
Donna Adelson was found guilty of first-degree murder, conspiracy, and solicitation in the murder-for-hire case of her son-in-law, a prominent law professor at Florida State University. She had a total meltdown in court when the verdict was read. Donna Adelson had been accused of orchestrating a plot to have Daniel Markel killed back in 2014.
According to prosecutors, the motive behind the murder was to help her daughter, Wendi Adelson, get full custody of her children after a messy divorce with Markel. According to Fox, she was arrested in 2023 at Miami International Airport with a one-way ticket to Vietnam, which has no extradition treaty with the U.S.