How Dalia Dippolito is managing prison life and her legal team's hope for a new trial.
Dalia Dippolito’s attorney Brian Claypool said she sees her 4-year-old son “on a regular basis” and that his grandmother and aunt are caring for him while Dippolito serves out her prison sentence.has been called many things over the course of her rollercoaster legal saga: a “monster,” an “evil” woman who wanted her husband dead, a “black widow.” But her longtime defense attorney argues she is something else entirely.
The friend had reached out to police after Dalia Dippolito initially sought his help with her plan, and he then worked with Boynton Beach police in their sting operation against Dippolito.Police cameras were again rolling on August 5, 2009, when Dalia Dippolito arrived home to find what she thought was a real crime scene of her then-husband’s murder. In fact, it was an elaborate fake crime scene, created by Boynton Beach police.
At the time, the Dippolitos had been married for just six months. Prosecutors argued Dalia Dippolito wanted control of the couple’s Palm Beach County townhouse and her husband’s bank account. They also argued that she wanted him out of the way so that she could rekindle a relationship with an old boyfriend.
But an appeals court judge ruled in 2014 that the jury for her first trial was improperly selected and tossed out the conviction.At her second trial, Claypool abandoned the reality TV defense that had been argued at the first trial and instead took aim at the Boynton Beach Police Department, accusing it of misconduct by staging the fake crime scene for the TV show “COPS.” He alleged that the department made the fake scene “way more than it ever was” for the purposes of television.
“'COPS' filming with the Boynton Beach Police Department had nothing to do with this investigation," Boynton Beach Police Public Information Officer Stephanie Slater told"20/20" earlier this month."It was just a coincidence as far as timing was concerned. The men and women of the Boynton Beach Police Department did an incredible job on this case, and Mike Dippolito is alive and well today because of it.
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