Police give details of botched killings

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Nov. 17 (UPI) -- A Florida woman allegedly tried twice to kill her husband within a few months of their wedding before being set up with a police officer posing as a hit man.

In documents released this week, police in Boynton Beach said Dalia Dippolito tried to find a hired killer, ending up paying someone who took her money and failed to follow through, The Palm Beach (Fla.) Post reported Tuesday. She then allegedly decided on a do-it-yourself killing and gave her husband, Michael, antifreeze concealed in tea from Starbucks, but it tasted so bad he spat it out.

Her third alleged attempt made headlines when she was arrested in August. Police say she asked a friend to help her find a killer, but the friend called the police.

After Dippolito and her "hit man" made plans, she returned home from the gym to find officers at her house and crime scene tape around it. At the police station, she learned she had been duped.

Police said Dippolito made other preparations for her husband's death, including getting him to put their home in her name. Michael Dippolito was also making restitution payments for fraud and his wife allegedly said she would make them for him and then stashed the money.

The couple had been married about six months when she was arrested.