Hello everybody welcome back to Crime Weekly I'm Stephanie Harlow and I'm Derek Levasse and we are diving into part five of the Dan Markel case this has been

one of our most popular well-received series that we've ever done,

and it's not hard to understand why, because this has taken both Derek and I, you know, it's got us in a chokehold, basically.

We cannot get away from it. got us in a choke hold basically.

We cannot get away from it.

We can't stop talking about it.

We can't stop looking into it.

There's a lot going on and we're really getting deep into it today

when we talk about how law enforcement sort of makes their first forceful

appearance in this case. So we know when we last left off Wendy Adelson had spoken to her mother, Donna Sue, from the Tallahassee Police

Department, the night her ex-husband Dan Markel was shot to death in the garage of the home

they once shared together.

Now this call happened around 7.03 p.m.

and Wendy asked Donna Sue to call Charlie

and let him know what happened.

Donna Sue did call Charlie, her son and Wendy's brother at 7-Eleven PM, this call

went to voicemail, but Charlie called back two minutes later and they spoke on the phone

for almost six minutes.

Ten minutes later, Charlie called his mother again

and they remained on the phone for six and a half minutes.

Immediately after getting off the phone

with Donna Sue, Charlie Adelson called Catherine Megbanua, speaking to her for almost three minutes.

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