Officer Bradshaw
Tallahassee Police Department
GM
Tallahassee Police officer who responded to the scene of Dan Markel's shooting; discussed in testimony but did not testify.
2 mentions
People
Defendants, witnesses, attorneys, judges, and others connected to the case.
120 people
Defendants(4)
Katherine MagbanuaKM
Charged as an intermediary in the murder-for-hire of Dan Markel, tried as a defendant in both the Garcia/Magbanua 2019 trial and the 2022 Magbanua retrial, then a prosecution witness in the 2023 Charlie Adelson and 2025 Donna Adelson trials.
Also appeared inGMCADA
3,641 lines·14 appearances
Charlie AdelsonCA
Wendi Adelson's brother, named across four trials in the State's murder-for-hire theory and a testifying defendant in his own 2023 trial.
1,838 lines·8 appearances
Donna AdelsonDA
Mother of Charlie and Wendi Adelson, discussed across three earlier Dan Markel murder proceedings and convicted on all three counts as the defendant in the 2025 Donna Adelson trial.
27 lines
Sigfredo GarciaGM
The man convicted as the gunman in the 2014 killing of Dan Markel, tried as a defendant in 2019 and discussed as a central figure in the three later Markel-case trials.
9 lines
Co-conspirator(1)
Judges(3)
Stephen Everett
Leon County Circuit Court
CADA
Judge Stephen Everett presided over both the Charlie Adelson and Donna Adelson trials.
3,348 lines
James C. Hankinson
Court
GM
Judge who presided over the joint Garcia–Magbanua trial, ruling on evidence and instructions and overseeing deliberations, Garcia’s verdict, and Magbanua’s mistrial.
2,719 lines·17 appearances
Robert R. Wheeler
Leon County Circuit Court
KM
Judge who presided over the Magbanua retrial, ruling on evidence and jury instructions and receiving guilty verdicts on all three counts.
1,996 lines
Prosecution(4)
Georgia Cappleman
State Attorney's Office
GMKMCADA
Chief Assistant State Attorney Georgia Cappleman, lead prosecutor for the State of Florida in all four Dan Markel murder-for-hire trials.
15,916 lines·162 appearances
Sarah Kathryn Dugan
State Attorney's Office
KMCADA
Second-chair prosecutor across the Markel conspiracy trials, handling opening statements and key evidentiary examinations.
6,016 lines·50 appearances
Anna Norris
State Attorney's Office
GM
Second-chair prosecutor who presented much of the State’s digital-forensics, cell-site, wiretap, and financial-record evidence through direct, redirect, and rebuttal.
2,387 lines·28 appearances
Eddie Evans
State Attorney's Office
GMKMCADA
Prosecution attorney who argued the State's positions on jury instructions and trial procedure across four Tallahassee murder-case trials.
164 lines
Defense(9)
Christopher DeCoste
Defense team (Magbanua)
GMKM
Defense attorney for Katherine Magbanua in both the 2019 Garcia–Magbanua joint trial and the 2022 Magbanua retrial.
8,046 lines·64 appearances
Tara Kawass
Defense team (Magbanua)
GMKMDA
Defense attorney for Katherine Magbanua in the Garcia-Magbanua 2019 trial and the Magbanua 2022 retrial, and named in testimony during the Donna Adelson 2025 trial.
5,072 lines·22 appearances
Dan Rashbaum
Defense team (Charlie Adelson)
CADA
Lead defense attorney for Charlie Adelson, later referenced as Charlie's counsel during Donna Adelson's trial.
4,939 lines·38 appearances
Saam Zangeneh
Defense team (Garcia)
GMKM
Defense attorney who served as lead counsel for Sigfredo Garcia at the Garcia–Magbanua 2019 Joint Trial.
3,773 lines·46 appearances
Jackie L. Fulford
Defense team (Donna Adelson)
DA
Defense co-counsel for Donna Adelson who delivered the opening statement and closing argument and cross-examined key prosecution witnesses on the absence of direct evidence.
2,121 lines·21 appearances
Joshua D. Zelman
Defense team (Donna Adelson)
DA
Lead defense attorney for Donna Adelson who examined witnesses, litigated evidence disputes, presented most of the defense case, and argued acquittal and jury instructions.
