Locations
The crime scene, homes, businesses, and other places tied to the case.
Key Locations (40)
2116 Trescott Drive
2116 Trescott Drive is identified across all four trials as Dan Markel's Tallahassee residence and the crime scene, with recurring references to the driveway and garage. Other testimony concerns cell-site coverage near the residence and Rivera's account that Garcia shot Markel through the car window in the driveway.
Dolce Vita
At 18288 Collins Avenue in Sunny Isles, north of Miami Beach, the restaurant is repeatedly identified as the site of the recorded April 20, 2016 meeting between Charlie Adelson and Katherine Magbanua. References span all four trials, including witness examinations, opening and closing arguments, and a jury proceeding concerning replay of the meeting audio and video.
Adelson Institute
The Adelson Institute at 7737 North University Drive in Tamarac appears across all four trials. In Katherine Magbanua's direct examination, it is described as the practice where she met Donna Adelson once and was later placed on a no-show payroll; another reference identifies a June 1, 2016 subpoena visit.
Charlie Adelson's residence
References across all four trials identify the Whale Harbor Lane address as Charlie Adelson's residence. Katherine Magbanua's direct examination describes a sealed envelope being handed over there and her staying that night; Patrick Sanford's direct examination includes her account that she went there to collect money.
Tallahassee
Tallahassee appears across all four trials, including references to June and July 2014 trips, a residential home-showing tour, and other events in the city.
Premier Health and Fitness
Across all four trials, Premier Health and Fitness is repeatedly identified as the gym Rivera said he and Garcia followed Markel to and as the place from which Markel was followed home. References appear in openings, witness examinations, and closing argument.
Katherine Magbanua's residence
Across three trials, references identify an apartment or residence in North Bay Village, Miami Beach, or Miami as Katherine Magbanua's home. A 2022 examination also identifies a residence on 122nd Street where Craig Isom attempted to interview her in May 2016.
Comfort Rent-A-Car
Comfort Rent-A-Car appears in 12 proceedings across all four trials as a Miami-area rental business near Miami International Airport and a June 2014 pickup location. Katherine Magbanua's cross-examination in the 2022 retrial ties the rental location to the vehicle used on the Tallahassee trip.
South Florida
Across four trials, references place the Adelson family in South Florida and discuss Wendi Adelson's requested relocation and later residence there. Other testimony identifies the region as where Garcia and Rivera came from and where investigators traveled to conduct an interview.
Wendi Adelson's residence
The Leon County residence at 3303 Aqua Ridge Way appears across all four trials as the home Wendi Adelson rented after separating from Dan Markel. References occur in direct, cross, and recall examinations concerning the house.
Yardbird restaurant
Yardbird appears across four trials as a South Florida restaurant linked to a March 2014 dinner discussed in examinations of Jeffrey Lacasse, Katherine Magbanua, Wendi Adelson, and Charlie Adelson.
Icon building
The Icon condominium building in South Beach was Donna and Harvey Adelson's residence, referenced across testimony as the location where an FBI agent conducted an undercover approach ("bump") to Donna Adelson near the building and sidewalk. Testimony also identified it as the site of a later search warrant execution, in which Donna Adelson's 2023 planner was seized.
Leon County Jail
Leon County Jail appears in 11 proceedings across all four trials. References include pod Mary and pod Nancy during Katherine Magbanua's redirect, a Rivera-attorney deposition-logistics proceeding, and 2025 detention-center and jail-pod examinations.
Luis Rivera's residence
Across all four trials, references identify the apartment near 135th Street and 16th Avenue as Luis Rivera's residence. Katherine Magbanua's direct examination describes murder-payment cash being delivered there from her car's trunk to Sigfredo Garcia, while other testimony identifies the residence on prosecution maps.
Miami
Across all four trials, Miami appears in openings, witness examinations, argument, and a procedural ruling. One specific reference concerns a prospective law-firm relocation; other mentions frame the city as a destination or place of origin.
Trescott Drive
Trescott Drive appears in 11 proceedings across all four trials. References include a roadblock north of the Markel residence, a July 17 demonstrative map, direct and cross-examinations, and rebuttal closing.
Club Fate
Club Fate appears in 10 proceedings across the 2019 Garcia-Magbanua trial and the 2022 Magbanua retrial, including examinations of Mary Hull, Craig Isom, Ramzi Naber, and Patrick Sanford.
Creative Preschool
Creative Preschool appears in 10 proceedings across all four trials. Luis Rivera's direct examinations say that he and Garcia followed Markel to the daycare during both trips; other mentions occur in witness examinations and opening or closing argument.
Gainesville
Jeffrey Lacasse's direct examination places a June 2014 argument at a Gainesville hotel. Other references identify a Gainesville stop during a March 4, 2014 drive, a rest stop, and the Gainesville FHP office.
ABC Fine Wine and Spirits
ABC Fine Wine and Spirits appears across all four trials. Wendi Adelson's testimony identifies it as the store where she bought Bulleit bourbon; other references name the South Thomasville Road store in Christopher Corbitt examinations and closing argument.
