Dan Markel Murder Story on Dateline
Dateline this past weekend detailed the story of Dan Markel’s murder in twisted details that took so many turns, you have to watch it to understand them all! Right now, I’m not finding the video online, but hopefully Dateline NBC will upload it shortly. The episode is titled “Cold-Blooded”. 20/20 covered the story before here.
Dan Markel was divorced from his wife, Wendi Adelson, when he was murdered in 2014 at his Tallahassee home. The police have found two men who are talking about the crime, have been arrested and they say they were hired, but so far there have been no arrests in the case for the person(s) who hired them.
Wendi wanted to move to be near her family seven hours south in Miami, but the judge in their custody case said she could not uproot the children. She was denied. There was incredible tension between Dan and the Adelsons, which could have been a motive for Wendi and her family.
I found Wendi’s interview with police interesting. She pings me left and right in her interview.
I was digging around on the case and found this interview podcast of Wendi. She took a writing class after her ex-husband’s murder and read a piece she wrote. At one point in her writing, she talks about marrying Markel. She says, “We married when I was in my mid-20s, when I thought I could cheat the system and marry a man I lacked passion and love for because, hey, didn’t that die anyway during marriage?”
Ouch!
She also talks about how after the murder, she sat next to an older lady on bench when the older woman ask her, “What does your husband do?” She says, “I hate this question. I haven’t yet said, he doesn’t do much, because he’s DEAD, but I think it sometimes.” The tone of her voice when she says that is startling. It’s whiny. At another point she talks about her face as an “endless mask”–that smiles from muscle memory. She’s quite an interesting person, and seems to come from quite the family!
What did you think when you watched Wendi? Do you think Wendi Adelson is the one who is the person behind the hired hit of her ex-husband?
