1 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:12,040 Speaker 1: A Florida beach beauty marries her dream man and the 2 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 1: two set to live happily ever after until death do 3 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 1: they part. But what the twenty six year old bride 4 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:24,639 Speaker 1: doesn't figure on is that the hintman she hires to 5 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 1: murder her groom is actually a cop oops who stings 6 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:49,880 Speaker 1: the bride. On video crime Stories with Nancy Grace, let's 7 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,160 Speaker 1: kick it off with our friends at Crime Watch Delhi. 8 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 1: The Polito is a guy working hard to get his 9 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 1: life in order. He's an ex con fresh out of 10 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: prison for running a phony in asment scam, but after 11 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:04,839 Speaker 1: meeting Dahlia on an online dating site, he falls into 12 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: a whirlwind romance. He called her up, made an arrangement, 13 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:12,919 Speaker 1: she showed up at his office. He liked what he saw. 14 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 1: Within a short period of time, he divorced his wife 15 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 1: and he found himself married to Dahlia. Reporter and crime 16 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 1: writer Mark Ebner says Dahlia is a woman who knows 17 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 1: where she wants to go in life and waste a 18 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:30,320 Speaker 1: very little time getting there. He claims, after the honeymoon, 19 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 1: her next destination is Michael's bank account to the tune 20 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 1: of two hundred and forty thousand dollars. She put her 21 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 1: claws in him so fast in a six month time span, 22 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: managed to take all of Michael Dippolito's money. She managed 23 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: to get his home deeded over to her. But all 24 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 1: that is not enough. She has everything she wants, but 25 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: she reportedly wants it all to ourself. Guys, what you're 26 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 1: hearing is the plot laid out by friends of the groom. 27 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: But what really happened? Joining me right now an all 28 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:19,360 Speaker 1: star panel. Brian Claypool, lawyer for Dahlia di Polito, Dodtor, 29 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,920 Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall's psycho analysts, Joining us at Beverly Hills On 30 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: and stuff at Dr Bethany Marshall, James Shelnutt twenty seven 31 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 1: years Metro major case swat now lawyer, and Ray Kiputo, 32 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: lead news anchor Orlando News w DBO. Ray, what happened? Well, Nancy, 33 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: these two it's a really good looking couple. You see 34 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 1: pictures of them. Dahlia was a Catholic schoolgirl and and 35 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: Mike was a you know, asquiring investor who had a 36 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: little bit of trouble. But they hit it off quick 37 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: and they were they were married. This whirlwind romance, this 38 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: happened down in boytant Beach, ray by Pound being sport 39 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 1: and you know these two, it's just they were like 40 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: fire and ice, it seems, because everything wasn't as it 41 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 1: appeared on the surface. Well you can say that again. 42 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: Take a listen to our phrase At ABC twenty twenty. 43 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 1: Terry Parker, investigative reporter for WPPF twenty five News, covered 44 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: the story. So this guy, Mohammed walks into the Boyton 45 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: Beach police station and he says, I know a woman 46 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: who's trying to hire a hitman to kill her husband. 47 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 1: She asked if I knew someone who can kill her 48 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 1: husband for her. The man, Mohammed Shahati, was recorded as 49 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: he talked to detectives about his one time lover, Dalia. 50 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 1: To Polito, he tells police he's speaking out to save 51 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: the man's life. He's scared for the guy. Yes, because 52 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: she's really, I mean, that's serious on getting this done. 53 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: It's quite a story if true, because while he can 54 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: describe Dahlia, she maybe five six five seven, dark black hair, 55 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: should good looking girl, really good looking girl. Actually he 56 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: can't even tell cops her last name or her address. 57 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 1: By the time, we didn't know what to believe. We 58 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 1: were kind of, you know, weren't sure what we had. 59 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 1: They had the reserve patients. They had to say, let's 60 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: see some proof. To get proof, the cops make Muhammed 61 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: a confidential informant. He arranges to meet Dahlia at this 62 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 1: gas station. Cops are staked out as their mystery woman arrives. 63 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: So to you, Brian Claypool, renowned attorney joining me out 64 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:20,920 Speaker 1: of la the lawyer for Dahlia Dippolito, the so called 65 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 1: black widow, Brian Claypool, I guess everybody is teaming up 66 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 1: against your poor client, Dahlia Dippolito. Here, you've got a 67 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 1: former boyfriend, and I'm sure I'm using that term ephemistically, 68 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:37,599 Speaker 1: but you've got a former boyfriend who walks into the 69 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: cops station and says, Hey, my lover, Dahlia Dippolito is 70 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 1: trying to kill her husband. What is he lying to 71 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 1: or Nancy. One thing you're missing about Muhammad's first interaction 72 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: with the law enforcement was that he also said that 73 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 1: Dahlia conveyed to him that she was being