Katherine Magbanua Wikipedia Bio & Trial Update

Publish date: 2024-05-21

For her part in the murder of Florida State law professor Dan Markel, Circuit Judge Robert Wheeler sentenced Katherine Magbanua to life in prison along with two additional 30 years, to be served consecutively.

Following his divorce from Wendi Adelson, a clinical law professor and child advocate who was working at Florida State University at the time, Markel was killed in Tallahassee, Florida, in 2014 in a murder for hire motivated by child custody disputes.

Although Wendi Adelson, her brother Charlie, and her mother Donna have all been implicated as "conspirators" in the homicide, she has not been charged. Four people have been accused thus far: After confessing to the crime of murder, Luis Rivera was given a 19-year prison term. 

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Sigfredo Garcia received a life sentence after being found guilty of first-degree murder and conspiring to murder. Following a mistrial in her initial case, Katherine Magbanua underwent a retrial and was found guilty of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and solicitation of murder.

She is now awaiting sentencing. Although Charlie Adelson (Wendi Adelson's brother) has been detained and charged with murder in the first degree, conspiring to murder someone, and soliciting someone to commit murder, he has not yet been brought to trial.

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