Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - NEWLYWED BRIDE HIRES HITMAN TO MURDER GROOM, CAUGHT ON VIDEO, NOW LEADING BIBLE STUDY BEHIND BARS

Episode Date: February 14, 2026

Video shows Dalia Dippolito telling an undercover cop she wants her husband dead, but screaming in heartache later when police tell her he had been killed. Still, two Florida juries refused to convict Dippolito of hiring a hitman. Dippolito lawyer Brian Claypool argues Boynton Beach police pressured an informant to set her up so the “Cops” reality show could record it. Joining Nancy Grace to discuss: Brian Claypool-Attorney for Dalia Dippolito Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, Beverly Hills, follow on Instagram at DrBethanyMarshall James Shelnutt - 27 years as Atlanta Metro Major Case detective, SWAT Officer, Attorney Dr. Tim Gallagher - Medical Examiner State of Florida Ray Caputo- Lead News Anchor for Orlando's Morning News, 96.5 WDBO     Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. She was convicted after multiple trials and now multiple appeals of hiring a hitman to kill her brand new husband. And guess what? It was all caught on tape. Merrill Street, beware. Dahlia de Polito may have it over.

on you for acting skills. Remember when she bent over double in Quotey, pain, quotey, when she was told her husband had been shot? Yes, and the whole time she had planned the whole thing. Well, guess what? I've got news about Dahlia DiPolito behind bars. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us. That's right. The former Floridian caught on camera in a murder for hire plot by an undercover cop is now leading, wait for it, a Bible study group behind bars. Yes, Dahlia DiPolito sent us to hard jail time after she's found guilty for trying to hire hitman to kill her husband, Michael DiPolito,

is leading a Bible study. Well, you know what? I'm happy for her. I'm happy for her that she has ostensibly found the Lord. And she can continue her Bible studies behind bars. Reality check, this is what we learned at trial. Kick it off with our friends at Crime Watch Daily. DiPolito is a guy working hard to get his life in order. He's an ex-com fresh at a prison for running a phony investment scam. But after meeting Dahlia on an online dating site, he falls into a whirlwind romance. He called her up, made an arrangement. She

showed up at his office. He liked what he saw. Within a short period of time, he divorced his wife and he found himself married to Dahlia. Reporter and crime writer Mark Ebner says Dahlia is a woman who knows where she wants to go in life

and waste very little time getting there. He claims, after the honeymoon, her next destination is Michael's bank account. To the of $240,000. She put her claws in him so fast in a six-month time span, managed to take all of Michael DiPolito's money. She managed to get his home deeded over to her.

But all that is not enough. She has everything she wants, but she reportedly wants it all to herself. Guys, what you are hearing is the... is the plot laid out by Friends of the Groom. But what really happened? Joining me right now an all-star panel. Brian Claypool, lawyer for Dahlia DiPolito. Dr. Bethany Marshall's psychoanalyst,

joining us out of Beverly Hills on Insta at Dr. Bethany Marshall, James Shalnut, 27 years Metro Major Case, SWAT now lawyer. And Ray Caputo, lead news anchor, Orlando News, WDBO. Ray, what happened? Well, Nancy, these two, it's a really good-looking couple. You see pictures of them.

Gahlia was a Catholic schoolgirl, and Mike was an, you know, aspiring investor who had a little bit of trouble, but they hit it off quick, and they were married in this whirlwind romance. This happened down in Boyton Beach, right by Palm Beach, Florida. You know, these two, it's just, they were like fire and ice, it seems, because everything wasn't as it appeared on the surface. Well, you can say that again. Take a list to our friends at ABC 2020. Terry Parker, investigative reporter for WPBF 25 News, covered the story.

So this guy, Muhammad, walks into the Boynton Beach Police Station, and he says, I know a woman who's trying to hire a hitman to kill her husband. She asked to find there to someone who can kill her husband for her. The man, Mohamed Shahati, was recorded as he talked to detectives about his one-time lover, Dahlia DiPolito. He tells police he's speaking out to save the man. man's life. Are you scared for the guy? Yes, because she's really, I mean, dead serious on getting this done.

