TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Broward County periodontist Charlie Adelson was once attesting in his protection on Thursday all through his trial for the 2014 murder of a Florida State University law professor.
Adelson, who lived in Fort Lauderdale and practiced out of the Adelson Institute in Tamarac, stands accused of hiring the hitmen who killed Daniel Markel, his former brother-in-law.
Adelson mentioned the killers weren’t hitmen. His protection: A romantic rival and his pal sought after to border him for Markel’s murder and began to blackmail him later on.
His protection lawyer: “Do you love your nephews? Would you ever take their father away from them?”
Adelson: “Never in a million years.”
Prosecutors accused Markel of being the mastermind of a murder-for-hire plot whilst his sister, Wendi Adelson, was once suffering with a kid custody case after submitting for divorce in 2012.
Markel was once shot in the top two times on July 18, 2014, in his parked automobile, simply out of doors of his house in Tallahassee, and died about 14 hours later, in line with the FBI.
Adelson mentioned his mom, Donna Adelson, referred to as to let him know that Markel have been shot
“I was pretty upset about what I had just heard,” Charlie Adelson mentioned.
Katherine “Katie” Magbanua got here over to his condominium after and allegedly instructed him that she had talked an excessive amount of about his circle of relatives’s non-public existence.
“It’s my fault for running my mouth the way I did,” she mentioned, in line with Charlie Adelson.
Magbanua lately testified that she had in any case determined to come back blank about her position in the murder, which was once to glue her then-boyfriend to the hitmen. Adelson mentioned he instructed her he may just make a per 30 days fee, so she left and promised to lend a hand.
“Listen, this is all my fault … My friend killed Dan. He wants you to pay him,” Magbanua mentioned, in line with Charlie Adelson. “She was just apologizing and telling me that her friend is crazy and she was telling me that she was going to protect me.”
Charlie Adelson additionally claimed that once he was once extorted, he didn’t inform any person as a result of Magbanua suggested him to not. He mentioned he and Magbanua broke up in July and he persevered assembly her to make the money bills. He mentioned it might truly lend a hand her if $1,000 out of the $3,000 could be paid thru his corporate so she may just get medical health insurance for her children.
Charlie Adelson mentioned he then needed to name his mom who stored the books to invite her for the tests for Magbanua. He mentioned he instructed his mom in regards to the extortion however he requested her to not inform his father, his sister, or any person.
“I told her that the night of the 18th, I got extorted,” Charlie Adelson mentioned including that she promised to not inform any person as a result of his existence was once at stake.
Charlie Adelson mentioned he gave her $2,000 and “the stack of checks to carry her forward.” He additionally mentioned Magbanua was once “constantly broke,” so he persevered to offer her presents when she requested as a result of he sought after to “keep her happy.”
“I needed her for my safety,” Charlie Adelson mentioned about his friendship with Magbanua.
While below oath, Magbanua mentioned she had lied all alongside all through her trial and retrial, and claimed that she had hooked up Adelson to the convicted killer, Sigfredo “Tuto” Garcia, of Miami Beach, the daddy of her children, for the hit.
“I didn’t think she had anything to do with it. I didn’t even want to believe that she had anything to do with it,” Charlie Adelson mentioned later including, “I thought that if I went to the police they would kill me” and “I was worried about my safety.”
Garcia didn’t paintings on my own, in line with prosecutors. In 2016, Luis “Tato” Rivera, of North Miami, a Latin King member who admitted to getting the gun and renting the getaway automobile, pleaded to blame to second-degree murder for 19 years in jail.
Leon County Circuit Judge Stephen Everett is presiding over Charlie Adelson’s trial for first-degree murder, conspiracy to dedicate first-degree murder, and solicitation to dedicate first-degree murder.
Garcia and Magbanua have been convicted of first-degree murder. Her enchantment is pending.
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