Post by khankrumthebulgar on Aug 10, 2009 7:29:16 GMT -5
Woman Hires Hit Man to Kill Husband; Oops! It’s a Cop
By Robert Franklin, Esq. | Aug 9, 2009
Dahlia Dippolito had only been married six months when she decided she'd had enough. So she filed for divorce, right? No. Sought an annulment? Wrong again. Packed her things and moved out? Still wrong.
This article says she hired a hit man to kill her husband, Michael Dippolito (AOL, 8/7/09). As so often seems to happen in these cases, the "hit man" was an undercover police officer. Dahlia paid him $1,200 to buy a gun and $3,000 later.
Police then set up an elaborate ruse. After first informing Michael of his wife's plot, they parked several police cars around the couple's house, encircled the place with yellow crime scene tape and called Dahlia at her gym. They told her to come home. Believing the deed had been done, she rushed home and when the police told her Michael was dead, she broke into some pretty convincing tears. The article has a video of that scene.
Police then took her to the police station where Michael was waiting and arrested her and charged her with solicitation of first degree murder. According to this article, bond was set at $25,000 (Miami Herald, 8/7/09). Dahlia is out of jail and under "house arrest" at her mother's house.
Her motive? She wanted Michael's house, so a divorce that close to the wedding just wouldn't have done the trick. Plus she was having an affair.
Thanks to Attila for the heads-up.
By Robert Franklin, Esq. | Aug 9, 2009
Dahlia Dippolito had only been married six months when she decided she'd had enough. So she filed for divorce, right? No. Sought an annulment? Wrong again. Packed her things and moved out? Still wrong.
This article says she hired a hit man to kill her husband, Michael Dippolito (AOL, 8/7/09). As so often seems to happen in these cases, the "hit man" was an undercover police officer. Dahlia paid him $1,200 to buy a gun and $3,000 later.
Police then set up an elaborate ruse. After first informing Michael of his wife's plot, they parked several police cars around the couple's house, encircled the place with yellow crime scene tape and called Dahlia at her gym. They told her to come home. Believing the deed had been done, she rushed home and when the police told her Michael was dead, she broke into some pretty convincing tears. The article has a video of that scene.
Police then took her to the police station where Michael was waiting and arrested her and charged her with solicitation of first degree murder. According to this article, bond was set at $25,000 (Miami Herald, 8/7/09). Dahlia is out of jail and under "house arrest" at her mother's house.
Her motive? She wanted Michael's house, so a divorce that close to the wedding just wouldn't have done the trick. Plus she was having an affair.
Thanks to Attila for the heads-up.