domestically abused 74 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:01,679 Speaker 1: and that either she was going to die or either 75 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 1: he was going to die. That's the exact first phone 76 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:07,280 Speaker 1: call he makes. And that's the point that we were 77 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 1: making in the trials, which was, look, the police department 78 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:15,359 Speaker 1: did nothing to investigate domestic abuse, and they did everything 79 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: to make good TV for the cops television. Hold on 80 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:23,599 Speaker 1: just a moment, Did she call police and report domestic violence? Don't? 81 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: I don't know whether she called to report. Then wait 82 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: a minute, you know what. That's why you win so 83 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: many cases, Chroice Layton. You get people hook lying and 84 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: sincre because you just said, Jackie, did he just say 85 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 1: that the police never investigated all the domestic abuse. But 86 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 1: you're telling me you don't know if you're client, your client, 87 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:49,599 Speaker 1: and you've got a pretty good try record choice Layton, 88 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 1: and you don't know whether she ever called cops and 89 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:56,159 Speaker 1: said I just got hit, I'm being abused. Well, Nancy, 90 00:05:56,240 --> 00:06:00,840 Speaker 1: this case was always about Dahlia's constitutional rights violated. That's 91 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: why I took the case. And everybody's seen that video 92 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 1: tape where Dahlias says she's five thousand percent sure she 93 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 1: wants her husband killed, But they don't see behind the 94 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 1: scenes about the police department Blin Beach PD pressuring Muhammed. 95 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 1: Can I get back to you claiming that she was 96 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: a domestic abuse victim. How long had she been married 97 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 1: to her room she was? She did claim that she 98 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:30,119 Speaker 1: was domestically abused, and that's in the recording. How long 99 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 1: were they married. I don't remember the exact amount of 100 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:38,239 Speaker 1: months they were married, but Nancy, you married a few months. 101 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 1: I don't know how long they were married when it 102 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:44,359 Speaker 1: was reported, who jumped in and said five months? Is 103 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 1: that Caputo? It's Ray Ray Capputo w DBO. So they're 104 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: married five months? They renowned defense attorney, and I'm not 105 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 1: I'm not saying that with a box assault because Troy Slett. 106 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: Excuse me. Brian clay Tool is a well known trial 107 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 1: lawyer who represented Dolia Dippolito's won a lot of cases. 108 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 1: Just told me that police fail to investigate domestic abuse. 109 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 1: But you cannot tell me, Brian Claypool that she ever 110 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: told police she was a victim of domestic abuse. Correct. 111 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: When a woman is domestically abused, she tells her friends, Hey, 112 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 1: if I go missing, it's my husband who did it. 113 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 1: She never says, look, either he's going to die or 114 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 1: I'm going to die. In thirty years of private practice 115 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: and working with domestic violence victims. I have never heard 116 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: that line. Usually they're afraid for their own lives. They're 117 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: not threatening the life of their spouse. Guys, hold on 118 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: just a moment, Let's take a listen to our friends 119 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: at ABC twenty twenty. She gets into muhammad Silver Lexus. 120 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 1: While you can't quite see them on the hidden camera 121 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: cops had installed, you can sure hear them talking about 122 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 1: a hitman whose guys. She gets in the car and 123 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,240 Speaker 1: she meets up with the informant. We realized that this 124 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 1: guy was credible or what I mean. But you know 125 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 1: what I'm telling nobody yet, nobody's going to be able 126 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: to point a finger. I mean, she's just talking about 127 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 1: it the way like she's ordering lunch. Randy Schultz is 128 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 1: a columnist for the Sun Sentinel newspaper. You think this 129 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: is just so cold, not really acting like the typical 130 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 1: newly wedge, shall we say. Mohammad tells Dahlia the hitman 131 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 1: wants twelve hundred dollars to buy a gun. She comes prepared. 132 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:32,720 Speaker 1: She has a wad of cash in her bag and 133 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 1: counts it out and hands it over and shortly afterward 134 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 1: gives him a photo of Mike white my picture. Really, 135 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 1: you're gonna give him a finger pen fall over And 136 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:47,439 Speaker 1: at that moment the detectives realized, Ah, we've got her. 137 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:50,840 Speaker 1: This is real. She just handed him twelve hundred dollars 138 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:53,440 Speaker 1: in a picture of the husband that she wants murdered. 