Dalia Dippolito and Her Murder for Hire Schemes an Anthology of True Crime

'OK, here's the plot. A oman - let's make her an ex-prostitute - sets out to marry a man. She gets fed up with him and decides to have him murdered.''Whoa, slow down a bit here. How long have they been married?''I don't know, umm, we'll make it five years. No, too long. How about six months? But here's the twist - you're going to love this...'The commissioning executives are already looking at each other in resignation, and surreptitiously glancing at their watches. 'So, she picks on a guy - umm, an ex-boyfriend - and tells him to kill this husband. But the ex goes to the police, and they fake the whole thing, set up this brilliant scene, like in the mov...'The speaker is now being led to the door, arm on his elbow and the executive shakes his hand. He has become an expert over the years at ending unproductive pitches. The speaker senses his moment is being lost.'But it's all true. Here name was Dalia Dippolito. An ex-prostitute who plotted to murder her fiancee.'This is her crazy story...