What Is Holding Up Charges Against Wendi And Harvey Adelson?

For more than a decade, the Dan Markel case has produced conviction after conviction. What it has not produced is a charge against the two people prosecutors have repeatedly named as part of the conspiracy: Wendi Adelson and her father, Harvey. We dig into why.

Markel, an FSU law professor, was shot in his Tallahassee garage in 2014 amid a bitter post-divorce battle with Wendi over their two sons and her thwarted attempt to relocate to South Florida. The state's theory has always been that the family wanted that move badly enough to kill for it. Two hitmen, a go-between, Wendi's brother Charlie, and her mother Donna have all been convicted.

The evidentiary record around the two who remain uncharged is its own story. Wendi has testified across multiple trials, each time under limited immunity — protection that evaporates only if she lied under oath. Harvey has never taken the stand, but cell records introduced at trial reportedly showed contact between a phone connected to him and a phone tied to one of the hitmen, and he was beside Donna at the airport with one-way tickets to a non-extradition country when she was arrested.

After Donna's conviction, the State Attorney signaled decisions within weeks. Months on, nothing has surfaced. Our guest — a defense attorney and former prosecutor — walks through what that delay typically means, how a perjury theory against an immunized witness would actually have to be proven, and whether the evidence on Harvey ever crossed the threshold prosecutors said it hadn't.

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