Florida Dentist Gets Life In Prison

Dan Markel was a Canadian-born law professor at Florida State University specializing in criminal law and punishment theory. He was murdered in 2014 in a murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by his former brother-in-law, Charlie Adelson, who wanted to prevent Markel from having contact with his two sons after a bitter divorce from Wendi Adelson, Markel’s ex-wife, and Charlie’s sister. Four people were convicted in the case: Sigfredo Garcia and Luis Rivera, who carried out the shooting; Katherine Magbanua, who acted as a go-between for Charlie Adelson and the hitmen; and Charlie Adelson himself, w