RedHanded - Dalia Dippolito: 5,000% Guilty | #427

Episode Date: November 27, 2025

Add together a narcissistic gold-digger, a gullible gym bro and a police department with a flair for theatrics, and what do you get? The Dalia Dippolito saga.She thought she’d hired a hitman to kill her husband. Instead, she ended up starring in a viral sting complete with a staged crime scene, hidden cameras, and the world’s least convincing crocodile tears. This week, we unpack the wild story of Dalia Dippolito – the wannabe black widow who fell for her own web of lies.Exclusive bonus content:Wondery - Ad-free & ShortHandPatreon - Ad-free & Bonus EpisodesFollow us on social media:YouTubeTikTokInstagramVisit our website:WebsiteSources available on redhandedpodcast.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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If I had to give one word to this case, it's trashy. Trash, garbage, humans. Fucking hell. I honestly, we haven't done a case like this in quite some time, and I'm very much looking forward to it because nobody actually dies. Spoilers, so I feel like I'm allowed to say it's trash. Because they're still alive being trash. Oh, the person who should have died, he's fine. I think he's a nice guy.

But yeah, mega trash. And to help us help you, help you. Picture what we're talking about. I'm going to give you some scene-setting words. And I'm going to ask you to close your eyes and picture what I'm going to say in your mind's eye. Boonton Beach. Immediately. Bointon Beach.

That's not great, is it? We have to say that word, just so you know. Boi-oy-oying. We have to say that word so many times today. Bointon Beach. Even as I was going over this script I was like, inadvertently smiled every time I read that word in my mind.

I'm going to say it again. It's like belangelo. Balangelo's better. Belangelo is better, but Boynton's up there. Boonton Beach, Florida, the morning of the 5th of August 2009. The sun was blazing, the tans were hearty, and wannabe ballers were struthing around

as far as the eye could see. In other words, it was the start of another ordinary day in South Florida. Although, the Vibin Boonton Beach is a little bit more Jersey Shore than West Palm Beach. Still not the bit I think is trash. The person you're about to introduce next is... 26-year-old, Dahlia DiPolito. I also, whenever I hear that surname, I just imagine a dinosaur.

Diplito? Like Diplodocus. That's what I think. Before I ever said her name out loud, because... We were going to do an episode about her. I had always just thought of her as Dahlia diplodocus. Fuck her. I also know because she'd hate it.

She lived here in Pointe Beach. And she lived there with her sultry green eyes, long, dark hair, fluttery eyelashes and artificially enhanced curves. Dalia took looking good. Very seriously. Up bright and early for a 5 a.m. gym session, she left her husband of six months, Mike, snoozing in bed. She sweetly promised to bring him his first. favorite Starbucks when she was done. And while all this might sound like the opening of some sort of sun-soaked reality TV show,

it would soon morph into a gritty crime drama, with as much hammy acting as an episode of CSI Miami. And yes, I am talking about before that ginger guy left because he thought he could do better somewhere else and then he didn't. It's always the gingers that leave. He honestly, it was just prime time ham. He would do this thing where, and I did, I used to watch all the CSIs. I loved it.

He would, like, take his glasses off and just be like, it's a dinosaur. Diagnosis Diplodocus. Diagnosis dinosaur. That is a show I would love to. Diagnosis dinosaur. So the reason it's going to go very much from Jersey Shore to CSI, Miami is because during her workout at the gym that day, Dahlia got a call from Sergeant Frank Ransy of the Boynton Beach Police. Boington Beach Police.

Department, telling her to hurry home immediately. Dahlia arrived to find the street swarming with patrol cars and police tape. And Detective Ransy delivered the horrifying news that any newlywed would dread to hear. Her husband, Mike, had been shot dead in their home. Ransy barely got the words out before a hysterical Dahlia was screaming and sobbing in his arms. But here's the twist. Michael, Diagnosis, Diodosol, Diplodocus Diplolito, was very much alive. This was all a hoax, orchestrated by the Boynton Beach Police Department.

And the so-called crime scene? It was actually a TV set, with cameramen from the reality show, cops filming stealthily from the bushes. Why would these officers be staging this horrific situation and torturing this poor woman? Well, that would be because the police already had concrete proof that Dahlia had tried to order a hit on her hapless other half. As far as Dahlia knew, it had worked. And now she had to play the part of the grieving widow,

like her life depended on it. And let's have a little listen, shall we, to Dahlia receiving this heartbreaking information from Detective Sergeant Ransy. I'm Sergeant Ransy. I'm no 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, man. He's been killed, man. I'm sorry to. No, no, no. Try to calm down. Listen, right now, we need to get you to get you to our police station. I want to see you. I can't let you see him, man. We have to do our job. If you want us to find a fine. We need to find a station. We need to get you. We need to get you. We need to find a station. I want to find a job. We want us to find a fine. We need to find a lot. We want us. We want to find a lot. We want to find a killer okay we need you to calm down i'm gonna 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 me i can't let you see him ma'am i cannot do this right now

ma'am i can't detective yope i need you i need you to take her to the station i can't man 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 That is a well-maintained tan. That is a lot of work. Oh, very even as well, very even. It's so much, so much. And when you watch it, we are videoing this episode.

So if you guys want to, please go check out the Red-Handed YouTube channel where you can watch us and watch these video clips. You can see it in the corner of Sergeant Ransy's mouth. Like he is trying not to smile. It is so obvious. So basically, the plan had been simple. Lights, camera, confrontation, confession. At least that's what the police were expecting. But they hadn't met Dahlia DiPolito.

They had no idea how this woman operated and how capable she was of bending reality to her will. Soon, what should have been a straightforward story of an undercover sting and a lovesick husband who literally dodged a bullet morphed into a never-ending saga of lies toxic control, and unbelievable manipulation. First off, let's get to know our leading lady.

Oh. Okay, let's go home. Dahlia Muhammad was born in New York in 1982 to an Egyptian Muslim dad and a Peruvian Catholic mom. The family moved to South Florida when Dalia was 13. Her parents later divorced, with Dalia remaining firmly in her mom, Randa's camp. Far from being Daddy's little princess, Dahlia claimed that she hated her father and that he'd even tried to force her into an arranged marriage. Which may well have been true, but when it comes to Dalia Diplodocus,

you'll soon come to realise, you can't really take anything she says at face value. After graduating from a strict Christian school, Dahlia got herself an estate agent license, red flag. But actually selling houses. too much effort. Dahlia had her mindset on a bougie lifestyle, bling, bags, boats, she wanted it all and she wanted it now. So instead, Dalia became an escort, hoping for a fast-track ticket to the good life. And she certainly applied herself to this trade. Alongside escorting, Dalia tried her hand at becoming a madam, connecting aspiring sugar babies with loaded older men

online. She even tried running a short-lived, quote-unquote, massage parlour. And Dali's own particular speciality in the world of escorting was the girlfriend experience, which is where she basically offered a no-limit sexual smorgas board for her lucky clients. And I think this speaks very much to Dalia's true talent, her calling, if you will, when she was off the clock, which was working out exactly what men wanted and then bleeding them dry. Because if anyone ever deserved the title of Gold Digger, it's Dahlia. She'd seek out wealthy men, get them to fall in love with her, before moving swiftly on to her next mark.

She briefly got engaged to a wealthy New York City contractor, only to dump him as soon as she got a 20 grand rock on her finger. Dahlia didn't just make the most of her feminine charms. Like any self-respecting narcissist, she weaponised her sex appeal. Everything about Dalia was designed to lure in unsuspecting men. She fed off the attention and bolded. at her bank account with their cash.

And in October 2008, Michael DiPolito was set to be her biggest catch yet. Mike was an Italian-American Jimbrough who looked exactly like he'd been plucked straight from the cast of Jersey Shore. His passions in life were hustling, working out, cruising in fancy cars and flexing his considerable muscles. Mike grew up on the mean streets of Philadelphia as the son of drug-addicted parents. He started drinking at the age of 10 and was dealing drugs by his teens. Soon, Mike got hooked on cocaine crack and heroin with multiple court-ordered rehab stints between close-saves with Philly's most dangerous gangs.

But don't be fooled. Underneath the brawn, Mike was just a big teddy bear. He never quite had the heart to be a hardened gangster. He was too soft, too gullible and too willing to believe the best in people. something that unfortunately made him a prime target for someone like Dahlia Diplodocus. Yeah, I think Mike, when you see pictures of him, he looks like this big, like, tough guy. But actually, I've watched so many videos of him speaking.

And you're just like, he does just seem like, he does some bad shit. He's not like an angel. But I think he had an incredibly tough upbringing. And deep down, I think he is just actually a really, really sweet guy who got trapped with, like, the worst person imaginable. But in some ways, Mike and Dahlia, although Mike is a very nice man and Dahlia isn't, were very alike.