It's quite a story, if true, because while he can describe Dahlia, she's maybe five, six, five, seven, dark black hair, she's a good looking girl, really good looking girl, actually. He can't even tell cops her last name or her address. At the time, we didn't know what to believe. We were kind of, you know, wasn't sure what we had. They had the reservations. They had to say, let's see some proof.

To get proof, The cops make Muhammad a confidential informant. He arranges to meet Dahlia at this gas station. Cops are staked out as their mystery woman arrives. So to you, Brian Claypool, a renowned attorney joining me out of L.A., the lawyer for Dahlia DiPolito, the so-called Black Widow. Brian Claypool, I guess everybody is teaming up against your poor client, Dahlia DiPolito. Here you've got a former boyfriend, and I'm sure I'm using that term,

euphemistically. But you've got a former boyfriend who walks into the cop station and says, hey, my old lover, Dali Dipolito is trying to kill her husband. What? Is he lying to? Well, Nancy, one thing you're missing about Muhammad's first interaction with the law enforcement was that he also said that Dalia conveyed to him that she was being domestically abused and that either she was going to die or either he was going to die. That's the exact first phone call he makes. And that's the point that we were making in the trials, which was, look, the police department did nothing to investigate domestic abuse.

And they did everything to make good TV for the cops television. Well, hold on just a moment. Did she call police and report domestic violence? I don't know whether she called to report the domestic violence. Wait a minute. You know what? That's why you went in so many cases, Troy Slayton. you get people hook, line, and sinker, because you just said, Jackie, did he just say

that the police never investigated all the domestic abuse? But you're telling me, you don't know if your client, your client, and you've got a pretty good track record, Troy Slayton. And you don't know whether she ever called cops and said, I just got hit. I'm being abused. Well, Nancy, this case was always about Dalia's constitutional rights being violated. That's why I took the case. and everybody's seen that videotape where Dalia says she's 5,000 percent sure she wants her husband killed,

but they don't see behind the scenes about the police department, Boynton Beach PD, pressuring Muhammad. Can I get back to you claiming that she was a domestic abuse victim? How long had she been married to her groom? She did claim that she was domestically abused, and that's in the recording. How long were they married? I don't remember the exact amount of months they were married. But Nancy, you know as well as I.

Months. Married a few months? I don't know how long they were married when it was reported. But here's the point. Who jumped in and said five months? Is that Caputo? It's Ray. Ray Caputo, WDBO.

So they're married five months. The renowned defense attorney. And I'm not saying that with a box of salt because Troy's let, excuse me, Brian Claypool is a well-neutral. is a well-known trial lawyer who represented Dahlia DiPolito, who's won a lot of cases, just told me that police failed to investigate domestic abuse. But you cannot tell me, Brian Claypool,

that she ever told police she was a victim of domestic abuse, correct? When a woman is domestically abused, she tells her friends, hey, if I go missing, it's my husband who did it. She never says, look, either he's going to, to die or I'm going to die. In 30 years of private practice and working with domestic violence victims, I have never heard that line. Usually they're afraid for their own life. They're not threatening the life with their spouse. Crime stories with Nancy Grace.

