TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Court TV) – The upcoming trial of Donna Adelson has the makings of a Shakespearean tragedy.
Think about it: A powerful matriarch fixates on the person she feels stands in the way of her family’s happiness, and sets in motion their death.
Donna Adelson was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami-Dade County on an out-of-county warrant. Her former son-in-law, Daniel Markel, was murdered in 2014. Adelson’s son, Charlie Adelson, was convicted of Markel’s murder last week. (Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation)
Lady MacBeth thought King Duncan was hindering her husband’s ascension to the throne, so she helped convince MacBeth to kill Duncan. Donna Adelson thought her former son-in-law, Dan Markel , was preventing her from being with her grandsons, so she allegedly plotted his murder.
MacBeth later ordered the slaying of Banquo, whose ghost appeared, symbolizing MacBeth’s guilty conscience. Donna Adelson made comments about Dan Markel haunting her from the grave .