it? Baron?
- 2:56Speaker 4: H You know, I asked myself that every single day,
- 2:59Speaker 4: I just say appears to it is what comes down.
- 3:01Speaker 1: To guys, A guy that lived through a similar hit.
- 3:04Speaker 1: But to the.
- 3:05Speaker 2: Case in chief, baron, don't move. I want your take
- 3:08Speaker 2: on this. First of all, take a listen. They were
- 3:10Speaker 2: together for approximately a year and there was clearly problems
- 3:13Speaker 2: in the relationship.
- 3:14Speaker 5: During the detention here in Camden County, Assistant Prosecutor David
- 3:18Speaker 5: Deets outlined a screenshot of a text message where Diorio
- 3:22Speaker 5: negotiates the price for the hit. Another text message has
- 3:26Speaker 5: the defendant discussing a prior attempt to hire someone to
- 3:30Speaker 5: kill her. Ex recorded conversation between Diorio and the informant
- 3:35Speaker 5: was also submitted.
- 3:36Speaker 2: That from our friends at CBS News three, joining me
- 3:39Speaker 2: as I said an all star panel straight out to
- 3:42Speaker 2: Rodrigo terrehone Crime and Course reporter at the Philly Inquirer, Rodriguo,
- 3:48Speaker 2: thank you for being with us. How did this whole
- 3:50Speaker 2: thing start? It's my understanding that the would be killer
- 3:55Speaker 2: is a scorned hairstylist, and we heard Elliot the get
- 3:59Speaker 2: Go say there were problems in the relationship, but Rodrigue,
- 4:03Speaker 2: their problems in every relationship. My husband as I like
- 4:07Speaker 2: to say my current husband and I never had an
- 4:10Speaker 2: argument until we had the twins, and then we immediately
- 4:13Speaker 2: started arguing about how they would be raised. Practically every decision,
- 4:17Speaker 2: what time to go to bed, how many bottles would
- 4:19Speaker 2: you go in?
- 4:19Speaker 1: The bottle? You name it?
- 4:21Speaker 2: Okay, and that goes on today. That's our sole source
- 4:25Speaker 2: of argument, what is best.
- 4:26Speaker 1: For our children. So, yes, every relationship has ups and downs, but.
- 4:31Speaker 6: Really, prosecutors say that the relationship, like the Comic County
- 4:35Speaker 6: prosecutor mentioned earlier, between Jacqueline the Orio and Officer o'hanlan,
- 4:42Speaker 6: started around a year ago and quickly turned pretty volatile.
- 4:47Speaker 6: You know, there was a few months that seemed like
- 4:49Speaker 6: the relationship was going and around August there was an
- 4:54Speaker 6: allegation of restraining order that was filed by the officer
- 4:59Speaker 6: against So things turns sour relatively quickly. The next month,
- 5:05Speaker 6: the officer reported that his house was damaged by a
- 5:09Speaker 6: Molotov cocktail that was thrown at it. There has not
- 5:12Speaker 6: been any sort of clear link between the extra sold on.
- 5:18Speaker 2: Just a second, Tetahan, you're putting the cart before the horse.
- 5:21Speaker 2: I got to get into it, Okay, I know about
- 5:25Speaker 2: the Molotov I know about the beginning of the relationship,
- 5:29Speaker 2: but what I don't know about is the intricacies of
- 5:32Speaker 2: that relationship.
- 5:34Speaker 1: What went wrong? Why did they break up? Why couldn't
- 5:37Speaker 1: she just move on?
- 5:39Speaker 2: As my grandmother said, meant no offense to you, of course, Rodrigo,
- 5:43Speaker 2: that men are like buses. Anyone will come along every
- 5:45Speaker 2: fifteen minutes. So why does she fixate so much on
- 5:51Speaker 2: the boyfriend to the extent she wanted him dead and
- 5:56Speaker 2: wanted his teen daughter dead too. Did that come about, Rodrigo?
- 6:03Speaker 6: Yeah, so that's unclear. Still, like I said, there was
- 6:06Speaker 6: a few months where everything seemed to be going smoothly,
- 6:08Speaker 6: and from one month to another there was some sort
- 6:11Speaker 6: of volatility between them, some sort of intention to say
- 6:16Speaker 6: the least, and there was a restraining order filed by
- 6:19Speaker 6: the officer against the oreo, and the attorney for the
- 6:22Speaker 6: oreo later said that there was also a restraining order
- 6:25Speaker 6: that she filed against.
- 6:26Speaker 7: Him that was later withdrawn.
- 6:29Speaker 2: So there's straight out to Greg Moores following up on
- 6:33Speaker 2: what Rodrigo Tara Han just said. Greg Moore's high profile
- 6:37Speaker 2: lawyer joining us a Morse legal currently.
- 6:41Speaker 1: Counsel to the SEI. A. Well, you've got.
- 6:43Speaker 2: Your hands full, Greg, dueling tros down'd you just love that?
- 6:50Speaker 2: And of course I'm being sarcastic when a real victim
- 6:54Speaker 2: comes into court for a temporary restraining order and what
- 6:57Speaker 2: is the other one.
- 6:57Speaker 1: To race back in to go? Uhh, I'm not a fault.
- 7:01Speaker 1: It's them all of this going on.
- 7:04Speaker 2: When I see dueling restraining orders, that's a bad sign.
- 7:09Speaker 2: It's not going to get any better, Greg Morse, Dueling.
- 7:12Speaker 7: Tros are a defense lawyer's dream. It means both people
- 7:16Speaker 7: are claiming to be victims, both people are claiming to
- 7:19Speaker 7: be the abuser. It shows a history of back and forth.
- 7:25Speaker 7: So this is a volatile relationship from both folks in
- 7:29Speaker 7: this situation.
- 7:31Speaker 2: You know, my guess is they There is no evidence
- 7:35Speaker 2: that the victim was volatile.