According to reports, Dahlia DiPolito actually tried to murder her husband twice, once with a poisoned Starbucks and then once with a hitman who turned out to be an undercover agent. She was sentenced to 16 short years behind bars after being found guilty of soliciting first degree murder. Those claims

resulted in two retrials and a hung jury. That's right. The reason she was caught on camera is because that particular day the local police were being featured on the TV show

cops. They happen to catch her antics. I will never forget them. Listen to her carry on. Is your husband, Michael? Okay, I'm sorry to tell you, man. He's been killed, man. He's been killed, man. No, there's no like, I'm determined. I'm already. I'm positive, like, 5,000 to touch. Brian Claypool, the lawyer for Dahlia DiPolito. You're right. She doesn't say 100% sure, 200% sure, but 5,000% sure. You brought it up, so I played it for you. Response? Yeah, my response is that she was pressured into having that meeting with the undercover

police officer. Just prior to that, she had a meeting with Muhammad, the undercover informant where he was pressuring her. And there were police officers all around this restaurant. That interaction was recorded by the police. department and it was destroyed by the police department. So my argument in the case was that Dalia had a large, she had a big bark, but a very small bite. In fact, she never even, did you know this, Nancy? In the second trial, I got the undercover hitman to admit that Dalia

never even gave him a key to Mike's apartment and she didn't give him a picture of Mike Diplito. And he admitted that shows that she lacked the proper intent. to have him killed. And that's why we almost won the second trial. Yeah, a keyword there almost. But let me understand something. You're saying she didn't hand over a photo, but it's my understanding she did hand over a photo. $1,200 cash and a photo of Mike. She handed over a photo to her ex-boyfriend, Muhammad. Now, when it went to the undercover police officer, not the informant when she's pressured into meeting the undercover police. Wait, who pressured her?

Who's pressured her? The police department made probably over 100 phone calls. They were forcing, they were forcing Muhammad the informant to call her, call her, call her. Muhammad's like, look, dude, I don't want to be involved in this anymore. I don't want to be in the middle of this. They're like, yeah, you are going to be. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not listening to what you're saying about Muhammad because he's not charged with attempted murder. who pressured your client, Dahlia DiPolito, to pay a hitman money?

The police department, here's my argument, but for... I thought you said this was a movie script one time. No, let's focus on your question. But for the police department pressuring Muhammad to pressure Dalia. Muhammad's the one that set up the meeting with the undercover hitman. Dalia didn't. This all happened with an... a 72-hour window because that was the cops TV show timeline to get this script done.

And Nancy, you're aware of this. In a normal undercover operation, it could take a month or many months to get this accomplished. They were on an accelerated plan to get her on tape to try to kill her husband. And we, she would have never done that. Okay, pause. I got to cut through this and understand what you're saying with me is veteran trial. lawyer, Brian Claypool, who represented Dahlia DiPolito at trial. Now, there have been two trials. Now, you're saying now today that she, Dali DiPolito, was pressured by her friend Muhammad via police.

Police pressure Muhammad. Muhammad pressures her to have a hitman with a meeting with a hitman. All right. Coercion. But isn't it true at another trial? the defense was that the entire thing was actually a script, that the script was basically a screenplay for a movie she wanted, or reality show she wanted to do,

and they were acting it out. Yeah, that was the first trial that I did not conduct, and I will concede to you that that argument was farcical, That was a silly argument that Dahlia's attorney put forward to the jury. And we had an entirely different twist on the case. It was based on due process violations carried out by the Blaine Beach PD. Let me go now to Ray Caputo, the lead anchor for Morning News, WDBO. Ray, there have been a couple of trials for Dahlia DiPolito.

at one trial, explain to me the script defense. Yeah, well, here's the thing. Mohammed, the gentleman that she was talking to, and I see gentlemen loosely, I don't know him. He was a part-time actor, and Dahlia says that him and Mike were in on kind of doing a reality show based on an episode of Bird Notice. Did you say Mike the husband was in on it?

That's what Dahlia says. Now, he had an episode of Burn Notice that had a similar storyline, And they wanted to post it on YouTube and get famous. And this is, you know, Brian said that it was farcical. And I agree because here's the thing, Nancy, the idea of getting famous on YouTube is really a modern thing. In 2009, it was still kind of evolving because they had that partner program. And that just launched at like the very end of 2007 where people can start getting paid for their videos.

