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德国基督教民主联盟主席,2025年德国总理候选人,长期从事金融政策和法律工作。
丹·拉什博姆
乔什·伯曼
佐治亚·卡梅伦
凯蒂·麦克博纳
史蒂芬·艾伯斯坦
戴维·拉布
杰森·纽林
查理·埃德森
温迪·埃德森
莱斯特·霍尔德
菲尔·马尔凯尔
路易斯·里维拉
马修·谢尔
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旁白:本集讲述了佛罗里达州一起谋杀案的最新进展,这起案件导致一名法学教授死亡,撕裂了两个家庭,并引发了长达十年的正义追寻。案件中,一名母亲和儿子被指控,而丹·马尔凯尔的杀害案中,他的前妻的兄弟被控一级谋杀罪。多娜·埃德森被认为是这起谋杀案的主要策划者,对丹·马尔凯尔的迷恋导致了这起可怕的谋杀案。 调查人员称线索指向一个执行致命任务的家庭,这起案件始于2014年夏天,涉及到一场痛苦的离婚、扭曲的家庭关系和两个孩子的抚养权之争,最终导致一起悲惨的谋杀案。丹·马尔凯尔被杀害,引发了关于凶手是谁的疑问。 调查人员调查了丹·马尔凯尔的个人和职业生活,以寻找谋杀动机。温迪否认参与了谋杀丹·马尔凯尔的阴谋,并暗示她的朋友可能参与了丹·马尔凯尔的谋杀。杰夫·科斯特与温迪的关系以及他对丹·马尔凯尔的厌恶,使得他成为谋杀案的嫌疑人。警方需要找到在犯罪现场出现的汽车,温迪在丹·马尔凯尔的葬礼上表现悲伤。警方调查丹·马尔凯尔被杀案的主要线索是一辆可能的逃逸车辆。一辆普锐斯汽车的SunPass记录为警方提供了重要的线索,警方通过SunPass记录找到了租车人路易斯·里维拉和西克里托·加西亚。警方调查丹·马尔凯尔谋杀案的动机,以及为什么来自南佛罗里达州的两人会驱车五百英里去杀害一个他们不认识的人。警方认为丹·马尔凯尔的谋杀案是一起有预谋的谋杀案,而不是随机行为。调查人员将调查方向转向了丹·马尔凯尔的前岳父母,丹·马尔凯尔和他的岳父母关系紧张。多娜·埃德森鼓励温迪在离婚案中采取强硬手段,丹·马尔凯尔曾请求法院禁止他的儿子与温迪的母亲单独相处。温迪暗示她的父母有充分的理由不喜欢丹·马尔凯尔,查理·埃德森在迈阿密过着奢华的生活。温迪提到她哥哥曾开玩笑说雇佣杀手比送她电视更便宜。路易斯·里维拉认罪并作证指控西克里托·加西亚,路易斯·里维拉描述了西克里托·加西亚如何获得报酬,路易斯·里维拉描述了丹·马尔凯尔被杀害的经过。警方找到了丹·马尔凯尔被杀案的动机,路易斯·里维拉解释了丹·马尔凯尔被杀害的动机。警方对凯蒂·麦克博纳展开了秘密调查,路易斯·里维拉描述了西克里托·加西亚在丹·马尔凯尔被杀后打电话给凯蒂·麦克博纳。凯蒂·麦克博纳的经济状况在丹·马尔凯尔被杀后得到改善,凯蒂·麦克博纳从埃德森牙科诊所领取薪水,凯蒂·麦克博纳是查理·埃德森的女朋友。查理·埃德森为凯蒂·麦克博纳的隆胸手术支付了一半费用,警方没有找到多娜·埃德森参与谋杀案的直接证据。警方对多娜·埃德森进行了卧底行动,一名卧底探员暗示多娜·埃德森需要为路易斯·里维拉支付费用。FBI的秘密监视行动产生了一些有趣的谈话,但最终没有产生任何共谋的证据。凯蒂·麦克博纳被控一级谋杀罪。 莱斯特·霍尔德:一起谋杀阴谋案,调查人员称线索指向一个执行致命任务的家庭。 杰森·纽林:调查人员调查了丹·马尔凯尔的个人和职业生活,以寻找谋杀动机。 温迪·埃德森:温迪否认参与了谋杀丹·马尔凯尔的阴谋,并暗示她的朋友可能参与了丹·马尔凯尔的谋杀。 佐治亚·卡梅伦:温迪向警方坦白了她和丹·马尔凯尔关系破裂的事实。 乔什·伯曼:警方认为丹·马尔凯尔的谋杀案是一起有预谋的谋杀案,而不是随机行为。 马修·谢尔:杰夫·科斯特与温迪的关系以及他对丹·马尔凯尔的厌恶,使得他成为谋杀案的嫌疑人。 路易斯·里维拉:路易斯·里维拉认罪并作证指控西克里托·加西亚,路易斯·里维拉描述了西克里托·加西亚如何获得报酬,路易斯·里维拉描述了丹·马尔凯尔被杀害的经过,路易斯·里维拉解释了丹·马尔凯尔被杀害的动机,路易斯·里维拉描述了西克里托·加西亚在丹·马尔凯尔被杀后打电话给凯蒂·麦克博纳。 凯蒂·麦克博纳:凯蒂·麦克博纳承认参与了丹·马尔凯尔的谋杀,凯蒂·麦克博纳描述了查理·埃德森是如何让她参与到丹·马尔凯尔谋杀案中的,凯蒂·麦克博纳描述了查理·埃德森如何将指示传递给西克里托·加西亚,凯蒂·麦克博纳说多娜·埃德森洗了钱,凯蒂·麦克博纳的证词与她之前的证词大相径庭。 查理·埃德森:查理·埃德森否认参与了丹·马尔凯尔的谋杀,查理·埃德森声称凯蒂·麦克博纳告诉他,她的朋友杀害了丹·马尔凯尔,并勒索他支付30万美元,查理·埃德森说凯蒂·麦克博纳威胁说,如果他不支付勒索款,他们就会杀了他和他的家人,查理·埃德森说凯蒂·麦克博纳要求他每月从勒索款中拿出1000美元给她,查理·埃德森说他的母亲通过公司支付了凯蒂·麦克博纳的工资,查理·埃德森详细解释了他的证词,查理·埃德森批评了陪审团,查理·埃德森表示她不相信查理·埃德森会被判终身监禁,查理·埃德森和多娜·埃德森讨论了他们的未来计划。 菲尔·马尔凯尔:马尔凯尔的家人最优先考虑的是与他们的孙子们相处。 史蒂芬·艾伯斯坦:音频专家史蒂芬·艾伯斯坦增强了多尔切维塔餐厅的录音,增强的录音为查理·埃德森的逮捕提供了证据。 戴维·拉布:随着更多证据的出现,检察官似乎相信温迪·埃德森参与了丹·马尔凯尔的谋杀,戴维·拉布认为温迪·埃德森不可能多年来对丹·马尔凯尔被杀一事毫不知情。 丹·拉什博姆:丹·拉什博姆表示,多娜·埃德森在被捕时没有违反任何法律。多娜·埃德森似乎计划逃往越南。

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Dan Markel, a beloved law professor, was murdered, leaving his community in shock. Initial theories included disgruntled students or professional rivals, but the focus quickly shifted to his personal life, specifically his bitter divorce and custody battle with his ex-wife, Wendy Adelson.
  • Dan Markel was shot in his driveway.
  • Police investigated his professional and personal life.
  • Dan and Wendy had a contentious divorce and custody battle.

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denied on the line .

your family had your x husband killed to try to help you. They know that's completely untrue.

A new twist in this headline grabbing case, as a mother and sun are accused.

you've got this rich playboy .

period on us. My name is d character.

and he's been charged with first degree murder for killing .

his x brother in law, denmark. You think you can talk your way out of?