- 7:38Speaker 1: The victim was a cop, by the way. But that said, he's.
- 7:43Speaker 2: Not the one that ordered a hit according to police,
- 7:46Speaker 2: he's not the one that went on Tender, a dating
- 7:50Speaker 2: site if you want to.
- 7:51Speaker 1: Call it that. That's a hookup site, that's what that is.
- 7:53Speaker 2: But that said, he didn't go on Tender and pretend
- 7:57Speaker 2: he was looking for.
- 7:57Speaker 1: A date and goes, oh, by the way, can you
- 8:00Speaker 1: meet me.
- 8:00Speaker 2: At wah Wah's Grocery so I can pay you to
- 8:04Speaker 2: shoot my ex. That wasn't him, that's her Moores, So
- 8:09Speaker 2: don't tune up. First thing, I ask you about tros
- 8:13Speaker 2: and you try to say it's the victim's fault.
- 8:15Speaker 1: Does it never end with you?
- 8:17Speaker 7: No, it's not that they're both victims. They both had tros,
- 8:20Speaker 7: and people withdraw them all the time because they get
- 8:22Speaker 7: back together and then they have them all to would
- 8:25Speaker 7: the victim?
- 8:26Speaker 2: Could you just explain what maybe you know? Let me
- 8:30Speaker 2: direct you to Webster's Dictionary. And I don't mean online,
- 8:34Speaker 2: you need the hard copy.
- 8:36Speaker 1: What do you think victim means? How is she a victim?
- 8:41Speaker 2: He goes to get a tro and she's like, race,
- 8:44Speaker 2: this is to the courthouse.
- 8:45Speaker 1: I'm first, I'm first judged. Call me first. How is
- 8:49Speaker 1: she the victim? He broke up with her.
- 8:52Speaker 2: And she could stand it in order to hint to
- 8:56Speaker 2: kill him.
- 8:57Speaker 1: Have you ever been to a murder scene?
- 8:59Speaker 2: Have you smelled and coagulated blood? Because I have, and
- 9:03Speaker 2: I hope I never do again.
- 9:04Speaker 1: That's what she wanted.
- 9:05Speaker 7: I've been to quite a few and have gotten plenty
- 9:07Speaker 7: of not guilty. The murder cases we have in this case.
- 9:11Speaker 2: How you managed to merge a dead body with you
- 9:15Speaker 2: getting a not guilty. Excuse me, Jackie, could you toot
- 9:18Speaker 2: his horn for him? No, he's doing that himself.
- 9:22Speaker 1: You are asking you about how he's the thing she
- 9:26Speaker 1: wanted him dead on the ground with his team dead.
- 9:31Speaker 7: Nancy, you have a cl on their own for four days,
- 9:35Speaker 7: creating this story. Potentially the defense has something to work
- 9:39Speaker 7: with here. When have you ever heard of a CI
- 9:41Speaker 7: doing their own kind of case on Tinder and then
- 9:46Speaker 7: all of a sudden going to the police four days later.
- 9:48Speaker 7: That creates opportunities?
- 9:50Speaker 2: Okay, Well, you know I got a wonderful answer for you. Okay,
- 9:56Speaker 2: and her name as Dahlia Dippolito. Are you actually asking
- 10:04Speaker 2: me how does a CI confidential? You know, I'm not
- 10:08Speaker 2: impressed by you throwing around cop talk. Everybody that's watching
- 10:12Speaker 2: crime stories knows CI is a confidential informant. But thank
- 10:16Speaker 2: you for trying. Okay, Next, what are you going to
- 10:18Speaker 2: throw a Latin phrase at me that said.
- 10:21Speaker 7: You're looking at Are you usual.
- 10:25Speaker 2: For a CI to go online to traffic killer? Because
- 10:29Speaker 2: it's not is that what you're saying?
- 10:31Speaker 7: No, but it doesn't seem like from the police report
- 10:33Speaker 7: that the police were involved in this the first four days.
- 10:37Speaker 7: So what they have a meeting in a day?
- 10:40Speaker 1: God, they did get involved.
- 10:43Speaker 2: No, put your feet to the fire, Morse, because you
- 10:47Speaker 2: said what CI, which is an arm of LA law
- 10:51Speaker 2: enforcement goes online to traffic killer?
- 10:55Speaker 1: Who would do that? Hey? Listen to this? Do you
- 11:24Speaker 1: know how many times I've watched that?
- 11:26Speaker 2: And there's a longer version two, which I will absolutely play. Okay,
- 11:30Speaker 2: Dahlia Dippolito hires a hitman to murder her husband, and
- 11:38Speaker 2: as in this case with the Molotov cocktail that Rodrigo
- 11:41Speaker 2: Tetahan was telling us about and prior attempts, it wasn't
- 11:45Speaker 2: her first try.
- 11:46Speaker 1: According to Ellie, she tried to poison her husband in
- 11:52Speaker 1: a Starbucks.
- 11:53Speaker 2: I'm not even going to mention that she was a hooker, okay,
- 11:57Speaker 2: because that's neither here nor there.
- 11:58Speaker 1: Before she got married and he took her away from
- 12:01Speaker 1: all that.
- 12:03Speaker 2: Anyway, they stinger, Why did they stinger because they had
- 12:08Speaker 2: l E law enforcement as the would be assassin. Same
- 12:14Speaker 2: thing as here, and Morrise, you're acting like you've never
- 12:17Speaker 2: heard anything like it, Like it's a big entrapment to
- 12:21Speaker 2: John Pizzorro, former in New Jersey State Police investigator twenty
- 12:25Speaker 2: five years.
- 12:26Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot going down in New Jersey.
- 12:29Speaker 2: Homicide, organized crime, cartels, commander of the Internet, crimes against children,
- 12:34Speaker 2: It goes on and on. Currently, CEO of RAVEN focused
- 12:39Speaker 2: on eliminating child exploitation and trafficking.
- 12:42Speaker 1: John, you've certainly seen it all.
