Matriarch of Florida Dentist Family Is Arrested at Airport Trying To Flee to Vietnam, After Son Is Convicted of Hiring Latin Kings Hitman To Murder Her Harvard-Trained Son-in-Law

The matriarch of a wealthy Miami family, Donna Adelson, has been charged with murder in the contract killing of her former son-in-law, the celebrated law professor Dan Markel.

Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation/Courtroom Feed
Donna Adelson (left) has been charged with conspiring with her son Charlie (center) to order the contract killing of her ex-son-in-law, Professor Dan Markel (right). Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation/Courtroom Feed

A Leon County, Florida, grand jury has indicted the matriarch of a wealthy Miami dentist family for murder two days after she and her husband were arrested at Miami International Airport boarding a one-way flight to Dubai and Vietnam. 

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