TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A 75-year-old Miami Beach woman who is awaiting trial over her alleged role in the murder for hire of her former son-in-law was in shackles when she appeared in Leon County court Wednesday.
Daniel Markel, a Florida State University law professor and father of two boys, was fatally shot on July 18, 2014, after parking his car at his home’s driveway in Tallahassee. He was 41.
Markel was in the middle of a custody dispute with his ex-wife Wendi Adelson, an attorney who wanted to move from Tallahassee to South Florida with their two sons, Benjamin and Lincoln.
Donna Adelson, the maternal grandmother of Markel’s sons, was arrested in 2023 at Miami International Airport before she and her husband, Harvey Adelson, boarded a flight to Vietnam…