Why Hasn't Florida Charged Wendi Adelson In The Markel Case?
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The Dan Markel prosecution has secured five convictions, yet two individuals the state has formally identified as unindicted co-conspirators — Wendi Adelson and Harvey Adelson — remain uncharged. We examine the legal and strategic posture with a defense attorney and former prosecutor.
Markel, a Florida State University law professor, was killed in 2014 amid protracted post-dissolution litigation with Wendi Adelson concerning custody and relocation. Prosecutors have maintained that the conspiracy was motivated by the family's desire to move Wendi and the children to South Florida after a court denied relocation. Convictions have followed against the two gunmen, the intermediary, Charlie Adelson, and Donna Adelson, who was sentenced to life.
Following Donna Adelson's conviction, the State Attorney indicated charging decisions would be made within weeks. No indictment, grand jury action, or public announcement has issued in the interval. We address the questions that follow: the evidentiary burden of pursuing a perjury theory against a witness who testified under limited immunity; whether the proof previously deemed insufficient as to Harvey Adelson has materially changed; and how the pending appellate proceedings — oral arguments in Charlie Adelson's appeal have been heard, with Donna Adelson's appeal also pending — bear on prosecutorial timing.
Our guest offers a disciplined assessment of what the continued silence signals and at what point a decision not to charge becomes, in effect, a decision to decline.
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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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