Like Dahlia, Mike was also looking for the cheat codes to start living, Little Chevetta. And his quest took him from Philadelphia to Florida, where shady mob-affiliated associates introduced him to the world of boiler room fraud, which is basically like ripping people off over the phone. Ah. So he sets up his own like venture. And again, like I said, he's no angel. He's calling people up. He's selling them stocks that don't exist and he's stealing their money. And Mike's infectious personality and salesman energy made him the perfect fit for this. Until 2002, when the law caught up with him. Mike was charged with running an organized scheme to defraud, unlicensed telemarketing and also grand theft. But he did seem to get off quite likely.

with just a two-year prison sentence though he did have to pay restitution to his victims to the scale of a whopping $219,000 and he was also saddled with a whopping 28 years of probation. Wow. Now Mike, when he got out of prison,

was determined to turn over a new leaf. He got clean from the drugs and focused on paying off his restitution, managing to actually whittle it down to $119,000 in just a few years. In 2007, Mike even married his long-term girlfriend of nearly a decade, a woman named Maria, who had stuck with him through it all, including like him going to prison. And finally, it looked like they could just have a normal life together.

But then, along came Dahlia. Stop, stop, stop. Yeah, and look, I'm not going to be like, she shouldn't just appear out of nowhere. Mike does let her into his life. But it's a bad decision that ruins his life. Mike and Dahlia first met in October 2008, and it's not exactly your traditional meat-cute. After being shown an escort website by his colleague,

while his wife was away, Mike gave in to temptation. He ordered Dahlia for the night, like a takeaway. A guilty pleasure, but one he justified as a blip. Little did Mike know, though, that his cheat meal would become a lifestyle, because from the very first taste, Mike was hooked.

Dahlia seemed shy and sweet, but the sex was wild. And she obviously felt the same way about Mike, because after their first night, Dahlia didn't make him pay for it. Not in the cash on the bedside table kind of way. Instead, the pair embarked on a whirlwind affair, with Mike throwing caution to the wind and dumping Maria for Dahlia after just three weeks. Going all in on Dalia, Mike was amazed by all the things

they seemed to have in common, like films. The gym, tanning, shared love of Starbucks. All the things one looks for. That's all you have to say about yourself. But Mike soon found out that Dahlia was also very demanding and incredibly stroppy, prone to throwing tantrums whenever she didn't get what she wanted. In January 2009, Mike even tried to end it with her, but somehow actually ended up proposing to Dahlia at their post-breakup summit.

Dahlia had her perfectly manicured claws in Mike. And to this former addict, she was a whole new type of drug. Only four months after they first met, and less than a week after his divorce with Maria was finalised, Mike and Dahlia tied the knot in February 2009. Mike even bumped into the divorce lawyer that he had used to divorce his first wife, Maria, while he's at the courthouse getting married to Dahlia. It's not a great omen, is it?

No, and his divorce was like, what the fuck are you doing? We only finalised your divorce a week ago. So, yeah, it's very quick. And the very next day, after this incredibly speedy wedding, Mike bought a townhouse in Boynton Beach, in cash, as a love nest for him and the new Mrs. Dippolito. And Dalia became obsessed with furnishing their new fairy tale abode. But from the start, Mike's probation loomed heavy over their name.

marriage. He was staring down the barrel of nearly 30 years shackled to a nosy probation officer who would be watching his every move. Mike wouldn't even be allowed to leave Florida without permission. But Savvy Dahlia said that she had the perfect solution. If Mike could raise a hundred grand, she said she would contribute the remaining 91,000 from her own money to get his restitution cleared once and for all in the hope that the might reduce his probation. And then she said they would be free to truly start their new lives together. Blinded by love and desperate for freedom, Mike went along with Dahlia's plan.

Dahlia told Mike to transfer the money to her in smaller installments of seven or eight grand grand at a time, to avoid the watchful eyes of the tax man. Then she promised that she would wire the grand total, including her 91,000, to Mike's lawyer. True to his word, Mike eventually coughed up $100,000. But his lawyer never saw a cent. Shock. Dahlia made excuses about the wire transfers being delayed. But Mike was no stranger to cons, and he called her out.

And Dalia tearfully confessed that she had lost the money in an investment scam gone wrong, including her own apparent contribution of $91,000. And in a sign of things yet to care, come. Soft-hearted Mike fell for it and forgave Dahlia Diplodocus. No doubt, having seen just how easy it had been to trick her husband, Dahlia kept spinning him lies about helping him pay off that restitution. From inventing dodgy good Samaritan investors who'd mysteriously back out at the last minute, to throwing dramatic fits at any hint that he didn't trust her. Dalia kept Mike hanging on her every word. And I think deep down Mike

knows that Dahlia is stealing from him. But he stayed with her regardless. And as we'll go on to see, Dalia is highly manipulative and absolutely, we're talking Casey Anthony level of relentlessness in her lies. I have no doubt that Mike was in it deep, addicted to his hot and cold wife, devastated when she withdrew and probably ecstatic when she turned it on. And the important thing to note here as well is that Mike had invested a lot more than just cash in his relationship. He'd lost his loyal ex-wife Maria, and even his two best friends had cut ties with him since he'd got mixed up with Dalia. Everyone warned Mike that she was bad news, but he desperately wanted to believe that their love story was worth it. And the missing money wasn't the only

weirdness at play. All through the spring of 2009, Mike was hounded by police. They kept receiving anonymous tip-offs that Mike was dealing drugs from his car and from the gym. Police didn't find anything, but Mike's probation officer was now watching him like a hawk. In mid-March, Dahlia treated Mike to a spontaneous weekend at the Swanky Ritzkarton Hotel near Palm Beach, paying over a grand for a single night. And when Mike returned from an early morning gym session, he found police officers searching his car. Thankfully, they once again came up empty-handed,

But later on, as he went to fill up his car, Mike was stunned to find a bag of pills stashed in his petrol tank. He had been sober for years, so he knew for certain that someone was trying to set him up. A few weeks later, Mike was out for dinner with Dahlia at a fancy restaurant, when he noticed a guy at the next table kept staring at him. And like clockwork, when he and Dahlia left, police were outside in the car park. searching Mike's car yet again, after another tip-off of suspicious drug activity. But this time, they found something. They found just over a gram of cocaine stashed in a cigarette box in the spare tire well.

It was nowhere near the kilo that the anonymous caller had reported, and hardly enough for a dealer, but for someone on strict probation, it was bad news bears. with his nerves absolutely frayed Mike started to cry and confided in a kindly female officer that he'd been sober for six years and he was convinced that someone was repeatedly trying to set him up and I think this tells you a lot about how believable Mike is

that the police are like okay they sense that he's genuine and they actually let him go on the drive home Mike snapped and accused Dahlia of being behind these incidents. Did she deny it? Seem shocked? Apologise? Not this dinosaur. Instead, she flawed it. Flying into one of her tantrums, Dahlia hit the accelerator and sped up to 100 miles an hour until a terrified Mike screamed for her to pull over, swearing that he would never bring it up again. And this children is what we like to call narcissistic rage.

Dainty Dahlia might not have raised a hand to Mike But in every other way She exhibited the classic signs of domestic abuse and coercive control By April, Mike's head was spinning With the constant mind games and manipulation And he decided it was time to leave Dahlia for good But then, in another move straight out of the controlling wife handbook Dalia dropped a bombshell

She was pregnant tale as old as time Any thoughts that Mike had about leaving her completely evaporated The pair even started seeing marriage counsellors One of whom was incredibly called Dr Happy Is that nominative determinism

Or is it made up I don't know I've never heard of anyone with the surname Happy But Dr Happy Perhaps Dr Happy Perhaps Dr Happy helped Because Dahlia launched herself head first Into Yummy Mummy mode

She was obsessed with buying baby stuff and discussing names, but funnily enough, her doctor's appointments always seemed to be mysteriously cancelled at the last minute. Wrestling with the ongoing restitution saga and his anonymous tipster foe, Mike had too much on his plate to question it. He had no idea that behind the scenes, Dahlia, who was now all too aware that her hold on Mike was fragile, especially as she definitely was not pregnant, was planning her next move.

Around this time, Dahlia reconnected with an old friend called Mohamed Shahada. Muhammad was a Jordanian businessman, whose family had moved to America when he was a baby. He juggled a busy life, running a corner shop and card-cashing empire, with a taste for gambling and a hefty Xanax addiction. Muhammad had even rolled the dice on a Hollywood career,

although the furthest he got was playing a terrorist on an episode of Burn Notice. By 2009, Mohamed and Dahlia had been friends for about 15 years. They'd often go for long periods of time without actually seeing or speaking to each other, but Dahlia knew she could always rekindle their flirtation whenever she needed a favour. Dahlia told Mohammed that she needed his help to get out of her abuse of marriage to Mike DiPolito, who she claimed was violent and controlling. Again, classic abuse tactic, playing the victim when she's actually the offender.

