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🗓️ 6 December 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Daniel Markel and Wendi Adelson date for a couple of years, and then the young, well-educated couple marry.
Daniel Markel is already a a professor at Florida State University School of Law and Wendi Adelson is a third-year law student at the University of Miami. The couple have two children, but then Dan Markel comes home from a business trip to find the house nearly empty. His wife and two boys, as well as most of the furniture, are gone. There are divorce papers on the bed.
For the next six weeks, Dan Markel doesn't know where his children are much less his soon-to-be ex-wife. Their divorce is finalized and the order is for them to share joint custody of their children, but Wendi Adelson tries to move with the boys to Miami, Dan Markel heads to court and files an order to keep them from moving.
Dan wins that battle, but a custody battle continues.
Markel, now a Florida State University criminal law professor, pulls into his driveway and is talking on his cell phone when he was fatally shot. The killer was waiting for Markel outside his home then followed him into the garage, shooting him in the side of the head, through the window of his car.
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0:00.0 | Crime stories with Nancy Grace. |
0:07.0 | A mother-in-law so consumed with rage, with anger over her daughter's divorce |
0:26.2 | and subsequently not having visitation |
0:30.4 | with her grandchildren that she commits murder. |
0:37.4 | She murders her own son-in-law over visitation, it's really hard to imagine that. |
0:49.0 | And so often when we hear about a violent crime, many people will make excuses. |
0:57.0 | Oh, they were under stress. |
1:00.0 | They grew up in a bad family. |
1:02.1 | They're uneducated. They're this, they're that. They were using drugs. They were using alcohol. A million excuses. Let me tell you about this mother-in-law. |
1:14.0 | Her family highly educated, called a five-star family |
1:21.0 | by politicians, lawmakers, rabbis, friends of the family's neighbors. No one |
1:31.2 | within their circle can accept this woman the matriarch of a very wealthy, very educated |
1:39.2 | family would ever do such a thing. But guess what? I agree with police. She did it. |
1:47.0 | She had her own son-in-law murdered because he refused to give up his children. I can hardly believe |
2:02.1 | it. You know women, grandparents, in-laws, all over the world, |
2:07.7 | only wish their son-in-law would pay attention to the children. Be a good father, show up, be there, nurture. |
2:18.4 | He was doing that. And now he's dead, shot in the head. |
2:24.0 | Because of the mother-in-law, are you kidding me? |
2:27.0 | Sadly, it's no joke. It's real. I couldn't make this up. |
2:31.0 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. |
2:33.0 | Thank you for being with us here at crime stories and on serious |
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