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NANCY GRACE

Tiger in Sex Rehab Clinic

Aired January 22, 2010 - 20:00:00   ET

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NANCY GRACE, HOST: Breaking news tonight, live, Windermere, Florida. Golf superstar Tiger Woods drives out of his multi-million-dollar compound barefoot, 2:00 AM, and has a head-on collision with a tree and a fire hydrant. He immediately pulls out of his own golf tournament, as alleged mistresses hit double digits, including a swimsuit model, two porn stars and a waitress at a pancake house. Woods gets just a slap on the wrist, even though cops are told Woods was drinking and was prescribed sleeping pills and painkiller vicodin.

Breaking tonight, Tiger Woods in an addiction rehab -- sex addiction. Tonight, pictures finally emerge of Tiger Woods, coming from "The National Enquirer." They show Woods, head covered, at the in-house rehab facility, Mississippi. Millions in endorsements dry up, the latest AT&T. And even "Golf Digest" turns their back on Tiger Woods. With Woods in treatment for sex addiction, where -- where -- does that leave wife, Elin, two little children and nearly a billion dollars all hanging in the balance?

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do you think that Tiger`s a sex addict?

JAIMEE GRUBBS, TIGER`S ALLEGED MISTRESS: The man that I knew, the Tiger that I knew, I would never think that. You know, it was never about that. He never, you know, just kind of said, Come over, and that`s what`s going to happen.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Nobody has seen Tiger ever since Thanksgiving Day. He`s been absolutely gone, missing in action. Every journalist, every photographer in the world has been trying to get this money shot.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, it`s -- it`s Tiger. I need you to do me a huge favor. Can you please take your name off your phone? My wife went through my phone and may be calling you.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is behavior that goes to the extreme, where he had a dozen or more women, probably each believing they were the only other woman. So he was lying to each of them.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Tiger has patterns of, obviously, infidelity and risk taking. I think to call him a sex addict is a stretch and actually an excuse for really bad, bad behavior.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So if you can, please take your name off that and, what do you call it, just have it as a number on the voicemail. Just have it as your telephone number. That`s it. OK? You got to do this for me. Huge. Quickly. All right. Bye.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He`s betrayed a number of people in his life, not the least of which was Elin, his wife, and the public.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: And tonight, a Florida beach beauty marries her dream man, the newlyweds all set to live happily ever after until death do them part. What the 26-year-old bride didn`t plan on was the hit man she hires to murder her new husband is a cop. That`s right, cops sting the bride on video, breaking down in hysterical tears, crying over her dead husband just hours after she puts the final touches on his shooting death.

The secret informant who alerts police to the murder plot? Of course, you know it, I know it, everybody knows it, it`s her lover. Yes, just six months into the marriage, she gets a lover, and it`s all caught on video. Tonight, wife Dalia Dippolito takes the stand.

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DALIA DIPPOLITO, CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER: I invoke my right to remain silent.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So I just want to make sure that you know this is what you want. All right?

DIPPOLITO: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you`re sure you want to kill this dude?

DIPPOLITO: Do we really have to...

I invoke my right to remain silent.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Between now and when it`s done, you know, you`re not going to have an option to change your mind. Even if you change your mind...

DIPPOLITO: There`s no changing -- no -- there`s no -- like, I`m determined already. I`m positive, like 5,000 percent sure.

GRACE: OK, she`s walking up. She`s gotten the call at the LA Fitness Center to come home immediately. OK, look at the other cops. This is what I like. They all know he`s not dead. Oh, God! No! No!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know who this guy is?

DIPPOLITO: No.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You`ve never seen him before?

DIPPOLITO: I`ve never seen him before, ever.

I invoke my right to remain silent.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Your husband is well and alive.

DIPPOLITO: Thank God!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, yes, thank God.

DIPPOLITO: Can I please -- can I see him?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, he doesn`t want to see you.

GRACE: OK, it`s about time she should bend over with abdominal pains. She`s about to collapse out of grief.

DIPPOLITO: I invoke my right to remain silent.

I didn`t do anything and I didn`t plot anything!

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us. Tonight, Tiger Woods in addiction rehab -- sex addiction. Pictures finally emerge of Woods, coming from "The National Enquirer." With Woods in treatment for sex addiction, just where does that leave wife, Elin, two children and billions of dollars hanging in the balance?

The facts really don`t seem to hang together between his and his wife`s story about what happened that night. Coincidentally, the incident occurred just hours after the story hit the stands with a The National Enquirer" front cover that Tiger Woods was allegedly involved in an affair with a New York party girl.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s all blowing up as we speak.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Like a bakery, take a number, and next, apparently. And I`m sure there are many more. This guy`s a playboy.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: ... led up to the crash that we learned that Elin had found Tiger`s phone, and on it she had seen text messages.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Infidelity in a marriage is one thing, and if you`re dealing with one infidelity, that can be a symptom of a marriage that`s in distress. But a serial infidelity, a cheater, which what appears to be what Tiger has done, is a symptom in the character of the person who is cheating.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It wasn`t one woman. It wasn`t two. You know, we think the number has been up to 13.