1,546 lines·31 appearances
Kathryn Meyers
Defense team (Charlie Adelson)
CA
Defense co-counsel in the Charlie Adelson trial who conducted the Kristin Adamson examination and proposed corrections to jury instructions before deliberations.
134 lines·2 appearances
Kristen Kawass
Defense team (Magbanua)
GMKM
Defense attorney for Katherine Magbanua, appearing at the jury-instruction conferences in both the 2019 Garcia–Magbanua trial and the 2022 Magbanua retrial.
99 lines
Mauricio Padilla
Defense team (Garcia)
GM
Sigfredo Garcia’s co-counsel, whose courtroom role centered on a brief cross-examination of the medical examiner about autopsy documentation and late forensic contact.
32 lines·1 appearances
Expert witnesses(16)
Christopher Corbitt
Tallahassee Police Department
GMKMCADA
Tallahassee Police Department sergeant and cell-site analyst who testified as the State's phone-records expert in all four Markel-murder trials.
4,914 lines·43 appearances
Mary Hull
Mary Hull Financial Investigations
GMKMCADA
A certified fraud examiner and state financial investigator who testified for the prosecution as a forensic accounting expert in all four Dan Markel murder trials.
2,243 lines·20 appearances
Joanne Maltese
Tallahassee Police Department
GMKMCADA
Retired Tallahassee Police Department forensic specialist who processed the Dan Markel crime scene and testified as a State witness in four trials.
332 lines·8 appearances
Anthony Clark
District 2 Medical Examiner's Office
GMKMCADA
Forensic pathologist who performed the July 19, 2014 autopsy of Dan Markel and testified as a State witness in four Markel-case trials.
320 lines·8 appearances
Michael Dillmore
GMKM
Tallahassee Police Department digital forensics investigator who testified as a witness in both the 2019 Garcia–Magbanua trial and the 2022 Magbanua retrial.
224 lines·6 appearances
James Keith McElveen
Florida State University
KMCADA
Forensic audio engineer who authenticated enhanced restaurant recordings, including the Dolce Vita and Matsuri recordings, as a prosecution witness in the Magbanua retrial, Charlie Adelson trial, and Donna Adelson trial.
175 lines·8 appearances
Kelsey Guay
DA
Defense digital forensics expert who challenged the prosecution's CDR frequency counts and cell site location analysis for Donna Adelson's AT&T records.
172 lines·5 appearances
John Sawicki
GMKM
Digital-forensics and cell-tower expert who testified for Sigfredo Garcia in the Garcia/Magbanua 2019 trial and was listed but never called by the defense in the 2022 Magbanua retrial.
154 lines·4 appearances
Elizabeth Richey
Florida Department of Law Enforcement
GMKM
Florida Department of Law Enforcement firearms analyst who testified for the State as an expert witness in both the 2019 Garcia–Magbanua trial and the 2022 Magbanua retrial.
118 lines·5 appearances
Brock Dietz
Florida Bureau of Fire, Arson and Explosives Investigation
GMKM
Forensic video analyst who testified for the State in the 2019 Garcia–Magbanua trial and the 2022 Magbanua retrial about Premier Gym and city-bus footage, with the 2022 record additionally covering ATM still images.
97 lines·5 appearances
Robert Shawn Yao
GM
TPD forensic supervisor whose assumption-dependent bullet-path opinion favored a shooter near six feet tall; he acknowledged formal trajectory analysis was not possible.
86 lines·5 appearances
Marcia Rodriguez
GMKM
Retired Tallahassee Police Department digital forensic investigator who testified in both trials about the Cellebrite extraction of Wendi Adelson's iPhone 4.
68 lines·5 appearances
Thomas Balboni
State Attorney's Office, Second Judicial Circuit
GM
Fingerprint examiner and investigator with the State Attorney's Office, Second Judicial Circuit, who testified as an expert in the 2019 Garcia–Magbanua trial.
56 lines·4 appearances
Kate Butler
Florida Department of Law Enforcement
DA
FDLE forensic document examiner who testified that handwriting comparisons identified Donna Adelson as the writer of an exhibit Drina Bernhardt called a proposed testimony script.