No, I know i'm not part .

of the murder. My parents have more things to dislike most anyone else.

Donna medal in her children's business way more than most parents do.

You see dona is a prime mover in this?

Yes.

there's a lot of things that we have to do and we get a very time frame.

They are boarding the point .

to places no extradition.

They believe they're about to make their .

greatest cape. I think the atos SE became with danmark kell. And the obsession can make people do terrible things, did you think? Finally.

the cases come to the doorstep of the family.

IT was an important new chapter.

definitely a murder plot, unwise. And investigators saying the trail leads to one family on a deadly mission. I'm lester hold, and this is deadline.

Here's Dennis's Murphy with family matters .

IT all began .

like a typical vacation in november twenty twenty three, a pair of senior citizens setting out from miami airport's international terminal .

IT is an emerge airline flight that is leaving my ami down for dui. They're ultimately going to connect and and fly to vietnam.

Harvey was a prominent florida dentist. Dona has devoted wife.

They are wealthy, and they live privileged life in miami.

Tickets and passports in hand. They checked their luggage and headed for the gate.

The passengers are all getting on the plane.

They're boarding. Then everything changed. In a snap.

I was like, are you honestly kidding me right now?

A team of federal agents and police officers swarmed .

the gentle with guns and holsters they surround this frail seventy three year old women.

Officers cut .

down .

IT and told her he was under arrest.

They to remove all her jury and personal effects, and SHE kissed her husband goodbye. Then IT was after the miami date county jail, or SHE, posed for a month shot that would blow up the internet.

Her arrest was accelerated after investigators learned SHE was trying .

to leave the country. Soon SHE faced a judge.

S, E, please keep your comments to yourself.

So exactly who was the seventy three year old grandmother depends who you ask.

Dona edson is like meddling .

mother on steer words.

The mother.

And exactly how did you find out herself in a jump suit facing a murder rap? Do you think the dona is the great villain in the story?

I do.

China, in my mind, is the architect.

To get to the truth, we have to take you back to the summer of two thousand fourteen and the opening chapter of an epic crime, soggy in the sunshine state, a tale of bitter divorce, doling grandparent twisted family ties and the custody of two small boys that all started with a tragic and mysterious murder. Tonight you will hear all the newest hair ising twice in a case that's full of them.

The july day had begun routinely as danmark L, A beloved and accomplish law professor at florida state university, dropped off his two sons at school swang by the gym for a workout, then drove up the driveway into his government. Then the quiet was suddenly shattered, a neighbor od gunshots and called nine one one.

He's side, the cars running, and he's got blood all over.

Dan markell had taken two bullets to the head. His car window smashed, his eyeglasses broken, his assailants apparently pulling away.

My car was backing up in his light coloured White silver I want .

to say I was a freest IT happens so fast dance, friends and neighbors germ. My and Tracy coin didn't immediately realized what was wrong.

I drove home and I drove by danny's house, and there was A A police car in his driveway.

What did you think that happened?

I just didn't dream that IT. Then he could have been shot on a friday in our negoro. od. I just didn't make any sense .

to meet tala. Has the authorities reach dance parents root and filled that afternoon shot? That doesn't make sense. No, who would ever want to shoot work for me?

IT was an out of body experience like I I can, you know, even don't want to think about IT in terms of that. The moments were so horii.

They quickly made their way to tell a hai, but never did get to say goodbye. Danmark l died overnight in the hospital. He was forty one.

Tough to talk about until now.

Dance friend josh berman got the call at home in new york.

I put the phone down. I SAT there on the bed of my head, in my hands. I was like, you know, speechless.

So then the question is, who wants some debt.

right? And so that's when the theory started to fly.

There is a lot of moving parts and a lot of different agencies involved in this case.

Jason newlin is the chief investigator for the legal county stated tourneys office, and we're closely with the tella hai police and the FBI on the case. They started looking at a dan's life at the university, going to be simple as as a student who got a bag grader got thrown out of the law school, coming back in taking his review.

All of that was taking any consideration. Was IT somebody got a bad grade, is a co worker.

So investigators interviewed his students and fellow faculty members and come through his email to see if there was any suspicious corresponds. Nothing turned up with his professional life not bearing any fruit. Investigators took a hard look at dance personal life. Dan had been married to a fellow lawyer and professor at fsu, Wendy adults SHE held from south florida from a family of well, to do that is, what do you think the glue is mutually.

the direction. One is definitely a sharp cookie. They had some overlapping interests, but quite candidly, they just seem to be level each other.

A couple had two sons and began raising them. Intel a hassi.

then love the boys more than anything else in the world.

But after six years windy and dance relationship began to crack, the day of reckoning came in september two thousand and twelve, while dad was a way traveling for work, Wendy packed up the kids and left divorce papers on the bed.

He called his pro harbor .

moment when he got her own place in ta hai. And a war of the roses style battle began.

I think, IT had been building in building.

Stephen webster was a divorce attorney for dan and became a friend. As I understand that when the adults and wanted to take the children with her and move closer to her family in south floria, six, seven hours away, what was that? The question?

That was the initial question.

And family law courts that you cannot do that if .

the children are here in a stable environment and the father can participate fully with the raising of the children, the law prep, but, you know, prefers that and should and that motion was denied. We weren't t going on back .

there when they stayed in ala has see with the boys as the court required and her divorce from then became final in two thousand thirty teen but the custody arrangement remained a store point on both sides, fifty, fifty, sharing.

arrange, absolutely. And he availed himself of every second, and quite Frankly, one at some time, that maybe SHE found offensive.

according to court documents, when he was finding dance demands unreasonable. So then file a motion for a hearing to work the issues out with a judge on the scale of ugly. How ugly was this one?

IT was about to go off the Victor scale.

Dan was killed before that hearing could happen. Now police were about to talk to windy, who would be remarkably forthcoming about their bitter divorce and a whole lot more.

Daddy didn't treat me very well.

setting the stage for a shake experience tail that would rip p apart two families. Baffle team of law enforcement agencies.

You had this connection to the miami underworld. You just thought this can be true .

and ignite a decade long search for justice.

Were you involved in any way in a plot to kill danmark? No, I believe that the truth has a way of coming out.

The investigation and to the death of florida. W professor danmark, hell was just ours old when his x wife, Wendy eels first spoke to police.

There was a shooting. Your husband here? X husson, excuse me, Daniel has been taken the house. He's not gona survive. okay.

To in this .

money. Well, before we get into everything, I have to establish where you are and who you were with. And so for okay. It's OK through tears.

Wendy told the detective she'd been at her home that day, five miles from the crime scene.

Can you tell me what time you left your house this morning?

Yeah, I was there. I didn't leave this morning. I didn't even unit. Oh my god, I trying to dry up, just cut. I saw that he was flied.

Do you know anybody that would have a beef against your excitement? I hate to ask you now, but I had to do IT.

Now you understand here is melt well, but would sometimes rob people the wrong way OK? 嗯, but I also would do something .

like this for the government, for kids. Where's your closest family yet? My parents .

are in coral springs, okay? And my brother, I have two brothers, but i'm very close to one of them who is and four thousand?

Oh god, that many.

Teller has he? Police took photos and swapped her hands for gunshot residue. None was found. Georgia comment is chief assistant status ornee in leon county, florida, and would review the tape with law enforcement.

SHE told the truth about the status of their relationship .

that IT wasn't a happy marriage in the end, and IT was a very bad divorce. correct?

Certainly was of interest, too long enforcement that there was an ongoing nasty divorce and litigation concerning these children.

That's part of a classic recipe for homicides yeah but detectives later checked out her alibi and confirmed that he could not have shot her x husband. Now they wondered if someone SHE knew .

could be bind IT. Dani didn't treat me very well, so scared. But maybe someone, 对, no, because they hate daddy you, because they thought this was good somehow.

Or are you saying that you think maybe one of your friends would have done something like this? I don't know. That's why. That's why your years.