139 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 1: Time Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, we are talking about 140 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 1: a gorgeous young beach beauty who marries the man of 141 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: her dreams till death do they part. But the one 142 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 1: thing she did not count on is that the hitman 143 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,199 Speaker 1: she hired to murder her groom was in fact an 144 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 1: undercover cop. And with me special guest, the lawyer for 145 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: Dahlia Dippolito, Brian Claypool. Take a listen to our friend 146 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: Amy roback. Dahlia never backs off. I don't want no 147 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 1: police say. Dahlia thinks she is meeting an actual hitman 148 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: and his cherry red convertible. He makes his plan crystal clear, 149 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: a burglary gone wrong that leaves Mike dead. Maybe he's work, 150 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:08,560 Speaker 1: he's not net work. Then he gets to a head 151 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 1: the undercover detect If he really wants to nail Dollia, 152 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 1: make sure he's got it on tape and on camera. 153 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,439 Speaker 1: That she is really going to pay him to kill 154 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 1: her husband, and he says, are you sure, Dahlia, now 155 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: when it's gone you know mine? No, that's not like 156 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 1: anyone positive like about them che there it is. The 157 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:36,440 Speaker 1: press would have a field day with this line. Listen again, 158 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 1: she's five thousand percent sure, posited like, well, brite about them, 159 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,439 Speaker 1: PC Charotte, Well when I'm going to give them. No, 160 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 1: she wasn't just one hundred percent sure. She was five 161 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:50,679 Speaker 1: thousand percent sure that she wanted her husband killed. Okay, 162 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:55,840 Speaker 1: you're right, Brian Claypool, the lawyer for Dolia did Polido. 163 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 1: You're right. She doesn't say one hundred percent year or 164 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:02,719 Speaker 1: two hundred percent year, but five thousand percent sure. You 165 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: brought it up, so I played it for you. Response, 166 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 1: you know, in my response is that that she was 167 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 1: pressured into having that meeting with the undercover police officer. 168 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:18,440 Speaker 1: Just prior to that she was she was she had 169 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: a meeting with Muhammed, the undercover informant, where he was 170 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:25,839 Speaker 1: pressuring her. Then there were police officers all around this restaurant. 171 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: That that interaction was recorded by the police department and 172 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: it was destroyed by the police department. So my argument 173 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 1: in the case was that Dalia had a large she 174 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:40,440 Speaker 1: had a big bark, but a very small bite. In fact, 175 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 1: she never even did you know, the stancy. In the 176 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 1: second trial, I got the undercover hitman to admit that 177 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:51,440 Speaker 1: Dalia never even gave him a key to Mike's apartment, 178 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:54,959 Speaker 1: and she didn't get him a picture of Mike Deppolito, 179 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,320 Speaker 1: And he admitted that shows that she lacked the proper 180 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 1: intense to have him killed. And that's why we almost 181 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:05,439 Speaker 1: won the second trial. Yeah, Key were there almost. But 182 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 1: let me understand something. You're saying she didn't hand over 183 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:13,079 Speaker 1: a photo, but it's my understanding. She did hand over 184 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 1: a photo, twelve hundred dollars cash and a photo of Mike. 185 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:23,319 Speaker 1: She handed over a photo to her ex boyfriend Mohammed. 186 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: Now when it went to the undercover police officer, not 187 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 1: the informant. When she's pressured into meeting the undercover pressure her, 188 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 1: who's pressure or the police department made probably over a 189 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 1: hundred phone calls they were forcing, They were forcing Mohammed 190 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 1: the informant to call her, call her, call her. Mohammed's like, look, dude, 191 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 1: I don't want to be involved in this anymore. I 192 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: don't want to be in the middle of this. They're like, yeah, 193 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:51,960 Speaker 1: you are going to be No, no, no, no, I'm 194 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 1: not listening to what you're saying about Mohammed because he's 195 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 1: not charged with tempton murder. Who pressured your client, Dahlia 196 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 1: di Polito to pay a hit man money? The police? 197 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:07,679 Speaker 1: Here's my argument. But for I thought you said this 198 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 1: was a movie script one time, well no, let's focus 199 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 1: on your question. But for the police department pressuring Mohammed 200 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:20,320 Speaker 1: to pressure Dahlia, Mohammed is the one that set up 201 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:24,679 Speaker 1: the meeting with the undercover hit man Dahia. Didn't this 202 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: all happened within a seventy two hour window because that 203 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 1: was the Cops TV show timeline to get this script 204 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 1: done in the Norton Dancer, you're aware of this. In 205 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 1: a normal undercover operation, it could take a month or 206 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 1: many months to get this accomplished. They were, they were, 207 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 1: they were on an accelerated plan to get her on 208 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 1: tape to try to kill her husband, and she would 209 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 1: have never done pause. We're all I gotta cut through 210 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:56,319 Speaker 1: this and understand what you're saying with me. Is veteran 211 00:13:56,400 --> 00:14:01,440 Speaker 1: trial lawyer Brian Claypool who represented Dahia to police at trial. Now, 212 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 1: there have been two trials. Now you're saying now today 213 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: that she, Doli de Polito, was pressured by her friend 214 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 1: Mohammed via police, police pressure, Mohammed Mohammed pressures her to 215 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 1: have a hitman with a meeting with a hitman. All right, coercion, 216 