GRACE: If these women are to be believed, the relationship with Tiger Woods would go on for a couple of years. How he whined about being married to his wife and says he wished he met them before he got married. What is that? There`s got to be a medical term.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They delude themselves into thinking, someday, they`ll be the only one, that they`ll replace the wife. I don`t for one second believe he had real relationships with these women.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: His wife and his two little children, they`re the real victims in all of this.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Straight out to the executive editor of "The National Enquirer," Barry Levine. Barry, well, you went and you did it this time, first photos ever, Tiger Woods in rehab. I`m not even going to ask you how much you paid for that picture, but how much did you pay for that picture?

BARRY LEVINE, "NATIONAL ENQUIRER": Well, I can tell you, Nancy, that we didn`t pay anything for the picture. In fact, it was -- the picture was generated from our investigative reporting team. We tracked Tiger to this tiny rehab facility in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the Gentle Path program there. There had been reports he had been in South Africa and New York City, at another clinic in Arizona, on his yacht, the "Privacy." Well, you know, we broke the story initially and we`ve stayed on it and finally located Tiger in this facility.

GRACE: Please don`t come after me, but if you are looking at me -- looking for me, I`m typically trapped at the top of a play space at McDonald`s or Chic-Fil-A. Everybody, you`re looking at purported pictures from "The National Enquirer" of Tiger Woods in sex rehab. It is an in- house facility. And this is far from the Tiger Woods that we`ve all come to know, striding purposefully across the greens, people cheering him, thousands of people adoring him, shots of him, his beautiful wife, his two children. Here he is with his head covered up with a hoodie at a sex rehab center.

What can you tell me, Barry Levine of "The National Enquirer," about this place? I`m sure people in the know have heard of it. It`s a very out-of-the-way spot in the gritty inner city of Hattiesburg, Mississippi?

LEVINE: Well, he was really under our nose, Nancy. The fact is, this clinic -- Dr. Patrick Carnes (ph), who runs the clinic, actually has a great reputation, you know, nationally for sex addiction. Tiger, we were told, entered the facility, according to our multiple sources, at the end of December -- December 30th, to be in fact. He`s going to be there for the full six-week program, which costs about $60,000. There`s 23 other patients in the program.

GRACE: Did you say $60,000? For how long?

LEVINE: Six weeks.

GRACE: Sixty thousand? That`s more than tuition at an Ivy League college for the year. OK, this guy, Dr. Patrick Carnes, better be good. But hold on. Barry Levine, are you telling me you`ve known since December 30 that he`s been there?

LEVINE: Well, Nancy, I can`t go back and tell you exactly when we learned the information. I can tell you when we put our investigative reporting team in place down in Mississippi. We managed to be in the right place at the right time and scored a photo of him at the end of last week. That image is now being seen all over the globe. This is the first image, of course, of Tiger, and he doesn`t look like the Tiger that we`ve seen on the golf course and in his commercials. He`s clearly a gentleman who is dealing with his problem now. He is not...

GRACE: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Barry Levine, that is where you and I have a difference of opinion. I`m not so convinced there`s a sex addiction. I think that it happened because he could do it. It was easy. He didn`t think it was wrong. He was -- he managed to compartmentalize that all these women that he was sleeping with, all of them had nothing to do with his marriage, that he still loved his wife and his children and it didn`t affect his marriage. I really believe that`s what he thought because it went over and over and over.

And Barry Levine, you`ve been on the show. You could have asked me a month ago. And I told you, not that I would ever say I told you so, but that he was going to go, Eh, eh, eh, I`m a sex addict, somebody heal me, it`s not my fault, I`m sick.

LEVINE: Well, Nancy, obviously, everybody in the world has their opinions, and certainly, yours is at the top of the pack tonight. But the fact is, from what we know, I can tell you that this is very serious. His wife, Elin, apparently gave him an ultimatum, Either go into this clinic, or -- you know, or basically, she was going to divorce him, and he chose to go in for treatment.

GRACE: Well, what that says to me is that she`s planning to stay with him.

LEVINE: Well, we certainly think that. And she will be coming to the facility for a week to take part in some of the counseling programs there. We haven`t seen her there yet, but we do expect her in the next couple of weeks.

GRACE: I hope they don`t let her bring in a golf club in!