Wendy told them he'd been seeing another man after the divorce. Jeff rey, the cost and associate professor of social work at F. S.

U he's been a friend in S. And the october we had like a fight at the end of june. And IT was weird. I asked him to just no contact for a week so I could kind of figure .

out whether .

I wanted to be with them or not.

Just a few days before danmark, l was gone down in his garage when he said he wanted to cool things off because jeff had become increasingly jealous.

No, no, again, I don't think so. I mean, he certainly could .

have a gun, and I wouldn't know about IT.

So the tale has he police track down jeff like us and talking with me here.

Um like I said.

we're still in the preliminary stages of this investigation and your name did come up.

It's pretty clear even from that initial interview that the police you know they are interested in jeff s.

Relationship with one journalist, Matthew share, created a podden about the case called over my dead body, a case .

that says at least as much about marriage and love as IT does about revenge and justice jeff, by his own admission, is in love, still in love with Wendy at that time. And yeah, look, of course, the police must stake, you know, jeff ton, like dani there again, by his own admission, person, very charismatic and very good at, I know what you take this way, do anything for not the only manner and throw. And what I mean, he really has this Christmas and sexuality.

And so what did you think the was still head over heels for?

Windy, definitely. I think he would have looked another chance to police jeff.

a cosm straighten out of central casting the jilted boyfriend, a man who made no secret of his dislike for dam.

We know that danny, mark, and what this story with this quarter there for the ice in nine months, when he was afraid of dani, when, anyway, I must have a panic attack of fun of danny, which always made you, and when he's pretty used off SHE doesn't just cause information is way I want you to beat her ask me I didn't know you know, if he not proportion for guys .

just given everything the cost was saying about dan. Police had to wonder if that you might have turned .

his anger .

into action and you've never had any .

kind of physical contact with. No, I surprised you guys and come in earlier, though I had one hundred times some faster, and IT turned .

out he didn't. He was five hundred miles away when dan .

was shot friday, I drove to tennessee. Harrogate just got that.

So he's got an alabama that holds up whatever is in the drive way. Is not him correct? So who wasn't that driveway? Not Wendy and not her x boyfriend. IT was time for police to find that car scene. Leaving the crime scene .

is the date of the homicide, and you can actually see the press pull up to the ATM.

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Danmark of jewish faith had been deeply important to him and his memorial service at his taliessin nagoya, packed with friends and family, including Wendy and her parents. How did when he seem to be taking that?

I mean, he was, he cried after the ceremony as expect, and SHE was overwhelmed and totally destroy.

Then, just days after the service, when he moved back to south florida with her two boys to be near her family up and tell a hai, homicide detectors were stumped. Their best lead from the crime scene was a thin one, possible getaway. Ke, our witness had told them about.

He was like, colored White, silver. I want to say he was a freest.

The eyewitness was vague about the cars color, but the making model provided to start, detectives thought that car must have been following down that morning, so they retraces travels and search for clues. So Jessie, he dropped the kids off at the pro roughly five minutes tonight. Something like that.

对。 And then he driving right down this road to go the gym. Cops found security video of dan as he arrived at the gym at nine thirteen A M.

You could see him checking IT, we would seem.

gain as key carden. Then police check security cameras outside the health club and hit of forensic home run. What do you know? There was a prius. IT resembled to get away vehicle. Describe by the neighbor, eyewitness and IT was following down when he .

drove in in the video, you see them tailed him across this, actually, this out this road right here. And then he cuts in in parks in one of these front, rose right here. And they come on around this way.

at ten thirty four, I am. Dan leaves the gym when then drives out of the parking lot. The press is twenty seconds behind him.

He leaves the parking lot here and is headed back towards his house.

At that point he is being hunted. I got a lot of mount of their sites and not that's where the video trail stopped until police remembered tala has sing. Buses have their own cameras inside and out.

They collected surveilLance video from buses driving near dan's neither hood around the time he was shot. Bingo there at ten forty seven A M. On the southbound road, dan ta comb was the prius, multiple angles of IT driving toward the mark house, and investigators discovered another video from another bus recorded moments after the murder. There was the same previous heading away from the scene of the crime.

You have a lot of active movements in the passenger seat, which would make you believe these two people in the car.

two killers, forensic experts, screen those surveilLance videos again and again. They couldn't read the license plate, but did determine the press was a model released between two thousand and six and two thousand and nine. Police had spotted one more thing.

A sun passed to tag on the press, one shiel five hundred miles south, a silver prayer had passed a transponder on I seventy five heading toward to a hassi. The afternoon before done was killed. What's more, the same sun passed doing the very same turnpike exit in the opposite direction on the day then died. Time stamped five twenty three p. The timeline fit the shooting window perfectly.

IT was a sign to a actual business.

The sun path's business account came back to a small car rental agency in north miami. The renter, one Louis Rivera, is true cell phone number and correct miami address were on the form. Also on the paperwork, cops found another cell phone number. Mark simply, brother, you get one name. How do you get the second name?

The second name came through phone records and a whole lot more investigation, and that's how you end up establishing seek rato Garcia.

two names known to law enforcement, seek radio. Garcia and Lewis both had criminal records. Caria had been arrested for robbery and burglary. And Rivera was a member of the lattin kings gay. A little more investigation turned up bank records.

and they were able to locate a withdraw from a bank down in pembroke pines. This is on the the date of the mice de. And you can see Lewis for wear a driving, and he sits forward, and you can clearly see six radoje acs in the passenger.

See there on the day of danmark els murder, where there two prime suspects together in a silver praus. IT was a perfect match for the vehicle scene. Stocking down IT had taken cops nearly twenty two months to make their case sick.

Fraide Garcia and Louise Rivera were arrested and charged with the murder of danmark l. Both men pleaded not guilty, but I was far from case closed. The arrests only deepen.

Ed, the mystery of dan markel's murder. Why would two guys from south fla. They had no contact with professor markel, drive five hundred miles to kill somebody they don't know.

Yes, what we're all trying to get to.

Nearly two years after dan markel was gunned down in a talia asi garage, cops had two men in custody. The accused, six fraide Garcia and Louis rovera, were occasional miami construction workers with criminal histories. From the moment the pair were arrested, police suspect in a larger conspiracy, a murder for higher IT, was a random act that they came appear for him. Dance friend judge berman agreed.

These guys go see in Rivera didn't wake up one fine morning and say, we got two options. We can hang out on the beach and drink, or we can go rent a car, drive, you know, to tea A, I spend that I go murder some guy who never met, point plain, his garage, and then drive back. I mean, the police have called the sumurun higher, and these guys didn't hire themselves.

Investigators believed, if they learn more about their suspects, they'd come closer to figuring out who put them up to the killing.

Garcia a has less of a criminal history than Rivera, but also, you know, pretty bad actor.

They discovered that right after dan markel's death, the two men went on a spending spring, buying cars and motorcycles. IT seems they come into the major amounts of direction ary cash. But we had to come from who was the paymaster with the money, the mAlice and the desire to see denmark l dead. Timmy detectives went back into their notes and del deeper into the legal filings that flew back and forth during down and went y's divorce the documents, let the cops down another path, one that took them from the shady aside of the miami underworld to a highly respected, prosperous family of professionals. The adopts danmark's former in laws.

IT had never been a particularly good relationship between then and when these parents. There was not a lot of love lost between the two families.

How toxic did IT get? Well, cups discovered that in the divorce, IT markell versus markel windy had a forceful person in her corner, her mother, donor adult. In a series of emails, SHE encouraged Wendy to go low, fight dirty.

