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Speaker 1: Michael Dippolito grew up in a very rough neighborhood in
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Speaker 1: South Philadelphia, where violence drugs and prostitution were just normal
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Speaker 1: parts of everyday life. At a young age, like his parents,
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Speaker 1: Michael became an alcoholic. He also developed a very serious
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Speaker 1: drug addiction that he paid for by selling drugs. Michael
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Speaker 1: would eventually drop out of high school, and not long
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Speaker 1: after that he became homeless and was living out on
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Speaker 1: the streets, sleeping in abandoned buildings at night to stay warm.
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Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety three.
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Speaker 1: When Michael was still in South Philadelphia, he was arrested
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Speaker 1: for the first time. He was charged with possession of
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Speaker 1: an unknown drug as well as intent to distribute this
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Speaker 1: unknown drug.
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Speaker 2: Court records don't specify what drug this was.
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Speaker 1: However, Michael just did not show up for court, and
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Speaker 1: so a warrant was put out for his arrest. Michael
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Speaker 1: would somehow manage to evade police capture, and by nineteen
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Speaker 1: ninety seven he had fled South Philly altogether and landed
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Speaker 1: in South Florida in a town called poker Raton. Shortly
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Speaker 1: after arriving there, Michael was arrested for a second time,
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Speaker 1: this time for offering an undercover police officer fifteen dollars
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Speaker 1: in exchange four sex. Michael would plead guilty to soliciting prostitution. However,
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Speaker 1: he would just get released. A year after the prostitution arrest,
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Speaker 1: Michael was sued by a former girlfriend named Karen Tan
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Speaker 1: who claimed he was the father of her son and
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Speaker 1: so he owed her child support, and Karen had a
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Speaker 1: DNA test that backed.
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Speaker 2: Up this claim.
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Speaker 1: However, Michael again would just not show up for court,
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Speaker 1: and before long, Karen just gave up and dropped the lawsuit.
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Speaker 1: Michael was likely very relieved when this happened because at
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Speaker 1: the time he was making almost no money through a
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Speaker 1: temp agency, and so after this lawsuit gets dropped, Michael decides,
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Speaker 1: I need to go out and make some real money,
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Speaker 1: and somehow, on his quest to find a more lucrative opportunity,
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Speaker 1: Michael was introduced to associates.
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Speaker 2: Of the Bonano family.
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Speaker 1: And the Bonano family is one of the infamous five
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Speaker 1: families that dominates organized crime across the United States. They
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Speaker 1: are literally the Italian Mafia, and after the mafia met Michael,
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Speaker 1: they took a liking to him and they did offer
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Speaker 1: him a more lucrative, albeit illegal opportunity. They gave him
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Speaker 1: a role inside one of their so called boiler rooms.
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Speaker 1: A boiler room is not literally a boiler room. Instead,
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Speaker 1: it's a group of fraudsters that use high pressure sales
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Speaker 1: tactics to steal money from unsuspecting victims. Typically, the way
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Speaker 1: it works is the fraudster will cold call someone and
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Speaker 1: they will tell them that they have this great get
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Speaker 1: rich quick scheme.
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Speaker 2: But you gotta give me your money right now if
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Speaker 2: you want to be a part of it.
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Speaker 1: And so when the victim says okay, that sounds great,
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Speaker 1: and they wire the money along, the fraudster just steals
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Speaker 1: their money. Michael, who was very charismatic and a natural salesman,
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Speaker 1: got really good at tricking people into giving him their money,
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Speaker 1: and so eventually Michael realized he could make a lot
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Speaker 1: more money if he started his own boiler room, where
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Speaker 1: his commission could be much higher on the money he stole,
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Speaker 1: and so fairly abruptly he left the mafia's boiler room.
