Hi, Dennis Murphy here. This one is about husbands and wives. In this case, Dahlia, Dahlia

Deep Palito, the Black Widow, one of the most eye-rolling defendants to ever enter a South Florida

courthouse. If there is a manual on how to murder your husband, Dahlia must have missed that chapter,

cautioning not to hire an undercover police detective as your hitman. Whoops! So anyway,

she put out the bid to do away with husband Michael and returned home on the appointed day to a

crime scene at her front door, yellow tape, flashing lights, TV crews. The cops told her they had

bad news. It was Michael, but of course it was all staged. Dahlia had walked into a sting.

When they took her downtown, who should pop up in the interrogation room, but her not dead at all

husband? As she sputtered, she was charged with solicitation to commit first degree murder.

And because this was Florida where sometimes everything skews wacky, her defensive trial would

be that she was only auditioning for a reality TV show. Dahlia, I could go on and on,

but you really need to check this out for yourself. Here's the sting.

There has not been a story like this ever in Palm Beach County history.

Is she the villain? Is she the victim? Who knows, that is what makes her riveting. And she is

infamous and probably will be forever. The mesmerizing story of Dahlia Diplido with a fittingly

preposterous ending begins in a place where conspicuous consumption and the envy index are as high as

the humidity. Palm Beach, Florida. It is the winter wonderland of the wealthy. You can drive over

the bridge and immediately feel the rarefied air, the mansions and the hedges that hide the mansions.

And of course, now Marlago, Donald Trump's winter home. Palm Beach Post senior editor Jan

Tuckwood says some mainlanders can't resist the wannabe allure of Palm Beach.

Most people on the mainland are influenced. That richness is right there. And how can they get a

piece of it? Over the bridge past the interstate, newly wedged Dahlia and Mike Diplido lived in a

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