Hi honey, it's time for action. Let's show this if what will make him absolutely miserable. But first, Donna told Wendy the family was going to make them a big money offer to back down. Investigator Jason newlin learned that even when day's brother charlie was planning to kick in a few hundred thousand dollars.

there were emails that were collected throughout this process, and there was communication between windy and dona about just offer him a million dollars until to go raise the kids and a start go here's .

a yeah but dance. Tension and ill will toward his mother in law was off the charts. Three months before his murder, he filed a motion asking the court to prevent his sons from spending unsupervised time with Wendy's mother.

What's the backdrop of this thing? One of the grandchildren said, you know, basically grand mommy hate daddy. And had made some mother reMarks around danny that suggested that he had kind of preferred to him in a derogatory fashion.

So he done, does not want grama poisoning the kid. Now, Wendy also put her parents smack in the middle of the homicide investigation with a seemingly offhand remark during her police interview.

My parents have more reason to dislike that almost anyone else. He heard their daughter when .

these spokeshave ming down markel seemed improbable given their circumstances. Her dad, harvey, was a prominent dentist who, along with her mother, dona, ran the old cent dental institute in the florida.

They were five started family as far they could see.

Ben graber is a coral spring physician and former state representative, first of the adl sins in the nineteen eighties, and became .

harvest tient feelings side of things. His wife was very pleasant.

Dona was a go getter, too, who charmed the wheel of fortune audience when he appeared on the show and solve the puzzle. Eighty .

nine one.

Well, i'm it's misc ordinator, a domestic orator.

yes.

responsible for the activities classes of .

my son Robert, who was sixteen, charlie, who was twelve. When did he was ten? My husband, hearty, who's in the audience?

I have to laugh as I know if he has the guts to do that.

They know her kids were her life. And like most families, things got complicated as they got older. The oldest, rob, moved away and saw the family less and less. The middle child, charlie, faced disciplinary problems in school.

My name is doctor charly elson, and I am a parodying est.

He eventually joined the family business and had .

a lucrative implant practice. What I love about what I do is being able .

to restore people's miles. Charity was also a flashy figure around the miami some a.

He lives of the lifestyle of a single successful guy, right? He's got the sports cars with the license plate that say, my strong Donna .

saw her Youngest child, windy, as someone who needed protecting a test charlie often took upon himself. Investigators quickly learned he was when these confident and had her back. He even brought IT up in her police interview.

my brother, the one has EMS charly the one I really close you. He knew any treated to me badly, and I was always just joke. He said.

I looked in the hiring a hit man, and he was cheaper to get you this TV. So, stead, I got you this TV. I mean, he would never. He's my big brother. According to Wendy elson, a IT was suggested by the brother in the form of a joke.

But it's a very strange thing to say.

Very, in light of the circumstances, wouldn't be any big deal if he was alive and well with us.

IT was all very interesting. The smoke gathering around Wendy ayson under a family of dentist. Meanwhile, anta hai, those two suspected hit men, seek rato Garcia and Lewis vera said in prison until one made a deal reveal of flipped on Garcia and pleaded guilty to second degree motor in exchange for a reduced sentence. He told investigators that Garcia said he had a contract to kill them and needed the gang. Bang yourself.

I want to cuz guy, you're going to get pay this much thirty thirty five thousand dollars we are driving, 你说 没有 k my。

The night before the murder, Rivera said they checked into a motel not far from danmark calls home morning.

Where are my king? I was follow him to the game, waited in the party after a while. So when he came out the game and following home, we were on red in the garage, I was like a map leg.

Three, four feet away from his car, just jumped good on the car. They were killed on the phone that day. So twice can a car we left drive.

I mean, it's is cold blooded a killing as you can get to drive all the way to tell a hai and pull up in the someone's drive way that you don't know and just shoot .

him in cold blood place of rage. Can remember .

that very hard as they try. Investigators never did find the gun. So do you believe this guy is got a bad record?

A lot of what he tells you can be collaborated with evidence, and that's what you go with.

And we offered an answer to the comb's biggest question, what was the motive for danmark .

kills murder? The lady, once two kids back, you want full cost of some kids that went to go. Kids.

but how did Garcia know that?

K, I guess I know everything.

Kd, who was? kd? Police were about to hear a lot about her, and what they learned would set the stage for an elaborate undercover sting with an unlikely target, grandma addison.

Lewis river told police that after his partner seek free to Garcia killed and marko, they quickly hit the road back to miami, and Garcia made .

a phone call and he, everything done, so you have money.

The woman of the other end was, go see as romantic partner. The mother is children. Katy mac bona, I named the detectives already knew very well their investigation had turned up some critical details Better.

SHE was employed in a couple of dental practices. He was employed .

a bar at one point, a modest income at best yet, in a curious bit of timing, kd s cash flow and south lada standard of living suddenly improved. After dan markell was murdered in tea hassi.

her bank account for the end of twenty fourteen, three, twenty fifteen went from a minimal low income back account to hundred thousand dollars cycling through in less than a year.

In fact, on the day after the markel murder, Lewis Rivera says Garcia and kd personally delivered a bag full of money to his house.

He says he got thirty thousand dollars and that Garcia ended up giving him a cut of his, which ended up putting IT like thirty five.

thirty six thousand dollars. But where did the money come from? Once again, IT was kay's bank account that provided prosecutors with a ttl zing clue.

SHE was getting a paycheck from the absence.

Four hundred box and change correct. Was there any obvious work that he was doing?

There was no obvious work that law enforcement was able to uncover yet she's during .

a patet check signed by none other than dona adults when his mom. But IT turns out kis connection to the atsu around a lot deeper than a few cash checks .

because SHE is the girlfriend or recent x girlfriend of charlie ayson when the old son's brother.

so that your heavy, your head guys. One of them has a girlfriend, kate mack bona war, who has also been a girlfriend of charlie elson, correct? So she's in the middle .

of these two things linked to the victims in laws and to the actual killer with that's .

driving two worlds. A review of dmv documents also revealed that Kitty was driving alex is that came from the addison s.

He did get a car that was previously in the name of harby adults.

Generous, you bet, but Jason Nelson says charly adlon hadn't finished providing Kitty with certain upgrades.

We were informed at one point that charlie paid for half of her best augmentation .

done by a guy known in south loda circles as doctor banner.

dr. Boomer.

by the summer of two thousand and sixteen, the investigators believed that all made for a tidy theory that these two criminals gone down, and mark elena hit set up by kati mcmonagle and paid for by dance, angry in laws. But a theory isn't evidence.

There's just no communication with anybody that we can find or anybody will tell us that says the adults are involved.

So investigators hatched a plan in late April two thousand sixteen, nearly two years after dance murder, they decided to put a freeze on the family in the form of an FBI undercover sting. I'm dona adults. Agents tracked her down as he headed to pick up her grand .

songs from school wearing Green, black and White pop.

Would grama addison blurt out something .

incriminating? Son, don't. Why do he's an FBI agent?

And he is going to approach donor adult on the street and imply that he is somehow affiliated with Lewis Rivera, and give her a piece of paper which contains an an article about the homicide and written on the letter is five thousand dollars and a phone number.

Don't be here. Listen to you know that we know that your family don't sometimes every problem of more tutu is a .

nickname Garcia used. He says .

something to the effect of you're taking care of kd and Garcia, but you're not taking care of my boy. He doesn't say the name, but the implication is that it's revert .

that my brother is incarcerated. He helped your family with this problem. Guys had of the north SHE has the paper that walking away you so this is .

an extortion of blackmail letter, yes. And IT ruffles your fathers, yes. And you know that because you're .

listening to her calls to correct well, i'm listening to Charles calls is Charles.

I got some I got some paperwork hand delivered to me being so. About other people, 我是 差不多 是 秋冬, 我怎么说 跟你讲, 没有, 不对, no. That's crazy.

After that, gypt conversation with his mother, charlie edson called kd.

what's going on?

Which, of course, is exactly what investigators were hoping for.

