Locations

2116 Trescott Drive was identified across all four trials as Dan Markel's Tallahassee residence and the crime scene, with recurring references to the driveway and garage. Other mentions place a police roadblock, nearby phone-tower coverage, and vehicle movements in the Trescott Drive area.

ABC Fine Wine and Spirits appears across three trials as a Tallahassee liquor store near Trescott Drive. Wendi Adelson's direct and cross-examinations identify it as an alibi location or destination, while two Christopher Corbitt direct examinations identify it as a route point.

A Father's Day 2014 gathering at the Adelson family's Miami home brought witness Yindra Velazquez Mascaro into contact with Wendi Adelson, documented in State's Exhibit 35 during the Magbanua retrial. The property also appeared in two proceedings of Charlie Adelson's direct examination, with references to the community pool area and the apartment itself.

The Adelson Institute at 7737 North University Drive in Tamarac appears across all four trials. References identify it as the source of 44 paychecks signed by Donna Adelson, describe Magbanua as performing no actual work, and identify it as the site of an undercover approach to Donna and the target of a follow-up undercover call.

SunPass records from Alligator Alley toll plazas, including the Naples plaza in Collier County and plazas near Broward County, supplied the July 16 westbound and July 18 eastbound travel points. The toll data was also described as narrowing thousands of green Priuses to one matching vehicle.

Across four trials, Benton Road and the Benton Hills neighborhood were identified as Dan Markel's home and the crime scene. Other references place the Prius leaving Markel's driveway onto Benton Road and identify a left turn from Thomas Road.

Rivera's incarceration at the Broward County jail was cited in undercover call testimony as evidence corroborating the undercover operator's claimed inside knowledge, lending credibility to that testimony. On October 1, 2016, Magbanua was taken into custody by a SWAT-style arrest team at a Broward County shopping plaza as she departed in a Lexus.

The Budget Inn appears in five proceedings across the 2019 Garcia–Magbanua trial and the 2022 Magbanua retrial. References occur in Luis Rivera's direct testimony and examinations of Patrick Sanford and Christopher Corbitt.

Charlie Adelson's residence at 2518 Whale Harbor Lane appears across all four trials. References place a manila-envelope and alleged murder-payment transfer there, a March 11 hot-tub statement about criminal connections, Charlie Adelson's account of $138,000 being counted and taken, and July 18 phone-location analysis concerning coverage of the home.

Comfort Rent-A-Car appears in ten proceedings across all four trials. References identify a June 2014 rental pickup near Miami International Airport and include testimony that Magbanua's phone was consistent with the area while she contacted Charlie Adelson, followed by a 25-minute call after leaving.

Across three trials, Coral Springs appears as Donna and Harvey Adelson's residence, a destination connected to Wendi Adelson's desired relocation, and a residence reference in Robert Adelson's direct examination.

A covertly recorded April 20, 2016 meeting between Charlie Adelson and Katherine Magbanua took place at this restaurant at 18288 Collins Avenue in Sunny Isles, north of Miami Beach. Louis Bronstein and Patrick Sanford direct examinations referenced the location; James Keith McElveen described a post-event acoustics visit and the restaurant as small and intimate. Magbanua's direct and cross-examinations addressed the meeting, including her statement that Adelson never mentioned a murder.

Testimony in three proceedings placed Jeffrey Lacasse and Wendi Adelson in Gainesville for a June 27–29 work trip and significant argument. The city also appears in Lacasse's cross-examination and in a procedural discussion involving the Gainesville FHP office.

The small North Miami rental company at 11032 Biscayne Boulevard is identified as the SunPass transponder subscriber and source of Rivera's rental contract. It appears as an evidence or event location in five direct examinations across three trials.