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He`s behaving like a 13-year-old boy! This isn`t serial cheating, this is concurrent cheating. I think he splits off his wife, who`s the mother, and his sexual relationships with other women, and one has nothing to do with the other in his head, and therefore, it`s OK.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, it`s -- it`s Tiger. I need you to do me a huge favor.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The investigation has determined that Mr. Woods is at fault in the crash.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can you please take your name off your phone?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There were reports that there was a domestic dispute before Tiger Woods left his house.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My wife went through my phone and may be calling you.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Elin had found Tiger`s phone, and on it she had seen text messages.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Because she can, please take your name off that.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It wasn`t one woman. It wasn`t two. You know, we think the number has been up to 13.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just have it as a number on the voicemail. Just have it as your telephone number. That`s it.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I do not for one second believe he had real relationships with these women.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You got to do this for me. Huge. Quickly. All right. Bye.

GRUBBS: I did put a lot of, you know, emotions into this and I did care very much for him. And when we were together, I mean, he did make me feel like I was the only girl.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Did you feel guilty?

GRUBBS: I guess if I were to seriously think about it, I -- you know, I did feel guilty that, you know, he`s spending his time with somebody, you know, that isn`t his wife. But you know, he never mentioned her, and it was kind of -- you know, I never thought about it. I -- I thought of our times together and how I felt about him and how my heart wanted, what my heart wanted. So I never...

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GRACE: So she`s feeling bad that she`s not the only other woman. OK. That`s a mind bender. Back to Barry Levine, executive editor, "National Enquirer," who has gotten the first picture of Tiger Woods since his car crash on Thanksgiving. And he is walking out of an in-house treatment facility for sex addiction in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Back to you. Barry Levine, what can you tell me about the conditions of his rehab? What does he have to do?

LEVINE: Well, Nancy, he`s going through a program. He apparently worked something out in advance. He`s not taking part in the group counseling sessions. He`s receiving one-on-one treatments. He`s...

GRACE: Let me just cut to the chase, Barry.

LEVINE: Yes.

GRACE: Is it true that he`s got a personal maid and that he did over $100,000 worth of renovations to his room before he would go there?

LEVINE: Well, I can tell you that, according to our sources, the other patients obviously are not happy with the accommodations he has. He has his own cottage. Apparently, he had renovations done. The other patients are required to make their beds in the morning and clean their bathrooms and so forth, and Tiger -- one of the conditions he set was that, apparently, he has maid service to deal in this cottage. So obviously, he is, you know, having some of his own comforts there.

But we`re told that the program is rigorous. It begins at 5:30 in the morning. There`s spiritually sessions, there`s meditation, lectures, and then the actual counseling begins in terms of the sex addiction therapy.

GRACE: Now, what is "disclosure day"?

LEVINE: OK. "Disclosure day" is the day that apparently ends the week-long family stay, when his wife will apparently be in on some of the lectures. On that particular day, Tiger -- this will be his most painful day in terms of making a disclosure to his wife. He has to sit down and take her through, apparently, you know, all of the bad stuff that he did, point by point. He has to lay it all out to her and basically go over all of it so she completely understands what he did. And that is apparently a major part of the program.

GRACE: Well, Barry, I hope they put Elin Nordegren through a metal detector before she goes into "disclosure day." You know, Barry, your magazine is the one who`s reporting $100,000 renovation done on his cottage. So are you backing off that? Are you saying that you`re standing by that claim?

LEVINE: Oh, we`re standing by that. I mean, that`s from our sources. We, you know, absolutely found him there.

GRACE: A hundred thousand dollars? OK, Ellie Jostad, our chief editorial producer. What more can you tell me, Ellie?

ELLIE JOSTAD, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER: Well, Nancy, the other big question right now is, where is Elin Nordegren? There`s a lot of rumors and speculation floating around that the reason that Tiger Woods is allegedly in this sex rehab is because she gave him an ultimatum -- either change, get some help, promise you`re not going to cheat anymore, or I`m going to take off. I might even move to Sweden and take the kids with me.

GRACE: Well, to you, Kim Serafin with "In Touch Weekly," senior editor there. Kim, he is getting kid glove treatment, if these allegations are true, at the Hattiesburg sex clinic. Isn`t that true?

KIM SERAFIN, "IN TOUCH WEEKLY": Yes. That`s, of course, what is being reported, that he is getting this special treatment. But as Ellie just said, "In Touch" -- a source told "In Touch" that Elin has threatened -- is planning, actually, to go to Sweden and bring the kids with her, that being in Florida is just reminding her of all the havoc that Tiger has wreaked on her life and the family life. So it`s really tough for her, and she just wants to be by her family.

GRACE: Well, back to you, Barry Levine, executive editor, "National Enquirer." You state while other patients are required to clean rooms and toilets, make their beds, plan meals as a unit, attend every group counseling session, the superstar athlete is undergoing his own specially designed behavior modification sessions. He doesn`t clean his cabin. He won`t attend group counseling. In fact, he`s really not going through the rigorous program, is he. He`s being waited on hand and foot.

