Michael might not have had the best judgment. He met Dalia when he hired her through an escort service in October 2008. Although he had suspicions after money disappeared and people were leaving notes on his car asking for money, he stayed with Dalia because he was growing ever closer to her and her family.
Is your jaw still hanging low? After doing more research on the case online, I read in the Sun Sentinel that in Broward and Palm Beach counties in Florida alone, about one murder-for-hire case comes through the courts each year -- and most of the time it is spouses, exes, and lovers who are doing the hiring. I can't believe that murdering your spouse is on the top of some people's to-do lists. Why marry the person in the first place? How could you even consider harming the person with whom you've chosen to share your life, even if you have fallen out of love or are broke? Money doesn't seem like a good motive to me and certainly not a mere $240,000 and a house.