Muhammad wasn't too sure if he should believe Dahlia's sob story, though. At times she said that Mike was violent, well, at other times she admitted that he was the sweetest, kindest nerd, and she couldn't stand him. Mohammed had never met Mike, but their mutual acquaintances told him that he was a decent guy who put up with a lot from Dahlia. Still, Dahlia insisted that she had to escape Mike's clutches and divorce just wasn't good enough.

complaining that her attempts to get Mike caught with drugs had come to nothing she needed some outside help so after some persuasion and a blowjob and also a $38,000 range rover paid for with Mike's stolen money we may add Mohammed agreed to help his old dinosaur friend so Mohammed put Dahlia in contact with an undercover narcotics officer but when Dalia repeatedly offered this guy

money to set up a drugs bust against Mike, he refused to accept the bribe and cut all contact. So Dahlia met up with Muhammad again, this time at his cousin's clothing shop. And now she declared that she needed a more permanent escape plan from the marriage. Sending him to prison wasn't going to be good enough. She wanted Mike killed. And Dalia said all this in full earshot of several members of the notorious Buck Wild Gang. who were hanging out in this clothes shop. Now, these guys are hardly sophisticated career criminals, far from it. But they were absolutely chomping at the bit to do this beauty queen's dirty work for her.

So while Mohamed tried to laugh off Dahlia's dangerous yapping as just a joke, she was adamant. She was dead serious. However, in the end, the gang members decided it wasn't worth the hassle. coming back later that day telling Muhammad that bitch is crazy meanwhile Mike started to fear that whoever was setting him up really didn't mean business

in early May 2009 Dahlia told Mike that she'd received a call from the Boynton Beach police warning her that Mike was in danger from shady ex-associates from his boiler room days why Mike believed that the police would call Dahlia with this information

rather than tell him directly, not clear. No, I think the one thing we can say about Mike is that he doesn't ask a lot of questions and he does accept things that Dahlia tells him as just fact for quite a while. But again, Dahlia was more than willing to use every single tactic under the abusive and fearmongering category. And a few weeks later, Mike found a blackmail note taped his car window.

demanding $40,000 or he would die. Mike was so shaken by this message that Dahlia had to write his police report for him. Mike admitted two officers that he'd previously been associated with two mobsters, brothers called Pascal and Joseph Rubbo, who'd just been jailed on federal racketeering charges. Perhaps they'd heard that he was trying to pay off his restitution fees and get off probation early, and they were seeking some sort of spiteful revenge. Dahlia's plan was working.

So she just kept going. The threats kept coming. And by July 2009, Mike was a mental and physical wreck. On top of this, Dalia's various schemes to pay off his debts had actually lost Mike $240,000. Like, that's more than the amount he owes in restitution at this point. but he just puts his faith in her again and again and again and she just steals it all. Around this time, Dahlia also convinced Mike to temporarily sign over the deeds for the townhouse to her, with yet another convoluted excuse about helping him pay off the debts.

Mike was so desperate to just get it over with that he'd lost all perspective, blindly agreeing to whatever his wife suggested in the hopes that it would secure his freedom in the long run. And having recently had liposuction surgery on his back, Mike had spent most of July bedridden and in pain. So he's like even more vulnerable to her manipulations because he's already a wreck, but now he's also physically down. And then he also gets on top of that a very severe bout of gastrointestinal distress that at the time he puts down to some ill-timed food poisoning,

but we'll come back to this later. Still, unable to go to the gym or stick to the meticulous routines that he'd clung onto since going clean and sober, Mike was utterly miserable and driving Dahlia crazy too. For her, enough was enough. On Friday the 31st of July, Dahlia met up with Mohamed Shahada at a petrol station, and once again she asked him to help arrange a hit on Mike. Mohammed tried to talk her down like he had in April believing that she wasn't really serious but during that meeting Muhammad realised that Dahlia had nabbed his Glock

from the glove compartment of his car she denied it at first before sulkily handing it back over and saying that if Mohammed wouldn't hook her up with a hitman she'd have to find one herself well yeah that seems to be what you're doing right now

Dahlia she is so like and he's like good I don't want to help you A petulant teenager. Anyway, that time, Mohamed could tell that Dahlia really, really meant it. So that night, Mohamed Shahada walked into the Boynton Beach Police Department and warned them that a woman he knew was plotting to get her husband killed. Good for him.

Absolutely. Muhammad is like, like, he's no angel. Like, he's no fucking saint, right? But he did not want to get mixed up in a murder. Yeah. Especially of someone that he does not believe. is abusive. And I think he is also not stupid.

He knew that between the $38,000 gifted rangerover and the longstanding relationship or friendship that he had with Dahlia, he was worried that whatever Dahlia did would come back to buy him in the ass regardless. So, Muhammad signed up to become a confidential informant for the police, working with them to snare Dahlia and gather more intel for their investigation. which is where things hit a slight snag

because Mohammed wasn't actually sure where Dahlia lived and it turned out he didn't even know her full name he only really knew her by her nickname Delilah the police ultimately decided they needed to gather more evidence and got Mohammed to agree to wearing a wire for a sting operation Mohammed agreed with just one caveat they shouldn't put the wire in his crotch because that's usually where Dahlia went first.

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This time, Mohammed was wearing a hidden wire with pinhole cameras set up in the backseat of his car. He pretended that he'd had a change of heart, telling Dalia that he knew a guy who could carry out the hit on mic. First he prodded her on motives by asking if it was really worth it just to get her hands on Mike's cash to which she snapped

it's not even about the fucking money I'm a dinosaur what am I going to do with that I don't even have hands with her trademark bratty confidence Dahlia insisted everyone would blame Mike's death on his shady mob connections rather than suspecting her of being involved

so together she and Mohammed chose a photo of Mike to show to the hitman. And then Dahlia gave Mohammed $1,200 as a deposit. And on Monday the 3rd of August, Dalia met up with the so-called hitman in a CVS car park. Oh my God. So, yeah.

I didn't think CVS could get more depressing. Yeah. It's a very special wave of depression that flows over you when you walk into a CVS. Well, especially if you're starving and you have to eat one of the sandwiches. Well, enter this car with Dahlia and our undercover. Covered officer pretending to be a hitman, great, great, named Widdy Jean. Now, witty jean, when he turns up with his imposing stature and corn road hair, he clearly fit the idea that Dahlia had in her mind of what a hitman would look like.

So she's just like, oh, she doesn't question his credentials at all, she asks absolutely no questions, doled up in a skimpy blue sundress, because, you know, how else would you dress to meet up with the man who's going to potentially murder your husband. Dahlia battered her eyelashes and was almost flirty as she got down to business. And I'm going to play a little clip from this. Just prepare yourselves because she's something. Well, that's up to you. I mean, you know, my understanding of everything was that, like, you know,

I was going to give you what I gave you, and then that was everything. I did. Until after the fact. And then after the fact, I guess you were going to come and find me or whatever. I mean, I'm good for it. It's not like I don't have it or anything. I mean, I know not to fuck around with you. You know certain things, whatever.

Like, you know what I mean? Like, you obviously know where I'm at. I can get it on my Wednesday if you want me to do. You know what I got to do my homework, you know? I got to know exactly where the place is and how to get out of there, how to get in and out, you understand, what, the neighbors are up. I got to call the cops, you know, reported shooting to see how it a lot fast, they get to that location. There's a lot of stuff I've got to do. That's going to cost me a lot of money.

So if we thought how to we do it, like, at the house, like how to be, how soon could you feel it? I could do it. Wednesday morning. It's going to be like I break into the house, you know, didn't think he was going to be home because everybody works for a day time. Right. I'm going to think he's at work, but when he's not at work, then, you know, he gets two in their head. That's it, you know, I pick a couple things with me, pick a couple windows, make you look like the robbery that went bad, and it's all over, I'm going out of there. We're just going to be asking you questions, although they know it's going to be obvious what it is, and they already know, but, you know, they're going to ask questions because that's how they got to do it.

I don't know how well you handle pressure, I understand. I don't know, because I don't want to. No, I'm not going to, you know, I'm a lot tougher than what I love. I know you're like, oh, what a cute little girl, whatever. You know, but I'm not. That you are. You're extremely beautiful. Thank you, but, you know.

I just need to make sure everything's been it taking out. It's so cringe. She's going straight on my anxiety list of people that I look through when I feel really anxious and hate myself. And then I'll just look through like a top 10 of despicable pieces of shit that we've covered on the show. And I'm like, ah, it's not that bad. Oh, yeah.

She's catapulting to number one, I think. She is just trash. She's fucking trash. And I love how Whitty deals with this. He's just like, you're an extremely beautiful woman. She's like, thank you. Thank you very much. You might be thinking I'm just a cute little girl.

Shut up, Dalia, you fucking bitch. I can't stand her. And like this entire conversation goes on for so long. And what's really weird about it? Because like, obviously we're not going to play you guys like the whole thing. But you can go watch it. We'll leave links to it in the episode description. She looks at the camera so many times.

