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Authors: Elizabeth Parker, Mark Ebner
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videotaped.
SHERIDAN: Well, you’re being videotaped. That’s all part of it.
She takes a moment to read through the document. Reluctantly, she signs.
This, in fact, is a camera release for the TV show COPS , and it would prove to be very controversial—both during the trial and with the TV show itself. In the lobby afterward, COPS producer Jimmy Langley beratedSheridan for trying to do them a favor, tearing up the waiver in front of him, since it was done under the color of law, making it potentially coercive and of no use to them. According to Langley, they never enlist law enforcement to help them secure waivers for exactly this reason, and cameraman Chris Flores later convinced Dalia to sign a second waiver, promising her they would help her tell her side of the story. That offer seems dubious in retrospect, but Dalia may have figured the media exposure gave her one more random variable to manipulate if it ever came down to it. At least that’s how it played out.
Leading in to the interview, Sheridan continues the same gambit his officers had set up in the car: get her theories on the culprits as a means to quell her suspicions and maybe soften her up for a confession when they pull the rug out from under. Taking the bait or staking out her ground, Dalia dives right in:
SHERIDAN: Okay, listen, is there anybody that you know that you think would want to kill your husband?
DALIA: My husband’s on probation.
SHERIDAN: For what?
DALIA: For his stock fraud.
SHERIDAN: Stock fraud? How long has he been on probation? Probation or parole? Has he spent any time in prison?
She nods.
SHERIDAN: How much? Do you know?
DALIA: Two years in prison and five years on probation. Five or six years.
SHERIDAN: Oh my God. And what was that for?
DALIA: It was for taking money. Like, he ran a boiler room, kind of, where they would take money from people.
When he asks her how long they’ve been married, she says, “Not even a year.”
SHERIDAN: This is tragic. Is there anybody you could think of that would want to do this to him?
DALIA: I was just telling the officers we’ve had problems already.
SHERIDAN: What sort of problems?
DALIA: He’s been trying to get off probation, and it’s just been nothing but problems the whole time that he’s been trying to get off. Um, people weren’t happy that he was getting off probation because it’s a lot of money he’s got to pay back.
This is the first glimmer of an actual culprit who might have been responsible for this terrible misdeed, and the first actual lead that she brings to the table. She’s trying out a lot of stuff, looking for anything that will stick.
SHERIDAN: Well, when you say people, what are you talking about? People that were involved with him before?
DALIA: A little bit of everything. This was supposed to be something when he got off probation, it was supposed to be between us, and he went and he told friends of his, he told certain people, and everyone kind of talks. And he’s constantly running into a lot of the guys that he was on probation with—like a couple of days ago, we ran into someone. And that was at Target. I mean, the guy comes up to us, and he’s in with organized crime. It seems like a lot of the guys from Boca are starting to move up here, and we’re constantly running into them. You know what I mean? And a lot of the guys that he knows and things like that. It was a lot of money—it was $191,000 that he had to pay back. So we were going to go ahead, and he had the money to pay off the probation and everything like that. And then I guess, somehow, when he went away, some guys didn’t go away—
SHERIDAN: You mean when he went to prison?
DALIA: Right. They left the country. And then somehow he was dealing with some of those guys because they thought that he owed them and . . . I don’t know. Something with that that he was taking care of. So the money that he used to get off his probation, he never did it. He did something else with
SHERIDAN: Well, you’re being videotaped. That’s all part of it.
She takes a moment to read through the document. Reluctantly, she signs.
This, in fact, is a camera release for the TV show COPS , and it would prove to be very controversial—both during the trial and with the TV show itself. In the lobby afterward, COPS producer Jimmy Langley beratedSheridan for trying to do them a favor, tearing up the waiver in front of him, since it was done under the color of law, making it potentially coercive and of no use to them. According to Langley, they never enlist law enforcement to help them secure waivers for exactly this reason, and cameraman Chris Flores later convinced Dalia to sign a second waiver, promising her they would help her tell her side of the story. That offer seems dubious in retrospect, but Dalia may have figured the media exposure gave her one more random variable to manipulate if it ever came down to it. At least that’s how it played out.
Leading in to the interview, Sheridan continues the same gambit his officers had set up in the car: get her theories on the culprits as a means to quell her suspicions and maybe soften her up for a confession when they pull the rug out from under. Taking the bait or staking out her ground, Dalia dives right in:
SHERIDAN: Okay, listen, is there anybody that you know that you think would want to kill your husband?
DALIA: My husband’s on probation.
SHERIDAN: For what?
DALIA: For his stock fraud.
SHERIDAN: Stock fraud? How long has he been on probation? Probation or parole? Has he spent any time in prison?
She nods.
SHERIDAN: How much? Do you know?
DALIA: Two years in prison and five years on probation. Five or six years.
SHERIDAN: Oh my God. And what was that for?
DALIA: It was for taking money. Like, he ran a boiler room, kind of, where they would take money from people.
When he asks her how long they’ve been married, she says, “Not even a year.”
SHERIDAN: This is tragic. Is there anybody you could think of that would want to do this to him?
DALIA: I was just telling the officers we’ve had problems already.
SHERIDAN: What sort of problems?
DALIA: He’s been trying to get off probation, and it’s just been nothing but problems the whole time that he’s been trying to get off. Um, people weren’t happy that he was getting off probation because it’s a lot of money he’s got to pay back.
This is the first glimmer of an actual culprit who might have been responsible for this terrible misdeed, and the first actual lead that she brings to the table. She’s trying out a lot of stuff, looking for anything that will stick.
SHERIDAN: Well, when you say people, what are you talking about? People that were involved with him before?
DALIA: A little bit of everything. This was supposed to be something when he got off probation, it was supposed to be between us, and he went and he told friends of his, he told certain people, and everyone kind of talks. And he’s constantly running into a lot of the guys that he was on probation with—like a couple of days ago, we ran into someone. And that was at Target. I mean, the guy comes up to us, and he’s in with organized crime. It seems like a lot of the guys from Boca are starting to move up here, and we’re constantly running into them. You know what I mean? And a lot of the guys that he knows and things like that. It was a lot of money—it was $191,000 that he had to pay back. So we were going to go ahead, and he had the money to pay off the probation and everything like that. And then I guess, somehow, when he went away, some guys didn’t go away—
SHERIDAN: You mean when he went to prison?
DALIA: Right. They left the country. And then somehow he was dealing with some of those guys because they thought that he owed them and . . . I don’t know. Something with that that he was taking care of. So the money that he used to get off his probation, he never did it. He did something else with
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