- 12:44Speaker 2: But did you happen to hear Greg Morris, who is
- 12:47Speaker 2: a veteran defense attorney, as he so timidly put forth,
- 12:53Speaker 2: I've won a lot of cases, he says, did you
- 12:57Speaker 2: hear him say how odd it is for elie law enforcement,
- 13:01Speaker 2: an agent a CI to be part of a sting.
- 13:06Speaker 1: I mean, who is this woman going to hire to
- 13:08Speaker 1: kill her ex? Ann?
- 13:11Speaker 2: Will you priest a virgin? No, somebody that acts like
- 13:14Speaker 2: a hitman.
- 13:15Speaker 8: Yeah, we use them all the time. I mean informants.
- 13:18Speaker 8: And by the way, I love the entrapment argument because
- 13:21Speaker 8: that's the first thing defense counsel does, entrapment. But the
- 13:24Speaker 8: reality is, I can't tell you how many times people
- 13:26Speaker 8: actually came up to us, you know, in an undercover capacity,
- 13:30Speaker 8: and to hire a hit person. I mean, the only
- 13:32Speaker 8: difference between years ago today is that there's apps to
- 13:36Speaker 8: do it where you don't have to go to the
- 13:37Speaker 8: Yellow Pages. Is a little easier just to ask someone
- 13:40Speaker 8: to do something.
- 13:47Speaker 3: Jacqueline Diorio is a twenty six year old New Jersey
- 13:50Speaker 3: woman accused of attempting to murder her cop ex boyfriend
- 13:54Speaker 3: by hiring a hit man off Tinder.
- 13:59Speaker 1: We know these two love birds.
- 14:01Speaker 2: Met when the defendant, the suspect, the hairstylist, was actually
- 14:05Speaker 2: doing the victim's hair.
- 14:08Speaker 1: That's how they met. Let's see what more we know. Listen.
- 14:11Speaker 5: Jacqueline Diorio, twenty six, lives in run A Meede, New Jersey,
- 14:15Speaker 5: making her living as a barber. She hits it off
- 14:18Speaker 5: with one of her clients, a police officer twice her age.
- 14:22Speaker 5: They began dating. Their relationship lasts just over a year,
- 14:26Speaker 5: but not without problems. Problems so bad that Diorio asked
- 14:30Speaker 5: for and got a restraining order put in place. She
- 14:33Speaker 5: later dropped the complaint. After the breakup, Diorio started looking
- 14:37Speaker 5: at dating apps, specifically Tender. A match is made and
- 14:41Speaker 5: Diorio makes plans to meet her new friend for the
- 14:44Speaker 5: first time at.
- 14:44Speaker 1: A wall wall.
- 14:45Speaker 5: They exchange numbers and communicate through text messages and phone calls.
- 14:49Speaker 2: Okay to you, John Pizzorro, former New Jersey State Police
- 14:54Speaker 2: twenty five years Wow, okay, Pisorro. I've heard of first dates,
- 15:02Speaker 2: and I always advise people when you meet online, you
- 15:04Speaker 2: should meet somewhere public.
- 15:05Speaker 1: But wah waws. That should have been a tip off
- 15:08Speaker 1: right there.
- 15:09Speaker 2: My sister and Philly used to live in a building
- 15:11Speaker 2: on top at the bottom of the building.
- 15:15Speaker 1: It was in grad towers at the Wharton School. There
- 15:18Speaker 1: was a wah wah.
- 15:20Speaker 2: I mean, that's not really a romantic setting for your
- 15:23Speaker 2: first date, is it?
- 15:24Speaker 1: Was that a tip off? I mean, wahwas Well, it.
- 15:26Speaker 8: Is Tinder, Nancy, so I mean, you know, and there
- 15:29Speaker 8: is a lot of wildwaws in New Jersey, so I
- 15:31Speaker 8: guess the old Starbucks is out these days, you know too.
- 15:36Speaker 2: Doctor Sherry Schwartz now joining us. She's been chomping at
- 15:39Speaker 2: the bit hearing all of this. She's a forensic psychologist
- 15:42Speaker 2: and she specializes in capital mitigation and victim advocacy, and
- 15:47Speaker 2: you can find her at panthermitigation dot com. She's the
- 15:51Speaker 2: author of Criminal Behavior and the one I like the best,
- 15:55Speaker 2: where law and psychology Intersecty Schwartz, I mean, this could
- 16:01Speaker 2: be a total case study for you, because, for instance,
- 16:04Speaker 2: what led up, what fueled the hatred and this hairstylist
- 16:11Speaker 2: heart that she wanted not only her boyfriend for Pete's saint.
- 16:15Speaker 1: They're not even married.
- 16:16Speaker 2: They don't even have to divide property, they don't have
- 16:19Speaker 2: to fight over custody.
- 16:21Speaker 1: They don't have to decide who gets the pots.
- 16:24Speaker 2: And pans and who gets the crock pot, none of that.
- 16:28Speaker 2: But it's so contentious she wants him dead and not
- 16:34Speaker 2: just thinking, doctor Sherry, oh, I could just kill him,
- 16:38Speaker 2: not that actually going online, in hiring someone to commit
- 16:45Speaker 2: double murder and on a teen girl, a little girl.
- 16:49Speaker 2: What is that, Doctor Sherry.
- 16:52Speaker 9: It's pure unadulterated hatred, fueled by the fact that it
- 16:57Speaker 9: seems like he broke up with her. The relationship was volatile,
- 17:01Speaker 9: he didn't want to have a relationship with her anymore,
- 17:05Speaker 9: and it sounds like she probably arrived at the conclusion
- 17:08Speaker 9: that if I can't.
- 17:09Speaker 7: Have you, nobody will.
- 17:11Speaker 9: I don't understand why his teenage daughter had to be
- 17:14Speaker 9: involved in that unless she thought it was possible the
- 17:18Speaker 9: teenage daughter could later identify that she would be the
- 17:22Speaker 9: one trying to have him murdered. But this is somebody
- 17:26Speaker 9: who has no regard for human life.