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Speaker 1: We don't really know how they reacted to this, and
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Speaker 1: Michael would set up not one but two boiler room
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Speaker 1: scams of his own in South Florida, and by two
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Speaker 1: thousand and two he had pocketed one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 1: five thousand dollars of stolen money however, he had spent
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Speaker 1: virtually all of it on fancy hotels and cars and
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Speaker 1: phone sets. But the good times would not last for Michael,
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Speaker 1: because in two thousand and two, the police caught on
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Speaker 1: to Michael's boiler room scams and they raided them, and
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Speaker 1: Michael was arrested for a third time. Except this time
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Speaker 1: he would go to court. He would stand trial, and
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Speaker 1: he would be sent two years in prison, twenty eight
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Speaker 1: years of probation, and he would be ordered to pay
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Speaker 1: back the one hundred and fifty five thousand dollars that
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Speaker 1: he stole. Michael would only serve seven months of his
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Speaker 1: two year jail sentence, but that was more than enough
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Speaker 1: to leave a huge impact on him. Michael hated prison,
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Speaker 1: He hated every second of it, and so during those long,
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Speaker 1: sleepless nights that he was laying awake in his cell,
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Speaker 1: he made a promise to himself that when he got out,
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Speaker 1: when he was released, he would never ever come back.
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Speaker 1: And so in two thousand and three, when he was released,
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Speaker 1: he immediately entered a sobriety program. He also started going
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Speaker 1: to the gym every morning, and he began studying for
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Speaker 1: his GED, which is a high school equivalency test because
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Speaker 1: he didn't get his high school diploma.
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Speaker 2: After he successfully earned.
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Speaker 1: His GED a couple of months later, he would also
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Speaker 1: start a legal business. It was a digital marketing firm
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Speaker 1: that was called mad Money, Inc.
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Speaker 2: Over the next several years, Michael would do.
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Speaker 1: His very best to stay on the straight and narrow
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Speaker 1: and not get in trouble, and for the most part,
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Speaker 1: he did that. By two thousand and eight, Michael was
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Speaker 1: still sober, despite a few setbacks, and he was still
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Speaker 1: very focused on his physical fitness and his health and
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Speaker 1: his business Mad Money was doing quite well, earning him
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Speaker 1: nearly one hundred thousand dollars a year, but his love
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Speaker 1: life had become a bit messy.
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Speaker 2: Michael had gotten married.
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Speaker 1: Back in two thousand and seven to his longtime girlfriend
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Speaker 1: named Maria Luongo, who had stood by him when he
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Speaker 1: went to jail. But that year in two thousand and eight,
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Speaker 1: when Michael was thirty eight years old, he cheated on
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Speaker 1: Maria with a twenty six year old real estate agent
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Speaker 1: named Dahalia Mohammad, who he met at a Starbucks, and
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Speaker 1: instead of their affair being a quick fling, as they
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Speaker 1: likely both intended it to be, Michael and Dahlia quickly
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Speaker 1: fell in love, and when that happened, Michael went to
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Speaker 1: his wife, Maria, and he told her, and then he
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Speaker 1: divorced her. Just three days after the divorce finalized, Michael
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Speaker 1: and Dahlia went to the courthouse and they got married.
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Speaker 1: The newlyweds would move into a brand new condo that
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Speaker 1: Michael had purchase for them in Boynton Beach, which is
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Speaker 1: a beautiful town in South Florida.
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Speaker 2: And for a time their life was perfect.
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Speaker 1: They knew it was a little outrageous the way they
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Speaker 1: had met each other and how quickly they had fallen
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Speaker 1: for each other, but they didn't care. They got along
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Speaker 1: great and they were excited about the future. But their
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Speaker 1: perfect life.
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Speaker 2: Would not last long.
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Speaker 1: On the evening of March twelfth, two thousand and nine,
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Speaker 1: so only about a month after they had gotten married,
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Speaker 1: Michael and Dahlia were at home in their condo when
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Speaker 1: they heard a knock on the front door, and so
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Speaker 1: Michael went to the door. He opened it up, and
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Speaker 1: much to his surprise, standing on the other side was
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Speaker 1: his probation officer, and behind him was a whole bunch
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Speaker 1: of police officers. And before Michael could even ask what
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Speaker 1: was going on, the probation officer told Michael that they
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Speaker 1: had received an anonymous call tipping them off that Michael
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Speaker 1: was selling steroids and ecstasy pills and other drugs out
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Speaker 1: of his condo. Michael would tell the probation officer that
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Speaker 1: there was no way that was true.