LEVINE: Well, obviously, we`re not certainly there. All we can tell you, Nancy, is that he has -- apparently, when he arrived, he did what all the other patients did. He had to fill out his full sexual history, all of his addiction problems. And obviously, the counselors and the doctors are working on those problems every day. So...

GRACE: So Tiger Woods can`t clean his own commode.

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(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GRUBBS: If Tiger was here, I think that, you know, I would just tell him, you know, part of our relationship was fake and I cared for him. I`m sorry that everything, you know, is coming out and happening the way it did, and I just thought it was time for, you know, his wife to know and for me to let it go.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There are benefits and burdens to being Tiger Woods. The burden? We`re still talking about him and we`re all up in his business. The benefit? Maybe he got that benefit of the doubt that night, where at that moment, they didn`t feel that there was enough evidence to say that he was drinking or drunk, you know, anything like that. So unfortunately, it is what it is.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Back to Barry Levine, executive editor, "National Enquirer." Barry, now the rumors are surfacing about when he will return to the PGA tour, and it`s as soon as this spring. So you know, he`s basically sat out the winter.

LEVINE: Yes. I mean, we`re being told that he does plan to return in the spring. I want to say one final thing on the rehab center that he`s in. Apparently, they have a 64 percent success rate for patients from relapsing for the first six months out of the rehab. So hopefully, he`ll fall into that category.

GRACE: If you don`t know a horse, Barry Levine, look at his track record.

Marvet Britto, image consultant, Britto Agency, I know that Tiger Woods probably wanted a different first photo out there, maybe one of his wife with him and the children. Didn`t turn out that way. There he is with a hoodie on his head.

MARVET BRITTO, IMAGE CONSULTANT: I`m actually surprised. I mean, here`s a person that controls everything around him. So it makes me wonder if he really wanted this picture to be seen. For me...

GRACE: Marvet, Marvet, now, you see that big scaffold he`s standing beside?

BRITTO: Yes, but you know what?

GRACE: They built that for him!

BRITTO: Well, you know, first of all, we`re not sure that it`s Tiger, so let me just say that because...

GRACE: OK.

BRITTO: ... sex rehab is an old-school PR tactic that`s designed to soothe the wife, and gain public sympathy. But it doesn`t do either anymore. So, you know, we don`t know that it`s Tiger. And until Tiger emerges and says, I went to rehab, I think that we should just wait and see what he and his camp says.

GRACE: OK. Should I believe you or my lying eyes that that`s not Tiger Woods?

BRITTO: Well...

GRACE: All right. But why do you say the whole, I`m sick, I wasn`t just fooling around on my wife -- why doesn`t that rehabilitate one`s reputation anymore?

BRITTO: Because sex rehab only works, technically, if you admit that you have a problem before you get caught cheating. So essentially, Tiger Woods is a cheater. He`s not a sex addict. So...

GRACE: Marvet Britto joining us, image consultant, the Britto Agency, New York. What about it, Bethany Marshal?

BETHANY MARSHALL, PSYCHOTHERAPIST: I mean, to be a sex addict, there`s an escalating pattern of sexual compulsivity that persists despite repeated negative consequences. But you know what? He didn`t abide by the rules of his marriage, and now he`s not abiding by the rules of this sex rehab clinic. He had sexual maidens at his service, and now he has maid service. He didn`t disclose to his wife, and now he`s not disclosing in group. This doesn`t sound like rigorous treatment.

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(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was going to get 3,000 from you today.

DALIA DIPPOLITO, WIFE WHO HIRED A HIT MAN TO KILL HUSBAND: Right.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And 3,000 when it`s all done.

DIPPOLITO: Right.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So since I`m not going to collect all of it at once, you know, just throw in maybe 1,000 more.

DIPPOLITO: OK.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A thousand or two. OK? So 7,000 or 8,000 once it`s done?

DIPPOLITO: Just 7,000. Is that OK?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK, 7,000 cash.

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE: You`re going to jail for solicitation of first- degree murder of your husband.

DIPPOLITO: I didn`t do anything.

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE: Did you hear what I just told you?

DIPPOLITO: I heard what you said but I didn`t do anything.

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE: Everything -- listen to me. Everything has been recorded. You were photographed in the convertible when you sat in his car in the front of CVS. What do you want to do?

DIPPOLITO: Oh my god.

I invoke my right to remain silent.

GRACE: OK, Meryl Streep. Watch out. Here`s an Oscar-winning performance, all the cops standing by. They`ve got the yellow crime scene tape up. They claim they saw -- a witness saw the assailant running from the home. And the cops are drinking it all in. Scratching the ear. Yes, we feel bad for you.

DIPPOLITO: I didn`t do anything.