53 lines·2 appearances
William Kornegay
GM
Tallahassee forensic specialist who searched the crime scene for prints and casings and received two projectiles recovered during Dan Markel's autopsy.
32 lines·1 appearances
Carrie Rosana
GMKMCA
Florida Department of Law Enforcement forensic biology analyst who tested DNA swabs from Dan Markel's car and garage door.
18 lines·1 appearances
Law enforcement(17)
Patrick Sanford
FBI
GMKMCADA
FBI special agent and lead investigator on the Dan Markel murder case, who testified as a prosecution witness in all four trials.
4,856 lines·33 appearances
Craig Isom
Tallahassee Police Department
GMKMCADA
Retired Tallahassee Police Department lead detective on the Dan Markel homicide, and the prosecution's primary investigative witness across the Markel-related trials.
1,934 lines·20 appearances
Jason Newlin
Leon County State Attorney's Office
GMKMDA
Leon County State Attorney's Office investigator who testified in the Garcia–Magbanua 2019 trial, the 2022 Magbanua retrial, and the Donna Adelson 2025 trial.
674 lines·12 appearances
Oscar Jimenez Jr.
FBI
GMKMCADA
Retired FBI special agent who conducted the April 19, 2016 undercover street approach to Donna Adelson in Miami and testified about it in four Dan Markel murder trials.
414 lines·11 appearances
Bill Brannon
Tallahassee Police Department
GMKMCADA
Tallahassee police officer who guarded the Trescott Drive perimeter on the day of Dan Markel's shooting and testified as a prosecution witness in four trials.
300 lines·12 appearances
Louis Bronstein
FBI
GMKMCADA
FBI special agent who recorded the April 20, 2016 Dolce Vita restaurant meeting between Charlie Adelson and Katherine Magbanua and testified as a witness in four trials.
189 lines·10 appearances
Jonathan Grossman
Miami-Dade Police Department
GMDA
Miami-Dade law enforcement investigator who testified for the prosecution as an evidence-collection witness in the Garcia-Magbanua 2019 trial and the Donna Adelson 2025 trial.
167 lines·6 appearances
David Sims
Tallahassee Police Department
GMKMCADA
Retired Tallahassee police sergeant who was the first officer to reach Dan Markel's car, called as a prosecution witness in all four trials.
134 lines·8 appearances
Josh Turner
Leon County Sheriff's Office
DA
Leon County detective who authenticated silent jail video of Donna Adelson and Drina Bernhardt and testified that it did not reveal what either woman wrote or said.
95 lines·3 appearances
Stephen Downing
Florida Highway Patrol
GMKM
Florida Highway Patrol trooper, later sergeant, who wrote the June 4, 2014 speeding citation to Luis Rivera and testified about it for Sigfredo Garcia's defense.
78 lines·3 appearances
Sherry Bennett
Tallahassee Police Department
GMKMCA
Tallahassee Police Department investigator who testified about wiretap-recording custody and a recorded witness interview, and whose investigative work was discussed across the Dan Markel prosecutions.
56 lines·3 appearances
Corey Hale
Tallahassee Police Department
KMCA
TPD Sergeant Corey Hale — referenced as an investigator in one case, and a corroborating witness in the other.
52 lines·2 appearances
Special Agent Undercover #3 (Matsuri)
FBI
CA
Identity-protected FBI undercover agent referenced in a 2022 surveillance account and called as a prosecution witness in 2023.
27 lines·2 appearances
Brian Kendall
City of Plantation Police Department
CADA
Former City of Plantation police officer assigned to a federal task force who placed the covert recording device during the 2016 Matsuri restaurant surveillance operation and testified to authenticate that recording.
20 lines·2 appearances
Undersheriff Gould
Leon County Sheriff's Office
DA
Gave informal sworn testimony that Deputy Franklin could speak voluntarily with Donna Adelson's defense but could not be compelled without a subpoena.
10 lines
Deputy Franklin
Leon County Sheriff's Office
DA
Leon County correctional deputy discussed as a potential defense witness after a dispute over whether she was discouraged from speaking with Donna Adelson's defense team.
2 mentions
Attorneys(5)
John Lauro
GMKMCADA
Attorney for witness Wendi Adelson, appearing across four trials during colloquies about her immunity and Fifth Amendment posture.
