WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) – Millions of people have seen a secretly recorded video of Dalia Dippolito telling an undercover police officer she was “5,000 percent sure” about hiring him to kill her husband.
At her retrial on Thursday, six Florida jurors who said they had never seen the 2009 video watched Dippolito tell Boynton Beach Detective Widy Jean that she would pay him $7,000 to kill Michael Dippolito in a staged robbery.
The 34-year-old Dippolito has testified at her previous trial and in court hearings that she was only acting the part of a murderous wife in hopes of getting her own reality TV show.
Her first jury didn’t buy that defense, but an appellate court threw out her 2011 conviction and 20-year sentence for attempted first-degree solicitation of murder. She faces the same sentence if convicted again.
These jurors sat expressionless as they watched the 23-minute video, which was central to a “Cops” television special and remains popular on YouTube.