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE: Did you hear what I just told you?

DIPPOLITO: I heard what you said but I didn`t do anything.

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE: Everything -- listen to me. Everything has been recorded. You were photographed in the convertible when you sat in his car in the front of CVS. What do you want to do?

DIPPOLITO: Oh my god.

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE: He`s alive.

DIPPOLITO: Come here, please. Come here. Mike, come here. Come here. Please. Come here.

MIKE DIPPOLITO, DALIA DIPPOLITO`S HUSBAND: I can`t. I can`t fix this.

DIPPOLITO: Why not? I didn`t do anything to you.

M. DIPPOLITO: I heard you.

DIPPOLITO: There`s no changing -- no, there`s no, like, I`m.

(CROSSTALK)

DIPPOLITO: I`m positive, like 5,000 percent sure.

Mike, come here, please. Come here.

I`m a lot tougher than what I look.

I invoke my right to remain silent.

I know you`re thinking, you`re, like, oh what a cute little girl, whatever.

(LAUGHTER)

But I`m not. I`m not.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That you are. You`re extremely beautiful.

DIPPOLITO: Thank you, but you know, I just need to make sure everything is going to be taken care of.

I invoke my right to remain silent.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What is your current address?

DIPPOLITO: I invoke my right to remain silent.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is it true that your husband purchased this property prior to your marriage?

DIPPOLITO: I invoke my right to remain silent.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So I just want to make sure that, you know, this is what you want. All right?

DIPPOLITO: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you`re sure you want to kill this dude?

(LAUGHTER)

DIPPOLITO: Do we really have to -- you know, it`s just, I`d rather be as less, you know, whatever with you.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. All right.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Straight out to Hugh Nolan, investigative reporter, joining us from Miami. Boy, she sure cleaned up pretty well there in court. She looked like a librarian or a schoolteacher. Why was she in court, Hugh Nolan?

HUGH NOLAN, INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER (via phone): Well she was in court for a hearing on the husband`s motion to invalidate a deed. He had placed her on the title to the home he purchased days before the marriage in a meeting in February just several weeks after the marriage took place.

The husband`s attorneys were claiming that because the signatures were not actually placed on the document in the same room in which the individual -- one of the individuals who witnessed the signature was standing -- that under Florida law that deed was invalid. They were trying to get her kicked off the deed, Nancy.

GRACE: Susan Spencer-Wendel, you were in court. Susan, joining us from the "Palm Beach Post." How did she appear in court, Susan?

SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL, REPORTER, PALM BEACH POST: She appeared, as you said, you know, very, very (INAUDIBLE), very stoic. Her calmly self, dressed in a gray pantsuit and burgundy pumps, and didn`t have a word to say really beyond her name and invoking her right to remain silent.

GRACE: Susan, did she make eye contact with her husband?

SPENCER-WENDEL: She did. She did and as she entered the courtroom and exited the courtroom, our photographer from the "Palm Beach Post" there believes that she actually said something to her husband. It was unsure of what she actually said. So I believe they did sit within eyesight of each other, quite feely, glares, indeed.

GRACE: You mean she gave him a glare and he returned it?

SPENCER-WENDEL: Yes. Yes. I would say.

GRACE: To you, Clark Goldband, our producer on the story. This woman never gives up, does she? She allegedly tries to kill her husband more than once. First of all, reportedly she tried to poison some Starbucks and he took a swig and spit it out.

I think she tried that once, maybe more, and then tries to hire a hit man. Now she wants half the house.

CLARK GOLDBAND, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER, COVERING STORY: Well, Nancy, that tea.

GRACE: It`s incredible.

GOLDBAND: That tea you were talking about from Starbucks she used anti-freeze that was clear. He spits it out and gets so ill from just spitting out that solution that he`s in constant stomach pain, let`s say, for four days after that.

And, Nancy, you say that Dalia Dippolito does not give up. After she`s in jail when this happens she calls the husband that she allegedly tried to kill and says, I didn`t do anything. And he says, Dalia, I heard the tape.

GRACE: And you mentioned -- you left out one very important word. She called him collect from the jail. OK? Because you can`t call any other way out of the jail. And he took the call.

So what more can you tell us -- back to you, Susan Spencer-Wendell with the "Palm Beach Post." What was the husband like in court? He`s looking at a woman that tried to kill him allegedly twice and she`s caught on tape.

SPENCER-WENDEL: Well, the matter of the hearing was quite a technical matter about the validity of the deed. So the husband`s testimony was largely on point in that regard about witnessing the deed, et cetera, et cetera.

But something, you know, the most notable fact of the whole deed matter is that that home was transferred to her name less than a week before she was arrested for solicitation to kill him.

GRACE: Unleash the lawyers.

SPENCER-WENDEL: So.

GRACE: Sue Moss -- excuse me. Go ahead, Susan.

