More Arrests Expected in Law Professors Murder
June 3rd, 2016 by Mike Vasilinda
An arrest warrant has been issued for at least one more person in the suspected murder for hire of an FSU Law Professor, and as Mike Vasilinda tells us, a newly released document shows police fear more suspected co-defendants may try to flee the country.
The probable cause for the arrest of suspected him man Sigfredo Garcia lists a bitter divorce between the law professor and his wife, Wendi Adelson, as the motive for the crime. At the bottom of it say police, was a desperate desire of the Adelson family to relocate the children to South Florida, which the law professor opposed.
Now this document, filed to keep investigative information secret, says police are worried about suspected co defendants leaving the country.
The document says suspected co-defendants have the financial means to flee the country and to not return, and in fact, have already been discovered talking about leaving.
The document appears to have been filed after suspected hit man Garcia was under arrest. Another suspect for whom a warrant has been issued, Luis Rivera, has been in federal custody for months. Family members of the ex wife mentioned in the probable cause include brother Charles. He was having a relationship with the mother of two children fathered by the suspected hit man. The ex-wife’s mother Donna was also mentioned in the probable cause. On Thursday, police said it was too early to consider family members suspects.
“I don’t think we’re at that point yet, but we are going to investigate every lead that we have, though” said Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo.
“I mean, We knew them”
One neighbor told us they appreciate increased police presence in the neighborhood, but:
“it sounds like a made for TV movie” neighbor Justin Menendez told us.
But shockingly true.
The ex wife has not been mentioned as a possible suspect. She worked at the FSU law school before the divorce. She now works for a federal judge in Miami.
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