Coral Springs
Across all four trials, Coral Springs appears as Donna and Harvey Adelson's residence and as a place associated with Wendi Adelson's requested relocation. Other references concern the family home and Robert Adelson's direct examination.
JPMorgan Chase ATM, 14916 Pines Boulevard, Pembroke Pines
This drive-up Chase ATM in Cobblestone Plaza appears across four trials as a July 18 stop on the drive home from Tallahassee and a place where Garcia and Rivera were photographed. It is mentioned in direct and cross-examinations, an opening statement, and a closing argument.
Vietnam
Testimony referred to Vietnam, including "Saigon, Vietnam," as one of several potential vacation destinations alongside China and Korea. The location was raised across multiple witness examinations and returned to in the prosecution's closing and rebuttal closing arguments.
Coleman federal prison
Coleman federal prison is identified as the facility where Luis Rivera was first interviewed. Other testimony places Jessica Rodriguez visiting Rivera there and uses Coleman as custodial context in Rivera's and Sanford's examinations.
Hollywood Live, Hollywood, Florida
Hollywood Live appears in seven proceedings across the two trials, including examinations of Mary Hull, Craig Isom, Patrick Sanford, Yindra Velazquez Mascaro, and Ramzi Naber.
Jessica Rodriguez's residence
The Miami apartment on 135th Street is identified as Jessica Rodriguez's residence and Luis Rivera's actual residence during the relevant period. Other references concern a package delivered to the home and an alleged July 19 payment-meeting location.
Matsuri
Matsuri, a sushi restaurant in Miami, was identified as the location of a meeting involving an undercover special agent. It appears in witness testimony across the Charlie Adelson and Donna Adelson trials.
Mosaic restaurant, Tallahassee
Mosaic restaurant appears in seven proceedings across all four trials. Craig Isom's cross-examination identifies a Tallahassee restaurant where Wendi Adelson was located on the day of the murder; other references occur in Wendi Adelson and Christopher Corbitt examinations.
The Continuum, South Beach
The Continuum is identified in witness and closing-argument references as the South Beach, Miami residence of Harvey and Donna Adelson, described at points as their home and at other points as a part-time or condominium residence. It is referenced as an event location or residence by witnesses including Yindra Velazquez Mascaro, Robert Adelson, Wendi Adelson, and Christopher Corbitt, and in the State's closing argument in the Donna Adelson trial.
Budget Inn
The Budget Inn appears in six proceedings across three trials. Luis Rivera's direct testimony identifies it as the Tallahassee hotel where he and Garcia stayed during the murder trip; Charlie Adelson's direct examination also contains a hotel reference about what Magbanua said regarding Garcia.
Miami Beach
Miami Beach appears in six proceedings across three trials. References include the city and surrounding area in witness examinations, a Miami Beach restaurant, and an FBI surveillance area.
Monty's restaurant
A table behind Monty's restaurant, reached by a waterside boardwalk behind Donna Adelson's building, was where Charlie and Donna Adelson met privately, including an in-person meeting on April 20, 2016. The location and its adjoining marina were referenced in direct examination testimony across three trials and in the State's closing argument as a site of contact between the two.
Alligator Alley
Alligator Alley appears in five proceedings across the 2019, 2022, and 2025 trials as an I-75 toll corridor and travel-route reference spanning Naples, Broward County, and Collier County.
Hybrid Rental / Save Gas
Hybrid Rental and Save Gas appear in five proceedings across all four trials, including direct examinations involving Craig Isom and Christopher Corbitt and Patrick Sanford's direct examination.
Jefferson County jail
The jail appears in five proceedings across the 2019 Garcia–Magbanua trial and the 2022 Magbanua retrial. References concern Rivera's transfer there during cooperation and the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office interview room.
Normandy Isle
The intersection of 79th Street and Byron Avenue in Normandy Isle, Miami Beach, was raised as a cell-site location associated with Luis Rivera's handset. It came up across cross- and redirect examinations of an FBI agent and a cell-site technical analyst, referenced as both an investigation site and an evidence location tied to Rivera's phone.
Stephanie Carmona's residence
Stephanie Carmona's residence appears in four proceedings across the 2019 Garcia-Magbanua trial and the 2022 Magbanua retrial, in Christopher Corbitt direct, cross, redirect, and recalled-direct examinations.
Tallahassee Memorial Hospital
Tallahassee Memorial Hospital appears in five proceedings across all four trials. References identify it as where Dan Markel was treated and include the hospital and its morgue in direct and cross-examinations.
Thomasville Road
Across three trials, Thomasville Road is identified as the nearest thoroughfare to Prescott Drive, with two access routes from it, and as the road traced between the gym and crime scene. Georgia Cappleman's opening statement described it as the northbound route used after the murder.
Winthrop Park
Winthrop Park appears in five proceedings across all four trials, with two references in the 2022 Magbanua retrial. The references place the park near Trescott Drive, the Markel residence, and the Betton and Thomasville Road area.
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