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Murder for hire case has new twists and turns

September 9th, 2016 by Mike Vasilinda

New documents that the state attorney in the state Capitol says never should have been released show police in Tallahassee sought indictments for the former brother-in-law and mother-in-law of a slain FSU law professor, but as Mike Vasilinda tells us, both a grand jury and the prosecutor say they want more evidence.

The probable cause affidavits detail a flurry of activity between the mother of accused killer Sigfredo Garcia kids, Katherine Magbanua  and Charlie Adelson, the former brother in law of slain professor Dan Markel.

The have been suspects since the beginning, and on the day the two alleged hit men were indicted we asked State Attorney Willie Meggs about charges against the Adelson family.

“They were not indicted….today” he said.

Police believe Brother in law Charles Adelson, who dated Magbanua for more than a year coordinated the murder through the woman.

She has made more than 56 thousand dollars in mostly cash deposits since the murder.

The new information even shows police sent an undercover agent to the former mother in law, telling her telling her they knew about the crime, demanding five thousand dollars to keep quite.

That contact prompted Charles Adelson to meet with Magbanua and discuss killing the undercover agent.

Still, State Attorney Meggs says there are too many  opinions than not enough facts in the probable cause documents.

“You know what we need in this is somebody to testify about those events, not what the officer believes from drawing his conclusions” says Meggs today.

An Attorney for accused hit man Luis Rivera, Charles Cooper,  was asked this week if Rivera might cooperate in the case..

“At this point in…No, there is no indication that he will be a cooperating defendants. I mean, they are seeking the death penalty against him” says the lawyer.

The Adelson Family Attorney has called the information fanciful fiction.

The State Attorney called the probable cause documents released by the police department “draft” documents and says they should not have been made public. In June, police were surprised when a judge prematurely unsealed the probable cause documents for the two men charged with murder.

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