How the Adelsons Responded When a Judge Told Them No

A judge told Wendi Adelson she couldn't move her kids to South Florida. Her mother Donna allegedly offered Dan Markel a million dollars to let them go. He said no. Prosecutors say the family's next move was a contract killing — two men hired from Miami to shoot the FSU law professor in his own garage on July 18, 2014.Dan Markel was 41. He'd dropped his sons at preschool that morning and come home from the gym. What investigators found afterward was a financial trail running through the Adelson family dental practice — monthly payments to a woman who never worked there, 44 checks signed by Donna, cash in brown paper bags with bills stapled in thousand-dollar increments. The grandmother allegedly washed the money before it went out.A rented Prius with a toll transponder led investigators from Tallahassee to Miami. A woman dating Charlie Adelson turned out to be the mother of the gunman's children. And an FBI sting in 2016 produced a forty-one-minute recording of Charlie discussing the entire arrangement at a Miami Beach restaurant. Donna's reaction to the FBI's approach — three calls to Charlie, zero to the police — told prosecutors everything they needed to know. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #DanMarkel #AdelsonFamily #HiddenKillers #MurderForHire #DonnaAdelson #CharlieAdelson #TrueCrime #WendiAdelson #FSU #Tallahassee