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location location Charlie Adelson's residence homeCharlie Adelson's residence On the night of July 18, 2014, Katherine Magbanua stayed at the Whale Harbor Lane residence and retrieved what testimony characterizes as approximately $138,000 in murder payment from her car trunk the next morning; a manila envelope was also delivered there, and a large cash safe on the premises figured in testimony about the transaction. A separate March 11 gathering at the same home — described across all three trials through Jeffrey Lacasse's testimony — was the occasion for Charlie Adelson making statements about criminal connections. The address additionally served as a CSLI reference point, with cellular analyst Kelsey Guay testing whether Donna Adelson's phone connected to towers covering the residence on July 18, and prosecution rebuttal closing argument citing a text message as placing Donna outside the house at the time of the payment delivery. ← All Locations
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On the night of July 18, 2014, Katherine Magbanua stayed at the Whale Harbor Lane residence and retrieved what testimony characterizes as approximately $138,000 in murder payment from her car trunk the next morning; a manila envelope was also delivered there, and a large cash safe on the premises figured in testimony about the transaction. A separate March 11 gathering at the same home — described across all three trials through Jeffrey Lacasse's testimony — was the occasion for Charlie Adelson making statements about criminal connections. The address additionally served as a CSLI reference point, with cellular analyst Kelsey Guay testing whether Donna Adelson's phone connected to towers covering the residence on July 18, and prosecution rebuttal closing argument citing a text message as placing Donna outside the house at the time of the payment delivery.

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The residence appears across all three trials in 16 proceedings spanning opening statements, direct and cross-examinations of key witnesses, and rebuttal closing argument, making it one of the more structurally significant locations in the archive. It connects three distinct evidentiary threads: the physical receipt and post-murder collection of the alleged payment by Magbanua; a pre-murder gathering used to establish Charlie Adelson's awareness of criminal networks; and cellular and communications evidence analyzed in connection with Donna Adelson's whereabouts on the day of the murder.

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