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Speaker 2: He is not selling any drugs. He's sober, he's not
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Speaker 2: doing that.
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Speaker 1: And so eventually Michael just stepped aside and said, please
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Speaker 1: come in search my condo.
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Speaker 2: I have nothing to hide.
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Speaker 1: And so sure enough the police they would go into
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Speaker 1: his condo, they would search it.
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Speaker 2: But they wouldn't find anything, and they would leave.
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Speaker 1: And so after the police had gone, Michael and Dahlia
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Speaker 1: found themselves just standing in their condo, completely dumbfounded. But
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Speaker 1: instead of trying to get to the bottom of it
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Speaker 1: right then and there about who had called and why,
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Speaker 1: they just decided it was best for them to just
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Speaker 1: leave their condo for the night and go stay at
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Speaker 1: a nice hotel. And so they packed up some bags,
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Speaker 1: they left their condo, which was a total mess from
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Speaker 1: the police search, and they went to the hotel and
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Speaker 1: they had a nice night together. The next morning, when
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Speaker 1: they got up and headed down to the parking lot
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Speaker 1: they saw up ahead standing around Michael's car was Michael's
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Speaker 1: probation officer as well as several other police officers, and
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Speaker 1: so Michael and Dahlia are looking at each other like,
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Speaker 1: what is this again? And so they hustle on over
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Speaker 1: to Michael's car, and before they can even plead their
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Speaker 1: innocence to Michael's probation officer, he stops Michael and just said, look,
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Speaker 1: we got another anonymous call, this time telling us that
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Speaker 1: you are selling drugs out of your vehicle, and so
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Speaker 1: we need to search it. And so Michael is just
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Speaker 1: totally beside himself, but he says, look, go ahead.
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Speaker 2: Search it. There's nothing in the car.
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Speaker 1: And so, sure enough, the police would open up his car,
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Speaker 1: they'd rip it apart, but again they wouldn't find anything.
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Speaker 1: Over the next couple of weeks, the only thing Michael
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Speaker 1: and Dahlia ever wanted to talk about was what the
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Speaker 1: heck was going on? Who is placing these anonymous calls
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Speaker 1: claiming that Michael was selling drugs out of the condo
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Speaker 1: and out of the car.
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Speaker 2: It just didn't add up.
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Speaker 1: They wanted to believe that this was all just one
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Speaker 1: big mistake.
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Speaker 2: But in the back of both of their minds.
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Speaker 1: They were thinking about Michael's very checkered past and his
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Speaker 1: previous dealings with the mafia and with people he had
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Speaker 1: clearly ripped off, and so maybe there was someone in
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Speaker 1: his past that was looking to get back at Michael
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Speaker 1: and maybe get him arrested and sent.
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Speaker 2: Back to jail.
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Speaker 1: Fast forward to March twenty ninth, so seventeen days after
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Speaker 1: that first raid on their condo, and that night, Michael
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Speaker 1: and Dahlia had been eating dinner at a restaurant and
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Speaker 1: when they left and headed out to the parking lot
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Speaker 1: once again, standing around Michael's car were several police officers
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Speaker 1: clearly waiting for him to return. And so, without even
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Speaker 1: needing to ask why they were there, Michael and Dahlia
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Speaker 1: back to the story. After searching Michael's car, the police
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Speaker 1: would find a small bag of cocaine stuck inside of
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Speaker 1: a cigarette carton tucked underneath his spare tire in the trunk.
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Speaker 1: And when Michael saw them pull the cocaine out, he
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Speaker 1: began to cry because he knew, even though it was
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Speaker 1: not his and he had not put it there, that
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Speaker 1: he was going to jail because he was going to
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Speaker 1: get arrested for possession, and he was on probation, and
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Speaker 1: he was screwed, and so he just begins crying and
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Speaker 1: pleading with police to understand that the cocaine was not his.