And I'm like, does she know it's there? Or like, is she suspicious of something? I don't know because that's not the way she's presenting herself. And it's behind her. You can obviously see, like, the camera angle is being filmed from behind her, but she keeps turning around and looking at it. I don't know if she's just looking out the window, but it, like, really makes you feel quite on edge.

It's almost like she's breaking the fourth wall, where she'll, like, turn and be like, I know. What is going on? Like, the whole thing is so, so strange. And, like, let's get into, like, some of the things that actually go on during this meetup. On the subject of payment, Dahlia thinks she's so fucking savvy.

She negotiates. Whiddy down from 8 grand to 7 grand to kill her husband. Or she offers the alternative that she won't pay him at all, but that that morning Mike was going to go to the bank to withdraw 10K and she

knew this and she suggested hey, why don't you just follow him to the bank, kill him and then take that 10 grand? Basically so that Mike would be paying for his own murder. What a bargain, you know? And I think this interaction with Whiddy Jean tells us so much about Dahlia. It shows how naive and overconfidence she is.

First, she thinks she can organise a hit for such little money. I was going to say, eight grand. You think you're going to order a hit for eight grand. But I guess if you really take it apart, I think the reason she thinks that is, A, she's stupid and naive, but also she's probably convinced herself that, yes, of course, she can get such a good deal. because she's so irresistible and beautiful and smart and why wouldn't this man murder another man for her for eight grand? Sorry, seven, because she managed to knock that grand off.

I think she genuinely believes that she holds this sort of like otherworldly level of control over other people, especially men. She never even questions the fact of whether she can trust this guy or not. But let's remember he's a total stranger to her. She never ever once, during this entire arrangement, seems unsure. Now, we will come on to talk more about Dahlia's personality later in this episode. But yeah, it's just very jarring. But telling.

Eventually, after The Killer explained that a hit outside the bank would be too public, they decided that he would swing by the empty house on Wednesday morning to pop two bullets in Mike while Darlahle. was out at the gym. With the details of the upcoming hit cautiously agreed upon, Whitty Jean gave Dahlia one last chance to change her mind. And let's have a little listen to that. Don, you know, you have to change your mind.

Even if you change your mind, I'm talking about. There's no, there's no, like, between a month's going to do that. I'm positive, like, 5,000 percent, Charlotte. Around 30, 7 o'clock, always walks about. in the morning. Okay. You walk the dog fast and doesn't work awake and our door is always a lot. I'll be in the house by 6.30, Wednesday morning.

6 o'clock, maybe. All right. I'll come to you. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. I guess.

Okay. Shut up, Dahlia. But yeah, that 5,000% is what this episode is going to be titled. It comes up so much. It's just that a 5,000%. Shut up. So, the plan was set. Michael DiPolito would draw his last breath

sometime before 8 a.m. on Wednesday the 5th of August 2009, leaving his young bride Dahlia a tragic but sexy widow. But before Dahlia could head out and buy herself a new all-black wardrobe, the Boynton Beach Police Department were preparing to spring booyoyoying into action. and they were bringing some friends with them along for the ride. The crew of the reality TV show Cops were shadowing the police department that week, and the higher-ups couldn't think of a better case for them to cover. In a pre-dawn briefing at the station that Wednesday morning,

lead detective Paul Sheridan laid out the plan to convince Dahlia that her murder plot had been a success, catching her reactions on tape and ideally coaxing a confession out of her. And I can see what they mean well like this is the, perfect case for you to be shadowing because no one's dead. Like, it's already all in the bag. The only person who's going to lose is Dahlia who deserves it. Yeah. And like, so far so good. I'm with them. Like, this is all fine. They go on to behave very unprofessionally later. But yes, this part, I'm like, yeah, totally get it. Perfect case. Let's go.

The police already had a shit ton of evidence to incriminate her. And you might be thinking, did they really need, to stage a whole fake murder scene. And to that, dear listener, we have an answer for you. It's a one-word answer. Theatre. Yeah. They go all out. I also found a picture of Dahlia.

Oh, lovely. Perfect. It's her in her widow dressing gown. That's what you should be for Halloween if you ever dressed up for Halloween. Dahlia Diplodocus. I know it's not a diplodocus. Relax. So with the cameras rolling, detectives Alex Moreno and Brian Anderson

roused a groggy Mike from his slumber at about 6 a.m. After Dahlia had left at the gym. And there was no easy way to say it. Mike's wife was planning to have him murdered that day, so would he mind please coming down to the station with them? So have a little less than. Police department, open your door. Sorry, I'm sorry.

Yes. Sergeant Sherer, I'm going in police park. Can I talk to you? Yes, for sure. Okay. Let me tell you. I need to tell you something real quick here. You need to come with me to the police station.

You're not in trouble. Your wife has hired a person to kill you. Just realize. Take a deep breath. Go ahead and sit down. Yeah. Just take deep breath. I want you to put on a shirt and come with me to the police station.

Can you come with me? Sure, of course I will. Can I tell you? I don't know what this is a little weird. I know it is. Let's go upstairs. My wife, for whatever reason today, like I'm a sick man. I had a little surgeon on my back and went to the gym.

I know where she's at. I mean, you know, like, believe me. I know where she's at. Let's go upstairs. I don't know. I just stop rambling. I mean, I've been. Do you understand what I'm telling you?

We don't have much time. Yeah. So, poor PJ-clad Mike had had a nasty wake-up call in more ways than one. Because for all the drama between him and Dahlia, he didn't think she was capable of going quite so far, being quite so cold-blooded. But when the police played him the audio of Dahlia calmly saying she was 5,000% sure that she wanted him dead, well, there was no arguing with that. Meanwhile, a trap was being laid.

The police got to work, staging, as Hannah described for theatre, a very elaborate fake crime scene outside of the couple's townhouse. They secured the area with yellow police tape and even pretended to dust the front door for prints. Now, as we told you at the start of the episode, Detective Frank Ranzi called Dahlia during her workout to lure her to the scene. And Dahlia came running. While the assembled police officers struggled to hold back their smirks,

she instantly launched into her over-the-top display of shock and grief at Mike's untimely demise. Detective Ransy later says that even if he didn't have prior knowledge about the solicitation for murder, he says that he would have still noticed the absolute lack of tears on Dahlia's face as she supposedly sobbed in his arms. The officers cajol Dalia to come down to the station with them for questioning. They needed her help to catch the bastard who did this to me. Mike. But it wasn't going to be that easy because Dahlia brought with her plenty of questions of her own. First off, she kept asking to see Mike's body, probably to confirm that he was actually dead. She says it so many times. But the police skillfully steer her away from that

path, insisting that she didn't want to see what was left of her husband. Dalia was also anxious to retrieve her handbag from the front seat of her car. Since police were equally keen to get their hands on this, they promised Dahlia that they would get someone to bring it down with them later. And with that, Dahlia de Pallito went willingly into the trap. The detective who drove Dahlia down to the police station made sure as well to even offer her the passenger seat of the patrol car to lull her into a false sense of security of being the victim's wife

and not a suspect. That's a good one. It is a good one. During the 10-minute drive, Dahlia cautiously asked if they knew who'd done it. As agreed in the police strategy, the officer revealed that witnesses had reported a black man running from the house after gunshots were hurt. It was a trick deliberately intended to subtly destabilize Dahlia, who maybe wouldn't have been counting on her professional hitman, Whiddy Jean, to have been seen.

But instead of freaking out, Dahlia calmly played the cards right back. she claimed that there had been a lot of black people coming around the neighbourhood lately including one guy who'd been asking Mike questions about his Porsche Dahlia was clearly trying to sow the seeds in

whatever direction she thought they'd grow and this was a strategy she took with her into the interrogation room when asked if her husband had enemies Dalia may as well have pulled out an alphabetically organised colour-coded list because according to her

there were plenty of candidates who'd love to see Mike six feet under, and she was there to name names. She hinted at everyone from Mike's ex-wife Maria to the mafioso families that he'd been tangled up within the past, and Dahlia reckoned that Mike's attempts to get off probation early hadn't gone down well with his former accomplices, so maybe someone had decided to take justice into their own hands. and while she made a point of crying on and off Dahlia didn't exactly show much loyalty to her dearly departed husband I want to tell you everything the whole

I think you kind of know I did I want to know so that's what happened with that so he didn't know how to tell everybody what was going on of everything and so he pretty much he told them that like you know I had the money and I took it and I got involved in like a Bernie-made-off kind of scheme because he didn't know how to tell, you know, his mom and everybody what was going on. You're lucky. What?

You're lucky you went to the gym. We were supposed to go to the gym. Oh, both you were supposed to go? He didn't know if he was going to, he just had liposection, and he had, like, two blood handles removed from here. He had something little, and two weeks ago he had surgery. What kind of surgery? the beltecamine, like the lipos that he had. Oh, did he used to be real heavy or something?