- 17:28Speaker 1: Guys. What happens?
- 17:31Speaker 2: They start up a romantic relationship, it goes sour, they
- 17:35Speaker 2: break up, She files for Tiroro and then almost immediately
- 17:40Speaker 2: drops it.
- 17:40Speaker 1: What was that about? Was that a way to play
- 17:43Speaker 1: the system? But it progresses.
- 17:46Speaker 5: Listen During the Oreo's text conversation with her tender date,
- 17:49Speaker 5: she reveals she's not really looking for love, but rather
- 17:53Speaker 5: a hitman.
- 17:54Speaker 10: And imp who was working with a longer and say
- 17:58Speaker 10: they recently met a female wanted beating at Tinder. The
- 18:01Speaker 10: female and entered by herself to the informant as d Well,
- 18:05Speaker 10: which was later identified as the defendants tender name defend
- 18:10Speaker 10: The informant then met at a lawa and running Meat.
- 18:12Speaker 10: Subsequently defendant any informant exchange the numbrous text messages and
- 18:17Speaker 10: phone calls.
- 18:18Speaker 2: During these text.
- 18:19Speaker 10: Messages and phone call conversations, that's defendant and totally informant
- 18:22Speaker 10: that she wanted.
- 18:23Speaker 7: Her to ex boyfriend kill.
- 18:24Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure out when love turns into hate,
- 18:28Speaker 2: and when hate turns in to the desire for murder,
- 18:32Speaker 2: and when that desire leads you to commit and act.
- 18:37Speaker 2: Now to Greg Morris joining me, who has won a
- 18:40Speaker 2: lot of cases. Is named partner at Morse Legal and
- 18:44Speaker 2: also current counsel to the CIA Greg and an attempt case,
- 18:51Speaker 2: an attempted murder or an attempted anything. There are very
- 18:55Speaker 2: often conspiracy charges. A conspiracy cannot be, as you and
- 19:01Speaker 2: I have argued in court many times, unless you have
- 19:03Speaker 2: an overt act. I could sit around all day and think, Oh,
- 19:08Speaker 2: I want to kill Greg Morris so bad.
- 19:11Speaker 1: How would I do it? What would I do?
- 19:13Speaker 2: That's just wishful thinking, that's daydreaming talking about it doesn't
- 19:19Speaker 2: rise to conspiracy. But you must have an overt ov
- 19:24Speaker 2: ert act in order to.
- 19:26Speaker 1: Prove your case.
- 19:28Speaker 2: And here that overt act is going on tender, meeting
- 19:34Speaker 2: someone but still not enough, but then persuading him to
- 19:38Speaker 2: do a hit. There's your overt act right there. In
- 19:41Speaker 2: a conspiracy charge.
- 19:43Speaker 7: Well, there is an overt act there. However, again, those
- 19:47Speaker 7: first four days, when she's interacting with this guy on
- 19:51Speaker 7: tender and they're talking, that leaves a lot of room
- 19:54Speaker 7: for argument for the defense, just like they seem to
- 19:57Speaker 7: be indicating. It's not something that and you know this
- 20:02Speaker 7: God becomes a CI after the four days, not before,
- 20:06Speaker 7: and that creates opportunity. You also can argue the five
- 20:09Speaker 7: hundred dollars it's no word ask although paying for a
- 20:12Speaker 7: Hittman on layaway as odd, but that seems to be
- 20:15Speaker 7: what the prosecution is alleging here.
- 20:17Speaker 2: You know, Greg Morris, when you say that leaves a
- 20:20Speaker 2: lot of wiggle room. Can we just get real about
- 20:23Speaker 2: what you're arguing. I believe trying to read the tea
- 20:27Speaker 2: leaves of what you just said that you're trying to
- 20:29Speaker 2: argue that it was the informant's idea that we can
- 20:32Speaker 2: somehow claim entrapment.
- 20:34Speaker 1: In other words, she would never have.
- 20:36Speaker 2: Come up with a plot to murder her ex and
- 20:39Speaker 2: his teen daughter but for the CI luring her into it.
- 20:44Speaker 2: That's what entrapment means. I would never have done this
- 20:47Speaker 2: except the cops planned it. They lured me in, and
- 20:50Speaker 2: now they're prosecuting me. I would never have done this
- 20:52Speaker 2: on my own. That is what entrapment is. Are you
- 20:55Speaker 2: trying to blame the CI the confidential informant?
- 20:59Speaker 7: Well, the defense has to do something in this case,
- 21:02Speaker 7: and like it out there, there was a.
- 21:04Speaker 1: Little storing there. When you're trying to come up with the.
- 21:07Speaker 7: Argument, what listen, this is you have four days of
- 21:10Speaker 7: a civilian being on their own and then they go
- 21:13Speaker 7: to the police and say, hey, this lady wants to
- 21:15Speaker 7: kill her husband. Who knows what that guy's trying to
- 21:18Speaker 7: work off in his past or why he presented himself
- 21:21Speaker 7: to the police to be used. But as far as
- 21:24Speaker 7: all accounts, Nancy, this guy was a civilian like you
- 21:26Speaker 7: and I for four dates. He packaged this and then
- 21:29Speaker 7: brought it over to the law enforcement. So yeah, I
- 21:33Speaker 7: would live and die in those four or eight days
- 21:35Speaker 7: as a defense lawyer.
- 21:36Speaker 2: And you know, you got a little problem, Greg Morris,
- 21:39Speaker 2: you got a little tiny eight c C fly in
- 21:44Speaker 2: the ointment. Here's the problem, Rodrigo Tetrahan. Isn't it true
- 21:51Speaker 2: that the defendant actually wrote texts to the CI that
- 21:58Speaker 2: prove what she wants. It's not just his word against hers.