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 1: But isn't it true. At another trial, the defense was 217 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 1: that the entire thing was actually a script. That the 218 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 1: script was basically a screenplay for a movie she wanted, 219 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 1: a reality show she wanted to do and they were 220 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 1: acting it out. Yeah, that was the first trial that 221 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 1: I did not conduct, and I will concede to you 222 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: that that argument was farcical. That was a silly argument 223 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 1: that Dahlia's attorney put forward to the jury. And we 224 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 1: had an entirely different whist on the case that was 225 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 1: based on due process violations carried out by the point 226 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 1: in Beach pet. Let me go now to Ray Kaputo, 227 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 1: the lead anchor for morning news WDBO. Ray, there've been 228 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: a couple of trials for Dollia di Polto. At one trial, 229 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 1: explained to me the script defense. Yeah, well, here's the thing, 230 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: Mohammed the gentleman that she was talking to and Ic 231 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 1: gentleman loosely. I don't know him. He was a part 232 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 1: time actor, and Dahlia says that him Munke were in 233 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 1: on kind of doing a reality show based on an 234 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 1: episode of Birth. Did you say, Mike the husband was 235 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 1: in on it. That's what Dahlia says. Now he enemic 236 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: an episode of burn Notice that had a similar storyline 237 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 1: and they wanted to post it on YouTube and get famous, 238 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 1: and this is you know. Brian said that it was farcical, 239 00:15:57,720 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 1: and I agree because here's the thing, Nancy. The idea 240 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 1: of getting femis on YouTube is really a modern thing 241 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 1: in two thousand and nine, and it was still kind 242 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 1: of evolving because they had that partner program and that 243 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: just launched it like the very end of two thousand 244 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 1: and seven, where people can start getting paid for their videos. 245 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: So I keep getting paid on YouTube. Wasn't like this 246 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: big idea that everybody now wants to do, like the 247 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 1: loggers and people. So it just doesn't make sense then 248 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:24,800 Speaker 1: that somebody will be doing that. I hear what you're 249 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: talking about, the intricacies of putting posting video online and 250 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 1: getting paid for it or not getting paid for it, 251 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 1: But I'm concerned about the trial, and I'll tell you why, 252 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 1: because you James Shellnutt twenty seven years Metro major case 253 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 1: swat Now lawyer. Here's the thing about multiple trials. Whatever 254 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 1: you say at the first trial, there is a certified 255 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 1: transcript of that. So if you have a completely different defense, 256 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 1: such as I was forced by the cops to try 257 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: to put a hit on my husband, everything you said 258 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: the first trial can come in cross examination. You can say, well, 259 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 1: whoa whoa wall. Wait, now you're saying the cops and 260 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:07,399 Speaker 1: made you do this, But last trial you said this 261 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 1: was all part of a script you made up as 262 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 1: a reality series with you the hitman and to your 263 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 1: husband that he was in on it. That's not true. 264 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 1: Then you're stuck with what you said at that first trial. 265 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:23,320 Speaker 1: What about it, y'all? Nutt oh, I agree one hundred percent. 266 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 1: I mean, the credibility is completely impeached at that point. 267 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's going to be hard to 268 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:31,880 Speaker 1: go back and retract that. You know, if you take 269 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:34,160 Speaker 1: a look at this, and you know, I'll do respect 270 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 1: to Brian. Always got a client to defend. I get it. 271 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 1: I've done criminal defense in the past. But you know, 272 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 1: if you take a look at it, nothing is consistent 273 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 1: with what this lady is claiming as being a domestic 274 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 1: violence victim. You know, she she was with this guy 275 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:49,879 Speaker 1: a very short period of time. They were traveling. Uh. 276 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 1: You know, in addition to that, you know that this 277 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:55,119 Speaker 1: supposedly was going to occur. This hitman was supposed going 278 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,359 Speaker 1: to kill her husband. She's going to a gym she 279 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 1: regularly went to. You know, if you take a look 280 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:02,639 Speaker 1: at the whole situation, nothing adds up. And you know, 281 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 1: one of the things that was mentioned a minute ago 282 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:07,239 Speaker 1: is this thing happened quickly. You know, the police are 283 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:09,719 Speaker 1: going to have a concern that they need to move quickly. 284 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:13,119 Speaker 1: If this lady is really serious, or anyone's really serious 285 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:16,840 Speaker 1: about killing a spouse in a case, they may lose patience. 