Killer Bride in Hot Water After TV Interview
GRACE: A Florida beach beauty marries her dream man and they set to live happily ever after. But what the bride doesn`t know, the hitman she allegedly hires to murder her groom is a cop. That`s right. Cops sting the bride on video. She breaks down in hysterical tears crying over the dead husband, but the so-called killer bride now says all that was just a reality show, an acting gig. Well, tonight, bride Dalia Dippolito in hot water after she breaks all the rules, again, when she does a star turn on T.V. in an ABC "20/20" interview and, will her lawyer now be thrown off the case?</s>DALIA DIPPOLITO, ACCUSED OF HIRING HITMAN TO KILL HUSBAND: It was a murder- for-hire episode. They were accusing me of trying to have my husband killed and I -- I didn`t.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She also haven`t (ph) been honest all along.</s>GRACE: That`s from ABC`S "20/20". To jog your memory, take a look at Dalia Dippolito, who clearly, if you believe the video, hires a hitman to kill her husband. Here she is in hysterical tears after she learns he is dead.</s>FRANK RANZIE, BOYNTON BEACH POLICE OFFICER: ... Ranzie. I`m the one who called 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? OK. I`m sorry to tell you, ma`am. He`s been killed.</s>RANZIE: He`s been killed, ma`am.</s>DIPPOLITO: No!</s>RANZIE: Try to calm down. Right now we need to get you to the police station. I can`t let you go in there, ma`am. We have to do our job. We need you to calm down. You need to go to the police station, OK? You need to go with these officers. Is there anyone who want to hurt ...</s>RANZIE: OK. Is there anyone who wants to hurt him? (Inaudible) that he saw a black male running from here. I can`t let you see it ma`am. Ma`am, I cannot do this right now. Ma`am, I can`t.</s>RANZIE: I need you to take her to the station.</s>RANZIE: I can`t. Go with the detectives. If you want to help your husband, OK? If you want to help your husband, you need to go to the station with these gentlemen and tell us everything you know about who he knows, who he`s connected to. Don`t worry, we`ve already taken care of it with an animal control right now. Everything is under control, and we`ll take care of everything else, OK? Thank you, guys.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (Inaudible)?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don`t know.</s>RANZIE: Hey, (Dan), are her keys in the truck? OK. Make sure we secure that. Just secure it for now.</s>GRACE: I just wanted you to see the bitter end where she pauses getting into the car, just to make sure everybody sees her crying and holding her runny little nose, OK, to make sure everybody sees her in great pain, doubled over in grief after she, according to police, hires a hitman to kill her husband. And if you notice, when they tell her, her husband is dead, one cop is going - I mean, because they all know that this is being videoed to get her reaction. Straight out to Daphne Duret, criminal courts reporter with "The Palm Beach Post" in court for Dippolito`s testimony. OK, Daphne, thank you for being with us. Explain to me how Dalia Dippolito broke the rules again and landed on T.V. in a "20/20" interview. Isn`t she under house arrest, Daphne?</s>DAPHNE DURET, "THE PALM BEACH POST" CRIMINAL COURTS REPORTER: Thanks for having me, Nancy. Yes, she is under house arrest and the judge in the case, Judge Glenn Kelley, said that she was allowed to go to the offices of her Miami attorney to prepare for her retrial coming up in May. But what he did not want her to do, and what she ended up doing, was going down to the offices for an interview for ABC`s "20/20". And the prosecutors, after the judge brought it up, the prosecutors now have asked the judge to either revoke her bail and send her back to jail or raise her bail so that she`ll have to pay more money to stay ...</s>GRACE: Wow! Wow. So, Stacey Newman, how did police figure out where she gave the "20/20" interview? I mean, how did they know for sure that she violated the terms of her house - well, first of all, Stacey, she should never have had house arrest to start with, OK? Because she is charged with hiring a hitman to commit murder, all right? And, according to the husband`s lawyer, the then-divorce lawyer, she had tried to kill him before by poisoning him in a Starbucks tea, all right? So this woman should never, ever have been on house arrest, she should have been in jail. But how did the cops ever figure out that she left the house to do the interview?