17 lines
Chuck Collins
GMKM
Defense attorney for Luis Rivera, referenced in both the 2019 Garcia–Magbanua trial and the 2022 Magbanua retrial.
7 mentions
David Collins
GM
One of Luis Rivera's attorneys, late-listed by the State as a possible rebuttal witness during 2019 disputes over depositions and attorney-client privilege.
4 mentions
David Marcus
GMKMDA
An attorney named on the record in connection with Charlie Adelson, mentioned in testimony across three trials without ever appearing as a witness or party.
4 mentions
Michael Weinstein
DA
Adelson family friend and attorney identified in testimony as the source of advice not to speak with police that Donna Adelson relayed to Robert Adelson after the murder.
3 mentions
Witnesses(36)
Wendi Adelson
GMKMCADA
Dan Markel's ex-wife, who testified as a state witness under immunity in all four Tallahassee murder-for-hire trials.
3,085 lines·20 appearances
Jeffrey Lacasse
GMKMCADA
Florida State University professor and Wendi Adelson's former boyfriend, who testified for the prosecution in all four Dan Markel murder trials about a confidential statement she made to him five days before the killing.
1,097 lines·18 appearances
Yindra Velazquez Mascaro
GMKMCADA
Childhood friend of Katherine Magbanua who testified for the State in the 2019 Garcia and Magbanua trial and the 2022 Magbanua retrial, and was referenced in the two later Adelson trials.
1,056 lines·10 appearances
June Umchinda
GMKMCADA
Charlie Adelson's former girlfriend, who testified as a prosecution witness in four Dan Markel murder trials.
748 lines·12 appearances
Jessica Rodriguez
GMKMCADA
Luis Rivera's former partner, discussed across the Markel-related trials and a prosecution witness in the 2022 Magbanua retrial.
464 lines·3 appearances
Clariza Lebredo
Adelson Institute for Aesthetics
GMKMCADA
Longtime dental assistant at the Adelson Institute who testified for the prosecution in four Markel-related trials that she knew Katherine Magbanua as a dental patient and never saw her work at the practice.
347 lines·11 appearances
Erika Johnson
Adelson Institute for Aesthetics
GMKMCADA
Longtime front-desk employee and assistant at the Adelson Institute who testified for the State in three trials that she knew Katherine Magbanua as Charlie Adelson's girlfriend and a patient, never saw her work at the dental practice, and authenticated the intercepted call she placed to Charlie Adelson when law enforcement arrived seeking Magbanua's employment records.
340 lines·12 appearances
Ryan Fitzpatrick
KMCADA
Witness in the Magbanua retrial, Charlie Adelson trial, and Donna Adelson trial; friend of Charlie Adelson whose testimony on family attitude, cash practices, and post-arrest demeanor recurred across the case.
317 lines·7 appearances
Linda Bailey
DA
Board-certified family law expert called by the defense to testify that the Adelson-Markel dissolution was routine and that Markel's post-judgment filings were legally groundless.
306 lines·3 appearances
James Geiger
GMKMCADA
Neighbor of Dan Markel who testified as a prosecution eyewitness in all four Tallahassee murder trials.
278 lines·10 appearances
Kristin Adamson
CADA
Wendi Adelson's family law attorney, called as a defense witness in both trials.
269 lines·6 appearances
Waldo Mesa Nunez
Comfort Rental
GMKM
Rental-car employee who authenticated the June 2014 rental agreements and testified for the State in both the 2019 joint trial and the 2022 retrial.
222 lines·5 appearances
Shoddrick Nobles
GMKM
Tallahassee man who testified for the State in the 2019 joint trial, describing a cocaine sale to Sigfredo Garcia and Luis Rivera and the motel room he rented in his own name the night before Dan Markel was shot.
212 lines·4 appearances
Robert Adelson
KMDA
Donna Adelson's oldest son, a New York physician who testified for the State at her 2025 trial and was mentioned only in passing at the 2022 Magbanua retrial.
205 lines·2 appearances
Ann Elizabeth Cunningham
DA
Longtime friend of Donna Adelson who testified for the defense about Adelson's character, reaction to Markel's death, post-verdict distress, and use of WhatsApp or Viber.