286 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 1: They may want it done then. And if the person 287 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 1: that she's dealing with, the undercover officer, doesn't do it, 288 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:25,160 Speaker 1: she's liable to hire somebody who actually isn't an undercover 289 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 1: officer and who will do it, and we'll do it 290 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:46,359 Speaker 1: before they can react. Time Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, 291 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:50,439 Speaker 1: we are talking about a beach beauty who marries her 292 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 1: dream man to live happily ever after her after, But 293 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:57,720 Speaker 1: what she didn't count on was a hitman she hired 294 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 1: to murder her husband was actually an undercover cop with me. 295 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:05,680 Speaker 1: Were now to attorney Brian Claypool, who represented Dahlia de 296 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:09,119 Speaker 1: Pilito at one of her trials, And you gotta think 297 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:13,440 Speaker 1: through what Claypool's up against. He's already had one trial 298 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:15,879 Speaker 1: that he had nothing to do with, where the defense 299 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:19,439 Speaker 1: was actually this was part of a reality show's script 300 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:22,560 Speaker 1: and the husband was in on it. He stuck with 301 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 1: that as he heads in to trial number two. Take 302 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 1: a listen to ABC's Amy Robock. Dolia never backs off. 303 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:32,720 Speaker 1: I don't want now. I'm not gonna you know, I'm 304 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: a lot precker than what I love. And you're like, oh, 305 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 1: what a cute little birl, But I'm not thank you. 306 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 1: But I think for man, sure everything's gonna think. The 307 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: not so cute little girl agrees to a plan. She 308 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 1: will leave the house early Wednesday morning, six thirday morning. 309 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,640 Speaker 1: Sure enough, she's at this gym around six am Wednesday, 310 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 1: leaving Mike Depolito home alone in bed, still recovering from 311 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,399 Speaker 1: liposuction from two weeks before. At this point, the police 312 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 1: have all the evidence they need. These are either experienced officers. 313 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 1: You know that you have enough. You have a case done. 314 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:17,360 Speaker 1: End of story, but not end of television show. Television show. 315 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 1: Voice for you. That's right. Turns out a reality show 316 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 1: has come to Boyton Beach video and the timing couldn't 317 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,120 Speaker 1: be better. They'll be able to film the last part 318 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:35,200 Speaker 1: of the police investigation. You're hearing our friend Amy Robot 319 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:40,120 Speaker 1: straight back out to Rate Caputo, lead news anchor Morning 320 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:44,639 Speaker 1: News w DBO. So what happens next. She's at the 321 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:48,879 Speaker 1: gym when the hit goes down, the supposed hit. Yeah, Nancy, 322 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:50,159 Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what. She wanted to be on 323 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: reality TV. And she got on it all right because 324 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 1: the cops were filming an episode of that show. So 325 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 1: they bring her back from the gym to this staged 326 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 1: crime scene and they got this all on video, and 327 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:06,440 Speaker 1: they get her reaction when they tell her that Mike 328 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:08,399 Speaker 1: has been murdered. Now, of course he's still alive and 329 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:10,920 Speaker 1: this is all stage. But I'll tell you she puts 330 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 1: on a type of act that would have been great 331 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 1: for reality TV. She starts wailing, she she tremor starts, 332 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 1: you know, kind of hunching over. But one thing you 333 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 1: don't see is you see tears, you know. And this 334 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 1: woman puts on quite an act thinking, you know, considering 335 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:29,040 Speaker 1: the videos that we saw before that she you know, 336 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,680 Speaker 1: was behind this. She puts on quite an act trying 337 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:33,680 Speaker 1: to sell the fact that she was upset that Mike 338 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:38,120 Speaker 1: apparently was murdered. Okay, take a listen. The TV show 339 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,760 Speaker 1: cameras are rolling when police wake up Mike. That's officer 340 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:43,800 Speaker 1: and Morino at the door. Your wife was tired of 341 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 1: person to kill you. But yeah, I was totally in 342 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,440 Speaker 1: shock that this was going on. I was very surprised. 343 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,440 Speaker 1: I was like, because then it hit me like, this 344 00:21:57,680 --> 00:21:59,879 Speaker 1: is a this is a mess. They drive them on 345 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,880 Speaker 1: way and transformed the street to make it up here 346 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:07,040 Speaker 1: they're really investigating Mike's murder. The TV show Cops along 347 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:10,360 Speaker 1: with Boyton Beach Police have cameras rolling. When a detective 348 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 1: calls Dahlia at the gym, we're at your residence, man, 349 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:16,399 Speaker 1: can you come right back to your residence police? She's 350 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:19,600 Speaker 1: back in a flash, and now watch carefully. You be 351 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:23,920 Speaker 1: the judge of what happens next. Is your husband, Michael, Okay, 352 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 1: I'm sorry to tell you man, he's been killed. We 353 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:43,639 Speaker 1: know the cops are acting. What about Dahlia. Okay, Brian Claypool, 354 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:48,640 Speaker 1: you're stuck with that video and audio at trial number two, 355 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,960 Speaker 1: what do you make of it? Yeah, here, here's what 356 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 1: we argued. You just heard Amy Roeback say the police 357 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 1: officers were acting as well. But I argued in the 358 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 