So the idea of getting paid on YouTube wasn't like this big idea that everybody now wants to do like the bloggers and people. So it just didn't make sense then that somebody would, be doing that. I hear what you're talking about the intricacies of putting, posting, video online and getting paid for it or not getting paid for it, but I'm concerned about the trial. And I'll tell you why. Because to James Sheldut, 27 years, Metro Major Case, SWAT, now lawyer, here's the thing about multiple trials. Whatever you say at the first trial, there is a certified transcript of that. So if you have a completely different defense, such as, I was forced by the cops to try to put a hit on my husband.

Everything you said at the first trial can come in on cross-examination. You can say, well, whoa, whoa, wait. Now you're saying the cops made you do this, but last trial, you said this was all part of a script you made up as a reality series with you, the hitman, and your husband, that he was in on it. That's not true. Then you're stuck with what you said at that first trial. What about it, Sheldnut?

Oh, I agree 100%. I mean, the credibility is completely impeached at that point. I mean, that, you know, it's going to be hard to go back and retract that. You know, if you take a look at this and, you know, I'll do respect to Brian, I've got a client to defend. I get it. I've done criminal defense in the past. But, you know, if you take a look at it, nothing is consistent with what this lady is claiming as being a domestic violence victim. You know, she was with this guy a very short period of time.

They were traveling, you know, in addition to that, you know, that this supposedly was going to occur. This hitman was supposed to going to kill her husband. She's going to a gym. She regularly went to, you know, if you take a look at the whole situation, nothing adds up. Straight back out to Ray Caputo, lead news anchor morning news, WDBO.

So what happens next? She's at the gym when the hit goes down? The supposed it hit, yeah, Nancy. And I'll tell you what, she wanted to be on reality TV and she got on it all right because the cops were filming an episode of that show. So they bring her back from the gym to this staged crime scene.

And they got this all on video. And they get her reaction when they tell her that Mike has been murdered. Now, of course, he's still alive and this is all staged. But I'll tell you, she puts on a type of act that would have been great for reality TV. She starts whaling. She tremors, starts, you know, kind of hunching over. But one thing you don't see is you see tears, you know. And this woman puts on quite an act, thinking, you know, considering the videos

that we saw before that she, you know, was behind this, she puts on quite an act trying to sell the fact that she was upset that Mike apparently was murdered. Okay, take a listen. The TV show cameras are rolling when police wake up Mike. That's Officer Moreno at the door. Your wife is hired a person to kill you. Just realize.

Just take a look. Take a deep breath. I just sit down. The guy was totally in shock that this was going on. I was very surprised. I was like, because then it hit me like, This is a mess. They drive him away and transform the street to make it appear they're really investigating Mike's murder.

The TV show cops, along with Boyden Beach police, have cameras rolling when a detective calls Dahlia at the gym. We're at your residence, ma'am. Can you come right back to your residence, please? She's back in a flash, and now watch carefully. You be the judge of what happens next. Is your husband, Michael? Okay, I'm sorry to tell you, man. He's been killed.

We know the cops are acting. What about Dahlia? I need you. I need you to take him to the station. Okay, Brian Claypool, you're stuck with that video and audio at trial number two. What do you make of it? Yeah, here's what we argued. You just heard Amy Roeback say the police officers were acting

as well. But I argued in the second trial was that the fact that the police department went to such an extreme to set up a staged crime scene. And then Nancy, after that, the media person at Boynton Beach PD takes that video clip that you just played for your listeners and she posts it online for the world to see and it goes viral internationally within seven minutes. Well, whose fault is that? That's Dahlia DiPolito's fault. She's the one out of the street crying. I mean, as I love to say, Meryl Streep, don't worry, okay?

You're safe. But she certainly put on a performance. Well, look, I know that you're in love with that. That's her crying. Yeah, I am. Stage crime scene. I'm surprised you haven't brought up the Chai Tea Lottet yet. But listen, at the end of the day.