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Speaker 2: He swears it's not his.
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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Dahlia, you know, she's looking at the drugs and
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Speaker 1: now she's second guessing herself.
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Speaker 2: You know, is Michael lying? Is he actually selling drugs?
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Speaker 1: And he's been lying to me too, But when she
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Speaker 1: sees her husband crying hysterically and looking so sincere, she
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Speaker 1: believes that he's.
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Speaker 2: Got to be telling the truth.
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Speaker 1: And so pretty soon she was standing beside Michael and
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Speaker 1: pleading with police as well to let them go that
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Speaker 1: this was totally just a setup. And amazingly, these police officers,
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Speaker 1: who were aware of the previous raids on Michael and
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Speaker 1: Dahlia's property, they told them, look, we do think this
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Speaker 1: is pretty suspicious that somebody keeps calling in about you
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Speaker 1: selling drugs, and now magically the drugs are in your car.
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Speaker 1: And so what we're going to do is we're going
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Speaker 1: to confiscate this cocaine. We're not going to arrest you. Instead,
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Speaker 1: go home, be safe, call us if you see anything strange,
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Speaker 1: you hear anything strange, and we're going to begin investigating
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Speaker 1: to figure out who is making all of these calls.
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Speaker 1: And so Michael and Dahlia were totally relieved to hear this,
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Speaker 1: but at the same time they were kind of terrified
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Speaker 1: because clearly whoever was looking to get Michael in trouble
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Speaker 1: now was prepared to break into his property in order
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Speaker 1: to do it, and so what was stopping them from
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Speaker 1: breaking into their cando and planting drugs in there as well?
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Speaker 1: And so after these police officers left, Michael and Dahlia
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Speaker 1: hopped in the car, they sped back to their condo
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Speaker 1: and they went inside and they searched it top to bottom,
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Speaker 1: looking for any sign that anyone had recently been in there,
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Speaker 1: or if there were drugs or anything illegal inside at
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Speaker 1: their condo. And after looking and finding nothing, they just
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Speaker 1: locked their doors, shut their windows, shut the blinds, and
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Speaker 1: just prayed that the police would be able to quickly
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Speaker 1: identify who was doing this to them and make them stop.
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Speaker 1: But over the next few months, the police would not
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Speaker 1: figure out who this anonymous caller was because the caller
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Speaker 1: stopped calling, and so for a little while, Michael and
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Speaker 1: Dahlia were convinced that the whole ordeal was over and
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Speaker 1: done with, and they basically returned to their normal lives.
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Speaker 1: But on August fifth, two thousand and nine, roughly four
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Speaker 1: months after the cocaine was found in Michael's car.
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Speaker 2: The anonymous caller would come back with a vengeance.
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Speaker 1: On that morning, at around five point forty five am,
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Speaker 1: Dahlia left the condo, leaving Michael in bed, and she
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Speaker 1: headed out to the local gym to get a workout.
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Speaker 1: In around six point thirty in the morning, she stepped
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Speaker 1: off the treadmill and she looked at her phone and
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Speaker 1: she saw she had a missed call from a number
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Speaker 1: she didn't recognize, and this number had left her voicemail,
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Speaker 1: and so she calls her voicemail. She puts it to
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Speaker 1: her ear and as she's listening, her heart starts to
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Speaker 1: race because it was a Boytant Beach detective telling her
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Speaker 1: there had been some sort of incident at her condo
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Speaker 1: and she needed to come back right away. Terrified, Dahlia
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Speaker 1: grabbed her things and she ran out of the gym.
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Speaker 1: She got in her car and she called this number
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Speaker 1: back and when the detective picked up, she tried to
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Speaker 1: get more information from him about what this incident was,
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Speaker 1: you know what happened, and the detective would only say
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Speaker 1: that it involved her husband and he would explain everything
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Speaker 1: when she came back. And so, in a total state
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Speaker 1: of shock, Dallia turned on her car and she sped
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Speaker 1: out of the parking lot and she headed back towards
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Speaker 1: her condo.
