Hitman Gone Wrong: News Comment #3

The article I chose this week, here, was about a 28 year old, newly wed, Dalia Dippolito. What is so special about this woman? She just was released from Florida’s Palm Beach Country Jail, on a $500,000 bond, for hiring a hitman to kill her husband. Her conviction leads all the way back to 2009 when Dippolito began her search for a hitman to kill her 38 year old husband of 6 months. The hitman she hired was actually an undercover cop, who started working with her and secretly filmed all of their discussions.  Dippolito was willing to pay $3,000 to have her husband killed. After the police collected enough evidence they set up a fake crime scene at the Dippolito’s residence to make it look as if her husband had been killed by her hitman. As they took her to the police station she soon found out it was a fake crime scene and she was being put under the arrest for attempting to have her husband killed.

What this article talks about is not very unusual. However, this is bizarre in the sense that this woman went out of her way to seek a hitman, follow through with paying for him, and getting caught. It makes me wonder how many people actually get away with it. She had a “dumb” motive for killing him. It was because she spent $200,000 of his money, and was scared of what he’d do if they divorced. Divorce happens all the time, but killing your husband does not!

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