192 lines·5 appearances
Drina Bernhardt
DA
Donna Adelson's jailhouse acquaintance who testified that Adelson wrote a proposed testimony script and promised benefits; cross addressed her convictions and sentencing exposure.
164 lines·3 appearances
Ramzi Naber
KM
Former Club Fate owner who testified for the State about servers' typical earnings, cash tips he could not observe, and employee records lost to hurricane flooding.
158 lines·3 appearances
Patricia Byrd
DA
Leon County Jail inmate who testified about an alleged admission by Donna Adelson and alleged offers of land, a trailer, and dental work for testimony about Katherine Magbanua.
105 lines·3 appearances
Andrew Brown
GM
StarMetro employee who authenticated July 18 bus footage, then testified that the first exhibit was a prosecution-edited composite with only a brief, indistinct passenger view.
70 lines·4 appearances
Steven Lutes
GM
JPMorgan Chase security specialist who authenticated ATM footage of a silver Prius, while stressing it could not show whether the transaction was a deposit or withdrawal.
67 lines·2 appearances
Eddie Varnes
DA
Investigator for Donna Adelson's former defense team who testified about his unrecorded August 2024 jail interview with Patricia Byrd and her account of Magbanua's statements.
63 lines·3 appearances
Daren Schwartz
GM
Miami rental-car company owner identified in SunPass testimony as Darren A. Schwartz, who rented a green Toyota Prius to Luis Rivera and authenticated the vehicle's SunPass and GPS records.
63 lines·2 appearances
Len Harvey
GM
Longtime Premier Health and Fitness director who authenticated July 18 surveillance footage and its full unedited source; he had reviewed about 75% of the footage.
61 lines·4 appearances
Ron Gutterson
DA
Longtime Adelson family friend who testified for the defense that Donna and Harvey Adelson planned temporary overseas travel and expected to return for a grandchild's bar mitzvah.
59 lines·2 appearances
Stephen Webster
CADA
Florida attorney who represented Dan Markel in his custody dispute and testified for the prosecution about the litigation and his communications with Markel on the morning of the murder.
59 lines·2 appearances
Richard Shagran
DA
Longtime Adelson family friend who testified about helping Donna obtain a Vietnam visa and book travel, including his disputed account of suggesting a one-way ticket.
58 lines·3 appearances
Keith Leland
GM
Creative Preschool employee who recalled a grayish-green or silver Prius during Dan Markel’s July 18 drop-off, but could not see inside or identify any occupant.
57 lines·4 appearances
Tarana Khan
DA
Defense private investigator who testified in rebuttal to jailhouse informant Patricia Byrd, denying any inducement was offered during a January 2025 jail interview.
51 lines·3 appearances
Justin Noble Willits
GM
FDOT SunPass records custodian who authenticated toll data and described a Prius-account search, while noting a transponder did not identify a specific vehicle.
51 lines·1 appearances
Marissel Descalzo
DA
Donna Adelson's former criminal defense attorney who testified under privilege waiver about post-verdict conversations regarding Donna's mental state and travel plans.
44 lines·3 appearances
Ronald Witt
GM
T-Mobile records custodian who authenticated tower-dump data in the 2019 trial; he did not identify any phone, subscriber, or location.
35 lines·1 appearances
Tim Kelly
DA
Tallahassee realtor called by the defense to testify about a November 2011 home-showing tour he arranged for the Adelsons at Dan Markel's request.
30 lines·2 appearances
Sara Newhouse
Tallahassee Police Department
DA
TPD victim advocate called by the defense who testified that Donna Adelson sounded shocked when Wendi called to report Dan Markel's shooting on July 18, 2014.
20 lines·2 appearances
Shelby Blank
GM
Tallahassee Memorial Hospital general surgeon who treated Dan Markel after the shooting and testified about his injuries, resuscitation, and death.
16 lines·1 appearances
Stuart Schlazer
GM
Music teacher who was speaking by phone with Dan Markel when Markel mentioned an “unfamiliar person,” then heard a loud sound followed by breathing and no further speech.
14 lines·2 appearances
Ruth Markel
GMCADA
Mother of murder victim Dan Markel; discussed in the 2019 Garcia–Magbanua and 2023 Charlie Adelson trials, and a victim-impact speaker at the Donna Adelson 2025 verdict and sentencing.
