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5 min readMichelle Hadley was a self-described Disney princess, a marketing professional who had just started an MBA program and lived with her parents in Ontario, California. In August 2013, she met Ian Diaz, a U.S. Marshal, and the romance was a whirlwind—by the second date, he told her he loved her. He proposed at Rockefeller Center in December 2014. They bought a condo in Anaheim, minutes from her job at Disney, where she could watch the fireworks from the roof. She put down the entire down payment. Two months later, she packed her Jetta and left, showing up at her parents’ doorstep. The relationship, she said, was not healthy for her. But the condo remained a tie that bound them, and the financial dispute over it would become the fuse for a plot so convoluted that the Orange County District Attorney would eventually call it "diabolical"—something the devil might do.
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- 1 Simply Diabolical — Dateline NBC
- 2 Timestamped Outline
- 3 (00:00) **Sponsor Block** - Progressive, Pen Foster, and other advertisements
- 4 (01:15) **Teaser: A Love Triangle Turned Nightmare** - Preview of the diabolical plot involving Michelle Hadley, her ex-boyfriend Ian Diaz, and his new wife Angela
- 5 (02:50) **Michelle's Fairy Tale Romance** - Michelle Hadley, a self-described "Goody Two Shoes" and Disney princess, meets U.S. Marshal Ian Diaz in August 2013
- 6 (05:26) **The Proposal and the Condo** - Ian proposes at Rockefeller Center; they buy a condo in Anaheim near Disneyland, with Michelle paying the entire down payment
- 7 (06:18) **The Breakup and Bizarre Emails** - Michelle claims the relationship was unhealthy; she sends Ian strange emails laced with biblical references to Satan and a demon called Lilith
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Show Notes
A bizarre cyber-revenge case lands a young woman in jail; an unexpected twist reveals the real culprit. Dennis Murphy reports.
Keith Morrison and Dennis Murphy go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in 'Talking Dateline': https://swap.fm/l/talkingdatelinesimplydiabolical
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