What Is Holding Up Charges Against Wendi And Harvey Adelson?
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
For more than a decade, the Dan Markel case has produced conviction after conviction. What it has not produced is a charge against the two people prosecutors have repeatedly named as part of the conspiracy: Wendi Adelson and her father, Harvey. We dig into why.
Markel, an FSU law professor, was shot in his Tallahassee garage in 2014 amid a bitter post-divorce battle with Wendi over their two sons and her thwarted attempt to relocate to South Florida. The state's theory has always been that the family wanted that move badly enough to kill for it. Two hitmen, a go-between, Wendi's brother Charlie, and her mother Donna have all been convicted.
The evidentiary record around the two who remain uncharged is its own story. Wendi has testified across multiple trials, each time under limited immunity — protection that evaporates only if she lied under oath. Harvey has never taken the stand, but cell records introduced at trial reportedly showed contact between a phone connected to him and a phone tied to one of the hitmen, and he was beside Donna at the airport with one-way tickets to a non-extradition country when she was arrested.
After Donna's conviction, the State Attorney signaled decisions within weeks. Months on, nothing has surfaced. Our guest — a defense attorney and former prosecutor — walks through what that delay typically means, how a perjury theory against an immunized witness would actually have to be proven, and whether the evidence on Harvey ever crossed the threshold prosecutors said it hadn't.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski and Robin Drink. |
| 0:07.8 | It's got to another family that we're fond of the Aitlesons. |
| 0:13.7 | How many broken people are there in the world, man? |
| 0:16.9 | It's broken people Thursdays, what this is? |
| 0:19.2 | And the hits just keep coming. |
| 0:21.1 | Five people are now behind bars for the murder of Dan Markell. |
| 0:25.1 | Two hitmen, a go-between, the brother who allegedly bankrupted it |
| 0:28.9 | and the mother who allegedly orchestrated it. |
| 0:31.4 | I know. Put Timmy in a cell with these guys. |
| 0:34.1 | That could be the competing comedy on CBS. |
| 0:37.5 | And yet, when you look at who prosecutors have publicly labeled unindicted co-conspirators in this case, two names are still walking free. |
| 0:46.9 | And I'm going to say at the beginning here, I'm not saying Wendy had anything to do with this. |
| 0:50.2 | I'm not saying Harvey had anything to do with this. |
| 0:52.2 | I'm just saying this is interesting. |
| 0:54.1 | Most of the family got knocked down like Dominoes. These two are still standing. Uh, Wendy |
| 0:59.0 | Adelson, Dan's ex-wife and the person who arguably stood to gain the most from the death. |
| 1:03.8 | And Harvey Adelson, the family patriarch, who was literally on, uh, the jetway with Donna, |
| 1:10.2 | holding one-way tickets to Vietnam when she got caught. |
| 1:14.9 | Jack Campbell, the state attorney for Florida's second judicial circuit, |
| 1:18.2 | the man whose office has successfully convicted every person charged in this case, |
| 1:22.8 | told reporters after Donna's conviction that his office would, quote, |
| 1:26.0 | make decisions in the coming weeks. |
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