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Speaker 2: And when she turned onto her street and saw her condo,
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Speaker 2: she hit the brakes and just stared.
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Speaker 1: In front of her condo were all these police cars
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Speaker 1: with their lights on, and police officers were walking around,
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Speaker 1: and yellow crime scene tape was lining the outside of
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Speaker 1: her property, and inside of the taped off area, there
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Speaker 1: were all these crime scene photographers taking pictures of her condo.
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Speaker 1: And so, as Dahlia is sitting in her car at
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Speaker 1: the top of the street, just staring at this crazy
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Speaker 1: scene she's seeing, one of the Boyt and Beach police
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Speaker 1: officer sees her and walks up, and after confirming that
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Speaker 1: she was Dahlia Dippolito, he said to her, you know,
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Speaker 1: leave your car here and come with me. And so Dahlia,
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Speaker 1: who knows obviously something bad has happened but really doesn't
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Speaker 1: know the extent of it, she puts her car in park,
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Speaker 1: she gets out, and she begins walking with this police
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Speaker 1: officer over towards this cluster of three people that are
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Speaker 1: standing right in front of her property, and it would
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Speaker 1: turn out one of them was the detective who had
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Speaker 1: called her on the phone, and so Dahlias led over
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Speaker 1: and that detective as soon as he sees Dahlia, he
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Speaker 1: walks over to her and he says to her, very
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Speaker 1: matter of factly that someone had called about a disturbance
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Speaker 1: in their condo and shots were fired and unfortunately, her husband.
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Speaker 2: Michael was dead.
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Speaker 1: Dahlia, who was totally hysterical, was gently led away from
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Speaker 1: her condo into a nearby police car and they would
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Speaker 1: drive her to the police station where they would sit
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Speaker 1: her down and begin asking her questions about her husband,
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Speaker 1: and they would say to her, look, I know you
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Speaker 1: just found this out, but we got to figure out
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Speaker 1: what could have happened. Because a killer is on the loose.
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Speaker 1: We need to find this person and stop them. And
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Speaker 1: so at first the conversation was really just Dahlia crying
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Speaker 1: and the detective kind of calming her down. But eventually
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Speaker 1: she would tell the detective about the anonymous caller who
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Speaker 1: kept calling the police and claiming Michael was selling drugs,
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Speaker 1: and how she and Michael suspected that, you know, probably
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Speaker 1: the anonymous caller was connected to someone from his past,
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Speaker 1: maybe someone from the mafia, or maybe one of the
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Speaker 1: victims of his boiler room scam, or it could be
17:46
Speaker 1: any number of other people that Michael had done wrong
17:48
Speaker 1: in the past. And so the detective he's taking diligent
17:51
Speaker 1: notes and he's listening to Dahlia, and then at some
17:53
Speaker 1: point in a break in the conversation, he says to Dahlia, Okay,
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Speaker 1: it's time to get serious.
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Speaker 2: I need to know if you know this guy.
18:01
Speaker 1: And so Dahlia, she was kind of looking down, and
18:03
Speaker 1: she looks up, confused what he's talking about. And then
18:05
Speaker 1: the door opens and this huge guy in handcuffs walks
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Speaker 1: into the room.
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Speaker 3: Come where put this guy in here? Get over here,
18:17
Speaker 3: Get over here. You know who this guy is? You've
18:21
Speaker 3: never seen anim before? Do you know her?
18:27
Speaker 2: Where'd you head up?
18:30
Speaker 4: What were you doing coming out of her house?