12 lines
Mentioned(24)
Harvey Adelson
GMKMCADA
Dentist and co-owner of the Adelson Institute, husband of Donna Adelson and father of Charlie and Wendi Adelson; discussed in all four trials but never a witness in any of them.
134 mentions
Anthony Ortiz
GMKMDA
Known as ‘King Anthony,’ a Latin Kings associate of Sigfredo Garcia and Luis Rivera who died in 2017 and never testified, but whose July 19, 2014 phone activity was discussed in the 2019, 2022, and 2025 trials.
25 mentions
Stephanie Carmona
GMKMCA
Sigfredo Garcia's girlfriend, known as "Shrimp," discussed as a location reference point but never a witness.
11 mentions
Jerome Obed
GMKMCADA
Broward Dermatology operator and Charlie Adelson's former roommate who employed Katherine Magbanua; discussed in four trials but never a witness.
9 mentions
Juan Marcos Vega
GMKM
Discussed third party — a co-defendant on Luis Rivera's federal Latin King RICO indictment raised by the defense as a briefly investigated alternative-suspect lead.
9 mentions
Whitney Kick
GMKMCA
Former girlfriend of Charlie Adelson, named by other witnesses but never a witness herself.
8 mentions
Sully Dawson
Eco-Friendly
GMKMCA
Auto mechanic named only in phone records and testimony; never appeared as a witness in any trial.
7 mentions
Lincoln Adelson
DA
Dan Markel and Wendi Adelson's son, referenced in the Donna Adelson trial through testimony that his bar mitzvah was the family's stated reason for returning from Vietnam.
3 mentions
Shelly Markel
GMDA
Dan Markel's sister, referred to on the record in two trials but never called as a witness.
3 mentions
Jane McPherson
CA
Wendi Adelson's friend and doctoral-program colleague who, according to Wendi's trial testimony, introduced Jeffrey Lacasse's name during her July 18, 2014 police interview.
3 mentions
Maria Rivera
GMKM
Sister of Luis Rivera, named in testimony in two trials but never a witness herself.
3 mentions
Roman Adelson
DA
Charlie Adelson's son, referenced in the Donna Adelson trial in connection with a recorded jail call and questions about a financial trust and child-support obligations.
2 mentions
Dave Atell
CADA
Peripheral figure named in testimony as one of Wendi Adelson's ex-boyfriends.
2 mentions
Annie Diaz
KM
Identified as the mother of Luis Rivera's children; the defense cited her Normandy Isle home when challenging his phone's location during July 19 morning calls.
2 mentions
Amy DiStefano
KM
Identified by Erika Johnson as one of three non-Adelson employees at the Adelson Institute during 2014–2016; DiStefano did not testify.
2 mentions
Professor Ehrhardt
GMDA
Florida evidence-law treatise author cited by the court in evidentiary rulings; not a participant in either trial.
2 mentions
Imran Hussain
GMKM
Author of a September 2016 tip letter to the State Attorney's Office that pointed investigators toward Juan Marcos Vega.
2 mentions
Jimmy Jenkins
DA
Named once as the person who called a witness while the witness was in Tampa to report a death; no further role was developed.
2 mentions
Monica Jordan
KM
Identified as an investigator for Luis Rivera's lawyer, Chuck Collins, and mentioned in questions about Rivera's 2016 proffer and Jessica Rodriguez's interview.
2 mentions
Leanback
GMKM
A third party described in testimony as the outside contact who relayed Luis Rivera's federal prison messages to Sigfredo Garcia.
2 mentions
Amy Manka
GM
Identified as Katherine Magbanua's former jail cellmate and the subject of an unrecorded, investigator-initiated 2019 interview.
2 mentions
Phil Markel
GMDA
Dan Markel's father, named in the record of two trials but never called to testify.
2 mentions
Jennifer Mosley
GMKM
An inmate named as the author of a December 2016 letter offering information about Luis Rivera, discussed in both the Garcia/Magbanua 2019 trial and the 2022 Magbanua retrial.
2 mentions
Brenda Ward
GM
Identified as a Leon County jail inmate who met twice with SAO investigator Jason Newlin in unrecorded 2019 meetings that she initiated.
2 mentions
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