Luis Rivera Interrogation

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In July 2014, Markel was found slumped over the steering wheel of his car inside his garage with a single gunshot wound to the head. Luis Rivera, 33, and Sigfredo Garcia, 34, weren’t arrested until two years later after an extensive investigation into Adelson and her mother and brother, Donna and Charlie, all of whom were involved in hiring the hitmen to kill Markel over a custody dispute — Adelson wanted to move to South Florida with their two young sons and a judge said that she could not. Incidentally, two days after Markel’s murder, she moved her young sons to South Florida, according to the New York Times.

According to the Democrat, Adelson maintained at the time that she was not involved in the killing. But Adelson’s ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Lacasse testified at the trial that she told him her brother Charlie had looked into hiring a hitman to kill Markel. When Adelson testified, she claimed her brother brought it up as a joke, reported the Democrat.

But at trial, Rivera, who took a plea deal and agreed to testify against Garcia, said that Katherine Magbanua, the mother of Garcia’s two children, was the conduit between them and the Adelson family because Magbanua previously dated Charlie Adelson and worked for him at his dental office, according to the Florida Sun-Sentinel. At the trial, prosecutors played wiretaps of conversations between Charlie and Magbanua, and Garcia and Magbanua where they were talking about the plot, reported WCTV. Rivera also testified that Garcia was the one who actually pulled the trigger and afterward called Magbanua to confirm that Markel was dead. They then split the $100,000 payment from the Adelsons — Rivera took $37,000, Garcia took $40,000 and Magvanua got the remaining $23,000. Furthermore, bank records showed that after the murder, Magbanua started receiving regular checks from Adelson’s dental practice that were handwritten and signed by his mother, Donna, according to the New York Times.

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