I don't know what's going on, but my mom, he said that zone, approach her on the street, called, called her by name, 哼 and number。 With something yeah, yeah, somebody was SHE really, really wanted go to detail and was, I don't I have no idea what this is a reference to 你好, but something regarding our sun, something regarding is extra friend and the person asking my mom for some money. And there was another .

key conversation. IT was caught on video in this miami restaurant called dolch vea and suggested this florida parodist might have a violent streak. Though the audio was hard to make up when investigators transcribed IT, they believe charlie was speaking with kd about the blackmailer.

You Better kill because he's going to be a big problem. If you can't do IT, i'll have someone else do IT. He uses the word we've to kill us. Goa, yeah, that sounds IT suspicious. But because of the low audio, prosecutors weren't certain about the context all the FBI surveilLance produce some intriguing conversations, but in the end, IT did not produce any evidence of complicity.

There is no smoking gun. No one says, I, you know, this is exactly how this went down.

But at least for K, D, my bonwit prosecutors believe they had a case they could make. In october two thousand and sixteen, he was arrested and charged with first agreement. SHE pleaded not guilty.

setting the stage for .

a momentous trial for a bon wa. And her companion, sick rato Garcia and one of the star witnesses would be windy adleman herself.

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Sik rato Garcia and kati mag bang wa had been partners in life, and we're now alleged partners in crime. Their trial began anta has he, in late september of two thousand and nineteen. Prosecuted georgia camel and laid out the evidence.

Catherine mad banda was hired to solicit Garcia, who in turn solicated Rivera to come to tala hai and to execute mister markel in cold blood.

Louis Rivera, who had taken a deal to turn states evidence, gave his account .

of the murder of car and went around, went on driver side.

He said he got paid thirty five thousand dollars. Prosecutors believe the money came from Wendy's family, who were not to be found in the courtroom, but the jury did hear from the adl sins in the evidence, including the video from that FBI sting Operation and the wiretap surveilling of kd, charley y.

And his mother. You sounds like a compaction. That's an investigator. So when playing games.

in the end, the case would come down to the testimony of the two women at the center of IT. First up.

Wendy, who testified for .

the prosecution, he was given some muni to stifle and couldn't be used .

against her. Were you involved in any way in a plot to kill danmark? O, no.

When he told the jury, sh'd never met the alleged tidman c. Rada Garcia, but he had met kd, the state showed the jury this photo of the two of them on the beach together in june two thousand fourteen, just a month before dance murder.

And you, where I think that south beach close to wear your parents for looking in the condo? yes. And did you say how you know was never want SHE was dating my brother.

and he had a ready defense for her brother.

Charnel y did he ever joke about? He looked into hiring a hit man, but buying you a TV as a divorce present would be cheaper. He did make that joke. He tended to repeat himself, and sometimes he would make jokes that weren't very funny about all kinds of things.

When IT was time to make their case, defense lawyers for kd mag, bonos and secret Garcia ignored the adults and family. At first, Garcia is lawyer saw's anga told jars the state star witness lis rovera was a lying snitch. You flip to save his zone skin.

The only person who can tell you that great to you got out of the car proportionally shot game mark is call the guys got the deal of a life.

Both defendants were offered an opportunity to testify on their own behalf. Sek rado gar sea had passed, but in a bold, perhaps risky legal maneuver. Kd mag borne, what took the stand in our own defense?

Did you have anything to do with the murder of danmark? O no, man, did you get the father of your children missed Garcia to commit a murder on behalf of mr. charity? a. no. Her lawyer.

walter, through some of the state's most damming allegations, including the charge that the adults and had given her thousands of dollars, kd said no. SHE supported herself. SHE said SHE worked as a bottle girl promoting liquor brands at bars and clubs. And then he told IT tips were good.

What was a good night for you at the boat? A good night for me? I can walk out there with a thousand to fifteen hundred dollars.

no blood money from the adults. And he said, not even for that augmentation surgery. Charlie didn't pay for that.

Who paid for your person? Pts, I think, how did you pay for your bird bath, or from my cash tips?

All along the state had hold katty would turn and reveal other figures as the real masterminds of the murder. And in her defense, SHE did point the finger at charity. Sort of.

do you have information that charge adult was involved in this? Do I have information and me based on everything that we've been seeing, but I don't have personal information based on everything you've seen. Do you think charity was involving this?

yes. In closing arguments, the defense attorneys asserted that charlie may have been involved, but without the help of their two clients, they were innocent. Now, IT was up to the jurors. They were about a stn, the court room, and send the investigation even closer to the adults.

Families dorst them.

IT had been more than five years since the dan markel was shot in his driveway in one of the most cold blooded killings taya hai florida had ever seen. Now judgment day had arrived for the couple on trial for the murder. Seek free dogar see a faced a possible death sentence for pulling the trigger and kate mcbain wa. Faced a possible life sentence for setting IT up. Dan's parents waited anxiously in court.

We didn't have a feeling of any guarantee. Ed IT was quite .

tense for us. I was very nervous.

Juries in the court room.

after ten hours of deliberations, the jury came back with a burden, but for just one defendant side of the diversity freedom.

C.

O, the defendant is killed .

to the first free murder.

And what about kd? The jurors could not reach a verdict.

I will declare this case, miss read.

Outside court prosecutor georgia capEllen vowed to try kid again.

So what's next .

to you that regroup and try to do IT Better next time? Fill in roth .

mark hell were left with mixed feelings. Relieved by Garcia is conviction.

But the first trial experience was actually quite upsetting, shocking, and we had to pull ourselves together because that was like really something that we had not anticipated.

The judge sentence her see at a life in prison for murdering her son, dan, setting a retrial date for katy. But as the markel sought justice, their primary goal was something else to see their .

grand songs I love with my grandkids. That's the priority of my life.

The two grandson's have been living with their mother, Wendy, in south florida ever since their father's murder. Grandma dona would frequently baby sit after dse death when he would arrange time for his parents to come down from canada to visit the boys. But in two thousand and sixteen, that changed when he none only put a stop to those visits.

SHE changed the boy's last name. There are no longer going to be known as markel. There's going to be atle since SHE said SHE did IT for their security.

Does that makes sense to you? Not at all. I could never figure that out.

If you're going to change their names and hide them from the public, you'd name them Smith or Jones or some other name. Certainly not adults, in my opinion. He just wants to eliminate the market, all family from their lives. Ruth and field took action. They worked with a legal team and pluto state legislators to pass the markel.

T if the natural parent has civil or criminal charges towards the deceased partner, that gives the grandparents permission to go before a court where they can get visitation.

In february two thousand and twenty two, the bill passed in the florida states, and the marcos got an email from I IT would lead to their first visit with the boys in six years. By then they were eleven and twelve years old. And I said, can we give you a hug? And we hugged, and IT was unbelievable. There aren't words to express the feelings.

I don't think that I could have been a Better visit. No, under the circumstances.

during that visit, the Marcus had no idea that investigators and tella hai had just made a major breakthrough as they prepare for kd second trial. Prosecutors took that surveilLance video of charlie and kd in this restaurant known as the dv, the tape, to an audio expert to see if he could make IT easier to hear. Stephen abstinent is an attorney and author of the book about the markel case, extreme punishment kef maco vine.

who for ten years was working with the CIA, and his job was to figure out ways to pick individual voices out of noisy environment when .

clutter of lunch hour, the dishes .

to basically bore out that extraneous notes. And for forty one minutes of the doll chevet meeting, he did that. And there are some Priceless gems in there.

The audio of their conversation is still low, but easier to understand in the first enhance clip, charlie told kd. Suggesting, according to prosecutors, that if he really feared to rest, he'd beyon a plane and in another moment later in the conversation, charlie is wondering why the scary character in that FBI thing targeted his mom and not him.

He just keeps pointing .

the finger directly at himself.

Is that the best evidence you have tied kd to this family.

the best evident we have tied the adopts yeah into this crime.

