You have such a good memory! I don’t remember the spying hot tub at all. The other stuff yes I do remember lol
These arrests and trials take way too long for my brain.
STS doesn’t address the Wendi and Sigfredo pic at all.. I hope Georgia brings out lil tidbits like this at trial like the paper Wendi seemingly was studying while on stand.
This is what I'm recalling from LR but I don't think there's any photo of SG and WA:
October 10, 2016
The
Tallahassee Democrat has this report:
“I thought we were going to come up here and rob somebody,” Rivera told investigators in an Oct. 4 interview. “So when I get in the car that’s when [alleged hitman Sigfredo] Garcia told me what we were coming up here for. We were coming up here to kill somebody.”
Rivera told Tallahassee Police investigators he had no idea who Markel was before Garcia came to his North Miami home to discuss the crime. Rivera said he did not know the names of the people who hired Garcia.
Garcia, who is scheduled to stand trial Nov. 14, told him he had been hired to kill Markel in connection with his child custody battle with his ex-wife Wendi Adelson, Rivera said.
“Rivera said he did not know the names of the people who hired Garcia.” That’s key — and why Rivera is not in a position to implicate the Adelsons, some of whom the police suspect as the real parties behind the hit. Throughout the interview, Rivera generally does not refer to the Adelsons by their names. For example, he refers to Wendi Adelson, the ex-wife of Dan Markel who wanted to relocate with their two kids to south Florida, as “the lady,” and he refers to Wendi’s brother Charlie as “the dentist.” (Through their lawyers, the Adelsons have
denied any involvement in Markel’s murder.)
During the questioning, Rivera revealed how much he and his alleged co-conspirators were paid:
There was $100,000 in cash waiting once the murder was done.
Garcia, who would take $40,000, promised him $35,000.
The rest, and then some, went to Garcia’s on-and-off girlfriend Katherine Magbanua, Rivera said.
Ah yes, Katie Magbanua — who according to law enforcement
is in a position to implicate whoever ordered the murder, and who just got
booked into the Leon County Jail yesterday. Magbanua played a major role in the conspiracy, in Rivera’s telling:
“Katie is the woman in the middle doing everything,” Rivera said in his interview. “It’s all because of Katie, man. She had [Sigfredo Garcia] crazy. She would go cheat on him and she would tell him if you want me back you have to go do this.”
Magbanua, who at the time was dating Charlie Adelson — [whom] Rivera referred to as “the dentist” — was arrested Oct. 1 on charges of first-degree murder in Broward County.
As longtime followers of this case will recall, Katie Magbanua is the key connection. She has two children with alleged hitman Sigfredo Garcia, and at the time of the murder she was dating Charlie Adelson, brother of Dan Markel’s ex-wife, Wendi Adelson. Without Magbanua, there’s no apparent link between Markel, Garcia, Rivera, and the Adelsons.
Speaking of Wendi Adelson, Rivera’s comments about her might well be the most noteworthy part of the interview. Per
WTXL:
He mentioned to investigators how during their first trip to Tallahassee, they drove by Wendi Adelson, Markel’s ex-wife, while she was with her children.
Rivera told investigators that he noticed Garcia and Adelson making eye contact and said he began to wonder [who] she was. That’s when he said he began suspecting that Garcia was displaying to Adelson that they had arrived.
Actually, based on my viewing of the video, I believe that this sighting of Wendi with the two kids took place on the second visit to Tallahassee, on the day before Markel’s murder. (Listen for yourself; the relevant discussion begins around 11:05 a.m.)
Rivera said that he and Garcia, while driving around to survey the area near Markel’s house, passed Wendi walking down the street with her two children. Rivera felt that Wendi noticed them, and he didn’t like it; he asked Garcia, “What’s up with that lady?” Garcia responded, “That’s the lady — that’s Wendi.” Note that earlier in the interview, Rivera said he was told the motive for the murder was that “the lady wants her two kids back.”
Rivera and Garcia then drove back to the motel where they were staying, according to Rivera, and Garcia called Magbanua to ask what Wendi Adelson was doing in the neighborhood. Magbanua supposedly told Garcia that Wendi was in the area because “she just wants to make sure everything’s all right.” Garcia asked Magbanua, “Is everything all right with this lady?” Magbanua responded, “Yeah, everything’s straight, don’t worry about it — just make sure you get that s**t done.”
Rivera: ‘We were coming up here to kill somebody’ [Tallahassee Democrat]
Third Markel suspect, Katherine Magbanua, booked in Leon County [Tallahassee Democrat]
Suspect in Dan Markel Murder Confesses His Involvement on Camera [WTXL]
she’s still guilty lol
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