No, he used to be, and then he got lipos done. And I guess the plastic surgeon left, like, two bold is here. So yesterday we went because he had, like, blood buildup in his back. So basically he really drained it. So he was like, well, depending on how I feel today. But we go every morning. We haven't gone since his surgery, but every morning, 5 a.m. Workbook at the job.

Yeah. You got a lot of, that's better than me. I wish I could go, obviously. Well, you know, he's very, um, he used to be a drug addict and... What was his driving choice? Crack. Crack? Yeah, I'll give it to you.

And, um, he's recovering alcoholics. And so with him, it's very important to be, like, on his schedule and, you know what he mean, like, have a system and very organized with everything. So, as we just heard, Dahlia's really quick to spill the beans about Mike's past drug and alcohol addictions, and even seemed, And irritated, as she explained how his junky past meant that he had to stick to rigid routines. Detective Paul Sheridan got the sense that this was what got under Dahlia's skin the most. And the dig at Mike that if it wasn't for his recent nip-tuck on his love handles, he would have been at the gym with her that morning, and therefore not dead. Yeah. She offers up so much stuff that would obviously be like embarrassing to her husband in this scenario.

Mario, where he's already dead. Like, what has him getting liposuction got to do with him being murdered? But it's like she has so much contempt for him. That's what comes across. I don't know if you know he was shot. You shot twice. And I want you to know all this. Do you know this?

Did they tell you out there? Not exactly. I mean, they told me he was shot. When I was at the gym, I got a phone call. I didn't hear my phone ring, and I called back. And they told me just the police come that something happened at my house. Yeah. Evidently your husband answered the door and they took him back upstairs and in your bedroom.

We have cameras though. Why would he answer the door? He doesn't answer for anybody he doesn't know. I have no. I mean the only person, like his probation officer is like the, you know what I mean? I have no idea. He would not answer the door. We have cameras like at our house. Maybe he knows this person.

I didn't know you have cameras because when we got there, some of your neighbors heard the commotion. We had cameras. The front door has camera? Oh, that's great. That's great. That's great. They don't record. They don't record.

Nobody knows, but they don't. We told everybody they record, but they don't record. Oh, God. Because he didn't want them to make a hole in the garage for the recorder to be there because of his car. Well, when the office was wide open, when the officers got there, your door was wide open. They went in and looked, you have a, they said there was two dogs in the house in a crate or a cage or something like that. And he was found in the bedroom. in the bedroom.

He was like twice in the head. He wouldn't open the door unless it's somebody that he knows. We don't open for anybody. She's like coming across as if she's trying to be really objectionable to things, almost like she's trying to get to the bottom of it. But she's not because she's just like saying completely pointless things. But there's that one bit right at the end there where the detective is like, they took him back upstairs and they shot him twice in the head in your bedroom.

And she's just like, why did he open the door? and I'm like, you've just been told that your husband got shot twice in the head in your own house and you're just like blah blah blah blah blah blah it wouldn't have opened the door because we've got video. Like there's no emotional, it's like she doesn't remember that she should be having an emotional reaction to a police officer telling her that husband's been shot twice in the head in their home. Yeah. It's just, yeah, it's wild. I don't know. I think the police are trying this kind of emotional manipulation to tell her what's been done to her husband.

She knows she's ordered the hit. But if they think that's going to crack her, no fucking way. It was time for Sergeant Sheridan to go bad cop. He abruptly changed course, pressing Dahlia with questions about her marriage. Did she have any reason to want Mike dead? Dahlia denied any major issues between her and Mike insisting that they were happy. Sir Sheridan cranked up the pressure by bringing in a hand-cuffed witty gene and asking, Thalia, do you know this man?

It's so funny. I would have know if you know this guy. Come here. Bring this guy in here. Get over here. Get over here. You know who this guy is? No.

You've never seen him before. I've never seen him before. Do you know her? Put your head up and look at her. Put your head up. I never can. What were you doing coming out of her house? Get him out of here.

Oh my God. It's just hilarious when you watch it. Because obviously... Never ever in a real investigation would the police confront a victim's spouse with the man that they thought had killed him. But Dahlia didn't know that. She just sits there, wide-eyed and innocent, and the brass neck on her, honestly,

just saying to Whitty Jean's face in front of the police that she has absolutely no idea who he is. Absolutely no idea. And in the CCTV footage, you can see that Whitty Jean, like, just keeps his eyes to the floor. He keeps looking down, and they keep being like, look at it, look at. And it's because he's trying not to laugh. He says, I was so close to laughing. So I just had to keep looking at the floor.

Oh, my God. But Dahlia was still not ready to break. So finally, Sergeant Sheridan tells her that the jig was up. You're going to jail today for solicitation and murder. You're under arrest. That's an undercover police officer. we filmed everything that you did recorded everything that you did

you're going to jail for solicitation of first degree murder on your husband did you hear what I just told you I heard what you said that I didn't know listen to me everything has been recorded you were photographed

in the convertible when you sat his car in the front of CVS what do you want to do what do you want to do here I didn't know anything. Listen to me. I didn't do anything.

You're going to jail. I didn't do anything. Please. I didn't do anything. There's just that one second where he says about the CVS car park and she goes, oh my God. And then she's straight back into, I didn't do it. Tell me you didn't do anything. I didn't do anything.

You're going to jail today. As soon as I'm done, they're going to come in here and handcuff you and take you to the Palm Beach County Jail, book you for solicitation of first-degree murder on your husband. It's so embarrassing I die of like secondhand embarrassment watching her which very obviously thinks that she can just like do her little girl act

and it will work because they're all men it's that voice she goes into she's like oh I didn't do anything I didn't do any oh shut up Dahlia it was never ever ever going to work

and Dahlia DiPolito was charged with soliciting her husband's first degree murder and with being a diplodocus, the highest crime of all. There was still one last twist for Dahlia when it was revealed that her husband, Mike, rather than being zipped up in a body bag, was in fact alive and well, and inside that very same police station. This is my favourite. So the detective has opened the door to leave, and she sees Mike in the corridor.

Oh, my God. Who's alive? Come here, please. Come here. Mike, come here. Come here, please. Come here. Why not?

I don't even kidding. I heard you. Mike, come here, please. Come here. Oh, my God. I love how awkward that police officer. How could you do you. not be. It's like, what the fuck? What the fuck? They've told her that they have her on video

arranging the hit on her husband and they have told her that the hitman was an undercover police officer and they've arrested her. But she still thinks that she can manipulate Mike if she cries in exactly the right way. It's that bit where she's like, come here, come here, come here, come hit like, oh, it's like that helpless bleating. Oh, it's gross. And Mike, naturally, didn't want to go anywhere near, Dahlia. But Dalia's ability to act like the injured party, no matter how much evidence was piled up against her, is honestly one of the most impressive, but also one of the most terrifying things about her.

In her second interrogation with different detectives, she once again tries the same sort of like flirty, innocent act. that she's clearly employed against men her entire life. She so obviously thinks that she can pull the wool over their eyes with just a bat of her lashes. But when she finally realized it wasn't going to work, after they physically showed her the recorded meetings between her and Mohamed and Widdy,

she dropped the act. Suddenly she became uncooperative and moody, demanding to speak to a lawyer. Bit late, babes. Yeah, she goes very quickly from Femphital to Karen. Still, Darlia had one last day. up her sleeve, that she believed could save her. None other than her husband, Mike, his very self.

The same guy that she'd literally tried to have killed, not even 24 hours earlier. Using one of her phone calls from jail, she phoned her husband. This is just prepared to be filled with rage. I like don't want to listen to her voice anymore. I'm so sorry. It's going to go on for quite a bit longer.

Hello? Hey, it's me. Yeah, what's up? Nothing, Mike. You please come here. Hey, hey, listen, I don't want to fight with you. Honestly, I can't help you. Don't you understand what just happened?

What they're saying is not true. How is that possible? I'm sitting here. It's not true. It's not possible. You wouldn't even give me two minutes to talk to you, but it's not possible. possible. What they are saying is not true. How in the hell did I hear it and see it? I heard what you heard. It's not true. I heard what you heard and I saw what you saw everything.

They showed you. They showed you. And how is it not, how are you telling you that? I have given you my word that it's not true. What do you explain? Daya, I couldn't help you if I wanted to. Like, please, I needed attorney. Can you please help me? That's not true. Your brother was here and I spoke to him and he's going to go talk to your mom.

I called him for you already, right? This is not true. I heard you tell you to it. Look, how do you explain what I saw and heard? I am limited on my phone call. You know more than anybody. It's not true. Just give me time so I can talk to you.

What is the same? I saw it. I heard it. I saw what you saw and I heard it. I heard what you heard. Hey, what the f***? You said you wanted to have me killed. I heard that.

What's the problem? That is not true. How is not true? How can you believe that? I heard your voice. How can you believe it? It isn't the point. I heard you say it.