In April twenty twenty two, armed without evidence, prosecutors went to a grand jury, which indeed charlie addison on charges of first degree murder, conspiracy and solicated of murder. The FBI arrived at chinese house and foreign lauter deal a little before six the next morning.

This is A A residential neighborhood, and they surrounded in every way. And one of the officers gets caught on either barred or waze razor wire, because Charles had had protected like a fortress. So they call charlie, no answer.

They call on to sell, no answer. They tried calling him one last time before they storm IT. And this time charlie answers, and they tell him to come out.

He walks out, shield his eyes, and what they see is a guy wearing only a pair of boxer shorts. And he looks at everything going on on. He says, am I under arrest?

How do you hear charlie was posted? They had taken them down.

Oh, i've probably got five taxes at once. And.

you know .

and you said what something profile like it's about every time yeah exactly.

Charlie addison was transferred from miami to the leon county jail, and just a month later, he got more bad news. In her second trial, kd was found guilty of first degree murder. Thanks in part to that new and improved dolge veto.

The defendant is guilty of first degree .

murder you swear and katy's time on stage wasn't over SHE would come to charlie trial with a .

new story to up with the idea to kill and markel change .

when he would .

return to court to and face much tougher questions about dance murder .

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Danmark cow's parents fill and roth found themselves in both familiar and unfamiliar territory as they entered a legal and county courtroom in october twenty twenty three for the trial of charlie ayson, the accused mastermind of the plant killer son.

When you have actually walk in a courtroom and you recognize the offender, these from and the family, I was a really different experience.

Dance family listened intently as prosecutors georgia kaplan and sa dugan presented their case against charlie adults, often using his own words against him. Jeffrey, look cost. When these x boyfriend testified that charlie had bragged to him about having contacts in the criminal underworld, he also told the jury an explosive story when he confided in him that charlie had gone much further than merely joking about a TV being cheaper than a hit man .

in a very serious Turner voice told me that chari had investigated all possible options to take care of the problem of danny markel, including hiring in a hit man.

So definitely not the to be confused with the TV joke.

No, I heard that joke repeatedly. This was something very different. Made my stomach c flip. I found a disturb.

Prosecutors laid out all the electronic evidence that gathered over the years, phone calls, text messages and wiretaps that draw a link from charity to kd to the killers. But that evidence took a back seat when a familiar witness took the stand. Wendy, absent the sister of the accused, again testified for the state under an immunity agreement, but that wouldn't protect her from a wetheral .

direct examination. Your family had your x husband killed to try to help you. They know that's completely untrue.

Were you involved in any way in the plot to kill your excitement? Absolutely not. Did you know what was onna happen? But maybe you don't know the details. I knew nothing.

In some of the earlier cases, they treated her more as just a witness. David, like went to college with dam markel and has reported on the case extensively for his substate original jurisdiction.

And as more evidence has emerged, they do seem to believe .

that when he was involved and their trial presentation reflected that, and in fact, prosecutors referred to windy and court documents as one of the coconut ATS to the murder who had the motive, and long, with their mom and brother, initiated the plot to kill.

How did the killers in this case know that dan markel was planning to leave town the day after the killing? I have no idea. You knew he was planning to leave town the next day, didn't you? I did.

yes. Did you conveyed that information to anyone? Absolutely not.

But if he knew nothing about the murder the prosecutor pressed, why had SHE driven past the taped off crime scene on the day and was shot despite having no reason to be in his neighborhood, something investigators had long felt was suspicious?

Did you attempt to call the mark when you encounter the road? No, I didn't think anything of IT. I didn't think IT was related to .

the when he remained element that neither he nor charlie was involved in the murder.

Did your brother never mention hiring a hit man to kill the ankle? no.

But couple men reminded Winnie that he had named early as a possible suspect. The very day then was shot.

He knew any treated me badly, and I was always just joke. You know, I looked in the hiring hitman, and I was cheaper to get you this TV. I was talking with laender cement for six hours, terrified out of my mind.

I offer them every possible idea. I could come right. And one of the possible ideas was that your brother could have murdered your child's father.

I didn't really believe that was possible. Was part of the plot for you to be able to have plausible deniability about this? Absolutely not.

When SHE stepped down from the stand, could you still believe that he was held inside these fire doors and knew nothing .

about what had happened? It's impossible to believe that Wendy has known all these years nothing about what happened.

Prosecutors clearly wanted the jury to view when these testimony skeptically.

That's not further questions.

But when the other woman at the center of the case took the stand, prosecutors had a different goal.

Please raise your right and .

and here comes kd mag one again.

So SHE comes into court this time around. As a states witness.

kd had twice SAT in this box and swarm under oath that SHE had nothing to do with the murder of danmark l, but now he was testifying as a convicted killer serving a life sentence.

Were you in the middle? Yes, man, I was.

After years of denials, katty finally admitted her involvement in the murder, and not just those .

who came up with the idea to kill. And mark L.

The question for the prosecutors, how do you reita this person in the jury eyes?

So the believer with details SHE described very specifically what surely did, starting with planting the seed in her mind.

IT was a seed planted in earnest nine months before the murder with a simple question.

what was the question? Do you know anybody that can harm someone? And did you know anybody that could harm someone? Yes, man, I said, who was that six to sik .

rado Garcia, the convicted trigger man and dan's murder and the father of kd, two children, and the person charly wanted hurt.

How did the definite refer to this person, if not by the name dan or danny market, when the husband kd .

said he convinced the prado to commit the murder, but felt I I wouldn't do IT if he know that was for charity because he saw him as a romantic rival, so he didn't tell him. SHE explained to the jury how he passed the instructions from charlie to c. rato. Without the two having to meet in person.

He had a manilla envelope that was sealed. He told me, kai, do not open IT do not touch IT, do not look inside IT and basically really, you know, that paper to the person. Did he express any concerns about fingerprints being on the enable the content? Yes, man, he said he were a glove so that there's no finger prints on IT. And what about looking the problem and that he didn't like that .

of kd testified that after the murder, he went to charlie house to get the payment. Charlie had the money package up for her stapled in stack, SHE said. And something else about the money was odd. He was damped.

I believe his parents or his mom might have washed the the money, physically washed the money.

Yes, man k believe charlies mom did that before dropping the money off at his house.

her husband harvey, in his house. And he told me that his parents had, just by right before I got there, so all of the site he had money to put in my in the trunk of my car.

T had put dona adults and charlie mother smack in the middle of the conspiracy. SHE also said her payment for the killing included those checks from the adults and institute signed by dota.

Did you .

perform any job at the adult institute? No, I might.

And finally, Kitty explained to the jury exactly what was going on, and that now informers, doj veto day.

what he was speaking of was probably the F B I, or that um black mAiling and by you an is this finally the unbonneted truth from Kitty ba?

It's certainly a lot closer to the truth .

than what we heard from her before, which was that SHE knew nothing. This version is a lot more a.

but according to china y's attorneys, the real unvarnished truth about danmark's murder was something nobody, not even the prosecutor sitting at the next table over, had heard before. And that day, two crimes .

occurred. The first one the day knows about, the other one they don't know about. They were about to find out like you. But before we get there, I like cook english.

so do we. And you won't believe the story you're about to hear from charlie adler himself.

But this was charly basically saying this the whole .

time charlie dos on's x go for a katy bag. Bona was unsworth in her testimony against them. But charley's attorney says he had plenty of swing in the years leading up to disappearance.

understand? She's told more than two versions. She's lied when he was arrested.

She's lied in the first trial. She's lied in the second trial. And then her story changes again when she's understand you. never.

So in this cross examination, dan rush bomb attack kadi macbook was credibility.

I told you, I live in my first and second trial to save myself.

just like you're lying here to save yourself, right?

Not saving myself. I'm telling the truth this time.

right? Because now all of after eight years you have developed a conscience.

I think what happened after that was a high stakes gamble for the defense.

Charles Charles .

edson himself took the stand with a brand new version of events.

