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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A secretly recorded conversation between newlywed Dalia Dippolito and Widy Jean, an undercover Boynton Beach officer posing as a hit man, was played Thursday for jurors who must determine whether she was trying to kill her husband.
The 23-minute video went viral in 2011 after the reality TV show "Cops" aired a special episode on her case. Dippolito maintains she was only acting the part of a murderous spouse, as part of an ill-conceived scheme to win her own role on reality TV. Here are some excerpts:
JEAN (off-camera, in the driver's seat): "Are you sure you want to kill this dude?"
DIPPOLITO (swallowing laughter): "Do we really have to? I would rather be less, whatever, about the deal."
(Jean changes the subject, asking questions about the Dippolitos' home alarm system).
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DIPPOLITO (nervously smoothing her hair): "So how are we going to do it at the house? Like, how do we, how soon could you do it, what time are we looking at?"
JEAN: "I could do it Wednesday morning, Wednesday morning at the house. Because I was looking at news, newspapers here, there's been a lot of burglaries in this area ..."
DIPPOLITO (nodding her head affirmatively): "Right."
JEAN: "... it's not uncommon for someone to break into a house, OK? So it's going to be like, I break into the house, didn't think he was going to be home cause everyone works in the daytime..."
DIPPOLITO (nodding again): "Right."
JEAN: "... and he's not at work, and he gets two in the head. That's it. You know. And I take a couple things with me, break a couple windows, make it look like a robbery that went bad, and it's all over."
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JEAN: "Police are going to be asking you questions. ... I don't know how well you handle pressure. You understand?"
DIPPOLITO (nodding her head): "No, I'm not gonna, you know, I'm a lot tougher than what I look. I know you see me and you like go, 'What a cute little girl' or whatever." (nervous laughter) "But I'm not. I'm not, no..."
JEAN: "You're beautiful."
DIPPOLITO: "I'm not, no, thank you, but I just want to make sure everything gets taken care of."
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JEAN: "From now to when it's done, you're not going to have an option to change your mind. Even if you change your mind, you know ...
DIPPOLITO (shaking her head negatively): "No, there is no changing. There is no — I'm determined already. (Nodding vigorously now): I'm positive, like 5,000 percent sure."
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