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'Living A Lie': Ex-Girlfriend Admits Role In Murder-For-Hire Plot

Convicted murder solicitor Katherine “Kate” Magbanua testified in alleged murder-for-hire matriarch Donna Adelson’s trial in Tallahassee, Florida, today (Tuesday, August 26, day 3). Wearing shackles and orange jail garb, Magbanua admitted her involvement in the plot to murder Adelson’s former son-in-law, Dan Markel, in 2014. She said she lied in her testimony in her trial and in Charlie Adelson’s trial and in the trial of gunman Sigfredo Garcia, who was her longtime boyfriend and is the father of her child, but she’s telling the truth now after being convicted because she wants everyone involved to be held responsible, and she hopes to one day see her children again through a reduction in her life-in-prison sentence. This is Magbanua's entire direct-examination with Assistant State Attorney Georgia Cappleman. 01:52 "I think that the truth needed to come out, and the people responsible needed to get arrested." 03:50 "When did you start dating Charlie Adelson?" 06:10 "And did you know somebody that could harm someone?" "Sigfredo was the first person that kind of popped in my head." 11:41 "You knew that his sister was having a terrible time with her ex?" 20:45 "At that point you knew it was a murder because the envelope had been passed, right?" 25:00 "I needed to be put on payroll so that I can show that I was making a certain amount of money." 26:50 "You didn't receive your first paycheck until approximately two months after the murder was completed?" 31:40 "Yes, I told him that his money was in the trunk of the car." 36:40 "Did you meet with Charlie Adelson after the bump?" You can watch Adelson's lawyer Jackie Fulford cross-examine Magbanua here:    • Defense Tries To Distance Donna Adelson Fr...   Case background: Donna Adelson, 75, is accused of orchestrating the murder-for-hire of her former son-in-law because she wanted her daughter and grandchildren to move to Miami. Adelson is accused of conspiring with her son Charlie Adelson more than a decade ago to hire hitmen to kill Dan Markel, who was a Florida State University law professor and the father of her two young grandsons. Her defense is that she had no knowledge of what hitmen Luis Rivera and Sigfredo Garcia were going to do, and that prosecutors are only focusing on her hatred for Markel to show she had a motive to want him murdered, when there's no evidence she was actually involved. Rivera, a former gang leader, is serving a 19-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and testifying against Garcia, who fired the fatal shots, as well as the woman who linked Garcia to the victim: Katherine "Katie" Magbanua, who was Garcia's on-again, off-again girlfriend and also was in a relationship with Adelson's son Charlie Adelson. Garcia was convicted in 2019 and Magbanua in 2022. Rivera also testified in Charlie Adelson's trial in 2023, and Adelson was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. After their son's trial, Donna Adelson and her husband, Harvey, bought one-way tickets to Vietnam. Police arrested her on the jetway at Miami International Airport on charges of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and solicitation of first-degree murder. Her trial is expected to go through Sept. 5 in Leon County Circuit Court in Tallahassee, Florida. Donna Adelson's lawyers are Josh Zelman and Jackie Fulford of Tallahassee. Assistant State Attorneys Georgia Cappleman and Sarah Kathryn Dugan are prosecuting. The judge is Stephen Everett, who is the chief judge of Leon County Circuit Court. ****************************************************************************** Become a member of Meghann's YouTube channel to show your support:    / @meghanncuniff   Subscribe to Legal Affairs and Trials with Meghann Cuniff: https://www.legalaffairsandtrials.com... Support Meghann on Patreon:   / meghanncuniff   BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/meghanncunif... Tik Tok:   / meghannmcuniff   Instagram:   / meghanncuniff   Facebook:   / meghanncuniff   Threads: https://www.threads.net/@meghanncuniff Venmo: MeghannCuniff