And this guy gets out of the car.

start jaw dropping and totally out of the blue. He claimed two crimes have been committed, the murder of dan markel and the extortion of charly Edison. When you heard IT, you know this case so well, what did you .

think my jaw dropped open?

Did you cause the death? The professor? danmark? L, absolutely no.

Charles told the jury his own nightmare began the very day day was murdered. Kd came over to his house that night and SHE was in a panic and SHE said.

listen, this is all my fault. But I had no idea anything was going to happen. But this is totally my fault. I spoke in too much detail about your family's personal problems, about your sister dan markel, and a million dollar offer .

that would be the million dollars the ads, and talked about giving them if he'd let his children moved to south.

Ora, what did you say? What are you talking about? IT. And she's like, he was like, my friend killed them and he wants to be paid third of a million dollars.

What happened next? I stood up and I I start cursing IT kidding and she's like, no. And my, who did this? Whose your friend that did this? And she's like, I don't want to say, I can say.

but IT was clear they were talking .

about six rato Garcia can be part paying for murder. This is insane and SHE and she's like, look, if you don't pay in forty eight hours, they will kill you and I said, kate, I feel like getting extorted now did he tell you that they would just kill you or they would also kill other people? He said, come up for you. Come up for the family like you. You don't have a choice, just just pay the money.

He testified he didn't have that much money, but he did have one hundred and thirty .

eight thousand in a safe SHE. And SHE asked me, SHE goes, went, how can you get the rest?

Charley said he couldn't ask his parents. They'd go right to the police.

He asked me. He said, what can you pay like? Can you pay like, three thousand dollars a month and and I said, yeah, and I can I can do that.

And while most killers don't agree to installment plans, these guys apparently did.

Now, at this point time, did you have any idea that he was part of the extortion? No, no. SHE kept saying IT was all her fault, and I really didn't know any of this .

was going to happen, charlie. Version of how much money was involved in how IT changed hand didn't always square with what investigators learned, but he added more details, telling the jury that a few weeks after the killing, kd seemed to be looking for a cut of the three thousand dollar monthly payment.

SHE said, could you do me a favorite? I need to get health .

insurance for my kids. According to charly, kd suggested he peal a thousand dollars of the extortion payment each .

month and put IT in a payroll check to her to keep her happy.

Charlie said his mother did the books for the dental practice, so SHE set up the payments for kid to go through the company.

Payroll is like, what's kid going to be doing? I go h SHE. Just going to be helping me out with some stuff and different things.

As for the key evidence that knew and improve video that helps pave the way for charlie arrest, he had an explanation for that too.

Why did you specifically mention the world extortion in doctor V. K? I was being real careful when I sort to, and I would never say, the world extortion to .

charlie idol, since explanation of how he got sucked into a murdered extortion plot was converted. Some just called IT crazy. What did you think? Yeah.

I couldn't believe IT. I thought these guys out of their mind.

even his attorney admits at first IT sounded like a stretch.

So when I hear IT the first time, I think IT is, I think that sounds crazy.

You ve got a very complicated theory which addresses all the dots and tea that need to be crossed. But what about the fact that these guys are strangers? Do dan marko? I mean, that doesn't seem to make sense. We're going to kill this guy and then hope we get three hundred thousand.

But that's the same exact thing in the murder for higher theory too, because the testimony is clear that they didn't get paid before the murder, so they're doing a murder for higher, according to the state, with the hopes of getting paid later. IT doesn't make any sense.

Attorney rush bombs spent more than a day questioning charlie about his alleged ordeal, but charlie, time on the stand wasn't over. Prosecute georgia campen was about to get her shot.

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Inside the leon county courthouse, a lot of people watching charlie at son's murder trial thought his defense that he was, in fact, a victim of extortion was just a SHE said.

asked me if I could pay three thousand dollars a month.

But charlie was detailed, thoro and ready with an answer to every one of us, a journey questions he had to come up with an answer for every text mail, intercepted phone message. Charly seemed be able to speak to all of that stuff. Did you worry that he was gonna find one you to believe? IT, oh yeah, absolutely. If prosecutor .

georgia .

couple man was worried SHE couldn't show IT in her crossed examination, SHE didn't even try to hide her disdain.

Doctor, have you ever heard the same that the simplest explanation is always the most likely?

Have you heard that? Do you agree that .

the only problem with having an explanation for everything is that there's just so many explanations?

There's no explanation? I explain what happened.

SHE zeroed in on one big overriding question, why would these alleged extortionist even want to kill danmark?

l. Why did a in vera, or whoever did IT need to kill someone to extort .

you if you got, ask them.

you could have gotten extorted for life just by the threat of death. By later, king put a new doctor. This was a real.

The threat, as you get of these guys, aren't nothing around.

but SHE is. Did he see any evidence that gangs members were waiting outside in the dark, ready to kill him if he didn't pay up?

Were you had to believe or told that the ba g guys are outside, right outside your apartment are your residence?

No, but I was like to believe what they did to dan. They were gonna to me.

I heard you say that, but my question is, did SHE say like the car is is running, i'm going to take the money .

out there too, right now? no. SHE never told me that they .

were in waiting for me outside. Fact, he stay the night with you didn't SHE yes. SHE did and didn't exit your house with your hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars until the next day.

right? great.

According to the prosecutor, nothing charlie did was consistent with someone who was a victim of extortion. SHE asked charlie about his cozy relationship with kd, which continued even after he brought so much danger into his life.

Did you offer that you could use your range over anytime?

I said he could borrow the car? sure.

Did you talk about getting a boat and you offer to help her get a boat?

I'd never offered to help her get a boat. I offered to help her look for a boat.

Did you pay for the breast .

orientation?

no. So when she's saying at the same time she's the day of the breast orientation, can just put IT on the creditor SHE referring something else.

some other expense I no idea referring to I did not pay for her .

good job couple and addressed that all important surveilling video and how IT seemed to reveal a tight ongoing connection decade following the murder.

What's the purpose of keeping kd happy? Where SHE gona sick that the last kings on you, if you made her unhappy.

choose which is protecting? I didn't know what would happen.

Do you think you can talk your way out of this?

No, I know i'm not part of the .

murder prosecutor. Couple lets cross examination was detailed but to some observers like danmark els old college and David lab, capable man failed to land a knock out blow. I thought SHE was just going to really body slam him here and that had happened. But her closing argument was certainly hard hitting. SHE argued that charly story, even with all those details, still did not make sense.

Please think about that. These two do with no connection at all to denmark l and without two nickles to rub together, run in a car and paid for gas to count to tell us if in order to kill someone that this dependent hated and .

we're what to maybe .

get my why not just hill and rob him if what you're after is money and there is no hired .

hit and through IT, all the prosecutor made to clear that this deadly conspiracy he didn't end with charlie kt and the two hit men couple in alleged that dona adults had perhaps even windy, also played roles in the grame.

Wendy appears to be the weekly of the pack. SHE needs to be protected. Dona is the overbearing major, and this defended fancy himself, the sage of the family, equal parts black sheep and mamas boy. He would often try to help. Wendy is fitting .

for its closing.

The defense encourage the jurors to look closely, objectively at each detail in the case and consider the possibility that the symbolist st explanation is not always the truth.

That proposition, that the simple answer is the preferred answer, is the exact opposite of what our criminal justice system is about. Sometimes things aren't so simple, and that's what we had in this case.

charlies atterley argued. He had no motive to kill down marko. Charlie.

it'll send a good life. His business was booming. He was supportive of his sister, but he didn't wake up in the morning thinking about professor market.

Good night. With the end of closing arguments, the trial of charlie ayson was over. Now IT was the jury's turn to decide the nature of charlie role in this deadly conspiracy. Was he victim .

board .

mastermind?

By the fall of twenty twenty three, charlie adults had transformed from swap miami bacheller to the shawl defended facing a life sentence. All that remained was to hear from the group of jurors were deliberating his fate. So what are you thinking? I mean, you are out there in the gallery. Did you think you had at this time?

