Woman convicted in murder-for-hire killing of her ex-son-in-law

FLORIDA – “A calculated and controlling matriarch.” That’s how prosecutors describe the aging Florida grandmother who had the money and the motive to arrange for the killing of her ex-son-in-law who she “hated.”

A jury convicted 75-year-old Donna Adelson on Thursday of first degree murder in the death of Daniel Markel. Markel was her ex-son-in-law. He was in a custody battle over his two kids with Adelson’s daughter. Adelson decided to take matters into her own hands. She could be sentenced in October.

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