The Icon building in South Beach was Harvey and Donna Adelson's residential condominium and a recurring focus of the state's investigation. A law enforcement undercover bump operation was conducted at the address, and a bump letter was mailed there; FBI agents partially surveilled an April 25 poolside meeting among Harvey, Donna, and Charlie but were unable to get close enough to record the conversation. The building also hosted a Father's Day 2014 gathering at which Magbanua, Wendi, and Charlie were photographed together, and it is the location where Donna Adelson made the "haunting from the grave" statement on her balcony.

Jefferson County Jail was identified as Rivera's transfer location during his cooperation and as the place where detectives took his unrecorded second statement, described as producing the Magbanua implication and plea deal. A separate cross-examination referenced the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office interview room.

Phone-location evidence identified this Miami apartment on 135th Street as Luis Rivera's actual residence during the relevant period. The prosecution proposed it as Magbanua's location on the morning of July 19 and as the alleged payment-meeting site; John Sawicki conceded on cross that the tower hit was consistent with the address.

This drive-up Chase ATM in Cobblestone Plaza appears across three trials as a July 18 route stop between Tallahassee and Miami, a Rivera withdrawal location, and a place where Garcia and Rivera were photographed. It was mentioned in direct and cross-examinations, an opening statement, and a closing argument.

Across three trials, the apartment is identified as Katherine Magbanua's North Bay Village residence and as the site of the July 1, 2014 Garcia–Adelson confrontation in the parking lot and surrounding street. It also appears as an event or route point in Christopher Corbitt and John Sawicki examinations.

One reference identifies Leon County Jail as where Charlie Adelson had lived since his April 2022 arrest, about 18 months before trial. Other references include pod Mary and pod Nancy in Magbanua's redirect, Rivera-attorney deposition logistics, and several 2025 direct and cross-examinations.

A Halloween block party on Lincoln Road in October 2013 is the alleged site of Charlie Adelson's initial approach to Katherine Magbanua — testimony describes him entering her car at this South Beach location. Magbanua provided this account during direct examination in both the Charlie Adelson 2023 and Donna Adelson 2025 trials; Lincoln Road also appears in Patrick Sanford's direct examination during the Donna Adelson trial.

Testimony placed the murder payment delivery here: Magbanua drove to Luis Rivera's North Miami home, near 135th Street, and Sigfredo Garcia came out and retrieved the money from her trunk. The apartment — described variously as 1505 and 1515 NE 135th Street, and as Rivera's place at 16th Avenue and 135th Street — was also the address used on the Prius rental contract. Prosecution demonstratives and maps flagged the residence as a location reference.

On April 20, 2016, Charlie and Harvey Adelson met at this Miami strip-shopping-center sushi bar while FBI undercover agents attempted to capture the encounter on recording (State's Exhibit 114). During or after the meeting, Charlie and Harvey identified a suspected undercover agent; Harvey was informed of an extortion threat in the parking lot immediately following. The location is addressed across seven proceedings in two trials, including testimony from the FBI undercover agent, law enforcement witnesses James Keith McElveen, Patrick Sanford, and Brian Kendall, and Charlie Adelson himself on both direct and cross-examination.

Across all four trials, Miami appears as the Adelson home area, the place Wendi Adelson and her sons relocated 48 hours after the murder, Luis Rivera's residence area near Normandy Drive, and a destination in procedural and closing-argument references. Another direct-examination reference concerns a visit to the Adelson home the day after Charlie Adelson's conviction.

Miami Beach appears in six proceedings across two trials: as a route point in two cross-examinations, a restaurant event location in Luis Rivera's cross and redirect, an FBI surveillance area in Louis Bronstein's direct examination, and testimony context in a closing argument.

Donna Adelson's arrest occurred at Miami International Airport as she was boarding a one-way flight to Vietnam. The arrest circumstances were introduced in the prosecution's opening statement in the 2025 Donna Adelson trial and surfaced in Patrick Sanford's direct and cross testimony on Day 6 of that trial, as well as in the defense's closing argument. The airport also appeared as testimony context in the Magbanua retrial during Christopher Corbitt's cross-examination.

