The world gets more and more weird:A South Florida woman was arrested Wednesday for allegedly hiring an undercover police officer to kill her husband of six months, authorities said.
Dalia Dippolito, 26, was charged with solicitation to commit first-degree murder and taken to the Palm Beach County jail, Boynton Beach Police Department spokeswoman Stephanie Slater said. Bond had not yet been set and it was unclear if she had an attorney.
Dippolito gave an informant pictures of her husband, 38-year-old Michael Dippolito, and $1,200 for a hit man to purchase a handgun, according to a probable cause affidavit. She also offered to create an alibi for herself and detailed her husband's daily schedule.
An undercover officer posing as a hit man called Dippolito on Monday afternoon and arranged a meeting. The officer asked for $3,000 in cash and a key to the couple's home. [He] later met Dippolito in a pharmacy parking lot and asked if she was sure she wanted her husband killed.
She laughed, according to to the affidavit, and said: "I will be very happy ... I'm not going to change my mind," she responded, according to the documents. "I am 5,000 percent sure I want it done. When I set my mind to something, I get it done."
When an officer told Dippolito that her husband was dead, she broke down in tears, a video of the operation shows.
Many things spring to mind - 38/26, 6 months marriage, ethnicity [green card?], cold-blooded but can put on the tears, how typical is it at a time when there seem to be quite a few cold-blooded killers and more and more females[?], why was she unfortunate enough to hire an undercover cop? Did the husband maltreat her? If so, where was her distress?It seems to be that killing is not seen as a non-option any more to solve one's difficulties. Is life cheaper today or is the fear of punishment less in these hug-a-hoody times?
Meanwhile, the picture of that other murderess, Melissa Todorovic, has been released [above right] and that Amanda Knox is still on trial. There's something really wrong and it ties in with that debate the ladies got into the other day, the whole acceleration of sexuality in early years, the falling away of moral codes, the things Alison said in her first comment on that post, the other things in society, gaming and so on.
The solution requires far more than just "education" - it's a complete paradigm shift among the young, I think because of the lack of boundaries set by anyone. In other words, it's a by-product of the falling away of society in general and parents' abrogation of their true responsibilities in these days. Why shouldn't the parents have taught these three right from wrong and in Knox's case, put the foot down on going to Italy with a boyfriend at that age?
Yes, even at 20 and 21 years of age - it used to be the age of majority and it should be once again.
There's a great deal made of the sophistication of kids these days at an early age. I beg to differ. The whole society is being infantilized and kids are more worldly and yet less emotionally mature than ever because they lack the upbringing now in so many cases.
Why? Because they reject it and the parents tuck their tails between their legs and say, "Yes, dear, whatever you say, dear. Stay out all you like but please, please don't think of me as an old-fashioned parent."
I'd prefer not to say that these three were sociopathic; I'd prefer to say that they are children and needed to have been treated as children years ago, no matter how loudly they would protest that they were "grown-up". There are things kids just cannot handle, for the simple reason that they're kids.
It certainly seems that as a species we seem to be reverting to violence a lot easier.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think it is due to the society we live in no longer dispensing the justice we expect from it. We either have to do it ourselves or it doesn't get done. That and we are being oppressed for the good of others makes us want to rebel.
That is why I foresee political assasinations on the horizon when we snap. And it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.
What is especially on display is not violence or the lack of all decency, but stupidity. For that we might be thankful.
ReplyDeleteWhen I hire a killer for $3,000 I have guarunteed the weakest possible link to my future freedom. As he goes, so I go now forever.
Most women just do it themselves with poison. Those are the untold crimes of the centuries.
Amanda Knox's parents seem nice responsible people. I don't want to say too much about her because I feel bad. She is still at court and I don't want to speculate as the facts have been so badly presented in the media. God alone knows what happened there.
ReplyDeleteAnd then there is all these random mass gun murders in America. The man who shot dead some women in a gym because he couldn't form relationships with women.
I think the most ghastly crimes I have read about recently were the ones where pregnant women have been murdered so that people can rip them open and steal their unborn babies. I have never read anything so ghastly. Other than the teenage boys who gang raped a girl and covered her in acid to cover the evidence. A trick they learned from the hit TV series CSI.
Overall the proliferation of on screen torture porn and the general lessening of our disgust at such things on screen makes murder seem trivial, easy, less horrifying and 'so what'. No matter how violent we are almost immune to the horrors thanks to media. And some demented specimens must consider it all a game. Like these murderers in your post.
When you consider that America has much more stringent penalties, religion.. and this still happens there I am not even sure it has much to do with punishment anymore.
It's all to do with our modern cultcha imho. How sad that a film at Cannes cannot be banned because of libertarian principles, wins awards and yet it features a woman mutilating herself:
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/47784,news,gory-charlotte-gainsbourg-wins-at-cannes
Gross
I second Lord T.
ReplyDeleteI think kids are allowed to think they are grown up far too soon.
ReplyDeleteNo one is really grown up until they have experienced life a little and before that they need good role models and advice.
How drastically society has changed may be measured by looking back at the American Civil War. Approximately ten percent of the male population of soldering age (under 40) died in four years. Yet Lincoln walked unescorted in Washington daily.
ReplyDeletePerhaps the natural barriers of the day were a great blessing. Now we know too little about too much and too immediately, and it is relentless.
I'm going to opine the unfashionable just to be revolutionary :
ReplyDeleteCasualties of the Class war.
Increased taxation since WW2 has had two effects, the middle-class reduced fertility (they breed according to their reduced means) whilst the working classes and underclass's have had their fertility subsidised (medical advances in national health also reducing child mortality).
The Liberal elite have reduced the middle-class and their behavioural values to ridicule where once good manners were a sign of aspiration and betterment.
Those whom you think are middle-class are often just moneyed trash.
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ReplyDeleteProblems?
I'll email you - yep, the old trolls are back again, trying to make out a case. You know the ones, Wolfie.
ReplyDeleteI've said on another post that I want nothing to do with it or them and if they're sensible, neither would they.
I'll just watch like a hawk for a while and see what happens.
There is very little doubt, when one goes through the legislation and the propaganda which has been inflicted on us that the removal of the bourgeoisie is a key priority.
ReplyDeleteOne can take it form your non-Them point of view, as you've stated or from my Them stance but either way, there are three major targets:
1. the middle-class;
2. families;
3. Christianity.
Each is a major obstacle to socialism because each denies the State hegemony and in the case of the latter, perpetuates the notion that this thing is not accidental.