And now, the rerun in 'Cops' murder-for-hire case

(AP) — Dalia Dippolito either wanted a hit man to kill her newlywed husband, or she's the victim of police trying to become famous on the "Cops" television show.

Williams laid out a simple timeline for the jurors, listing events from the alleged death plot's inception to her meeting with the fake hit man to her leaving home the morning her husband was to be killed in a staged robbery.

Defense attorney Brian Claypool presented an entirely different picture in his opening, declaring that the wrongdoing was committed by the Boynton Beach Police Department, which he says went "rogue" and built the case in hopes of finding fame on "Cops."

[...] detectives violated department rules by threatening Shihadeh with arrest if he didn't stick with the investigation, which later aired as a special episode of "Cops."

Dippolito has testified previously that she, her husband and Shihadeh were working on their own ill-conceived video project, which they planned to post online in hopes of landing them a reality TV show.