Dalia Dippolito - "Smooth Criminal" - Preview of Cops, Season 24, Episode 3 (Special Edition)
A woman hires a hit man to kill her husband.
Runtime: 22 minutes
Aired September 24, 2011 on FOX at 8 p.m. EST
The Boynton Beach, FL, Police Department conducts an undercover operation involving a woman who has allegedly hired a hit man to kill her husband. While posing as the hit man, an undercover officer has a candid conversation during which the woman details the situation. Following the conversation, the police department sets up a mock-crime scene so that when the suspect arrives home, she will think that her plan has been completed. To her surprise, she is taken into custody by the police and eventually arrested for solicitation of first-degree murder
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Dalia Dippolito Murder-for-Hire Cops Episode Airs Saturday (Video)
By Lisa Rab Thu., Sep. 22 2011 at 9:44 AM
In August 2009, the Boynton Beach police took a gamble on a sexy case. A young, flirtatious, cosmetically enhanced newlywed named Dalia Dippolito was plotting to have her husband killed. She hired a hit man, who turned out to be an undercover cop.
One morning, Dalia went to the gym as usual. When she got home, she discovered an elaborate, staged crime scene outside her condo. The Boynton cops soberly informed her that her husband was dead. She burst into melodramatic sobs.
Luckily, cameras from the Fox show Cops caught the whole thing on tape. So did the Boynton police, who promptly posted the footage on YouTube. As they were building their murder-for-hire case against Dalia, video of her pretending to mourn her still-very-much-alive husband went viral.
Now, Dalia is on house arrest while appealing her conviction for solicitation to commit murder. And the long-awaited Cops episode about her case airs this Saturday.
Of course, there are a few details that aren't included in the trailer for the show -- such as the Boynton Beach officers who tricked Dalia into signing the waiver that allowed the Cops crew to keep filming. Critics have contended that this bit of deception threatened the case and exposed the Boynton Police Department's unhealthy lust for media attention.
Despite the backlash, Boynton officials are proudly promoting this weekend's Cops episode on the department's Facebook page. If you've got it, flaunt it. Isn't that what Dalia would say?
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