Meant to post this earlier on, fwiw
''Charlie had alleged Fitzpatrick embezzled from their shared business and demanded money back. Fitzpatrick replied to him in a series of text messages including the following:
“I don’t owe you *advertiser censored*. I’ll be on the phone with the FBI today. Get your affairs in order;” “You open your mouth, and I’ll open mine;” “I dare you to threaten me again, I’ll get on the phone with the FBI, you murderer;” and “Get , you belong in jail.”
“I want to propose a wager. An over/under on Life+,” Fitzpatrick had written on a True Crime website days before testifying, which Rashbaum took as an attempt by a jilted friend to hurt Charlie out of spite.
“It’s free speech,” Fitzpatrick replied.''
ByPeter EdwardsStaff Reporter
Sunday, December 17, 2023
''In the telephone interview, Ruth Markel shows empathy when talking about the hit man who killed her son, whom she calls “Danny.” Rivera also testified for the prosecution in three trials.
“He’s a key witness,” Ruth Markel says. “He was credible.”
''She wonders what the boys have heard about their father’s death through social media.
“They can’t not know now.”
Meanwhile, she’s bracing herself for Charlie Adelson’s appeal and Donna Adelson’s trial.
She notes that her Danny was a strong voice against capital punishment and she wants to respect that.
“I don’t think he would have wanted the death penalty, even with his personal situation. We were not disappointed.”
She keeps listening to podcasts and soaking up information on what happened to her Danny — but she doesn’t expect the pain to end.
“Closure is a word in the dictionary. There’s no such thing as closure.”
Charlie Adelson trial Day 2: An ex-friend, ex-boyfriend, ex-girlfriend, officers, lawyer & an accomplice step up
'I don’t want to be here at all.'
floridapolitics.com
“I don’t owe you *advertiser censored*. I’ll be on the phone with the FBI today. Get your affairs in order;” “You open your mouth, and I’ll open mine;” “I dare you to threaten me again, I’ll get on the phone with the FBI, you murderer;” and “Get , you belong in jail.”
“I want to propose a wager. An over/under on Life+,” Fitzpatrick had written on a True Crime website days before testifying, which Rashbaum took as an attempt by a jilted friend to hurt Charlie out of spite.
“It’s free speech,” Fitzpatrick replied.''
ByPeter EdwardsStaff Reporter
Sunday, December 17, 2023
It started with a bad joke: Florida trial brings yet another conviction in Canadian professor’s murder, but no closure
In a series of trials over several years, Florida courts have heard a story of how a set of in-laws from hell allegedly took it upon themselves to kill prominent
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''In the telephone interview, Ruth Markel shows empathy when talking about the hit man who killed her son, whom she calls “Danny.” Rivera also testified for the prosecution in three trials.
“He’s a key witness,” Ruth Markel says. “He was credible.”
''She wonders what the boys have heard about their father’s death through social media.
“They can’t not know now.”
Meanwhile, she’s bracing herself for Charlie Adelson’s appeal and Donna Adelson’s trial.
She notes that her Danny was a strong voice against capital punishment and she wants to respect that.
“I don’t think he would have wanted the death penalty, even with his personal situation. We were not disappointed.”
She keeps listening to podcasts and soaking up information on what happened to her Danny — but she doesn’t expect the pain to end.
“Closure is a word in the dictionary. There’s no such thing as closure.”