I'm glad you said that. I was just waiting for my end. She allegedly tried to poison him before she hired the hitman. That wasn't true at all. There was no evidence of that, no investigation. But let me make one more quick point. The whole point on cross-exam of the media director was that there is a pending criminal investigation ongoing. You don't jeopardize or contaminate an investigation by circulating this video worldwide.

That was our argument. Her due process rights were violated. Well, if she hadn't planned to kill her husband. been hired a hit man and carried on double issues physically doubling over in grief she did that not the cops Nancy Nancy you're one of the brightest people I've ever met there's a legal doctrine called fruit of the poisonous tree you've heard of that our argument was did that stage videotape that that tape where dahlia's 5,000 percent short that is all toxic and contaminated and the result of of unconstitutional violations by the Blanton Beach Police Department.

Okay. Did they make Muhammad come in, the friend Muhammad, and say, hey, my ex-lover is planning a hit, FYI. Nobody, the police didn't make that happen. What they did do is get an undercover cop deposes a hitman. And that's absolutely constitutional. She didn't have to take that meeting. Nancy, look.

Who made her go get $1,200 out of the 8? There was an audio tape. There was an audio tape of the police officers laughing at Muhammad when he went in because he couldn't remember her name. They weren't even taking this that serious. And then Ray, Ray actually, one of your other guests, made a good point that I actually made to help Dalia almost win the second trial. Ray just said, oh, wait a minute. Dahlia could have hired somebody else to go kill Mike. That's why they needed to expedite this investigation. What I argued at trial was the police. department never even called up Mike. They never even called this guy up and to say, hey, golly, you might kill you. You might want to get somebody to protect you or get a security guard because they never took it serious. And all they were doing was setting up a viewing party. They were trying to do the sting before the guy ends up dead. Okay, Dr. Bethany Marshall, there's something toxic all right, but it's not the cops. I'm just listening to all these facts and trying to assess the mindset of DiPolito.

And it seems to me that she's one of these rare female sociopaths who uses her sexuality and charm to preferentially relate to men so that she can get something from them, that this is her MO in the world. And she turns on that same kind of charm in this YouTube video. So when I looked at it, the cop says, you know, your husband's dead. She burst into tears. And you and I both know that when you get bad news, the first stage is shock, right? You can't believe it.

You're trying to take in the information. You're rejecting it all at the same time. She is prepared for this. She starts crying big crocodile tears. But then she cozies up to the police officer who has just given her the so-called bad news kind of presses her body up against him a little bit. He has his arm around her waist. It's a very sexualized interaction.

So here, as she supposedly learns that her husband is dead, she becomes very sexualized in her relationship with the police officer. I don't know. That small fact just has stood out to me about this case all along. Well, you know what? You mentioned something that triggered what Brian Claypool just said about claims that Dahlia DiPolito had tried to poison the husband. This is after just six months of marriage.

They're on the honeymoon phase. Reports that Dali DiPolito, the ex-lover turned informant, testifies DiPolito tried to poison her husband before she hired a hit man to kill him. Well, that's neither here nor there. That's background information for you. Except that men are just wallets for her. Men are needs satisfying objects. That's all they are.

Excuse me, Brian Claypool, I've got a question for you. Your client, Dahlia DiPolito. Was she ever a hooker? Absolutely not. Her contention was that they met at a Starbucks coffee shop. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. 11 years, three trials, and two convictions later, her defense lawyer is commenting on her new life behind bars.

And that's all about her Bible study. And I respect that. I applaud her. She can still continue her Bible studies behind bars. Because she is stone cold guilty. And this is why. With me, a renowned trial lawyer that represented her at trial too. and I've got to tell you, I've never seen anybody fight as hard as Brian Claypool did at trial.

But sadly for him, there are some hurdles you just can't get over. Listen to this. I'm Sergeant Ransey. I'm the one to call you. Thank you for coming. I'm sorry to call you. Listen, we had a report of a disturbance at your house and there were shots fired. Is your husband, Michael? Okay, I'm sorry to tell you, man. He's been killed. No, no, no, no. He's been killed, man. I'm sorry to. No, no. Try to calm down.

