Dentist ex-brother-in-law found guilty of murdering FSU law professor Dan Markel after extortion tale completely flops with jurors

Dan Markel, Charlie Adelson

FSU law professor Dan Markel, the defendant’s former brother-in-law (inset left), murder defendant Charlie Adelson (right) listens to closing arguments at trial on Nov. 6, 2023. (Law&Crime Network)

After Florida jurors heard testimony from murder defendant Charlie Adelson himself claiming that he was innocent of Florida State University law professor Dan Markel’s murder and was instead a victim himself of extortion, the jury on Monday decided that he was guilty on all charges in his former brother-in-law’s 2014 shooting death.

The defendant, a 47-year-old dentist was charged as the mastermind behind the murder-for-hire of Markel.

On Monday, the prosecution and defense went back and forth during closing arguments before the jury in trial Judge Stephen Everett’s courtroom. The prosecution reiterated its position that Charlie Adelson, a dentist by trade, had the money and the connections through his then-girlfriend Katherine Magbanua to solicit and carry out the murder of the father of his nephews and the ex-husband of his sister, Wendi Adelson, amid a child custody dispute that deeply upset the family matriarch, Donna Adelson.

Chief Assistant State Attorney Georgia Cappleman of the 2nd Judicial Circuit in Leon County said that Adelson’s testimony about being an extortion victim of Magbanua’s after the shooting — under the notion that Miami-based Latin Kings gang members Sigfredo Garcia, the father of Magbanua’s children, and gang leader Luis Rivera, would kill Charlie if he didn’t pay them a third of a million dollars within 48 hours  — didn’t hold water because it was such an elaborate and complex story.

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