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Donna Adelson Trial: Sgt. Christopher Corbitt Reveals Wiretap Calls & Coded Messages

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

Tony Brueski

News, News Commentary, True Crime

4.3598 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Donna Adelson Trial: Sgt. Christopher Corbitt Reveals Wiretap Calls & Coded Messages

The jury in the Trial of Donna Adelson heard pivotal testimony today from Tallahassee Police Sgt. Christopher Corbitt, who meticulously walked them through intercepted calls, text records, and cell tower data. His work formed the backbone of the state’s investigation into the murder-for-hire plot that claimed the life of Dan Markel.

Corbitt explained how investigators tracked patterns of communication between Donna Adelson, her son Charlie Adelson, and Katherine Magbanua, using mirrored phones and wiretaps to capture conversations. Jurors saw firsthand how the family’s phone traffic spiked around critical moments—such as the hitmen’s trips to Tallahassee and the undercover “bump” staged against Donna in 2016.

One of the most striking moments came when Corbitt highlighted Donna’s first call after the bump: she dialed Charlie immediately. The prosecution argued that this reflexive move showed Donna’s awareness of the conspiracy. Jurors also reviewed a coded exchange in which Donna sent Charlie a message about a “birthday present,” with prosecutors alleging it was code for payments tied to the murder.

Why does this testimony matter? Because it strips away speculation and lays out a digital trail. Corbitt’s evidence connects Donna’s behavior to specific points in the conspiracy timeline, offering jurors objective proof that her actions weren’t coincidence. For prosecutors, this testimony is a chance to show that Donna wasn’t a bystander—she was an active communicator whose calls and texts tie her directly into the planning and cover-up.

#DonnaAdelsonTrial #ChristopherCorbitt #WiretapEvidence #DanMarkel #CharlieAdelson #KatherineMagbanua #CourtroomDrama #TrueCrime #FloridaTrial #JusticeForDan

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is continuing coverage in the trial of Donna Adelson from the Hidden Killers podcast and true crime today.

0:07.4

Now, back to the courtroom.

0:11.7

Back when I think I got a cell phone, we had a plan with a certain limit.

0:16.2

Now they're unlimited, but that was one of the reasons why call detail records were created, correct?

0:23.7

Certainly, billing purposes, yes.

0:25.9

And what about network load?

0:28.9

As far as the creation of records?

0:31.2

Yes.

0:32.0

So network load, there are reports that I spoke about the kind of specialty reports that are more of an engineering standpoint and are used by carriers to more effectively manage their network.

0:47.3

Amongst other things might be load, be something that they would be considering with those records.

1:15.6

Now the call detail records that you've testified about extensively over the last couple days, they do not contain precise geolocation data for a handset, do they?

1:20.6

The majority of the records that I've spoken about, no, do not.

1:24.6

And specifically, the records that you relied upon for mapping purposes that you displayed earlier.

1:32.1

That is correct. All of the records used for mapping are strictly cell site locations. So the

1:38.2

locations that you've seen were for the cell site or cell tower, the handset was communicating with,

1:42.8

not the cell phone itself. And using the cell site sector cell tower, the handset was communicating with, not the cell phone itself.

1:45.1

And using the cell site sector, you can at least identify where on a map a handsate could be.

1:54.7

Correct.

1:57.0

And so when you're mapping those dots that are on your maps, those are the cell sites.

2:04.6

That is correct.

2:06.6

They're not the handset.

2:07.6

Correct.

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