1: second trial, is that the fact that the police department 359 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 1: went to such an extreme to set up a staged 360 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 1: crime scene. And then Nancy after that, that the media 361 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,399 Speaker 1: person at Point Beach PD takes that video clip that 362 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,680 Speaker 1: you just played for your listeners and she posts that 363 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 1: posts it online for the world to see, and it 364 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:27,920 Speaker 1: goes viral internationally within seven minutes. And the fault is 365 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:31,879 Speaker 1: that that's Dhlia Dippolito's fault. She's the one out of 366 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:35,200 Speaker 1: the street crying. I mean, as I love to say, 367 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: Meryl Street, don't worry, Okay, you're safe because but she 368 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 1: certainly put on a performance. Well look, I know that 369 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:47,280 Speaker 1: you're in love with that. That that's her crying. Yeah, 370 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 1: I am stage crime scene. I'm surprised you haven't brought 371 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 1: up the shy t latte yet. To listen at the 372 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 1: end and rager said that I was just waiting for 373 00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 1: my aunts to poison him before she hired the hit man. 374 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 1: That wasn't true at all. There's no evidence of that 375 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,160 Speaker 1: and no investigations. But let me make one more quick point. 376 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 1: The whole the whole point in cross exam of the 377 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:14,440 Speaker 1: media director was that there is a pending criminal investigation ongoing. 378 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:20,119 Speaker 1: You don't jeopardize or contaminate an investigation by circulating this 379 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 1: video worldwide. That was our argument. Her due process rights 380 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:26,960 Speaker 1: were violated. Well, if she had trying to kill her husband, 381 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:31,640 Speaker 1: hired a hitman and carried on doublish, she's physically doubling 382 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 1: over in grief. She did that, not the coss Nancy. Nancy, 383 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 1: You're one of the brightest people I've ever met. There's 384 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 1: a legal doctrine called fruit of the poisonous tree. You've 385 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:48,440 Speaker 1: heard of that. Our argument was that that stage videotape, 386 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 1: that that tape, or Dahlia's five thousand percent short that 387 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:58,399 Speaker 1: is all toxic and contaminated and the result of unconstitutional 388 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:02,400 Speaker 1: violations by the went In Beach Police department. Okay, did 389 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:06,160 Speaker 1: they make Muhammed come in the friend Mohammed and say hey, 390 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 1: my ex lover is planning a hit. FYI, nobody. The 391 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 1: police didn't make that happen. What they did do was 392 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:17,959 Speaker 1: doing get an undercover cop to pose as a hit man, 393 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 1: and that's absolutely constitutional. She didn't have to take that meeting. 394 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:28,439 Speaker 1: She didn't was the atm There was an audio tape. 395 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:31,360 Speaker 1: There was an audio tape of the police officer laughing 396 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 1: at Mohammed when he went in because he couldn't remember 397 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 1: her name. They weren't even taking this that's serious. And 398 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,400 Speaker 1: then Ray Ray, actually one of your other guests, made 399 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,040 Speaker 1: a good point that I actually made to help Dalia 400 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: almost win the second trial. Ray just said, oh wait 401 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 1: a minute, Dalia could have hired somebody else to go 402 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,879 Speaker 1: kill Mike. That's why they needed to explanise this investigation. 403 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:57,199 Speaker 1: But I argued, what at trial was the police department 404 00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,879 Speaker 1: never even called up Mike. They never even called this 405 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:03,159 Speaker 1: sky up and to say, hey, Golia might kill you. 406 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 1: You might want to get somebody to protect you or 407 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 1: get a security guard, because they never took it serious, 408 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,160 Speaker 1: and all they were doing was setting up a view 409 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:19,040 Speaker 1: they were trying. Okay, doctor Bethany Marshall, there's something toxic, 410 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 1: all right, but it's not the cops. I'm just listening 411 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:26,439 Speaker 1: to all these facts and trying to assess the mindset 412 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,399 Speaker 1: of diet Polito, and it seems to me that she's 413 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 1: one of these rare female sociopaths who uses her sexuality 414 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:41,359 Speaker 1: and charm to preferentially relate to men so that she 415 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,240 Speaker 1: can get something from them. That this is her emo 416 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,640 Speaker 1: in the world. And she turns on that same kind 417 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 1: of charm in this YouTube video. So when I looked 418 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 1: at it, the cops says, you know, your husband said, 419 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:57,960 Speaker 1: she burst into tears, And you and I both know 420 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 1: that when you get bad news, first stage is shocked, right, 421 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:05,439 Speaker 1: you can't believe it. You're trying to take in the information, 422 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,879 Speaker 1: you're rejecting it all at the same time, she is 423 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:13,280 Speaker 1: prepared for this. She starts crying big crocodile tears. But 424 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:17,600 Speaker 1: then she cozies up to the police officer who has 425 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,359 Speaker 1: just given her the so called bad news, kind of 426 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 1: presses her body up against him a little bit. He 427 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 1: has his arm around her waist. It's a very sexualized interaction. 