It's not. I heard what you heard and it's not. What did I hear then? I heard you say. I heard the tape. Okay, I heard the tape and I saw pictures and I saw the whole nine years. I saw all of it. So why would you?

When did you meet a guy in a parking lot? Explain that. I'm sitting here on the phone. I will tell you when I see you in person. Please. I can't come there anyway. I'm not allowed there. That's not true.

Who said that? They tell you that on purpose. That's not true. I don't know what you could tell me. Even if, let's pretend, I said, oh, it's all better. I can't. They're charging your ass. Don't you get it?

Like, I didn't do anything. I didn't do anything, please. I don't know what to say to you. I can't help you. It's out of my hand. You're not even trying. What am I supposed to do? I'm supposed to do.

I saw you with this guy in the truck or whatever the fuck it was. I saw it. I heard your voice clearly. I don't understand. I did not. So how did they get your voice on that tape recorder? Like, I'm limited with my time, please. You gotta be kidding me, man.

I heard you say that shit. Like, I'm telling you right now, okay? You can't fix it! How are you gonna tell me that you didn't say it, you didn't do it? When I saw you say it and I saw you do it? Do you have any idea how I was and they told me what supposedly happened to you, how I got, and how I was, and how everything? and how everything can you need me in person so i can talk to you no why why should i because you know me i never ever ever ever ever ever ever in my wildest dreams ever want that for you

ever well you say it down you hired the guy no i did not say anything period i didn't say anything i don't know how you're going to actually have the nerve to sit here and lie to me now i can't help you even if I wanted to. Do you get it? Why don't you want to? It's out of my fucking hands. You're not even trying. It's different if you're trying. You're not even trying.

What could I possibly do for you? I don't get it. What could I do? You're not even trying. Trying what? I'm sitting here like a dumb ass. Hmm. Okay, they're getting ready to like take it again.

Sorry, I'm going to listen. I'm going to give you some advice and you need to listen. You're going to be ran around and ask for a little waddle, a couple of days, you need to just try and relax and just go with it and keep to yourself and don't say a lot. Like, I love you. Don't do this to me. You know, everybody treated me off of her. I can't do anything to you.

You know me. Everyone is being awesome to me. Oh my God. It's just so much. I don't even know why he picked up the phone. No. And when I, like, first saw. that there was this call that had lasted so long, I was like, Mike, no, no, no, please don't

speak to her. This is like the worst possible thing. Like, you have to just not speak to her at all. But he does handle himself the best that you probably could without just having up. But yeah. She is certain that all that needs to happen is she just needs to physically get in front of him. That's her plan. And then it'll be fine. And he'll be sucked right back in like he has every single time before, and then it'll all go according to plan. Hands on crotch. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

And after everything she's done, it is truly amazing how she's still able to twist it all back onto him. Like, you're not even trying, a classic. You're not even trying. It'd be different if you were trying. You're not even trying to get me out of prison after I tried to kill you. Look how hard I tried. I tried to kill you.

You're not even trying. And also, she just keeps saying, it's not true, offering literally no reason for why that's the case. She's just not true, the end. It's honestly remarkable. It's like the stamina, if you just have stamina and nothing else, no shame and an ability to just keep lying. You could see how this could almost work because he's just like, I saw it, I heard it. And she's like, it's not true. No explanation ever.

Who are you going to believe? The police or your wife. Your eyes, your ears. What? It's not possible. What? And that's exactly what happens when you try and pull away from a narcissist. And on this call towards the end, she perhaps realizes that shouting isn't getting her anywhere and slips back into crying baby mode saying everyone's being so horrible to me.

It's so pathetic. Yeah, you're in jail. Yeah. For solicitation of first degree murder. It does seem, though, does she. has realized that she is out of control of this situation. And then the next clip we've got for you is when you can hear the mask slip. And that's when Mike asks for his house back.

We're going to listen to her tone switch immediately. I can't help you. There's nothing I can do to help you. Know what I'll do. You know what I'll do for you? Seriously, I have. You sign my house back over to me. I'll help you, mom, immensely. Give me my house back.

That's it. That's it what? I'll have the papers sent over these somehow. You'll sign them over to me, and then I will help your mother. Okay? I'm not signing anything. I know you wouldn't sign anything. I knew that wasn't going to happen.

So I can't help you. John, that's what you're thinking about. I'm sitting here watching. You're thinking about... Judge, you've tried having me killed. I just all. offer to help you, and again, you have the balls to say no to me. You just basically said, fuck you to me, which is hilarious, considering your situation

and considering what the f*** just happened today. All right. I've got done getting fingerprinted now. I have to go. Where? What pressing engagement do you have lined up? Oh, my God, but it's like, it's the flip. She's like, like, you know, for trying down.

Help me, and that he's like, sign that. house over to me. And he's being so really, I will help your mother. I will take care of your mother. And she's just like, I'm not signing anything. It's like that immediate tone shift. We've also got a very revealing call between Dahlia and her mum Randa. And we get a glimpse of the enabling parenting that shaped a woman like Dahlia DiPolito. Hello? Mom, I didn't tell. I know, Dahlia. I know. I know. I find out of you, ladies. I know.

Okay, who do you want me to call? I need you to call Mike in New York, please. I call already and I called that. Everybody knows. What is that you want me to do? Where are you exactly? I'm in the county jail. I need you to call.

What did Mike say is he coming? Everybody is coming, Della. We're going to go ahead and get your lawyer. Okay, don't worry. Where are you? Are you going to go up? Yes, I'm here. Mom, Mike, this is to me.

Okay. I didn't do anything. I didn't do anything. You didn't do anything. I know you didn't. I know you didn't. Where are you? You're in gun club? Yes, I'm here. I'm in the gun club. And I heard Mike is at the house. I want him out of my house.

Okay. Well, right now we're going to need to have a lawyer first. It's my house. The title's in my name. All right. Okay. Don't worry about that right now. Oh, my God. Randa. Randa, Randa, Randa. Stop it right now. She's just... It's like a mother talking to a child. Like I know you didn't It's okay, we're going to solve this

That's the reason she's like that Yes and I think it's also very telling during this call And during the call that she has with Mike That she still thinks there's a chance that her Mike Because the mic she's talking about her mum too Is like a different Mike, we'll come to him later But she still thinks her husband Mike Who she tried to have killed

That he might come I think it's just her level of entitlement That is so sickening Like she can just do whatever she wants but everybody else should just put it aside when she's in trouble. In trouble entirely of her own doing. Yep. And I think it's just another big fat tick in the narcissism trait column, really.

And while we're on the topic, let's take a look at all those ticks. Hannah and I say all the time, you know, we're not professionals, we're not people that are diagnosing anybody. But I am a doctor. Yes, and I don't think it's any secret to anybody. Call me Dr. Miserable. Frowny face. Talk to Frowny face. I don't think it's a surprise to anybody that Valky.

in Dahlia DiPolito is a massive narcissist. I also think she's a psychopath. I think she is both of those things. But let's talk about the narcissism because she exhibits all of the classic traits that you would expect to see. She's got superficial charm. She's got no real depth to her whenever she's speaking. It's all very, like, vacuous and surface level. There's no neuroticism, as we saw when she's trying to arrange the hit.

She's got absolutely no concern that this might backfire. She's got no, like, concern that this guy might be an undercover cop. She's also got absolutely no empathy. When the police are like, yeah, he went in and shot your husband twice in the head. She's just like, okay. And then the whole like, I'm rotting in here while you're worried about a house. Like, it's all about her. She's also clearly highly manipulative.

And there's never any indication with Dahlia whatsoever of any sort of feeling of remorse. And also, I think it's safe to say she's a pathological liar. She lies and lies and lies, even when confronted with like solid evidence that she is lying. And I think also Grandiosity is obviously spoken about quite a lot And I think that is very obvious But there is so much recklessness as well Which is a trait that maybe doesn't get spoken about so much

She is so reckless She's just like, yeah, kill him outside that bank And then take his money The undercover cop has to be like Maybe that will be too public And if you put all that together With her total inability To take any sort of ownership

Or accountability for her actions Yeah, this is what you're looking at you're looking at a narcissist, highly suspect she's also a psychopath. And throughout the whole situation, I think it's also hard to ignore just how confident she is in herself, so blasé, so matter of fact. When she's like talking to the guy, she thinks is going to murder her husband, it's like she's organising to like buy a lawnmower off somebody. It's so just like, whatever.

And she's clearly motivated by money, which speaks to the criminal element that is often associated with psychopathy and narcissism, but she also tells Mohammed the reason that she wants Mike dead isn't even just about the money, which tells us that she's willing to kill simply because Mike was in her way. She doesn't want him anymore, he's inconvenient. A divorce wasn't good enough because then she wouldn't get all of the money and the assets that she feels like she's owed. And also, she's arrogant enough to think she can get away with murder. And a lot of the time when you are unfortunately listening to Dahlia speaking, I think you would be forgiven for thinking that she is delusional,

especially during that phone call with Mike where she's being presented with the information, she's being presented with the evidence, but she keeps saying, no, it's not true, no, it's not true, no, it's not true. But I don't think Dahlia is delusional. It's all a part of her narcissistic fantasy, and it can appear delusional, but she knows what's real and what isn't. She knows what she's done.

