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The surprise release of a probable cause document in the murder of an FSU law professor has law enforcement telling us more about the case than they would have liked.  As Mike Vasilinda tells us, the documents tie the murderer to the slain professors ex-wife’s family.

Suspect Sigfredo Garcia was transported from South Florida to the state Capitol late Wednesday afternoon. He entered a not guilty plea at a Thursday first appearance.

“You have been charged with murder in the first degree” he was told by a judge.”

Minutes before the plea, a judge unsealed the probable cause affidavit leading to Garcia’s arrest. It shows Garcia and another man shadowing the professor in June and the day before his July murder. Cameras on two city buses picked up the silver Prius used in the crime before and after the murder on this busy street leading to the upscale neighborhood.

This probable cause affidavit says that security cameras  in this health club saw the Prius follow the law professor into this parking lot, wait an hour, then follow him out, just minutes before the murder.

The probable cause also ties the ex-wife’s brother to the mother of the key suspects children. Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo was asked about the relationship.

“It appears to be a very personal one” he said.

“Romantic?”

“It appears to be a very personal relationship.”

Police say they have not yet talked to the ex-wife or her brother.

“We’re not on speaking terms” De Leo told Reporters.

And as to whether the ex-wife or her brother are being watched, he responded:

“I’m not going to go into those details.”

“Do you consider Charles Adelson, Wendi Adelson suspects?”

“I don’t think we’re to that point yet. But we’re going to investigate every lead that we have, though.”

A second arrest is imminent. Suspect Luis Rivera is currently in federal custody on unrelated charges.

Police say they have combed through hundreds of thousands of lines of computer code, cell phone records, bus footage and much more. A witness who helped the suspects rent a hotel room is considered a key to placing the suspects in the Capitol at the time of the murder.