This is a very sad story and it's also—if this weren't clear already—very weird!
A Florida dentist was arrested Thursday on charges that he hired hit men to kill his former brother-in-law, Florida State University law professor Daniel Markel.
Markel, 41, was shot and killed on July 18, 2014, as he sat in his car talking on his cellphone. At the time, he was going through a bitter divorce with Charles Adelson's sister.
Prosecutors allege that Adelson, 45, conspired to kill Markel because his sister, Wendi Adelson, was not able to move from Tallahassee to the Fort Lauderdale area with her two children due to a joint custody agreement.
Hiring a hitman is awful enough. Hiring a hitman to kill your family is dirty on another level. Then there's this:
The indictment alleges that Charles Adelson and [former girlfriend Katherine] Magbanua conspired with each other to commit the murder. It says they solicited Sigfredo Garcia, the father of Magbanua's children, as well as Garcia's friend, Luis Rivera, to carry out the crime.
Hiring your girlfriend's baby daddy to pull the trigger is an especially weird kind of complex depravity.
Let's hope any and all guilty parties go straight to prison and remain there for a long time.
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