Florida State law professor Dan Markel was murdered in his own driveway on July 18, 2014. Three years later, prosecutors are still trying to sort out what exactly happened that day, with theories that include an angry ex-wife, in-laws, hired hitmen — or all of the above. It wasn’t until two years after the murder…
A trial date has been set for Sigfredo Garcia, one of the suspects charged in the 2014 murder of Florida State law professor Daniel Markel. One suspected accomplice, Luis Rivera, plead guilty, and is serving a 19-year second-degree murder. The other, Katherine Magbanua, plead not guilty, and is awaiting trial Garcia will be brought to…
Two prison inmates may have provided a long-awaited break in the mysterious slaying of Jewish law professor Dan Markel. According to the Tallahassee Democrat, the alleged hit man charged with killing Markel confessed to a fellow inmate that Markel’s ex-mother-in-law had ordered the murder. The inmate told police that Sigfredo Garcia, claimed that his girlfriend,…
A woman who once dated the brother in-law of murdered Florida law professor Dan Markel was indicted on charges of first-degree murder Tuesday in the 2014 slaying, reported the Tallahassee Democrat. Magbanua allegedly acted as the conduit between those who ordered Markel’s killing and those who carried it out in what the state has presented…
One of the hit men who killed Jewish law professor Dan Markel says that Markel’s ex-wife, Wendi Adelson, scoped him and his partner out the day before the murder. The allegation came in an October 4 police interview, released this week by the Tallahassee Democrat. The hit man, Luis Rivera, says that Sigfredo Garcia, his…
Police have made a new arrest in the 2014 murder of Jewish law professor Dan Markel, nabbing Katherine Magbanua in Broward County, Florida, and charging her with first degree murder. Magbanua has two children with Sigfredo Garcia, one of two men already charged in the alleged murder-for-hire. She was also in a relationship with Charles…
The ex-wife of murdered law professor Dan Markel breaks down in a newly released 2014 video of of investigators telling her that Markel had been shot to death in his Tallahassee driveway. Between sobs, Wendi Adelson tells an investigator that her brother, Charles Adelson, had joked about hiring a hitman to kill Markel. “Danny didn’t…
The former boyfriend of the wife of a murdered law professor has said she should be considered a suspect, and now her family has made its first statement on the case, calling any family involvement “categorically false.” In July 2014, Florida State University professor Dan Markel was shot and killed with a bullet to the…
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