US EditionDonna Adelson guilty as charged in murder for hire plot
Donna Adelson was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy in a decade-long case involving a $100,000 murder-for-hire scheme amid a bitter custody dispute.
- On Thursday, a jury convicted 75-year-old Donna Adelson of first-degree murder for orchestrating a 2014 murder-for-hire plot that killed former son-in-law Daniel Markel in Tallahassee.
- The murder arose from a bitter family feud and custody battle following a contentious 2013 divorce between Markel and his ex-wife Wendi Adelson, amid tensions over relocating children to South Florida.
- Prosecutors portrayed Donna Adelson as a controlling matriarch who used her son Charles and others to pay hired gunmen to kill Markel, while the defense denied any evidence directly linking her to the plot.
- After the verdict was read, Donna Adelson reacted with an exclamation of "Oh!" Meanwhile, Ruth Markel, the mother of Daniel Markel, shared her deep sorrow, mourning the untimely loss of her son at the age of 41.
- The conviction makes Donna Adelson the fifth person found guilty in the case, with several conspirators, including her son Charles, already serving life sentences, highlighting the long-running impact of this violent family dispute.
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Donna Adelson, 75, was convicted of first-degree murder, conspiracy, and murder application.All about the 11-year-old investigation case and a dramatic outcome that shocked Florida.
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For more than a decade, the killing of a well-known Florida law professor, Dan Markel, has consumed a team of state prosecutors in Tallahassee, who secured four convictions as they peeled back a complicated murder-for-hire plot involving the family of the professor’s ex-wife. On Thursday, a jury found a fifth person guilty in the 2014 plot: Donna Adelson, Mr. Markel’s mother-in-law and the grandmother of his two sons. She was convicted of first-…
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