Jeffrey Lacasse
FSU social work professor and Wendi Adelson's former boyfriend who testified across all three trials to her July 13, 2014 confidential disclosure that Charlie Adelson had explored hiring a hitman to kill Dan Markel.
About
Lacasse is the sole non-family witness who placed a specific, confidential verbal disclosure of hitman planning before the jury in all three trials; his testimony across the case record documents the full procedural arc from straightforward admission in Trial 1 through hearsay exclusion and impeachment recall in Trial 2 to consolidated delivery against Wendi's on-record denial in Trial 3, providing the most complete archival account of how the prosecution's central prior-knowledge statement was litigated across the case.
Trial Record (40)
KM Magbanua Retrial May 18, 2022 – May 27, 2022
Trial Summary
Called as a prosecution witness, Lacasse testified to Wendi Adelson's July 13, 2014 kitchen disclosure — that her brother Charlie had seriously investigated hiring a hitman to kill Dan Markel at a cost of roughly $15,000 — placing that prior-knowledge statement five days before the murder.
Appearances (3)
Mentioned (5)
CA Charlie Adelson Oct 26, 2023 – Nov 6, 2023
Trial Summary
Prosecution witness and Wendi Adelson's former boyfriend whose two-round testimony arc culminated in a recall direct delivering the trial's central verbal disclosure: that five days before the murder, Wendi told him Charlie had investigated all options to deal with Dan Markel, including hiring a hitman at a cost of roughly $15,000 to $50,000.
Appearances (9)
Mentioned (15)
DA Donna Adelson Aug 22, 2025 – Sep 4, 2025
Trial Summary
FSU social work professor who dated Wendi Adelson from late 2013 through the week before the murder; called by the prosecution to place before the jury Wendi's July 13, 2014 disclosure that Charlie Adelson had seriously explored hiring a hitman to resolve the custody dispute, and to describe Wendi's observable distress in the days surrounding the shooting.