Listen, right now, we need to get you to the station. We need to get you to our police station. I want to see him. I can't let you say, man. We have to do our job. If you want us to find his killer, okay? We need you to calm down. I'm going to need you to go with these detectives, okay?

Does you have enemies? Is there anyone that would want to hurt him? Okay, who would want to hurt him? Witnesses said they saw a black male running from him. I can't let you see him. Ma'am. Ma'am, I can't let you see him. Ma'am.

I can't see him. Damn, I cannot do this right now. I can't go. Detective Yolpich, I need you. I need you to take her to the station. I can't. Go with these detectives. If you want to help your husband, okay?

If you want to help your husband, you need to go to the station with these gentlemen and tell us everything you know about who he knows, who he's connected to. Don't worry. We've already taken care of dogs with animal control for right now. Everything's under control. Okay, I'm just letting that soak in for just a moment.

Dr. Bethany Marshall's Psycho-Alanlis, joining us from Beverly Hills. What do you make? of all of that in the midst of screaming about the death of her husband. This is a sting. The husband's alive. He's in on it. Did she actually ask about her dog?

Oh, she did. She asked about the dog. I thought I heard them say, yes, your dog's okay. He's with animal control. Did I hear that? Oh. I did, Jackie. Okay.

That's a detail I had missed after watching this a hundred times. So Brian Claypool, she's in such grief and shock. She asks, is the dog okay? Nancy, all I can tell you is. that what you just played actually helped me almost win that second trial. Just so we have a fair playing field, your listeners need to know. At the second trial, we had a hung jury three to three, and the two alternate jurors were also voting to acquit, five to three.

Why? Because we argued, and Ranzi, the guy you just played, Sergeant Ranji, testified on cross-examination when I asked him question. I got him to admit that that was completely inappropriate, what that police department did, that that went beyond the bounds of fairness to go out and stage a freaking crime scene and then go spattered off on social media.

Why aren't you addressing those issues? Because improperly posting something on social media only impacts a trial if one of the jurors has seen, not only seen the posting on social media prior to trial, but has been so effective, they can no longer render a verdict that speaks to, truth. That is the law so you can carry on all you want to, Brian Claypool, but the law is what I

just said. And on jury selection in voir dire, which coincidentally is French for, to speak the truth, it was your duty, Brian Claypool, to ask the jurors one by one if they have been so affected by media, by TV, that they cannot render a tree verdict. And I assume that you did do that because you're a good trial lawyer, and I assume because they made it onto the jury that they swore under oath they had not been affected by social media or news accounts, which means your argument can't carry the water. It's not worth a hill of beans as far as an appellate court is concerned, and I would like to point out that the appellate court heard your argument as well. But while we're going, take a listen to this. They bring in Officer Whitty Jean, the supposed hitman from the car. Get over here.

You know who this guy is? No. You've never seen him before. I've never seen him before. She just stared at him. She said she didn't know him. And then, call it a resurrection. Oh, my God.

She's alive. Police have another surprise for Dahlia DiPolito. Yeah, please. Her husband. And he's live. The show cops captures this moment as well. Come here, please. Come here.

Why not? I didn't know it again. Mike, come here, please. What? You're alive? I love that moment, and I'm sure a jury will too. You're going to jail today for solicitation of murder. You're under arrest.

I didn't hear what I just told you? You kept saying, I didn't do anything. Please, I didn't do anything. Was that all you could think of to say? They were accusing me of trying to have my husband killed, and I didn't. So police have her in the station. They then bring in the hitman, the undercover cop, and go, you know this guy? She goes, no.

