Dalia Dippolito, the Boynton Beach woman whose ill-fated murder plot against her new husband captured Palm Beach County headlines for nearly the past decade, is now officially a prisoner.

Florida Department of Corrections records show Dippolito, 34, was processed into the Lowell Correctional Institution in Ocala on Thursday to begin serving her 16-year prison sentence for a conviction on charges tied to the 2009 undercover investigation where she was caught on camera arranging for a hitman to kill her husband, Michael, while she was at the gym.

The hitman turned out to be an undercover Boynton Beach detective, and the plot landed Dippolito in a jail cell and on an episode of the reality television show COPS.

Dippolito first went to trial in 2011, and a jury convicted her after she tried unsuccessfully to argue that she and her husband orchestrated a fake hit plot together in hopes of scoring their own reality television show.

She was sentenced to 20 years in prison, but was released from jail on an appellate bond and her appeal ultimately resulted in a high court awarding her a new trial in 2014.

Dippolito’s second trial came in December, and her attorneys were able to get the closest they would get to a victory in the case when arguments that Boynton Beach acted improperly led to a 3-3 jury split over whether or not she was guilty.

The jury deadlock forced Circuit Judge Glenn Kelley to declare a mistrial, setting up a third trial in June. The jury in that trial convicted Dippolito again, and although Kelley shaved four years from the original sentence that Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath gave her, he denied her request to again be released on appeal.

In her move to prison, Dippolito leaves behind an infant son, who she conceived and gave birth to while on house arrest awaiting her second trial. According to testimony at recent hearings, the boy was most recently living at her mother’s Boynton Beach home along with his father, whose identity was revealed for the first time in August as Robert William Davis.

According to the department of corrections website, the Lowell prison is the oldest women’s state facility.

Dippolito will celebrate her 35th birthday on Wednesday.