SPENCER-WENDEL: And so -- I mean, that`s just really, you know, the most distinct fact out of the whole technical deed matter was that -- I believe it was July 31st -- he transfers the home that he purchased with cash to her name only and some six days later she is arrested.

GRACE: Unleash the lawyers. Sue Moss, New York. Renee Rockwell, veteran defense attorney out of Atlanta. Peter Odom, also a defense attorney out of Atlanta jurisdiction.

Renee Rockwell, she`s caught on tape. She tries to feed him poisoned tea and now she wants half of the luxury condo, the townhouse they had together. It may be a technical matter, but what it boils down to is he`s stuck with her. He can`t get a divorce because they can`t reach a property settlement.

RENEE ROCKWELL, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Nancy, I hate to tell you the house is all in her name. Now he buys the house before the marriage, then he transferred half of it to her. And then right before the alleged hit he transfers the other half to her.

So, Nancy, there`s nothing really to fight about. That house is 100 percent in her name. And guess what, the judge ruled with her.

GRACE: Sue Moss, I guess he wasn`t thinking with his head when he signed this house away, huh?

SUSAN MOSS, FAMILY LAW ATTORNEY & CHILD ADVOCATE: Perhaps it was something else. So let me get this straight. She tries to kill him or at least makes him bleed but this judge rules this is a valid deed?

My argument is that they missed the real key to this case. That is a fraud case. They should try to set aside this deed based upon fraud. That would probably work.

GRACE: I agree. The whole maneuver, getting the town home -- and it`s quite the swanky place, Peter Odom.

ROCKWELL: And the marriage. And the marriage.

GRACE: Put in her name just days before the hit goes down. In fact, the very day she gets him to sign it over to her she goes shopping for a hit man. I think Sue Moss is right on, they`ve got to go for a fraud. Fraud and -- yes, go ahead, Peter.

PETER ODOM, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: It`s called fraud in the inducement. And if he was induced to sign this over to her under false pretenses, that is not knowing that she was going to try and kill him, then indeed, Susan is right. The deed might be set aside.

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UNIDENTIFIED POLICE: You better quit your playing.

DIPPOLITO: I`m not.

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE: Listen to me. I want you to quit your acting and get this over with.

DIPPOLITO: I`m not.

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE: Yes, you are.

DIPPOLITO: I`m not.

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE: OK. You know what? You need a real good attorney. You need a real good attorney because we`re going to show him the film where you say you`re 5,000 percent sure you want him dead.

You think I made that up?

DIPPOLITO: I invoke my right to remain silent.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What is your current address?

DIPPOLITO: I invoke my right to remain silent.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is it true that your husband purchased this property prior to your marriage?

DIPPOLITO: I invoke my right to remain silent.

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DIPPOLITO: How soon can we get everything going?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, that`s -- it`s up to you.

DIPPOLITO: I mean I need it done like this week, but like my understanding and everything was, is that you, like, you know, I was going to give you what I gave you and then that was, that was everything.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I gave.

(LAUGHTER)

DIPPOLITO: Until after the fact. And then after the fact I guess you were going to come and like find me or whatever or you were going to tell me where it was supposed to go. That`s why like today when you asked me for money you threw me off guard and I told you OK.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, right.

DIPPOLITO: I said, OK, OK, OK, because you know, I`m not going to get on the phone and be whatever, like, over, you know, but.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK.

DIPPOLITO: I mean, I`m good for it. It`s not like I don`t have it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, no.

DIPPOLITO: You know what I mean? Like I understand your position. Like I went ahead and I gave 12 with the understanding that after everything was already handled you were going to come and find me and I mean I know not to (EXPLETIVE DELETED) around with you. You know certain things, whatever. Like you know what I mean? Like you obviously know where I`m at.

(LAUGHTER)

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GRACE: To sergeant Scott Haines, sheriff`s officer, Santa Rosa County, Florida. These cops were dead on. I can`t believe they didn`t burst out laughing when they were stinging her. Did you see them all standing around kind of looking at their feet while she was bending over with abdominal pains and grief?

SGT. SCOTT HAINES, SHERIFF`S OFFICER, SANTA ROSA COUNTY, FL.: It definitely had to take a lot of self-control to maintain their undercover status at that point but they kept their level heads. They kept focus on the investigation and they knew what they had to do to make sure that they had a good case against this woman and they followed through to the end, and she`s still in denial which is amazing after what they have against her.

GRACE: You know, to Dr. Joshua Perper, chief medical examiner, Broward County, author of "When to Call the Doctor."

Dr. Perper, we`re, you know, in a way joking about the whole incident because it didn`t work, but if it had worked it would be an entirely different matter. And I want to ask you, what would death by arsenic poisoning be like? What pain would that have inflicted on the victim, Mike Dippolito?