She's on tape negotiating with the hitman. Then they bring in the husband, and she learns for the first time that he's actually alive. It was all a sting. What can you imagine went through your client's mind, at that moment with me, veteran trial lawyer, Brian Claypool, who represented DiPolito at trial. Now, before you give Claypool too hard of a time, you got to remember that this trial was tried one time before he got the case. So he stuck with that transcript where Dahlia DiPolito has taken the stand, given all kind of statements, contrary to what he then must argue to a jury.

So what's going through her mind, Brian? How did you put it to the? jury when she sees the hit man come in and she says, no, I've never seen him in my life when the cops have her on video and audio negotiating a hit with him. Yeah, he didn't answer. Before I answer that question, I wanted to recognize you made a great point, so did Ray, about the first trial where she said it was for reality TV. So what we had to do in the second trial is we had to, we couldn't call her as a witness because of what you said and Ray said. We could not call her as a witness because then the prosecutors would have taken that testimony under oath from the first trial and would have completely gutted the argument

we were making the second trial. That's the first point I wanted to make. Second point as to this video when they're bringing in Whitty Jean and they're bringing in Mike Pippolito, what I argued was I didn't go into the mind of Dahlia. I just said, look, this is completely inappropriate police practices. In fact, what is the cops TV show doing in a police station? when they're about to arrest a woman for alleged solicitation to commit murder. It's completely inappropriate, out of bounds, and unconstitutional. Okay. Can we now address your client in jail after hiring a hitman to kill her husband,

and she sees the hitman walk into the police station and then says, I don't know him. I mean, the fact that she lied, it looks bad. That's not. That clearly, I agree with you. That's nonsensical. She should have said she knew who he was. And she made a mistake on that.

But with respect to Mike, I mean, what would you expect her reaction to be when Mike walks in? She's been told that Mike has been killed, and now Mike walks in. So she was genuinely surprised at that. I bet she was. Regarding the hit man, you said she made a mistake. She outright lied because she couldn't say, yeah, I know. him. I hired him to kill my husband. So she said, no, I've never seen him.

Look, she did hire him to kill her husband. Look, she was supposed to pay $15,000. Who goes out and tries to kill somebody on credit? She gave a very small amount of money. A lot of people, you'd be so surprised at how many people. I'm telling you, you keep saying, please, please, please. Many, many people put a down payment on a hit. I mean, you just saw it in Tiger King.

You put down a payment on a hit. Yeah. You put a payment on a hit and you pay the rest with the deed is done. As a matter of fact, that's pretty much SOB. Maybe not that cheap. That's what I argued in this second case. She didn't give any money. You know what, Brian Claypool, if I'm ever charged with murder, get ready because you're still, you're still, you're going down swinging.

You're still fighting for Dahlia DiPolito. Guys, whether you agree with defense attorneys or not, and I don't. You got to respect somebody that never gives up. And that is Brian Claypool. I got to say that. So bottom line right now to Ray Caputo, lead news anchor, WDBA Morning News, where does the case stand now? Bottom line.

Bottom line, she is serving 16 years in prison, in a woman's prison, in Ocala and Marion County, and she's not getting out for a while, Nancy. But, you know, in the grand scheme of things, some might think that that punishment isn't enough, that this woman's going to be getting out of jail. Now, one thing, Nancy, she was on house arrest for years between this happening and her finally getting convicted. She's not a mother. She's 36 years old.

She got pregnant while she's on house arrest. So this woman's life is sort of continuing to go as all this has happened. Well, clearly the ankle monitor kept her from leaving home, but she apparently had a visitor. Dahlia DiPolito says it's very, quote, painful to be behind bars and away from her son. I've got to tell you something. That would be the worst thing in the... the world for me to be alive and separated from my twins, John David and Lucy. I cannot imagine that kind of pain, and that is a sort of thing. One should consider before attempting to murder

one's husband, Dahlia DiPolito behind bars, launching a brand new appeal and leading a Bible study class. Is it real or is this just her way to try to convince a pardon and parole board to release her early. I don't know. We wait as justice unfolds. Nancy Grace signing off. Goodbye,