The Grandma Who Hired a Hitman: Donna Adelson’s Life Sentence

A prominent law professor, a bitter custody battle, and a wealthy family who prosecutors say would stop at nothing to get what they wanted. In 2014, Florida State University criminal law professor Dan Markel was gunned down in his own garage. What followed was a decade-long investigation that peeled back the layers of a calculated murder-for-hire plot involving South Florida’s prominent Adelson family. Today, legal analyst Lee Wallace joins us to break down how prosecutors secured a life sentence for the family matriarch, Donna Adelson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices