Back in 2017, Dalia Dippolito was convicted of solicitation of first-degree murder after she hired a hitman to kill her husband.
What she didn't realize, was that the person she had hired to carry out the murder was actually an undercover cop.
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Dippolito, from Florida, first hired the 'hitman' back in 2009.
It was arranged that he would kill her husband, Michael, at their home and make it look like a burglary gone wrong.
Dippolito came home to find what she thought was a real crime scene, but little did she know it had all been set up.
You can watch footage of Dippolito reacting to the news below:
In the video, a police officer tells her that there was a disturbance at her property and that her husband had been killed.
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She responds by hysterically crying and shaking before asking if she can see her husband.
In reality, he was very much alive and had simply been removed from the home.
A second video - recorded by undercover cops - also reveals the initial interaction with the officer.
Dippolito can be seen explaining she was '5,000 percent sure' she wanted to go ahead with the plan and agreeing to pay the supposed hitman $7,000 to do it.
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After Dippolito was caught, circuit Judge Glenn Kelley said she acted in a 'cold and calculated manner'.
"This particular crime was committed not in an unsophisticated way, but in a sophisticated way in a calculated fashion," Judge Kelley said.
"There was a plan put in place by Dalia Dippolito to kill Mike Dippolito."
Prosecutors speculated that Dippolito wanted her ex-husband dead so that she could receive his assets and savings.
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Dippolito always denied that she wanted her husband dead.
Initially, she said that she knew that she was being recorded and that she and Michael had hopes of gaining 'reality TV fame'.
Michael denied these claims.
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Initially, she was handed a 20-year prison sentence, with the judge calling the plot 'pure evil'.
However, after appealing, Dippolito faced a second trial in 2016 where she was again charged.
This time, she dropped the claims that she had been trying to gain fame and instead accused Boynton Beach Police Department of misconduct for staging the scene for TV show, COPS.
“'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.
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"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."
After the second trial ended in a hung jury, Dippolito was finally convicted in 2017, and sentenced to 16 years.
Although her team appealed once more to the Florida Supreme Court in 2019, it was rejected.
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It's expected that Dippolito will stay at the Lowell Correctional Institution in Ocala, Florida until 2032.
Lucy Devine