- 22:04Speaker 2: She wrote texts.
- 22:05Speaker 1: They're clearly from her phone about the hit.
- 22:09Speaker 6: Yes, the prosecutors at the last hearing did read back
- 22:13Speaker 6: text messages between the CI and the Oreo where Diorio
- 22:18Speaker 6: allegedly goes over.
- 22:20Speaker 7: Proof.
- 22:21Speaker 6: She asked for proof because, in her own words, she
- 22:24Speaker 6: said that she had been sent fake pictures before, which
- 22:28Speaker 6: alludes to prior attempts to carry out this hit.
- 22:33Speaker 1: She gives me, I.
- 22:35Speaker 2: Just choked just a tiny bit white white. Hold on,
- 22:38Speaker 2: Can I see Greg Morris right now? As Rodrigo? Okay,
- 22:43Speaker 2: could you repeat that, Rodrigo? What you just said? She
- 22:46Speaker 2: said what in her text to the confidential informant.
- 22:49Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 22:49Speaker 6: Prosecutors read text between the CI and Diorio where she
- 22:53Speaker 6: mentions that she needs hard proof for this hit that
- 22:57Speaker 6: she wants carried out and alludes to having been sent
- 23:01Speaker 6: fake pictures in a prior attempt. This is of course
- 23:04Speaker 6: through text messages that were read out in court at
- 23:06Speaker 6: the detention hearing two weeks ago.
- 23:09Speaker 1: Out that's got to hurt Morse.
- 23:11Speaker 2: That really has to hurt She's sending him text describe
- 23:14Speaker 2: me how a previous hit man failed her and burned
- 23:17Speaker 2: her by sending her fake photos.
- 23:20Speaker 1: Of the hit.
- 23:20Speaker 7: Well, people become defendants because they're not that bright. However,
- 23:24Speaker 7: people text a lot of things. It doesn't mean they're
- 23:26Speaker 7: going to act on it. In the news right now,
- 23:28Speaker 7: is NFL Hall of Famer Shannon Sharp. He have some
- 23:32Speaker 7: negative texts in the lawsuit against him, and he wasn't
- 23:34Speaker 7: going to He said, I wasn't going to joke anybody.
- 23:36Speaker 7: So people text a lot of things, you know, so
- 23:40Speaker 7: you have to look at that and try to turn
- 23:42Speaker 7: that around as a bluster and just talking.
- 23:46Speaker 3: A woman from New Jersey attempted to hire a hitman
- 23:48Speaker 3: off Tinder to kill both her cop ex boyfriend and
- 23:52Speaker 3: his nineteen year old daughter. Were just twelve thousand dollars.
- 23:59Speaker 1: Joining me in All Star panel. We've been going back and.
- 24:02Speaker 2: Forth with Greg Morse about his theory that it's all
- 24:06Speaker 2: the CI Confidential Informant's fault, that this woman hair stylist,
- 24:11Speaker 2: scorned lover really would never have ordered a hit on
- 24:15Speaker 2: her boyfriend if not for the CI alluring her into it.
- 24:21Speaker 2: But those text messages that she sent the CI that
- 24:25Speaker 2: she met at wahwaz on a date.
- 24:27Speaker 1: When he gets so, she goes, guess what, I.
- 24:29Speaker 2: Don't want a date. I want to hit man. How
- 24:30Speaker 2: about you? Those text messages are damning. And not only
- 24:35Speaker 2: are they damning, they make.
- 24:37Speaker 1: A great identification. Listen the debate.
- 24:40Speaker 10: Dentally informant that her ex boyfriend is a Philadelphia police officer.
- 24:44Speaker 4: And provided his need.
- 24:46Speaker 10: The defendon also provide the informant the telephone number of
- 24:49Speaker 10: the police officer's teenage daughter.
- 24:52Speaker 7: The informantive dead men with.
- 24:53Speaker 10: Detected Durham, but the Candy County Proster's Office Major Crimes
- 24:56Speaker 10: Unit and the informant of providing Detective Durham with a
- 25:00Speaker 10: sure of the defendant from her tender profile. The informant
- 25:04Speaker 10: also provided the Detective Durnam of the defendants teleorma.
- 25:06Speaker 2: Wow, Rodrigo terrejan joining us from Crime and Courts reporting
- 25:13Speaker 2: at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Rodrigo again, thank you for being
- 25:17Speaker 2: with us. So she didn't even use a burner phone.
- 25:21Speaker 2: She used her own phone to text with who she
- 25:25Speaker 2: thought was a CI, therefore giving up her identity.
- 25:29Speaker 1: Unless she wants to try to claim.
- 25:30Speaker 2: Somebody else had her phone or somehow impersonating her, she
- 25:35Speaker 2: used her own phone, Rodrigo.
- 25:37Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what it seems like. Prosecutors said that the
- 25:41Speaker 6: phone number and a photo of the Oreo were both
- 25:44Speaker 6: shown to the officer that she had allegedly tried to
- 25:48Speaker 6: have killed through this hitmap, and he confirmed both that
- 25:52Speaker 6: it was her in the photo and that that was
- 25:53Speaker 6: the number that they had used to communicate. So this,
- 25:56Speaker 6: according to what prosecutors have dug up, was her own
- 26:00Speaker 6: phone number.
- 26:00Speaker 1: Well, it gets worse for her listen if it.
- 26:03Speaker 10: Was interviewed and told the detective Deuram that the defendant
- 26:06Speaker 10: was adamant about killing the victim. Informant stated they which
- 26:10Speaker 10: they spoke about money, and that the defender stated, you
- 26:12Speaker 10: were willing to pay twelve.
- 26:13Speaker 3: Thousand dollars in cash.
- 26:15Speaker 10: During the conversations, defendant also told the informant that she
- 26:19Speaker 10: wanted the victim's teenage daughter killed as well.
- 26:22Speaker 1: The defendant told.