We knew we had a good chance.

but as the marcos waited one question, nag ged them which Charles testimony that he too was a victim extraordinary the plot to kill them mark kl, sway the jury.

We've already been around this stuff a little too long, like you were over nine years now. So you know that nothing is and nothing closes in a second. So the deliberations are just a very, very worry. Some time everyone .

can be seated.

but word came much sooner than the mark calls anticipated. The jurors had reached the decision.

Definitely surprised at, like the three hour mark. Totally surprised .

has the jury reached .

a una verda and had taken .

nearly a decade to bring charlie to trial. But this jury's verdict was clear.

defended, is guilty of first. Every year thousands .

were live streaming the version, including author Stephen estein.

I think charlie thought he was about to walk out of the court room of free man three hours. Three wasn't no. And you could see his reaction. IT was a look of surprise of shocked the his head bank to the table, and he mouthed one word no.

In the moment, it's like feeling of relief on the celebration. It's a good feeling because you were waiting for this to happen.

And yet you can really celebrate because you the stark, awful moment of grief in your life that this is all about yes, prosecutor georgia capEllen had never let her foot off the gas. When I came to proving charliet involvement in dance murder. SHE and her team never stopped investigating, especially when I came to key evidence like that enhanced dulci vita recording.

That's important. If he hadn't pursued that technology, he might not have ever gone. Charlie.

yeah. So I have like a lot of compliments to georgia.

Capable man spoke to reporters after the vernet SHE took a quick vicary lap, then hinted that charlie conviction was not the end of the case. This, the last prosecution .

we're going to see in the little .

murder or others?

I don't know the answer to that question. Now stay in as couple .

in left the courthouse, charly addison settled in behind bars. And when they put them away, there's a telephone on there. There is. And who's at the other end of the line?

Same person who's been the other end of the line throughout his entire life through all the wiretaps, his mama, Donna edson.

there's nothing to say, is nothing to say.

Charlie spent many hours on the phone with his mother dona and father harvey.

This is a free call from and incarcerated individual at the leon county jail. This call is not private. 嘿嘿, charlie Charles, okay, okay.

And commiserated over the verdict.

Take the reality 的 位置 那个 看 什么。 But this is what happened. This is no out of this.

The charlie was especially critical of the jury.

These people, anything I really like, you know, there was this really like twenty five million .

Donna. Agree.

they weren't. Now just that is .

they simply couldn't believe he'd be behind .

bars for life. Go goes. All said, IT took a hope, and you close from a couple of weeks ago for you when you can. I did you tell with had everything ready for you, you can.

Charlie said the trial played out like a particular T, V show. You know, the one.

对 吧? I idiot, from being hard to be take out. So they realized they were losing.

They had a different to deadline. Nobody washes deadline without coming away with the road. Thank you. They figured that out pretty soon .

in the conversation turn from complaints about the trial to plans for the future.

And they are just going back and forth and back and forth trying to figure out, what do we do now? What do we do now?

We have to talk when we have a moment about things that we need to take care of. okay?

And dona reveals all kinds of stuff that he plans to do and oh.

what a plan sheet hatched.

There's a lot of things that we have to do, and we've got a very tight time frames.

In the week after his conviction, charlie and danna adults were in constant communication .

kind to take care of things, surely we're going to think.

But one adult was notably absent on those calls. Wendy, on one call, dona was talking to charlie, but his side of the call dropped, but SHE kept talking to her husband, Harry, and others in the room. Maybe not knowing SHE was still being recorded, SHE read them a text he said he sent a windy after the verdant .

I wrote this last night. We know you never asked anything expected, brother, but we just get off the phone with him. And the first thing he asked was how, when he holds him up, I did have the hearts of chAllenge that you never called up or ask the question I just said. We worked up the phone calls right now, everyone looks to protect you, I bet you've love to think about, but then SHE nothing. Eventually.

Wendy and experienced lawyer replied, and Donna read that message out law to.

i'm not responsible in any way to real situation. I am not filthy because I didn't not do anything wrong, and I was not involved in any way with danny. Still.

dona seemed to realize he was losing her grip on her adult children. But Donna also seem to have an ulterior motive for wanting windy outside, something SHE expressed on the same recording.

I have a space here. I wanted to his post. We going to be done. I wanted to .

have all this information gone where move .

and looking IT up over and over. But things change if there is extradition from the tnm, because we we looked at all the places, I think I could go to korea and china, but is no extradition. But looking for places is no extradition.

Dona seem to be planning to flee, or a country like vietor, which has no extradition treated with the united states. That means SHE woud necessarily be sent back to florida to .

face prosecution. It's press no thing where anything is. So I would like her to come up here that you could see that I don't think that asking too much.

but of course, he said all of this, a jail house phone line, which is monitored. Authorities learn danna and harvey had booked one way tickets to vietnam the day after charlies conviction.

one week after Donald watched her son charlie be convicted of murder. And they were literally boarding the plane on at the jet way.

As dona and harby made their way towards plane, tala has the FBI agent pats sanford leading. A team of officers pounced.

They're boarding the plane. They believe they're about to make their great escape. But pat sanford is there. And literally seize the phone in donas hand and grab for because he has a search one, dona Young said away from him, as if she's got control and power. And the next thing you know, she's got her hands behind back cut and she's marching in the opposite direction off the jet way with a gago of officers surrounding her. And harvey utterly help .

us to do think harvey was sent home without .

being charged when issue .

warns dona, seen here, is sitting in the back of a police car, was driven straight from the airport to a miami locker. Almost a decade after danmark calls murder, he was booked into the miami date county jail charged with first degree murder, conspiracy and solicitation of murder. Lawyer than rush ball, who represented her son, is now representing dona at .

the time when Donald edson went to get on a plane, SHE didn't do anything wrong. There is no warrant for her arrest. SHE was a free citizen like you and me.

But on those many jail calls that are sometimes mentions drusilla's s name in relation to her plans.

I want a full make IT out and climate really go but then said, you mind what's .

going on are you helping her with the fleet to country with minimal extradition? Er the .

short answer to that is no um but the short answer is i'm limited in what I can say because i'm also representing her for root.

Markel donal's take down was yet another unexpected twist, even after years of them. It's an event with a lot of explanation points.

It's amazing.

Where are we now? They've gotten dona the mother. And what did SHE fit in the grand .

scheme of things? Do you think tina, in my mind, is the architect.

but Donald deny that accusation in court today.

not guilty on .

the marches, continue their visits with the grandchildren. In twenty twenty two, roth released her memorial, the SHE hopes, the story of how her own grief motivated her to become a grandparents. s.

Rights activists can help others too. But SHE knows another trial is coming. That means a fourth .

trial for you, a fourth round. Yes, this is. Ah.

can you do IT or you upset?

Well, I did. I didn't expect you to come so soon. It's like obvious you have to do you fitted this for the olympics? You know, I guess we will be ready. And of course.

there's one last lingering question when IT comes to just who was involved in dance murder for higher plot. Wendy, your opinion? Do you think windy should be worried? I think .

everybody should be worried.

It's been nearly ten years since dan markel's murder, but for those who loved him most, his spirit is never lost in the barge of headlines. His long time friend, josh berman, even made down a part of his own family in a way.

you know, my middle son, he's name later. The heart name is identical to danny hibernates and sunday i'll television. Why he is that name? I think he's only sex.

Almost seven would be a lot to tell them now. But yeah, that sort of sounds I how much and meant to me and to all of us. I I see myself sitting talking as representative of dance, incredible network of friends here and israel on the professor circuit and flood. I like whether the guy went.

He was such a phenomenal father. I mean, the best thing about danny, everybody know his scholar. He's internationally acclaimed, that all counts. But the biggest, biggest factor was the kind of father that he was.

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