Daniel Markel and Wendi Adelson date for a couple of years, and then the young, well-educated couple marry.
Daniel Markel is already a a professor at Florida State University School of Law and Wendi Adelson is a third-year law student at the University of Miami. The couple have two children, but then Dan Markel comes home from a business trip to find the house nearly empty. His wife and two boys, as well as most of the furniture, are gone. There are divorce papers on the bed.
For the next six weeks, Dan Markel doesn’t know where his children are much less his soon-to-be ex-wife. Their divorce is finalized and the order is for them to share joint custody of their children, but Wendi Adelson tries to move with the boys to Miami, Dan Markel heads to court and files an order to keep them from moving.
Dan wins that battle, but a custody battle continues.
Markel, now a Florida State University criminal law professor, pulls into his driveway and is talking on his cell phone when he was fatally shot. The killer was waiting for Markel outside his home then followed him into the garage, shooting him in the side of the head, through the window of his car.
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[Feature Photo: Wendi Adelson and Dan Markel/Handout]