</s>STACEY NEWMAN, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER: Well, Nancy, they used satellite images and they were able to compare aerials ...</s>NEWMAN: ... they were able to compare aerial of her attorney`s office with video from the ABC "20/20" ...</s>GRACE: Wow!</s>NEWMAN: ... interview. That`s how they figured it out.</s>GRACE: That`s how they did it. OK, let`s take a listen to Dalia Dippolito clearly trying to tank the jury pool with a "20/20" interview. Take a listen.</s>AMY ROBACH, ABC`S "20/20" NEWS JOURNALIST: Did you want your husband dead?</s>D. DIPPOLITO: No, absolutely not.</s>ROBACH: Did you hire a hit man to kill your husband?</s>D. DIPPOLITO: No.</s>ROBACH: How do you explain what we have all seen and heard on those video tapes?</s>D. DIPPOLITO: I`d like to be able to explain that to you right now, but I can`t because the attorneys legally have told me that we`re saving that for our day in court.</s>ROBACH: Did you ever love Mike Dippolito?</s>D. DIPPOLITO: I married him because I love him.</s>ROBACH: And now?</s>D. DIPPOLITO: Now, I wish I never would have met him.</s>MIKE DIPPOLITO, DALIA DIPPOLITO`S HUSBAND: I feel the same way. I wish -- I wish I would have made a left, not a right. Trust me.</s>GRACE: That`s from ABC`s "20/20". I want to go to Ben Levitan, telecommunications expert. How the they were they able to figure out just by looking at her in this interview that she had broken the rules yet again, and given a very lengthy and interesting, I might say, ABC "20/20" interview. How did they figure out where she was so they could prove in court she violated house arrest?</s>BEN LEVITAN, TELECOMMUNICATIONS EXPERT: Well, Nancy, I`m not so sure that this was a super high-tech solution. Yes, they could have figured it out from where her office was and some clues, but it seems like there was some human intelligence here, Nancy. I don`t think this was a high- tech, you know, Google search, for the attorney`s office.</s>GRACE: Right. Unleash the lawyers. Sue Moss, Windecher, and Margie Moe. OK, Margie Moe, she gets on "20/20" and talks about how much she loved her husband and how she`s innocent. At one point, she is compared to sweet, hard candy. I mean, really? Just in the hopes that some juror would see this and get sucked into it, Margie Moe.</s>MARGARET MOE, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, you are talking about her tainting the jury pool, but isn`t that essentially what you are doing, by convicting her when ...</s>GRACE: Put her up.</s>MOE: ... her conviction has actually been overturned.</s>GRACE: Put her up. Put her up! She is going back to trial. She is still under attempted murder charges, Margie Moe. And let me remind you, look around, Margie. Are you in a courtroom? I think you are in a T.V. studio. I`m not under an order by the judge and neither are you. And isn`t it true, Sue Moss, under our Constitution, courtrooms are open and we can freely discuss cases in court. That`s our constitutional right.</s>SUSAN MOSS, FAMILY LAW ATTORNEY: Oh yeah, Freedom of Information Act. But the reality is this woman admitted in videotape her plan to hire a hitman to kill her husband! But now, what we are talking about, look, if a guy has a robe, you got to do exactly what you are told. She was given very strict instructions of what she can and cannot do and she violated it. Look, it`s like being pregnant. When you are told something from a judge, you don`t do it a little bit. You are not a little bit pregnant. You have to follow the word exactly as you are told.</s>D. DIPPOLITO: Mohamed was on an episode of "Burn Notice" and we were trying to simulate the episode that he was on. It was a murder-for-hire episode. It was somebody who had faked the murder prior. And it wasn`t -- it was an actor who had faked it.</s>RANZIE: Listen, we had a report of a disturbance at your house and there were shots fired. Is your husband, Michael? OK. I`m sorry to tell you, ma`am. He`s been killed.</s>RANZIE: He`s been killed, ma`am.</s>DIPPOLITO: No!</s>RANZIE: Try to calm down. Right now we need to get you to the police station. I can`t let you go in there, ma`am. We have to do our job.</s>M. DIPPOLITO: Then what the</s>D. DIPPOLITO: It`s not true.</s>M. DIPPOLITO: What is your problem?</s>D. DIPPOLITO: That is not true.</s>M. DIPPOLITO: How is it not true?</s>D. DIPPOLITO: How can you believe that?