18:36
Speaker 1: It would turn out Dahlia was lying. She did know
18:39
Speaker 1: who that guy was. Almost immediately after marrying Michael six
18:43
Speaker 1: months earlier, she had stolen two hundred thousand dollars from him,
18:47
Speaker 1: but apparently that wasn't enough for her. She needed the
18:50
Speaker 1: rest of Michael's money, as well as his condo and
18:53
Speaker 1: so she had been the anonymous caller. She was the
18:57
Speaker 1: one calling the police and tipping them off that Michael
19:00
Speaker 1: was selling drugs out of the condo and out of
19:02
Speaker 1: his car. She was the one who planted the cocaine
19:04
Speaker 1: in the back of his car because she wanted him
19:07
Speaker 1: to get arrested because he was on probation and he
19:09
Speaker 1: would go back to jail for a really long time.
19:12
Speaker 1: But when her efforts failed and Michael did not get
19:15
Speaker 1: arrested and so did not go back to jail, Dahlia
19:18
Speaker 1: moved on to Plan B.
19:20
Speaker 2: She reached out to one of her ex.
19:21
Speaker 1: Boyfriends and she asked him, Hey, do you know any
19:24
Speaker 1: hitmen that could murder my husband? And the ex boyfriend
19:28
Speaker 1: at first didn't think she was serious, but when she
19:30
Speaker 1: kept asking him about it and began offering to pay
19:34
Speaker 1: and really was making it clear that she wasn't joking around,
19:37
Speaker 1: the ex boyfriend basically told her, no, I don't know
19:39
Speaker 1: any hit man, and then he the ex boyfriend, called
19:42
Speaker 1: the Boyton Beach Police Department and told them about Dahlia
19:46
Speaker 1: and her plan to hire a hitman to kill Michael.
19:49
Speaker 1: And so when the Boyton Beach Police Department found out
19:52
Speaker 1: about this plot.
19:53
Speaker 2: They immediately had one of their undercover.
19:55
Speaker 1: Agents pose as a hit man and set up a
19:59
Speaker 1: meeting with Dollia. And so the undercover agent was that
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Speaker 1: huge guy in handcuffs that was led into the room
20:04
Speaker 1: with Dahlia. And so Dahlia goes to meet the undercover agent,
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Speaker 1: the fake hit man. She gets into his car and
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Speaker 1: there's a hidden camera in the back seat that's filming
20:13
Speaker 1: her the whole time, and she's taught on camera saying
20:16
Speaker 1: she wants.
20:17
Speaker 2: To kill her husband. She gives money to the undercover agent,
20:20
Speaker 2: and then as.
20:21
Speaker 1: She's about to get out, the agent turns to her
20:23
Speaker 1: and he says, are you sure you want to do this,
20:25
Speaker 1: because as soon as you leave, it's done. I Am
20:28
Speaker 1: going to kill Michael and you can't stop it. This
20:30
Speaker 1: is Dahlia's reaction.
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Speaker 2: No, it's not changing.
20:33
Speaker 1: No, there's no like I'm positive, like five thousand to Charlotte.
20:39
Speaker 4: No, when I'm going to do something, I'm gonna do that.
20:40
Speaker 2: Like you say, call me, were puny the money from you?
20:42
Speaker 1: I went.
20:43
Speaker 3: I drabbed it right away like we were good to go,
20:45
Speaker 3: like with me, and you're not going to have a problem.
20:47
Speaker 1: You're not going to have an issue, and so the
20:48
Speaker 1: Boyton Beach Police Department, they have all this information about
20:52
Speaker 1: what Dahlia thinks is going to happen, and they decide
20:55
Speaker 1: they can use this information to set her up in
20:58
Speaker 1: the most elaborate way, and it just so happened the
21:02
Speaker 1: very popular true crime TV show Cops was filming in
21:06
Speaker 1: the area, and so the Boyt and Beach Police Department
21:09
Speaker 1: allowed Cops to be a part of this elaborate setup.
21:12
Speaker 2: So they got to film everything that happened.
21:15
Speaker 1: So on the morning of August fifth, Dahlia got up
21:18
Speaker 1: and left her condo at five forty five am and
21:21
Speaker 1: headed to the gym, knowing at least in her mind
21:23
Speaker 1: that the hit man would be coming to her condo
21:26
Speaker 1: right after her breaking in and shooting her husband twice
21:30
Speaker 1: in the head, because that was the plan they had
21:32
Speaker 1: come up with that was captured on film. And so
21:34
Speaker 1: after the police see her leave at five forty five
21:37
Speaker 1: am because they were monitoring the condo, they rushed in.