428 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,680 Speaker 1: So here, as she supposedly learns that her husband is dead, 429 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,879 Speaker 1: she becomes very sexualized in her relationship with the police officer. 430 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,879 Speaker 1: I don't know that that small fact just has stood 431 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 1: out to me about this case all about you know 432 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:47,920 Speaker 1: what you men, you mentioned something that triggered what Brian 433 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:52,640 Speaker 1: claypol just said about claims that Dollie Dippolito had tried 434 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,359 Speaker 1: to poison the husband. This is after just six months 435 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:59,600 Speaker 1: of marriage. They're on the honeymoon phase. Reports that Dolly 436 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 1: dip Plito, the ex lover turn informant, testifies de Polito 437 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:09,199 Speaker 1: tried to poison her husband before she hired a hit 438 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 1: man to kill him. Well, that's neither here nor there. 439 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,639 Speaker 1: That's background information for you. But then men are just 440 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 1: wallets for her. Men are need satisfying objects. That's all 441 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 1: they are. Troye excuse me, Brian Claypool, I've got a 442 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 1: question for you. Your client, Dahlia to Polito, was she 443 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 1: ever a hooker? Absolutely not her art Her contention was 444 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: that they mess at a Starbucks coffee shot. This is 445 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,920 Speaker 1: just this is just fantasy and that the media wanted 446 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 1: to propagate to make this a sex to your story. 447 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 1: But she was not as pretty sexy as it is. 448 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 1: Time stories with Nancy Grace, guys were talking about Dahlia 449 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:12,880 Speaker 1: did Polito with me are renowned trial lawyer that represented 450 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 1: her at trial too, And I gotta tell you, I've 451 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 1: never seen anybody fight as hard as Brian Claypool did 452 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 1: at trial. But sadly for him, there are some hurdles 453 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 1: you just can't get over. Listened to this. I'm sorry, 454 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 1: j Ramsay, I'm not going to call you. Thank you 455 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,720 Speaker 1: for comment. I'm sorry to call you. Listen. We had 456 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 1: to report of a disturbance at your house and there 457 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 1: were shots fired as your husband, Michael, Okay, I'm sorry 458 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:42,200 Speaker 1: to tell you. Man, he's been killed. He's been killed. 459 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:49,720 Speaker 1: Then try to find up right now. We need to 460 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 1: we need to get I can't look. We have to 461 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,480 Speaker 1: do our job. You want to find his killer. We 462 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 1: need you to calm down. I need you to go 463 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 1: with these detectives. Okay. Is you have enemies? Is there 464 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:07,080 Speaker 1: anyone that would want to hurt Okay, who would want 465 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:10,080 Speaker 1: to hurt him? Witnesses said he saw a blackmail running 466 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,160 Speaker 1: from me. I can't let you see him them, dam 467 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:17,240 Speaker 1: I cannot do this right now. I need you. I 468 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 1: need you to take the station. I can't go with 469 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,760 Speaker 1: these detective. If you want to help your husband, okay, 470 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:24,520 Speaker 1: if you want to help your husband. You need to 471 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 1: go to the station with these gentlemen and tell us 472 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 1: everything you know about who he knows, who he's connected to. 473 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 1: Don't worry, we've already taken carry dogs without him a 474 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,440 Speaker 1: control for right now, everything's under control. Okay, I'm just 475 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 1: letting that soak in for just a moment. Um, take 476 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 1: a listen to this. They bring in Officer Witty Gee, 477 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:50,160 Speaker 1: the supposed hit man from the car. He's over here. 478 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 1: You know who this guy is, You've never seen him before. 479 00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 1: She just stared at him. Um, she says she didn't 480 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 1: know him and in call it a resurrection. Oh my god. 481 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:08,240 Speaker 1: Police have another surprise for Delia to polito. Please come here, 482 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:14,640 Speaker 1: how you come here? She sees her husband and he's 483 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 1: a love. The show Cops captures this moment as well. 484 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:26,320 Speaker 1: Come here, please, God here, come here. Please. You're going 485 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 1: to jail today, crystalssitation murder. You're under arrest. Did you 486 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 1: hear what I just told you? You kept saying I 487 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,880 Speaker 1: didn't do anything. I didn't do for anything? Was that 488 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 1: all you could think of to say? They were accusing 489 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 1: me of trying to have man? I think hold then, 490 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 1: I think it. So police have her in the station. 491 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:50,160 Speaker 1: They then bring in the hitman, the undercover cop and go, 492 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:56,600 Speaker 1: you know this guy, goes no, She's on tape negotiating 493 00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:01,520 Speaker 1: with the hitman. Then they bring in the husband and 494 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,880 Speaker 1: she learns for the first time that he's actually alive. 