She knows what the police have got, which is why you see that momentary slip during the police interview where they say, we've got you, the video of you in the car park at the CVS, and she's like, oh my God, but then she pulls herself

straight back out of it into acting mode. And I think she sticks to her lies continuously because she is so convinced that she can fool everybody. Do not believe all of that. Just look at me and listen to what I am saying, because I am so powerful. And if you're wondering how and why people like Mike, for example,

Mike, who is clearly, yes, comes across with Dahlia quite naive, but he's clearly street smart and he's clearly not a stupid man, why he keeps falling for her bullshit again and again and again. And again, I think it comes back to the narcissism and this thing called betrayal blindness. And it's basically when someone is unable to process a betrower, trail that is right in front of them. So they continue to ignore all the pain that their abuser is causing them. And this can go on for years. And when the person being hurt, even so much as thinks

about pulling away, the abuser turns up the intensity of the relationship with sex or with affection or with gifts or whatever they think that person needs from them. And they do that to confuse the victim, right? Because then that's like, oh well, I thought I was going to leave because I thought you were really horrible and evil to me and causing all this pain. But now you're going to giving me this thing that I wanted, maybe it's okay. And the narcissist knows that they have some degree of control over their victim, right? They know that they have a control over that person's nervous system, over their emotions, and they know that they can always pull them back in. And sadly, they often can, which is why you've got to cut all contact. And that was why I was scared when I

heard that Mike was having that phone call with Dahlia. And in that call, you can absolutely see Dalia's to maintain that control over Mike and towards the end she can tell she's losing it. Her mistake was involving outside sources because then he can compare notes. Like, I've seen this so many times. The trick is to isolate a person totally because then you're the source of truth.

Yeah. But Mike, thank God, wasn't having any of it. And it looked like he was finally going to be free of this woman. But he still thinks she's pregnant. Yeah. So that meant he was facing up to the possibility of a future, raising their baby on his own. Jailbird baby.

But when Mike boxed up Dahlia's stuff from the house, he discovered used tampons, shoved into corners and crevices all over the house, which is the most disgusting thing I've ever heard. Which like, why? Just put them in the bin! Why do you need to do that? Why should you just shove them into corners of the house? I know you're not supposed to flush them down the loo, right? I didn't know that until I was 23.

Nobody told me. I didn't know. The East London Fadberg caused by... If I'm plotting the murder of my husband and part of my plan is that he needs to remain convinced that I'm pregnant, I'm flushing the tampons down the loo. Are you so eco-conscious, darling? Exactly. Because they can literally be flushed.

But honestly. I won't murder Mother Earth. Have you seen these fat bugs? It is so bizarre because, yes, of course you can literally flush a tampon. It's not like it's not going to flush. So why is she shoving them in random corners of the house? It just gets worse and worse with her. Yeah.

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wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts you can listen to episodes early and add free by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. So as Dahlia's trial approached, the eyes of the world were back on Boonton Beach. And it wasn't even the cop's footage that the TV show Cops footage that had done it. That had actually been shelved until after the trial for obvious legal reasons. It was because Boonton Beach Police had actually uploaded the the footage of their sting against Dahlia on their social media page, the very same day they arrested her.

And of course, it immediately gone viral. Everyone and their dog had already seen the insane video of Dahlia DiPolito faking that batshit reaction to her husband's death. Mike suddenly found himself in the spotlight as a quote-unquote celebrity victim, even appearing on the Today Show to talk about his near-revement. brush with death. And I have to say, this is what I mean about the police acting in quite an unprofessional way. What the hell were they thinking? Like, what were they thinking releasing that video? Like, they did it all. They planned it all. They had all this evidence. And they knew it was

going to go to trial. Or maybe they thought she would confess and it would never go to trial. Either way. Either way. I'm just like. It should have been adjudicated. Just wait. Wait until she's been sentenced. Maybe in Florida they can do whatever the fuck they want. Well, yeah. I mean, I was going to say there is obviously the Florida sunshine laws, but this does come back to bite them in the ass because, you know, Dahlia's defence team was like, this is a step too far even for Florida. And I have to agree.

I mean, sure. As the trial kicked off in 2011, prosecutor Elizabeth Parker was feeling confident. She even said that in her whole career, she'd never had a case that was so strong. And like, you'd be hard pushed to find one. There was so much hard evidence against Dahlia DiPolito. It seemed impossible that it wasn't a slam dunk.

Still, Elizabeth Parker was taking zero chances. Fucking good, you're an attorney. For the jury selection, she was keen to seek as few men as possible. She didn't want male jurors keeling over with the vapors from Dalia's industrial-grade sex appeal. And Elizabeth Parker was also determined to pursue a straightforward case that couldn't be muddied with any potentially damaging hearsay. So she avoided what she termed the three peas, prostitution, poison and pregnancy.

Firstly, Parker didn't want to give Dahlia's defence the opportunity to argue that she was being maligned by her past profession as a sex worker. And then, Dalia lying about the pregnancy also added unnecessary emotional baggage to what was at its core, a very simple case. As for the poison? Well, the confidential informant, Mohammed Shahada, told police that Dahlia claimed that she'd actually tried to kill Mike herself once before by putting antifreeze in his favourite Starbucks.

Probably tastes the same. Quite. If you remember when Mike was laid up with suspected food poisoning after his surgery, uh... Yeah, he had basically asked Dahlia to bring him his favorite ice chide, whatever shit from Starbucks, and he remembered actually taking a sip from the drink that Dahlia had brought him and immediately spitting it out because it tasted so vile. He assumed it had just been a dodgy batch or something like that, but he went on to experience severe stomach pains, a bleeding mouth

and crippling headaches for several weeks. Jesus. Now you might be wondering, this just adds to the case against Dahlia. Surely, why did Elizabeth Parker not use this? Well, when she did some research, she found out that the symptoms that Mike reported might not hold up as 5,000% consistent with anti-freeze poisoning. So in the long run, she decided not to take the risk of getting the whole case thrown out by including something that the defence could wriggle out of. Something that would later prove to be incredibly ironic. No, not Dr. Irony as well. At trial, prosecution focused on three key factors. Firstly and most importantly, providing the hard evidence of Dahlia's plot with video footage, audio recordings and digital communications.

The jury watched the hidden camera footage and listened to the famous tape of Dalia saying that she was, 5,000% sure, that she wanted to order Mike's murder. They didn't have to establish a motive, but Elizabeth Parker reckoned that it would be good for the jurors to get a sense of why Dahlia was so keen to get Mike out of the way. So, a red-faced detective Moreno drew the short straw and was full. forced to read out hundreds of Dahlia's sects between her and her ex-boyfriend Michael Stanley. Mike number two. Yeah, this was the mic that she was getting her mum to contact Mike from New York. In these messages, Dahlia and her ex discussed her efforts to frame the new Mike for drug dealing and get him thrown back in prison.

The text painted a rosy and X-rated picture of the life that they would build together. once she had secured new Mike's money and new Mike's house. Whether Dahlia actually intended to sail off into the sunset with old Mike is anyone's a guess. But Elizabeth Parker referred to Mike Stanley as a clueless patsy who enabled Dahlia's endless scams under the promise of reuniting with her. The second prong of the prosecution strategy was to protect the integrity of their victim, who, unlike most murder-for-hire cases, was still very much alive and kicking.

Parker was concerned that with Mike's check had passed, the jury might dismiss him as no angel and therefore not be too sympathetic towards him. But she did make the call to put Mike on the stand. Parker hoped that the jurors would see him as the warm and likable teddy bear that she'd come to know. And it paid off. Mike was authentic, believable,

and even made the courtroom laugh. And the third prong? A complete and utter character assassination of Dahlia DiPolito. Exposing her lies, manipulation and emotional abuse of her would-be murder victim. Parker called witnesses who were privy to her stealing money from Mike, proving indisputably that she had been draining him of his savings. She painted a picture of a toxic, narcissistic succubus, whose only goal was to bleed the men in her life dry.

And there was one last nail in the coffin, the contents of Dahlia's handbag. Police found that for her seemingly casual morning gym session on the 5th of August, Dali had taken with her the key to a secret safety deposit box and jewellery totalling over $33,000. In other words, she had taken with her to the gym every single valuable item in that house. Why in the world would she have done that unless she knew. a strange man, a criminal, was going to be going into her house that very morning. So what about Dahlia's defence team? Surely they were quaking in their boots? Well, this is where things get weird. Dahlia's attorney, a man named Michael Selnick, yet another Mike in this

Black Widow's Web, with no it's confusing, I'm going to call him Selnick, went with a bizarre defense that nobody was expecting. He basically said that all of this was just a hoax to get Dahlia and Mike on reality TV. Oh, fuck me, Mike number three. You're good. I would never have thought of that. It is good. It is good. Selnick claimed that the whole thing had been a stunt that the couple had cooked up to gain media attention, calling it an orchestrated stunt to get Mike DiPolito in front of the cameras. To say that the courtroom was baffled is an understatement.

