'5,000 per cent sure'

Photo: The Canadian Press

Defence attorney Brian Claypool 

Millions of people have seen a secretly recorded video of Dalia Dippolito telling an undercover police officer she was "5,000 per cent sure" about hiring him to kill her husband.

At her retrial on Thursday, six Florida jurors who said they had never seen the 2009 video watched Dippolito tell Boynton Beach Detective Widy Jean that she would pay him $7,000 to kill Michael Dippolito in a staged robbery.

The 34-year-old Dippolito has testified at her previous trial and in court hearings that she was only acting the part of a murderous wife in hopes of getting her own reality TV show.

Her first jury didn't buy that defence, but an appellate court threw out her 2011 conviction and 20-year sentence for attempted first-degree solicitation of murder. She faces the same sentence if convicted again.

These jurors sat expressionless as they watched the 23-minute video, which was central to a "Cops" television special and remains popular on YouTube.

It shows Dippolito, dressed in tank top and pony tail, entering Jean's red convertible and discussing not only the cost of killing her convicted conman husband, but how, when and where it would be done.

"Are you sure you want to kill this dude?" Jean asks her.

Dippolito, seeming uncomfortable with the question, appears to urge Jean to be more circumspect.

"Do we really have to? I would rather be less, whatever, about the deal," Dippolito tells Jean, swallowing laughter.

Narrating the video for the jury on Thursday, Jean testified that Dippolito opened up once he said she's beautiful.

After these pleasantries, the video shows her agreeing to pay $7,000 for the murder — a $1,000 premium since she wouldn't be able to pay in advance. He then tells her he'll break into their house, put two bullets in her husband's head and make it look like a robbery.

"I need it done, like, this week," Dippolito says, assuring Jean she wouldn't stiff him. "You obviously know where I am."