Charlie Adelson Is Serving Time for Dan Markel's Murder and He Isn't Alone

Jan. 19 2024, Published 3:32 p.m. ET

On July 29, 2014, a headline splashed around the Tallahassee Democrat: FSU law professor dies in taking pictures. Below those surprising words is a photo of a man smiling. His name is Dan Markel, and he was once struck down in his home at the age of 41. Donald Weidner, dean of the FSU College of Law, informed the press that he used to be "deeply saddened" about reporting this devastating information to Markel's colleagues and pals. Weidner additionally stated their center of attention was once on how they may improve Markel's family at that time.

What Weidner, police, and all involved did not know on the time was once, Markel's circle of relatives was to blame. Actually it was once his circle of relatives by way of marriage, but that is nonetheless a troublesome tablet to swallow. It used to be later discovered that Markel used to be the victim of a murder-for-hire plot that stemmed from a rancorous divorce and emotional battles between in-laws. Markel's brother-in-law, Charlie Adelson, was once at the center of this horrific crime. Where is he now? Here's what we know.

Where is Charlie Adelson now? He's serving a life sentence in prison.

The Tallahassee Democrat reported Adelson's relocation from the "Leon County Detention Facility to the custody of the Florida Department of Corrections," in December 2023. Adelson has been incarcerated since Nov. 6 after an eight-day trial. He was sentenced to "life in prison for first-degree murder and 30 years to run consecutively for conspiracy and solicitation" by way of Leon Circuit Judge Stephen Everett. "I would just like to say that I maintain my innocence," mentioned Markel to the court, by the use of CBS News.

Adelson was once the fourth person to move down for Markel's homicide. He enlisted the help of his female friend, Katherine Magbanua, who employed the "father of her two children, Sigfredo Garcia, to commit the murder." Garcia then asked his formative years buddy, Luis Rivera. Both Magbanua and Garcia are serving life sentences for first-degree homicide whilst Rivera received a 19 yr sentence for testifying towards his co-conspirators. However, there was nonetheless one more conceivable participant in this twisted recreation.

Charlie Adelson's mom, Donna Adelson, used to be arrested in reference to the murder.

In a wild turn, Adelson's mom used to be arrested on the airport as she was once making an attempt to depart the country with her husband. Per the New York Post, Donna Adelson stated, "Oh here we go again," to police as they surrounded her in November 2023. Donna and her husband had one-way tickets to Vietnam, a rustic that does not have a proper extradition agreement with the U.S. Bodycam footage of Donna presentations her being handcuffed by police at Miami International Airport.

Donna "made her first appearance in a Leon County Court on Nov. 21, 2023, where she was formally charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy, and solicitation in connection to Markel’s death." Why would she allegedly be concerned in Markel's murder? At the time he was killed, Markel and Donna Adelson's daughter have been concerned in a cantankerous custody combat over the couple's two kids.

Prosecutors printed they had in their possession emails that confirmed Donna "hated" her son-in-law and was once "'desperate to find a way' to stop the law professor’s 'adamant' efforts to relocate her two grandsons from Tallahassee to South Florida." She allegedly told her son that she deliberate to leave the rustic, whilst chatting with him in a jailhouse name.

ABC News launched recordings of their calls during which Donna is heard pronouncing, "We've been looking it up over and over, because things change," she said to Adelson after his conviction. "If there is extradition from Vietnam? Because we, we've looked at all the places, I mean, I could go to Korea and China, but there's no extradition, but looking for places where there's no extradition." Due to inclement climate, her hearing has been rescheduled to Jan. 30, 2024, via WCTV.

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