There is a camp that’s “Team Wendi-Involved” vs. “Team Wendi-Not Involved.” We have all been taking in the same information and choosing a team based on our own conclusions.
I was a surprised Lat went with a Wendi defense piece. But at the same time not. He has made it clear he’s Team Wendi-Not Involved. He has repeatedly stated that he will not go into his thoughts on Donna and Charlie. Take that for what it is.
But we do have this “It was always clear to [Rivera] that Katie [Magbanua] was the link to the Adelson's. Katie was the one who was hiring them to come to Tallahassee and c
ommit the murder on behalf of Wendi so she could have the children all to herself.”
family involvement in the divorce drama
Dan’s friends on 20/20 said Donna and Harvey (her parents) hated Danny and were unreasonable, doing things and getting involved in the divorce.
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Wendi did indeed allow this and perhaps encouraged it. She is a grown woman.
Also on 20/20, Lacasse painted a profound picture of Adelson family dysfunction. “The whole family is weird. Something is up with this family. Never seen this kind of obsession. Their hobby is hating Danny.”
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Laccase is a professor whose research specialties are listed as mental health and psychiatric medications.
The family (including Wendi) in cahoots pre-murder
Communicating and plotting to give 333k each (Wendi ⅓, Charlie ⅓, Donna + Harvey ⅓
= 1MM. They ran THIS by Wendi. She knew Dan well enough to say no, it would not fly, and Dan would not accept a cash payment for less access to his kids.
Lacasse says Wendi confided to him confidentiality the following: "She [Wendi Adelson] told me that Charlie had looked into having Danny killed in the summer of 2013. She meant it, dead serious. She said it in a dead serious, chilling, uncomfortable way.”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/fsu-law-pr...aims-brother-talked-killing/story?id=42065242
Lacasse: “He believed that Wendi Adelson may be indirectly responsible for the murder of her ex-husband, Daniel Markel," the Dec. 4, 2014 TPD report says. “When I informed him that Wendi was not a suspect, he stated ‘well she should be."
http://www.tallahassee.com/story/ne...s-reveal-early-markel-investigation/87680046/
The morning of the murder Wendi had phone contact with both Donna and Charlie.
There is speculation as well about her TV repairman, the joke to the repairman and her drive-by of Markel's house shortly after the murder. I do have to say knowing the area, her little shortcut through the neighborhood, is not an unreasonable one one to take.
Evidence post-murder per probable cause affidavits - much lighter on evidence regarding Wendi.
http://media.graytvinc.com/documents/PC+Charlie+Adelson+Redacted.pdf
Pg 4 - “...no one in the Adelson family has contacted TPD or inquired about the status of the investigation.”
-But she was terrified, right? Scared for her children and also cleared as a suspect. But doesn’t inquire further?
Page 16, call 1380 - During this conversation with Donna, after being confronted by the undercover FBI agent. During this conversation, Charlie inquired whether it involved himself or others. Donna whispered, "well probably the both of us." Charlie asked her to repeat herself, and she said
"Probably the two of us" and "you get the general idea of what I'm talking about."
- Charlie's mind jumps to possible multiple people - perhaps the rest of the family?
Page 20 - Charlie told Katie he was talking to his parents about everything and invited her to the family pad to discuss.
- No mention of Wendi here, but we can conclude KM has the further knowledge of others involved if Charlie told her this. She needs to flip and tell.
Why I am more on Team Wendi-Involved:
Pre-murder I see Wendi all over this. Post-murder she is almost absent. Could this be because she is the most visible and vulnerable to scrutiny? She seems self-aware stating in her podcast “It’s always the ex-wife.” Or is she being guarded carefully by her parents and brother?
Wendi coordinated her divorce plans and had those conversations about money payoffs with her parents and hitman options with her brother. So for those who think Wendi was perhaps oblivious, the communication pattern involving Wendi and family on solutions must all abruptly halted JUST AS Wendi’s problems escalated. Such as the upcoming court judgments addressing Wendi and her lawyer’s unclean hands for not disclosing money and assets. Restrictions placed on Donna and accusations of bad mouthing a parent to his young children. And lastly, Dan’s new smiles and finding happiness with a sophisticated and much more credentialed woman.
This communication shift is what would have had to happen for those who consider her innocent and not a murderess. As all this was reaching a boiling point...BAM BAM.
We have sympathetic thinking that Wendi was unaware and not capable. Nothing can prove her of being involved as of now. She is indeed absent from all of the LE surveillance after the murder. Her family could have secretly and privately left her out of huge actions that were being carried out for her benefit. Because they "thought it is was good somehow." Even though she and her family discussed and looked into the same issue resolutions to her problems just a year before? Hey, it’s possible, I guess. But this is also a family who she very loyal to and entrenched with on a daily basis.