- 26:23Speaker 10: The informant she could pay five hundred dollars a front
- 26:25Speaker 10: and the rest being the installments.
- 26:27Speaker 2: Doctor Sherry Schwartz, joining US forensic psychologist, Doctor Sherry, the
- 26:32Speaker 2: defendant the hairstylist, the scorn hairstylist reiterated over and.
- 26:38Speaker 1: Over she was sure she.
- 26:41Speaker 2: Wanted the hit to go down, adamant, adamant, insistent that
- 26:47Speaker 2: it happens, and again, I must compare it to the
- 26:50Speaker 2: Dahlia Dippolito, Okays, where she says that I believe she's
- 26:55Speaker 2: five thousand percent sure she wants her husband dead, and
- 27:02Speaker 2: it's all caught on tape.
- 27:03Speaker 1: Of course, listen.
- 27:04Speaker 7: Now, and when he's done, you know, not change your money.
- 27:08Speaker 2: But if you change your money, no, no, like like
- 27:13Speaker 2: well five thousand to five thousand percent.
- 27:17Speaker 1: Sure, that's for our friends at ABC twenty twenty.
- 27:20Speaker 2: What does that mean, Sherry Schwartz, I mean the CI
- 27:25Speaker 2: gives the defendant opportunity to turn back, opportunity to go.
- 27:30Speaker 2: You know what, this is crazy talk. I don't want
- 27:32Speaker 2: to do this, but instead they are adamant. They are
- 27:36Speaker 2: hell bent on murder.
- 27:39Speaker 9: That's that's exactly what it is. That she wanted the
- 27:43Speaker 9: job done, She was willing to pay for it. She did,
- 27:47Speaker 9: in fact, put a down payment on it. And that
- 27:50Speaker 9: is an indication that you are serious and you want
- 27:53Speaker 9: this done. And like it was previously mentioned, this is
- 27:55Speaker 9: somebody who, by her own admission, made a prior attempt
- 28:00Speaker 9: and was duped according to her. So this is somebody
- 28:04Speaker 9: who's had some time to think about it and is
- 28:06Speaker 9: one that she wants this done.
- 28:09Speaker 2: Joining us is a survivor, and that doesn't begin to
- 28:16Speaker 2: describe what he went through.
- 28:17Speaker 1: Baron Lee is with us.
- 28:19Speaker 2: He was shot point blank range, shot nine times by
- 28:25Speaker 2: teens hired by his wife to murder him.
- 28:31Speaker 1: As I recall, you were going to your car and
- 28:34Speaker 1: they swarmed you.
- 28:35Speaker 2: You were shot nine times and lived all over money
- 28:40Speaker 2: that was meant that was earmarked to raise their disabled son.
- 28:45Speaker 1: She wanted that money. At any point when you two
- 28:49Speaker 1: were having a.
- 28:49Speaker 2: Contentious split, did you ever get the sense that she
- 28:54Speaker 2: would want you dead?
- 28:55Speaker 4: Yeah? I actually had gone through a couple incidents where
- 28:59Speaker 4: she tried to run me over with the vehicle, and
- 29:03Speaker 4: so when I was shot, I already knew it was
- 29:06Speaker 4: her who was behind it.
- 29:07Speaker 2: But when you say that you knew she was behind it,
- 29:12Speaker 2: let me refine my question. When did you get a
- 29:16Speaker 2: sense or an inkling that she wanted you dead? As
- 29:20Speaker 2: you were lying there on the pavement bleeding out, you
- 29:23Speaker 2: knew at that moment that she was.
- 29:25Speaker 1: Behind the hit.
- 29:27Speaker 2: You weren't wronged, you weren't sex molested, you know, it
- 29:31Speaker 2: wasn't a car jag, nothing like that. This was obviously
- 29:35Speaker 2: a hit on you specifically, and you knew then as
- 29:40Speaker 2: you were bleeding out who did it. But leading up
- 29:43Speaker 2: to that, was there a moment where you were actually
- 29:46Speaker 2: afraid or thought, you know, she wants me dead?
- 29:48Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean, like I said, we had a five
- 29:51Speaker 4: year you know, contention of custody with my son, and
- 29:56Speaker 4: during that time she had attempted to run me over
- 29:58Speaker 4: twice during child exchanges, So you know, to the first time, I,
- 30:05Speaker 4: you know, just chucked it off that first a just
- 30:07Speaker 4: being angry. When she tried to run me over the
- 30:10Speaker 4: second time, I realized that definitely she wanted I guess this.
- 30:14Speaker 2: Case is bringing back a lot of bad memories because,
- 30:18Speaker 2: according to reports, this is not Diorio's first attempt.
- 30:22Speaker 1: We've got the Molotov cocktail incident.
- 30:27Speaker 2: That many attribute to her that has not been proven
- 30:30Speaker 2: in a court of law, and she's innocent until proven guilty.
- 30:33Speaker 2: Then we have her telling the CI don't burn me.
- 30:36Speaker 2: I've been burned before with fakes, with lies by hitman.
- 30:42Speaker 2: In your case, there were multiple attempts as well. Did
- 30:47Speaker 2: you feel invincible? Did you believe you would never be killed?
- 30:51Speaker 6: No, of course not.
- 30:52Speaker 4: But you know, this woman sounds just like my ex wife.
- 30:56Speaker 4: Looks like she's not going to stop until she can
- 30:59Speaker 4: get the job done. Even after my ex wife peg
- 31:02Speaker 4: gott and she found out that I survived, she was
- 31:06Speaker 4: actually working with the teenagers to have them come back
- 31:09Speaker 4: for a second attempt. So I'm sure this woman has
- 31:12Speaker 4: the same kind of mindset that you know. If left
- 31:15Speaker 4: to her devices, she was going to get this job
- 31:17Speaker 4: done one way or another.
- 31:19Speaker 7: During the recording conversations.
- 31:20Speaker 10: Wells previous conversation with the informative defendant discusses her desire
- 31:24Speaker 10: to have teenage daughter of her ex boyfriend killed.
