Dan Markel Murder for Hire: Why Wendi Adelson Walks Free While Her Entire Family Rots in Prison

What if the smartest person in the room was also the most dangerous? In 2014, Florida State University law professor Dan Markel was shot twice in the head in his own driveway—a brutal murder-for-hire that would take over a decade to unravel. Five people are now behind bars serving life sentences: hitmen Sigfredo Garcia and Luis Rivera, go-between Katherine Magbanua, brother Charlie Adelson, and matriarch Donna Adelson. But one person remains free: Dan Markel's ex-wife, Wendi Adelson.
This is the shocking true story of the Dan Markel murder case—a custody battle turned deadly, a family conspiracy, and a woman who prosecutors call an unindicted co-conspirator but can't seem to charge. From the chilling 911 call to Wendi Adelson's courtroom testimony, from her brother's "hitman joke" to her mother's desperate airport arrest, every piece of evidence points in one direction. Yet Wendi walks free.
Was she the mastermind behind the Dan Markel murder for hire? Did her intelligence protect her from prosecution? Or is she simply innocent, caught in the crossfire of her family's choices?

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