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Speaker 1: Say to you go. Jeff Lyttel sent a text message

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Speaker 1: and four year old daughter. Instead of sending it to

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Speaker 1: someone named Shane, detectives say Little sent it to his

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Speaker 1: former boss. This is Crime Stories with Nancy Grace Dahlia

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Speaker 1: Dippolito walking out a free woman after a judge declared

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Speaker 1: accused of trying to hire a hitman to kill her husband.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Dandy. I mean we had a report of

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Speaker 1: a disturbance at your house and there were shots fired

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Speaker 1: as your husband Michael, Okay, I'm sorry to tell you man,

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Speaker 1: he's been killed. He's been killed. Try to find up

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Speaker 1: right now. We need to, We need to. I can't

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Speaker 1: look you want to store. It's Valentine's Day, and today,

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Speaker 1: of all days, is a time to celebrate love in

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Speaker 1: all its many forms. Now, why is it that it's

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Speaker 1: always said that there's such a thin line between love

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Speaker 1: and hate, you know, those little signs of cupid. He's

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Speaker 1: shooting an arrow, But today we're gonna talk about love

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Speaker 1: gone bad. And that's no arrow that's being shot. It's

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Speaker 1: a gun. Happy Valentine's Day, Love gone bad? I mean

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Speaker 1: the only thing that could be better is that they

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Speaker 1: actually tried this on Valentine's Day. Now, as far as

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Speaker 1: Mr Little is concerned, these are all just allegations. He

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Speaker 1: has not been proven guilty in a court of law. Now,

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Speaker 1: for Dollia Dippolito, she's headed back for round two a rematch.

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Speaker 1: What says I love you? Or than bringing your loved

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Speaker 1: couple with a four year old little girl, absolutely gorgeous

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Speaker 1: his wife. Yes, you heard me right. The boss gets

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Speaker 1: a text message from employee former employee Jeff Little, a

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Speaker 1: this is Crime Stories with Nancy Gray's and joining me

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Speaker 1: crack investigative reporter Alan Duke. The Duke is on the case.

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Speaker 1: Listen to this allan a murder plot devised by a

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Speaker 1: because nobody is dead and nobody's dismembered. That's why I

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Speaker 1: I'll bring him back. In this case, Alan, nobody's dead

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Speaker 1: Where did you even hear that word? And they said

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Speaker 1: but to drag the four year old little girl. I mean,

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Speaker 1: in writing, Hey Shane, how's it going. You remember you

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Speaker 1: Her life insurance is five hundred thousand. Now wait a minute,

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