- 31:28Speaker 7: First, while then followed by the victim of the boyfriend.
- 31:32Speaker 10: The reason that the defendant gave is the order of
- 31:34Speaker 10: killings was that she wanted to kill the victim's teenage
- 31:36Speaker 10: daughter because the killing the police officer would draw too
- 31:39Speaker 10: much screwtiny from Lawnborce and well not as much lawmfors
- 31:42Speaker 10: and resources would be dedicated to investigating the den an
- 31:45Speaker 10: officer's daughter.
- 31:46Speaker 1: What did I just hear that incorrectly?
- 31:49Speaker 2: To Rodrigo Tetrjane joining us from Philadelphia, Inquirer Rodrigo, that's
- 31:55Speaker 2: why she wanted the teen daughter killed At first? When
- 31:59Speaker 2: I started investigating the case, I thought it was because
- 32:01Speaker 2: she was jealous of attention or love given to the
- 32:05Speaker 2: teen daughter.
- 32:05Speaker 1: It wasn't that at Oh, this woman might as well
- 32:08Speaker 1: be a lizard. Her blood is cold. Explain why she
- 32:11Speaker 1: wanted the daughter killed first?
- 32:13Speaker 6: Sure, so, according to what prosecutors said, and you heard
- 32:16Speaker 6: it right there, she was very methodical about the order
- 32:21Speaker 6: in which she wanted these two people killed. She knew,
- 32:24Speaker 6: according to prosecutors that the assassination of a police officer
- 32:29Speaker 6: would bring unwanted attention. So she made it very clear,
- 32:33Speaker 6: according to prosecutors, that she wanted the daughter killed first,
- 32:37Speaker 6: the teen daughter killed first, and then the Philadelphia police
- 32:41Speaker 6: officer to mitigate the attention that would be focused in
- 32:46Speaker 6: on these hits.
- 32:47Speaker 2: Amazing the way she planned this out, doctor Sherry Schwartz.
- 32:53Speaker 2: That is some cold blood, methodical planning right there. Reasoning
- 33:00Speaker 2: as to why she wanted the girl killed first.
- 33:03Speaker 1: That's what she says.
- 33:04Speaker 9: I actually think there's some a darker motive for why
- 33:07Speaker 9: she wanted the daughter killed first. I think that she
- 33:10Speaker 9: was looking to hurt her ex boyfriend and she wanted
- 33:14Speaker 9: him to suffer before she ultimately had him murdered.
- 33:17Speaker 2: Wow, to increase the suffering of the boyfriend. How is
- 33:23Speaker 2: it again, doctor Sherry. I can understand all the hatred
- 33:28Speaker 2: that must brew, must percolate and boil over and say
- 33:33Speaker 2: a long term marriage, But here there was no property division,
- 33:37Speaker 2: There was no custody argument, no pots and pans, no
- 33:41Speaker 2: dog to argue, nothing. How could you develop such intense
- 33:45Speaker 2: hatred and just a brief dating relationship.
- 33:50Speaker 9: I mean, this is somebody who maybe came to the
- 33:52Speaker 9: relationship with that level of hatred. It's hard to say.
- 33:57Speaker 9: There isn't anything specific that I saw in researching the
- 34:00Speaker 9: case that cites a reason that he did something to
- 34:03Speaker 9: her that maybe would cause her to have such bitter
- 34:07Speaker 9: antipathy toward him. But sometimes people come as they are,
- 34:13Speaker 9: and that may be a reason that the relationship didn't
- 34:15Speaker 9: work out.
- 34:16Speaker 10: The most concerning aspect of the facts that this case,
- 34:18Speaker 10: involving the fact that he disappears not to be an
- 34:20Speaker 10: isolated attempt by the defendant to contract someone to kill
- 34:24Speaker 10: the victim. As evidence, an escort, which is a text
- 34:27Speaker 10: message screenshot between the defendant and the informative.
- 34:32Speaker 6: Defend states as she had people.
- 34:34Speaker 7: Looking at in the eye and lie before and how
- 34:36Speaker 7: is she going to get proved?
- 34:38Speaker 10: She also says that fake pictures could be said to her,
- 34:41Speaker 10: and how is she.
- 34:41Speaker 7: Going to believe that that the victim was in fact dead, and.
- 34:45Speaker 10: How she said someone who previously said her fake pictures before?
- 34:56Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Gray.
- 35:02Speaker 5: Jennifer Emmy, a well known lawyer defending animal rights, now
- 35:06Speaker 5: has to defend herself against allegations she ordered to hit
- 35:10Speaker 5: on her ex husband's new girlfriend after the couple's nasty divorce.
- 35:14Speaker 5: A hand at Emmy's nonprofit ranch went to the police.
- 35:17Speaker 5: Well the recording of Emmy asking if he knew anyone
- 35:20Speaker 5: who could take care of her ex's much younger new girlfriend,
- 35:24Speaker 5: during which she said, no one will miss her. If
- 35:27Speaker 5: someone could help me get rid of her.
- 35:29Speaker 1: It's amazing to me.
- 35:31Speaker 2: Amazing in the sense that when you go to the
- 35:33Speaker 2: snakehouse at the zoo you look at the snakes through
- 35:37Speaker 2: a thick glass wall, or looking at a tarantula in
- 35:41Speaker 2: a box. Amazing in that sense that not only according
- 35:48Speaker 2: to the state, of course.
- 35:50Speaker 1: Dioryo is innocent, he'll prove the guilty.
- 35:54Speaker 2: According to the state, she wanted not only her boyfriend
- 35:58Speaker 2: ex boyfriend, but his teen daughter dead.
- 36:02Speaker 1: Two. In the case of attorney.
- 36:04Speaker 2: Jennifer Emmy, she wanted the girlfriend of her ex murdered.
