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What an interesting collection of witnesses to some very bizarre details connected to this case! You just can't make this stuff up:
- Sgt. Sherrie Bennett, a TPD investigator who interviewed witnesses in the case, including a relative of Magbanua whom police suspected may have helped pay her legal bills and who had been arrested for embezzlement.
- Jonathan Grossman, a Miami-Dade Police Department homicide detective who backed up testimony by Rivera that during the hitmen's drive to Tallahassee, Garcia accidentally shot a hole in the floorboard of the Prius.
- Waldo Nunez, a state trooper who worked for Comfort Rent a Car near the Miami airport at the time of the murder. He confirmed the rental agreement for the car Garcia and Rivera used in their first of two trips to Tallahassee, in June 2014, to scout out Markel's house. The agreement was for local use only, and the killers were forced to return it after its GPS system pinged the rental company that the vehicle was in Tallahassee.
- Shoddrick Nobles, who sold cocaine to the killers in Tallahassee and helped get auto parts after the bullet Garcia shot inside the Prius punctured the gas line, making the car inoperable. Rivera said Garcia, who had experience fixing cars, got it running again.
- Stewart Schlazer, a music teacher who was on the phone with Markel when he was shot. Schlazer said Markel told him to hold on because there was "an unfamiliar person" in his driveway. "I heard a loud sound," he testified in the first trial. "He never spoke another word to me."
- David Sims, a retired TPD officer who was the first to arrive at Markel's house after the murder. He testified that he found Markel in his car, leaned over a little, with his cellphone in his left hand and a business card in his right. He was still breathing but unresponsive. He turned the car off as EMS arrived.
- Robert Swartz, the Geek Squad worker who went to Wendi Adelson's house to fix the television her brother had given her as a "divorce present." Wendi Adelson, testifying last year, said she made the appointment. Prosecutors noted, however, that there were texts between her and her mom about the appointment, which gave her an alibi for the morning of the murder.
- Shawn Yao, TPD forensics supervisor who testified during the 2019 trial and demonstrated for jurors the "gang style" for holding and shooting a gun.
Dan Markel murder: Walkthrough of witnesses making the case for, against Charlie Adelson
Charlie Adelson goes on trial Monday in the murder-for-hire plot that led to Dan Markel's shocking killing. Here's a look at the witnesses in the case.
www.tallahassee.com
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