21:40
Speaker 1: They knocked on the door and they got Michael to
21:42
Speaker 1: come downstairs, and he had no idea his wife was
21:45
Speaker 1: trying to kill him, and so he comes to the door.
21:47
Speaker 1: He's totally confused, but he goes with them and he's
21:49
Speaker 1: kind of ushered off to the police station. And then
21:52
Speaker 1: for about the next hour, the police set up a
21:55
Speaker 1: very convincing fake crime scene right out front of the condo.
21:59
Speaker 1: And then once it was all set up, that detective
22:01
Speaker 1: called Dahlia and left her a voicemail saying that you know,
22:04
Speaker 1: there's been this incident.
22:05
Speaker 2: You need to come back to your condo.
22:07
Speaker 1: And then a couple of minutes later, when Dahlia called
22:09
Speaker 1: them back and said, okay, I'm coming back to the
22:11
Speaker 1: condo now, that's when the TV crews for the Cops
22:15
Speaker 1: TV show they kind of set up in the bushes
22:17
Speaker 1: and got ready to film what happened next.
22:20
Speaker 3: Listen, we had a report of a disturbance at your
22:22
Speaker 3: house and there were shots fired.
22:24
Speaker 2: Is your husband Michael?
22:26
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm sorry to tell you man, he's been killed.
22:29
Speaker 2: He's been killed down right now. We need to get
22:39
Speaker 2: We need to I can't look to our job.
22:44
Speaker 1: After the fake hit man was pulled out of the
22:47
Speaker 1: interrogation room, after Dahlia had said, oh, I don't know
22:49
Speaker 1: who he is, the detective just stared at her in
22:51
Speaker 1: total silence for a minute and then he broke the
22:54
Speaker 1: news that he totally knew all about her murder plot
22:57
Speaker 1: and that she was going to jail.
23:11
Speaker 4: You're going to jail today for solicitation of murder. You're
23:13
Speaker 4: under arrest, that's undercover police officers. Everything has been recorded.
23:19
Speaker 4: You were photographed in the convertible when you sat in
23:23
Speaker 4: his car in the front of CBS. What do you
23:26
Speaker 4: want to do? What do you want to do?
23:29
Speaker 1: Here? God?
23:30
Speaker 4: You thanks, You're going to jail.
23:35
Speaker 3: What do you think?
23:35
Speaker 4: Please do anything? Tell me you didn't do anything. You're
23:40
Speaker 4: going to jail today. As soon as I'm done, they're
23:45
Speaker 4: going to come in here and handcuff you and take you.
23:48
Speaker 3: To the Palm Beach County Jail.
23:49
Speaker 4: Book you for solicitation of first degree murder on your husband.
23:54
Speaker 4: Your husband is well in life.
23:56
Speaker 3: Thank god.
23:56
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, thank god.
23:59
Speaker 3: You don't want to see you.
24:03
Speaker 1: After Dahlia was arrested, she was still sitting in that
24:06
Speaker 1: interrogation room when the Boytan Beach Police Department made a
24:10
Speaker 1: special point of walking Dahlia's husband, Michael, passed the open
24:15
Speaker 1: door so she could see him.
24:16
Speaker 2: Here's her reaction, Oh.
24:18
Speaker 1: My god, what come here? Please come here, come here,
24:26
Speaker 1: come here, please come here? Why not like?
24:32
Speaker 3: Come here?
24:32
Speaker 1: Please come here?
24:35
Speaker 4: Okay.
24:43
Speaker 1: Dahlia was initially sentenced to twenty years in prison for
24:47
Speaker 1: what she had done, but after a retrial because of
24:50
Speaker 1: jury bias, her sentence was reduced to sixteen years.
24:56
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