What The Adelson Family Did After Losing Custody

A custody ruling is where this entire case starts. A judge told Wendi Adelson she couldn't move her two sons away from their father, FSU law professor Dan Markel. Prosecutors say Wendi's mother, Donna Adelson, offered Markel a million dollars to undo that ruling. He said no. What happened next: two men drove five hours from Miami in a rented Prius and shot Markel twice in the head in his own garage, hours after he'd dropped his sons at preschool and gone to the gym. He never made it out of his car. He was 41. Investigators traced the payment for the hit through a family dental office near Fort Lauderdale — 44 checks signed by Donna herself, $138,000 funneled through a woman who never worked a day at the practice, and a toll transponder receipt logging every mile the killers drove. That office belonged to Donna's son, Charlie Adelson, a periodontist making three million a year from a family with more than eight million in combined accounts. Prosecutors say Charlie orchestrated his former brother-in-law's murder and funneled the payments through his own practice, with his mother washing the cash before handing it off. At trial, Charlie told the jury he was the true victim — extorted by the hitmen, forced to pay them in installments. Prosecutor Georgia Cappleman asked him one question about sending his girlfriend to collect an extortion payment. The jury took three hours to convict. Five people have now been convicted in a case that began with a family that couldn't accept losing.
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