A marina-area restaurant and waterfront venue located behind Donna Adelson's South Miami building, cited in Patrick Sanford's direct testimony across all three trials. On April 20, 2016, Charlie Adelson and Donna Adelson met in person at the location. On April 25, 2016, Charlie Adelson and Katherine Magbanua met there in a session that surveillance did not capture because the parties had coordinated through WhatsApp, leaving the contents of that meeting unknown to investigators.

Cell-tower records placed Rivera's phone in the Normandy Isle area of Miami Beach — including near 79th and Byron Avenue — on the morning of July 19, 2014, the day Rivera testified he participated in the money drop. The neighborhood is also connected to a residence associated with a person referred to as "Shrimp." DeCoste used this signal on cross-examination to impeach Rivera's account of his whereabouts; Rivera offered a two-phone explanation to reconcile why that handset showed Normandy Isle rather than his claimed location.

Yindra Velazquez Mascaro testified on cross that she and Katherine Magbanua sat in the same office at this real estate business during the wire-intercept period and that she never heard Magbanua discuss the murder or Dan Markel. Other references place the business in a Miami-area strip mall and identify its parking lot as the site of an initial meeting.

Across four trials, this Tallahassee gym appears as the location where a Prius surveilled Markel before following him home. The gym was mentioned in opening statements, direct and cross-examinations, and closing argument.

On June 4, 2014, a meeting at Red Eye Coffee on Thomasville Road documented Wendi Adelson canceling a planned July trip, approximately six weeks before Dan Markel's murder on July 18, 2014. Jeffrey Lacasse testified about this meeting in direct examination in all three trials — the Magbanua retrial, the Charlie Adelson trial, and the Donna Adelson trial — making it a consistent pre-murder timeline reference across the full case record.

Across four trials, South Florida is identified as an Adelson family location and relocation target, Wendi Adelson's post-murder residence area, and the origin of Garcia and Rivera. It also appears once as an investigation site.

Oscar Jimenez Jr. testified about this South Miami street location in direct and cross examination at both the 2022 Magbanua retrial and the 2025 Donna Adelson trial. Per the mention contexts, Jimenez approached Donna Adelson near her residence here on April 19, 2016, in what the record identifies as a bump operation.

Tallahassee appears across four trials as the murder location and site of custody litigation, as well as an event and residential context in direct, cross, juror-question, closing, and rebuttal proceedings.

The hospital appears as Markel's treatment location, an evidence and investigation location, and the site of a Tallahassee morgue. All six mentions occur in direct examinations across four trials.

Across four trials, Thomasville Road is identified as the nearest thoroughfare to Prescott Drive, with two access routes from it. It also appears at Betton Road, as the route between the gym and crime scene, and as the asserted northbound flight route after the murder.

Trescott Drive appears across three trials as a crime-scene perimeter location, the area shown on a July 17 demonstrative map, testimony context, and a place named in rebuttal closing.

An emergency visa to Vietnam was sought by Donna Adelson within 24 hours of Charlie Adelson's conviction, making the destination a contested issue across seven proceedings in her 2025 trial. Recalled witnesses Corbitt and Sanford, along with witness Shagran, addressed the visa request in testimony. Defense counsel characterized Vietnam alongside China and Korea as ordinary potential vacation destinations; the prosecution disputed that framing in rebuttal closing argument.

The Leon County residence at 3303 Aqua Ridge Way appears across four trials as Wendi Adelson's rented home after separation and as a residence, event location, and origin reference in direct and cross-examinations.

Winthrop Park appears once in each of four trials, always in a Christopher Corbitt direct examination, as an event or evidence location near Trescott Drive, the Markel residence, and the Betton and Thomasville Road area.

Yardbird appears across four trials as a South Florida restaurant linked to a March 11, 2014 dinner involving Charlie Adelson and Katherine Magbanua and to Wendi Adelson's first meeting with Magbanua.