DR. JOSHUA PERPER, MEDICAL EXAMINER, AUTHOR OF "WHEN TO CALL THE DOCTOR": You mean by arsenic poisoning?

GRACE: Yes. That`s what she tried the first time according to sources.

PERPER: Well, it`s -- yes, it`s usually associated with very severe abdominal pain and nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and a great deal of suffering. And sometimes people did that in order to watch their victims. You know in the Middle Ages was a way to revenge yourself in seeing how much the victim is suffering. It`s a very painful death.

GRACE: Dr. Perper.

PERPER: When somebody.

GRACE: I did not know that. There were times when the killer would actually watch the victim suffer from poisoning.

PERPER: Right. In acute arsenic, yes, they do that sometimes. Currently arsenic can be done in small amounts over time so the gastrointestinal systems are not related to the poisoning by....

GRACE: Now this one actually -- I`m thinking back, it was actually antifreeze and even just spitting it out he doubled over in pain and had nausea just from having it in his mouth.

To Dr. Bethany Marshall, psychoanalyst, author of "Dealbreakers." Now I think I`ve really heard it all. She is behind bars for trying to kill him. Hiring a hit man. It`s all caught on tape. We have the audio and the videotape of her.

Reports she tried to poison him with antifreeze in the Starbucks tea. Now she wants the house. She`s demanding the house. She`s not letting go of the house. Look at her. She`s in court.

BETHANY MARSHALL, PSYCHOANALYST, AUTHOR OF "DEALBREAKERS": But you know what, Nancy, she`s gotten away with everything so far. She met him while she was escorting. His wife was on a business trip. When his wife came back he gave the wife the boot.

So she was able to get rid of the wife. Then she tries to put a hit on him three times. He`s doubling over with pain and she`s able to convince him that she didn`t try to poison him. I mean, this guy is kind of stupid. He.

GRACE: Don`t be blaming the victim, Bethany. Don`t go there. Let us just say he was blinded by love.

OK, let`s take a listen to Dalia Dippolito caught in the act.

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UNIDENTIFIED POLICE: The game`s over with, OK? There`s no more games between you and I. Now we`re going to get down to serious business. I want to know if you know this guy. Come here. Bring this guy in here. Get over here. Get over here.

You know who this guy is?

DIPPOLITO: No.

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE: You`ve never seen him before?

DIPPOLITO: I`ve never seen him before, ever.

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE: Do you know her?

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE: Put your head up and look at her.

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE: Put your head up.

DIPPOLITO: I have never seen him.

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE: What were you doing coming out of her house? Get him out of here.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I`ll give you a quick breakdown of what I`ve done so far. You know, I got 1200 from you, all right? So I went ahead to buying my heat, my gun, OK? And a couple hundred, you know, for other people to do things.

DIPPOLITO: Right.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know what I mean? That`s pretty much it. As a matter of fact, I`ve already spent more money, you know, just to get here.

DIPPOLITO: Right.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You understand? Because I had to get this car. Got to get rid this car. I had to get this phone, I have to get rid of this phone.

DIPPOLITO: Right.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know what I mean? There`s a lot more I have to do.

DIPPOLITO: I know. Like, I told you, I can`t keep coming out of -- like I`ve come out of pocket a lot for like a lot of other things.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, that`s fine. That`s fine.

DIPPOLITO: But you know what, I mean, like I can`t get into it like with you or whatever.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No. That all right. Go ahead. Go ahead. That`s all right.

DIPPOLITO: So it`s kind of like, you know, like, I`m in a position where like I told you like I`m good for it. Like the day that you needed it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I know you are.

DIPPOLITO: It`s like I came, I met that day, it was handled. You know what I mean? Like, that`s the kind of person that I am.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK.

DIPPOLITO: Today you threw me off guard when you called me at like 2 and it`s not like, you know, what, I mean, I have it stashed under my pillow.

(LAUGHTER)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So I just want to make sure that, you know, this is what you want. All right?

DIPPOLITO: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you`re sure you want to kill this dude?

(LAUGHTER)

DIPPOLITO: Do we really have to -- you know, it`s just, I`d rather be as less, you know, whatever with you.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. All right.

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GRACE: I just hate it when the hit man you`ve hired to murder your husband calls it the wrong time and you`ve got to hide your cell phone under your pillow. That`s awful. Why did he do that? Maybe because he was an undercover cop.

I want to go back out to you, Hugh Nolan, any chance there`s going to be a plea in this case?

NOLAN: We don`t have too much activity at this point on the criminal case itself. Of course, this hearing regarding the house and the deed took place in family court. We do have a status hearing set in the criminal case for March 15th. We may get a better idea then of what direction the case is taking but at this point we don`t have any reason to believe it`s going one way or the other on that.