495 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:09,760 Speaker 1: It was all a sting. What can you imagine went 496 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:13,320 Speaker 1: through your client's mind at that moment with me? Veteran 497 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:17,160 Speaker 1: trial lawyer Brian Claypool, who represented Depolito at trial. Now, 498 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 1: before you give Claypool too hard of a time, you 499 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:24,320 Speaker 1: gotta remember that this trial was tried one time before 500 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 1: he got the case, so he stuck with that transcript 501 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,480 Speaker 1: where Dahlia Dippolito has taken the stand given all kinds 502 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:35,920 Speaker 1: of statements contrary to what he then must argue to 503 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,760 Speaker 1: a jury. So what's going through her mind? Brian? How 504 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,000 Speaker 1: did you put it to the jury when she sees 505 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,400 Speaker 1: the hitman come in and she says, no, I've never 506 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,200 Speaker 1: seen him in my life, when the cops have her 507 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:52,960 Speaker 1: on video and audio negotiating a hit with him. Yeah, 508 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,120 Speaker 1: he answered, before him answer that question, I wanted to 509 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,600 Speaker 1: recognize you made a great point, so de Ray about 510 00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 1: the first trial where she said it for reality TV. 511 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,280 Speaker 1: So what we had to do in the second trial 512 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,160 Speaker 1: is we had to we couldn't call her as a 513 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,280 Speaker 1: witness because of what you said and raised that we 514 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,960 Speaker 1: could not call her as a witness because then the 515 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:16,760 Speaker 1: prosecutors would have taken that testimony under oath from the 516 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,920 Speaker 1: first trial and would have completely gutted the argument we 517 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,840 Speaker 1: were making in the second trial. It's the first point 518 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,160 Speaker 1: I wanted to make. Second point as to this video, 519 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,440 Speaker 1: when they're bringing in Witty Jean and they're bringing in 520 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,640 Speaker 1: Mike Pippolito, what I argued was I didn't go into 521 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,760 Speaker 1: the mind of Dahlia. I just said, look, this is 522 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:35,840 Speaker 1: completely inappropriate police practices. In fact, what is the Cops 523 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:39,040 Speaker 1: TV show doing in a police station when they're about 524 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,520 Speaker 1: to arrest a woman for alleged solicitation to commit murder? 525 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 1: Completely inappropriate, out of bounds and unconstitutional. Okay, can we 526 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:54,200 Speaker 1: now address your client in jail after hiring a hitman 527 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:56,480 Speaker 1: to kill her husband, and she sees the hit man 528 00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,600 Speaker 1: walk into the police station and then says, well, I 529 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,200 Speaker 1: don't owe him. I mean the fact that she lied, 530 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:07,640 Speaker 1: it looks that clearly. I agree with you, that's that's nonsensical. 531 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,000 Speaker 1: She should have said she knew who he was and 532 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,160 Speaker 1: she and she made a mistake on that. But with 533 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,640 Speaker 1: respect to Mike, I mean, what would you what would 534 00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:16,920 Speaker 1: you expect her reaction to be when Mike walks in. 535 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:20,000 Speaker 1: She's been told that Mike has been killed, and now 536 00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:23,800 Speaker 1: Mike walks in. So she was genuinely surprised at that. 537 00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:30,680 Speaker 1: I bet she was. Regarding the hintman you said she 538 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:34,959 Speaker 1: made a mistake, she outright lied because she couldn't say, yeah, 539 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,080 Speaker 1: I know him, I hired him to kill my husband. 540 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,920 Speaker 1: So she said, no, I've never seen him. Look, she 541 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,440 Speaker 1: didn't hire him to kill her husband. Look, she was 542 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,560 Speaker 1: supposed to pay fifteen thousand dollars. Who who? Who? Who 543 00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,239 Speaker 1: goes on and tries to kill somebody on credit? She gave? 544 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,080 Speaker 1: She gave a lot of people would be so surprised 545 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:55,560 Speaker 1: at how many people I'm telling you, you keep saying, please, please, please, 546 00:34:56,080 --> 00:35:00,200 Speaker 1: many many people put a down payment on a I 547 00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,440 Speaker 1: mean you just saw it. A tiger came you putting 548 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,920 Speaker 1: down a payment on a much Yeah, you put a 549 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:06,960 Speaker 1: payment on a hit and you pay the rest with 550 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,239 Speaker 1: the deed is done. As a matter of fact, that's 551 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,480 Speaker 1: pretty much sob Maybe not that cheap, that she really 552 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:14,200 Speaker 1: didn't want it done. That's what I argued in this 553 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,160 Speaker 1: second case, almost one, she didn't give any money. You 554 00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,160 Speaker 1: know what, You know what, Brian Claypool, if I'm ever 555 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:24,760 Speaker 1: charged with murder, get ready because you're still you're still 556 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:29,280 Speaker 1: you're going down swinging, You're still fighting for Dahlia di Polito. Guys, 557 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,040 Speaker 1: whether you agree with this defense attorneys or not, and 558 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:37,239 Speaker 1: I don't, you gotta respect somebody that never gives up. 559 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:42,120 Speaker 1: So bottom line right now, to Ray Caputo, lead news 560 00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:46,160 Speaker 1: anchor w DBA Morning News, where does the case stand now? 561 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:50,320 Speaker 1: Bottom line? Bottom line, she is serving sixteen years in 562 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,840 Speaker 1: prison in a woman's prison in the o'calla and Marion County, 563 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,200 Speaker 1: and she's not getting out for a while. Man Nancy 564 00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,600 Speaker 1: Grace Clime story signing off, good Bye sand