- 36:12Speaker 2: That's a whole different psychopathy. And in this case, Greg Morris,
- 36:19Speaker 2: you've got both, according to prosecution. Now a great defense
- 36:23Speaker 2: attorney like you may be able to convince the jury.
- 36:26Speaker 1: Oh this was all just talk. She didn't mean it,
- 36:29Speaker 1: she didn't really want it to happen, But we do
- 36:31Speaker 1: have her.
- 36:32Speaker 2: According to the prosecutors, handing over a down payment of
- 36:36Speaker 2: five hundred.
- 36:37Speaker 1: Dollars at Dollar General. She picks the.
- 36:44Speaker 2: Places right where you know there's going to be surveillance
- 36:47Speaker 2: video the handover is it Dollar General? And wawas they're
- 36:52Speaker 2: like Vegas for Pete's say they're covered and oh my goodness,
- 36:57Speaker 2: yeah they're over in security video. I guess you didn't
- 37:01Speaker 2: think that part through. But they desire to have not
- 37:06Speaker 2: only your object of hatred murdered, but then an innocent
- 37:11Speaker 2: person who's getting dragged into it.
- 37:14Speaker 1: I'm sure you could probably.
- 37:16Speaker 2: Argue to a jury's all just talk. She didn't really
- 37:18Speaker 2: want it to happen. She didn't know what she was saying.
- 37:21Speaker 2: Don't prosecute her, don't send her to jail. I can
- 37:23Speaker 2: hear it right now. But that's a whole another layer
- 37:27Speaker 2: of evil. You don't just want your hate object. Did
- 37:32Speaker 2: you want people around them? Did? Well?
- 37:35Speaker 7: I think you're right, and what we've said before, it
- 37:37Speaker 7: was probably to harm the ex boy friend to see
- 37:41Speaker 7: his daughter killed first, and then you know he has
- 37:44Speaker 7: to suffer that. But you also, you know you have
- 37:50Speaker 7: a situation here where folks what they think in their head,
- 37:54Speaker 7: it's going to be like when they pull a trigger
- 37:57Speaker 7: or in this case, try to hire someone to kill someone.
- 38:00Speaker 7: The reality though of that and how that plays out
- 38:03Speaker 7: is totally different, as we see in all these cases,
- 38:06Speaker 7: whether it's dip Alito, whether it's the Oreo, They're on
- 38:11Speaker 7: surveillance cameras, they have phones registered in their name. These
- 38:14Speaker 7: are folks that aren't making the smartest choices, right.
- 38:18Speaker 1: So, but I also think that that doesn't make the
- 38:21Speaker 1: victim any less dead.
- 38:24Speaker 7: Morse, Well, there's nobody dead here, and maybe it was
- 38:28Speaker 7: because she was only was it allows of PAM that
- 38:32Speaker 7: was found in her car. She's charged with that also
- 38:36Speaker 7: drug count so and she also offered five hundred.
- 38:39Speaker 1: Dollars please put him hit on.
- 38:43Speaker 2: Actually trying to argue it all that they the illegal
- 38:47Speaker 2: use of drugs is somehow a defense as opposed to
- 38:51Speaker 2: an additional felony charge. We all know all the legal
- 38:57Speaker 2: that voluntary use of drugs are alcoholism ever a defense?
- 39:01Speaker 7: No, no, no, But it doesn't mean it can't lead
- 39:03Speaker 7: to some break with reality or there's some impact on her.
- 39:07Speaker 7: She was acting weird. Anyone that's had a loved one
- 39:10Speaker 7: who's been under a lot of anesthesia knows when you
- 39:12Speaker 7: come out of it sometimes you're going to have some
- 39:15Speaker 7: mental issues. You're going to see the world differently, You're
- 39:17Speaker 7: going to see the world wrong. Maybe she had an
- 39:20Speaker 7: impact on that because somehow comparing this.
- 39:23Speaker 2: And when I videoed the twins after they had the
- 39:25Speaker 2: Wistar teeth cut out, No, I.
- 39:27Speaker 1: Mean it never ends with you. You're actually giving me
- 39:30Speaker 1: a headache right now, Well.
- 39:32Speaker 2: Medic medication, Okay, medication, Medication's mind that Rodrigo Tetahan joining
- 39:39Speaker 2: us from Philadelphia.
- 39:40Speaker 1: Inquirer. Where does the case stand now? What's happening?
- 39:44Speaker 6: Sure, so there is a next hearing schedule for middle
- 39:48Speaker 6: of June. Right now, do Rio is in custody without bails,
- 39:53Speaker 6: so she's basically in jail until her next court hearing.
- 39:58Speaker 6: I've attempted to reach the officer that is allegedly the
- 40:03Speaker 6: target of this hit attempt have been unable to reach
- 40:07Speaker 6: him or his family. And that's really where it stands.
- 40:10Speaker 2: You know.
- 40:10Speaker 6: The detention hearing was basically to figure out if she
- 40:12Speaker 6: would be released because she has no prior criminal record.
- 40:16Speaker 6: Of course, the judge sided with the prosecutor's office and
- 40:19Speaker 6: said we're going to go give no bail and she's
- 40:22Speaker 6: going to be in custody until her next year.
- 40:24Speaker 2: If you know or think you know anything about the
- 40:29Speaker 2: alleged attempt on the officer's life or he has daughter's life.
- 40:34Speaker 2: The case is still being built by the state. Eight
- 40:38Speaker 2: five six two two five five one two seven repeat
- 40:43Speaker 2: eight five six two two five five to one to seven.
- 40:47Speaker 2: Now we remember an American hero police officer, Christopher Kilcullen, EGENPD, Oregon,
- 40:54Speaker 2: shot and killed in a line of duty twelve years
- 40:58Speaker 2: with law enforcement, leaving me hein widow Christie, daughters Sydney
- 41:03Speaker 2: and Katie Anne. American hero officer Jay Christopher kil Cohen
- 41:10Speaker 2: Nancy Grace signing off goodbye friend,