Adelson family matriarch who ‘hated’ murdered law professor Dan Markel arrested in Miami just days after her dentist son was convicted in assassination plot

Donna Adelson, Dan Markel, Charlie Adelson

Donna Adelson (Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation), Dan Markel (Law&Crime Network file photo), Charlie Adelson pictured after hearing his guilty verdicts on Nov. 6, 2023 (Law&Crime Network)

The 73-year-old matriarch of the Adelson family, who prosecutors repeatedly said “hated” her former son-in-law Dan Markel, was arrested in Miami on Monday night, just one week after her dentist son Charlie Adelson was found guilty of the July 18, 2014, murder-for-hire plot that took the life of the Florida State University law professor amid a contentious child custody battle.

Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation records reviewed by Law&Crime show that Donna Sue Adelson was booked into jail at 10:08 p.m. last night on an out-of-county felony warrant. The records do not specify which county or charges, but the 5’6″ and 112-pound arrestee’s son was convicted seven days ago in Leon County of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and solicitation to commit murder.

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