Donna Adelson Trial: Detective Maps July 18th Phone Calls Before Dan Markel’s Murder

Donna Adelson Trial: Detective Maps July 18th Phone Calls
Before Dan Markel’s Murder
The jury in the Trial of Donna Adelson was
riveted today as Tallahassee Police Sergeant Christopher
Corbitt traced the timeline of phone calls on
July 18, 2014—the very morning Dan Markel was
shot in his driveway. This wasn’t just a list of calls. It was a
carefully woven narrative of how the alleged conspiracy operated
in real time, connecting the hitmen, Katherine Magbanua, Charlie
Adelson, and ultimately Donna Adelson herself.

Corbitt walked the jury through the early-morning hours, showing
how Magbanua and Charlie Adelson exchanged a flurry of calls
while the hitmen’s phones pinged near their Tallahassee motel. At
1:02 a.m., Charlie called his mother, Donna,
pulling her directly into the communications chain just hours
before the murder. By mid-morning, calls bounced between Donna,
Wendi, and Charlie, with Wendi speaking to both her brother and
her mother minutes before Markel was due to arrive home.

Then came the chilling detail: at 11:22 a.m.,
barely 30 minutes after Markel was shot, Charlie Adelson placed a
7-minute call to Donna. Prosecutors argue this wasn’t
coincidence—it was coordination, a family scrambling in the
aftermath of a hit they helped arrange.

Why does this matter? Because phone records don’t forget, and
they don’t get confused on the stand. These logs provide jurors
with a roadmap of connection—showing not only who called whom,
but when and how often. Combined with other testimony, this
timeline suggests the Adelsons weren’t just worried relatives but
active participants in orchestrating and managing the
murder-for-hire plot.

For the prosecution, Corbitt’s testimony is about more than phone
numbers. It’s about establishing a pattern of
conspiracy—a trail of calls that prosecutors say leads
straight back to Donna Adelson.

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