GRACE: Clark Goldband, what about it?

GOLDBAND: It`s important to note, Nancy, that Dalia still remains home on house arrest at her mom`s house in lieu of $25,000 bond. In any court -- when she appeared in court had to hide that ankle monitor with some long pants.

GRACE: OK. Tell me about the conditions of her house arrest. And this is a woman that has tried not once but twice to commit murder and some judge let her go home to mommy. She`s probably having chicken noodle soup right now and not out of a can.

GOLDBAND: She tried three times according to law enforcement, Nancy. And in fact, as one of the conditions of her bail, she was granted house arrest, had to put up $25,000, is not able to leave the house without prior permission from the judge, and has to wear that all-famous ankle monitor.

GRACE: OK, you`ve got 30 seconds. Describe the three attempts.

GOLDBAND: Well, the first attempt, Nancy, was that she allegedly, according to law enforcement, tried to hire two hit men who weren`t hit men and stole the cash. We talked about that. The second attempt, the Starbucks tea where she allegedly tried to poison him. And the third attempt, Nancy, caught on tape as we`re seeing this evening.

GRACE: And now she`s out on house arrest at home with mommy.

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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: One of the worst ever natural disasters in the western hemisphere couldn`t have chosen a more fragile target. Through it all, the Haitian people have rallied their strength and persevere.

People dig through rubble with their bare hands searching for trapped relatives and rescuing neighbors.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is she alive? Is she OK?

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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Survivors share food and water. And in random moments, high above the ruins, a new sound. Hope.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I`m not as weak. I`m not as weak. Because God is with me.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: In the midst of great tragedy, the Haitian people remain hopeful. Embracing life and each other.

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GRACE: What a week in America`s courtrooms. Take a look at the stories and more important, the people who touched our lives.

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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: These are the last known photos of Gabriel from the San Antonio hotel room where the boy may have been drugged.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Tempe, Arizona Police found the pictures on a camera belonging to his mother, Elizabeth Johnson, date stamped, December 26th. The last day he was seen alive. In one photo, Gabriel`s holding what looks like a medicine bottle.

GRACE: Michael, what can you tell us about these just-released photos? Some of them are just hours before baby Gabriel disappears, some are taken on the 26th, the last day of a credible sighting of this baby.

MICHAEL BOARD, REPORTER, WOAI NEWSRADIO: Well, Nancy, you have to wonder why is she taking these photos? Is she taking them because she wants to remember her child? Not likely. Remember this is a woman who did not want this child on several occasions.

She told Logan take that kid with you. I don`t want that kid around you. Why is she taking pictures now?

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: He`s just 12 years old, but tonight he`s missing. Brett Smith left his home around 1:00 p.m. Monday on his bicycle.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Deputies say Brett was last seen riding his bike around the block, a common activity here in this family friendly neighborhood.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: That was the last time anyone saw Brett.

GRACE: This little boy, Brett Alexander Smith, just 12 years old. The only thing left behind is his bike at a McDonald`s? How many of you parents let your kids go in and out of McDonald`s without you being with him? A lot of people do it. Not anymore. I pray to God.

JUDGE CHARLES TINLIN, ST. JOHNS COUNTY JAIL: You`ve been charged with four counts of trafficking hydrocodone out of Putnam County.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The father and former step-mother of missing Florida girl Haleigh Cummings are in jail on charges of drug trafficking.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Undercover officer makes friends with Misty and others and suddenly is going from one drug buy to another with cash. Misty is at every one of the seven incidents, police tell me.

TINLIN: What do you do for a living, ma`am?

MISTY CROSLIN-CUMMINGS, RONALD CUMMING`S WIFE, LAST SEEN HALEIGH: Nothing.

TINLIN: I`m sorry?

CROSLIN: Nothing.

TINLIN: How do you support yourself?

CROSLIN: My mom and my dad.

TINLIN: How old are you?

CROSLIN: Just turned 18.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ronald and Misty have been seen together in recent weeks and I am told that Misty has even a new tattoo of Ronald on her lower back.

GRACE: I don`t care about the tattoo. All I care about is what does this mean to finding the answer to Haleigh Cummings` disappearance? The whole bunch, the whole kit and caboodle makes me sick.

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GRACE: Let`s stop to remember Staff Sergeant Anselmo Martinez III, 26, Robstown, Texas, killed Iraq. Nicknamed B.J., short for Baby Junior. A family man devoted to wife and two daughters, known as a daredevil.

Loved fishing, working with wood, electronic devices. Leaves behind parents, Anselmo and Diana. Two brothers, three sisters, wife Chrissy, daughters, Felicity, Ilana.

Anselmo Martinez III, American hero.

Thank you to our guests but our biggest thank you is to you for being with us. See you tomorrow night, 8:00 sharp Eastern. And until then, good night, friend.

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