The ex-wife of slain law professor Dan Markel is speaking out about her husband’s death in a very unusual forum — a room full of writers and editors. “It felt unfair that I couldn’t at least tell my own story, that the story got told for me,” said Wendi Adelson on her decision to break…
Police believe that the murder of Florida Jewish law professor Dan Markel was sparked by a bitter divorce battle with his ex-wife. Authorities arrested a man with a long criminal history, Sigfredo Garcia, 34, in connection with Markel’s 2014 killing. Garcia’s attorney had said that his client is innocent. Now, new details released in court…
In July of 2014, a young Jewish law professor named Dan Markel was pulling into the driveway of his brick house on Trescott Drive in Tallahassee, Florida, when someone pointed a gun through the window of his Honda Accord and shot him in the head. Markel died within hours, leaving behind two young sons, a…
Florida police have arrested a man suspected of the murder of Dan Markel, a Jewish law professor who was shot in his Tallahassee driveway in 2014. Authorities arrested Sigfredo Garcia, 34, at a Miami-area gas station on May 25, and charged him with first-degree murder. The Tallahassee Democrat reported May 26 that Markel’s death is…
In the days before his murder, Florida law professor Dan Markel was hired as a legal consultant in an explosive New Jersey divorce extortion case involving several Orthodox rabbis. Markel, who was gunned down outside his Tallahassee, Florida home on July 18, had been in touch with Rabbi Martin Wolmark, one of ten men arrested…
The three weeks that have passed since the murder of Florida law professor Dan Markel have done little to lift the shroud of mystery surrounding the case. A brilliant legal mind deeply immersed in the life of his local Jewish community in Tallahassee, Markel is still being mourned by friends and colleagues who already miss…
A internet fund to benefit the sons of slain Florida law professor Dan Markel has been flooded with more than $54,000 dollars in donations, surpassing its initial goal. Markel, who was ambushed and shot to death July 18 as he pulled into the driveway of his Tallahassee home, left behind two sons, Benjamin and Lincoln….
It took an ambulance a shocking 19 minutes to reach law professor Dan Markel as he lay dying in his car from a gunshot wound after a neighbor called 911. Despite the frantic calls for help, emergency dispatchers mistakenly assigned the incident a low priority — meaning even police failed to arrive until 15 minutes…
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