Murdered Lawyer’s Ex-Wife Claims Innocence

Wendi Adelson, ex-wife of slain Florida State University law professor Dan Markel, has denied any involvement in an alleged murder-for-hire plot to kill him. Accusations that Adelson was involved in plotting Markel’s death are “categorically false,” her attorneys said in a statement. Authorities have been investigating whether Markel’s 2014 murder may be linked to the couple’s contentious divorce. Police believe that two men who traveled from South Florida to Tallahassee to kill Markel were hired. “To be clear, none of the Adelsons – Wendi, her brother Charlie, or their parents Donna and Harvey – had anything to do with Dan’s murder,” attorney David O. Markus said in a statement to the Associated Press.