Where the hell had this theory come from? But undeterred, Selnick basically presented evidence of Dahlia and Mike's internet history to show that they had looked up reality TV casting calls, as if that proved something. It would have been smart of him to even pull up the footage that I mentioned earlier where she keeps looking at the camera. Oh yeah. To be like, look, she knew it was there.

She knew it was there. Now, according to Zalnik, Mike was the mastermind who'd actually pushed Dahlia into the scam. As for Mike, he said it was, quote, The dumbest thing I've ever heard, you should have just said space aliens landed and they did it. That would have been a better defense. The jury took three hours to deliberate before coming back with a verdict. Dahlia DiPolito was guilty of solicitation of first-degree murder.

And when it came to sentencing, Dahlia got 20 years in prison and the judge did not hold back. He declared that there was no moral justification. for Dahlia's conduct. It was pure self-indulgence by a greedy puppet master who was used to manipulating men into doing her bidding at any cost. Outside the courthouse, Mike DiPolito grinned and said that he was 5,000% happy with the sentence. Well done, Mike.

I honestly, I love Mike. I think I have a bit of a crush on Mike. If you watch all the court footage of him, he's very charismatic in the stand. But of course, it wasn't going to be that easy. In 2014, the appeals court shockingly tossed out Dahlia's conviction on a technicality. They explained that Dahlia had been deprived of an impartial jury in her original trial because of the media coverage and the fact that that video had been released by the police department. So after languishing on house arrest for three years during the appeals process,

Dalia DiPolito was gearing up for a comeback. This time, Dahlia had a shiny new defense team, led by slick TV lawyer Brian Claypool. He's like Troy McClure. He called Dahlia the most misunderstood women in the United States. And Claypool insisted that he was 5,000% sure that Dahlia DiPolito is innocent. And he vowed to prove it to the court. It's like those people who were on TikTok a while ago when Casey Anthony launched her like advocacy campaign for herself.

Yes. And everyone was like, we, not everyone, some people, we owe this woman an apology. No, he don't. Nobody owes Casey Anthony an apology. Oh my God. The gullibility of people. Dahlia was allowed to do a little mini publicity tour before her retrial,

which I'm sure she was absolutely ecstatic about. She was showing off her ankle tag on ABC's 2020 and telling presenter Amy Roback that she was excited for new things to come to light in a court that would prove her innocence. With her babyish lisp and big doe eyes, Dahlia insisted that she was a misunderstood angel. But would anyone believe her? For the second trial, the defence originally intended to repeat their reality show defence.

In the pretrial hearing in early 2016, Dalia got the chance, however, to address the judge and offered a convoluted explanation of how the whole debacle was actually. an acting project that had gone wrong. She now claimed that she, Mohamed Shahada, and Mike DiPolito, had all concocted the plan to release a YouTube video of a wife seeking a hit on her husband

in the hopes that it would attract the attention of Hollywood casting agents. But on cross-examination, the prosecution ripped Dalia to shreds. If this was all an acting project, then where was the script? Why could you not see Dahlia clearly in most of the footage that she was calling an audition date.

And why had she failed to mention any of this when she was being interrogated by Boynton Beach Police on Wednesday the 5th of August? The whole defence came across as a joke and the court denied the motion to have her case thrown out of court. Charle No. 2 was on the slate and it kicked off in December 2016. This time the prosecution went with what State Attorney Dave Arrenberg

called a slim-down version of the case. But that's when the defence threw yet another curveball. Having abandoned the reality TV show nonsense, they were now throwing the spotlight on the police department for their public handling of Dahlia's case. Claypool argued that the police's actions were tantamount to entrapment, fuelled by their desire to make good TV for the cops' crew that were following them around. The defence's smoking gun was the video release form that Sergeant Paul Sheridan had got Dahlia to sign upon arrival at the station.

He told her that it was a waiver and it was standard procedure as a part of the police recording her interview but in reality it was a release form for the TV show cops the producer had actually ripped it up arguing that since it had been signed under the colour of law it could be seen as coercive Right thing to do

Yes Dahlia signed a different one later on Yeah so the one that was actually used to release it Or the one that was actually used wasn't the one that she had signed that could have been argued to be coercive anyway. She was just like, yeah, I'll sign it later. But Claypool's words struck a chord in the courtroom

and cast genuine doubt on the Boynton Beach Police's public-facing strategy of dealing with Dahlia's case. Yeah, basically, Claypool is doing a good job. He's just saying they went too far, even under Florida law, this is too much. And he basically said that they didn't really look into the potential claims of domestic abuse. between Dahlia and Mike, and that they had just jumped on this sensational sting idea to show off of the cameras and whip up publicity at Dalia's expense.

And yet, he also makes this thing in court of, like, it was the perfect case for them because she's such a beautiful woman and, like, it was just, it was obviously going to go viral, and people were going to watch it and be talking about it, and they just exploited her, blah, blah, blah. And Clayball also had one last bombshell to stun the court with. because Dahlia de Polito was now a mother

How? Is she not in prison? She was on house arrest Between the appeals So yes It turns out that during that time on house arrest She had fallen in love with an appliance repairman And had a baby boy No doubt in my mind

That it was absolutely a tactic for her To be like, I'm on house arrest for years Until the next trial If I am a mother by then Or at least pregnant by then Maybe the jury will be more like sympathetic towards me Elizabeth Holmes move. It was a bonkers end to an equally bonkers retrial,

one that arguably never should have happened. But it's not over. Somehow, the jury ended up hopelessly deadlocked, and the judge was forced to declare a mistrial. The real irony being, after all of the talk of reality TV, it was almost as if the Boynton Beach police had given themselves a villain edit. By staging the sting, like a made-for-TV moment, cameras drama the whole production, they'd inadvertently given Dahlia's defence just enough ammunition to muddy the waters.

By trial number three in 2017, this case had more revivals than Doctor Who. And this time the prosecution returned to their original strategy of throwing the kitchen sink at Dahlia, even including the poison angle that was kept out of earlier trials, and bringing Mike DiPolito back to the witness stand. And it worked. The jury deliberated for just 90 minutes before finding Dahlia guilty. And this time she was sentenced to 16 years in prison. The finale this saga had been waiting for.

Predictably, of course, Dahlia appealed again, alleging that one of her six jurors had been seen by several witnesses nodding off during the trial. Listen, man, I've done jury jury. GE. It is so fucking boring. Oh, I believe you. I'm yet to do it, but I think here for Dali, obviously it's like one

last ditch attempt, but I also think of her, she was probably raging. Oh, yeah. Fucking fall asleep during my trial. And the judge was like, I did see that, but they were just resting their eyes. And this was something interesting I discovered. Interestingly, Florida

only uses six jurors when it's not a capital case. I didn't know that. I thought you were going to be like, interestingly, in Florida, resting your eyes means something entirely different. Means you're scared of dinosaurs. Yeah, the judge didn't buy the sleepy juror appeal. Dahlia's team tried to take it all the way to the Supreme Court, but ultimately they had the door slammed in their face.

And as a very relieved, Dave Aaronberg put it, the Dahlia DiPolito saga is finally over. The reality show is done. The last chapter has been written. But at least there was a happy spin-off for Mike DiPolito because the prosecutor from his first trial, Elizabeth Parker, actually became Mike's legal counsel and helped him get off probation early

after he paid off his restitution to his fraud victims. He later got engaged to a woman named Gloria and had 8-509 tattooed on his bicep as a reminder of the day that he cheated death. So what about Dahlia? Any chance of a comeback arc for the, Boynton Beach Black Widow? No time soon.

If she serves her full sentence, which it looks like she probably will, she won't be out until 2032 at the age of 49. So yes, she got her wish to be famous after all. Probably not in the way she wanted. I would bet big money that she has a prison podcast. I agree. Let's not give her ideas, though.

Dahlia, if you're listening, don't even fucking think. No, Shug Night, Klammy get you. Prison podcasting's full. But Boynton Beach Black Widow. Is this episode called Boonton Beach Black Widow or 5,000 per cent? It's called Dahlia the Diplodocus. Sorry. Featuring Dr. Irony.

Go on, 5,000%. So that's it, guys. That is the absolutely exhausting. I think that's the word, exhausting story of Dahlia fucking Diplito. Yes, a lot. But we finally did it. I wanted to cover this case for quite some time. And, yeah.

And it's fun. It is fun. It is fun. And Mike's fine now, so I think it's fine. Yeah, that's what I mean. And fuck her. Whatever. She's a bitch.

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