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🗓️ 17 September 2025
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In July 2014, FSU law professor Dan Markel was gunned down in the driveway of his Tallahassee home. In this episode, we go over the long-awaited case against Dan’s former mother-in-law, Donna Adelson.
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| 0:00.0 | And how did Donna Adelson feel about Dan Markell in 2014? |
| 0:07.0 | I mean, she hated him. |
| 0:09.6 | According to Donna Adelson's oldest son, Robert Adelson, Donna hated her former son-in-law. |
| 0:17.6 | 41-year-old Dan Markell was a Florida State University law professor who was shot and killed just after pulling his car into his driveway on July 18, 2014. |
| 0:29.7 | Dan had been married to Wendy Adelson, Donna Adelson's daughter. |
| 0:34.5 | But the marriage didn't work out. |
| 0:36.6 | Wendy left Dan, and in July 2013, their divorce was |
| 0:40.8 | finalized. But there were still plenty of things for Dan and Wendy to argue about through the court |
| 0:46.4 | system, whether it was money owed, property the other still had possession of, or most importantly, |
| 0:52.8 | the custody of their two young children |
| 0:55.5 | who were three and four at the time. One of their main points of contention, according to the |
| 1:01.5 | prosecution, was a relocation motion that Wendy had filed, requesting permission to move with |
| 1:07.4 | their kids to Miami, where her family lived. |
| 1:16.0 | That motion had been denied with prejudice, meaning it could never be requested again. |
| 1:24.9 | But after Dan was murdered on July 18, 2014, Wendy and the two children did move to Miami, |
| 1:30.2 | just days later, in fact, to be with Wendy's family, which included her mother Donna, father Harvey, and older brother Charlie. After a rigorous investigation by the |
| 1:37.2 | Tallahassee Police Department, along with the FBI, two hitmen from Miami were arrested and |
| 1:43.5 | charged with Dan's murder in May 2016. |
| 1:47.7 | One of the hitmen, Louis Rivera, pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against not only the other hitman, |
| 1:54.9 | his best friend, Siegfriedo Garcia, but everyone else the state prosecuted in connection with the murder. |
| 2:02.1 | According to Lewis, Sigfrato got the job from the mother of his two children, |
| 2:07.1 | Catherine Magbanawa. In turn, Sigfrato had asked Lewis to help. The murder was in |
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