What goes on inside the minds of women who commit murder and other crimes?
In my previous episode on December 13, 2022, titled A Mother’s Pursuit of Justice: The Contract Murder of Dan Markel, I reported that three women are the focus of an eight-year-long murder investigation.
Markel, a distinguished law professor at Florida State University was gunned down by hitmen at his Tallahassee home in 2014.
Katherine Maguahua (phonetic pronunciation: MAC-BANA-WAH) was the go-between for the contract killing.
In November of 2022, evidence from an FBI sting helped convict Maguahua.
She received a life sentence plus 60 years for hiring her ex-boyfriend, the father of her children, to execute Dan Markel. Allegedly so his ex-wife could move the couple’s two sons to South Florida.
The ex-wife, 35- year old Wendi Adelson, a fellow law professor, and her mother, Donna Adelson, have been named as unindicted conspirators in the alleged plot.
According to criminal trial testimony, Katherine Maguahua