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Approx Timestamps: (4:57) - Sam Wood Update (6:42) - Dan Markel On July 18, 2014, 41-year-old law professor Dan Markel was sitting in his car in the garage of his Tallahassee, Florida, home when a gunman approached and shot him. Dan had recently been through a bitter divorce from his wife, Wendi Adelson, and was locked in a contentious custody battle over their two young sons. He would die the following day, leaving his family devastated and investigators searching for answers. But what initially appeared to be a targeted shooting would eventually expose an alleged murder-for-hire conspiracy involving a hitman, a former girlfriend, a successful dentist, and a mother who prosecutors would accuse of helping orchestrate her former son-in-law's death. Prosecutors argued that Dan was murdered because he stood in the way of his children's relocation to South Florida, closer to his former wife's family. Over the next decade, investigators would follow a trail of phone records, financial transactions, secret recordings, and testimony that led to five convictions. But one question would continue to haunt the case: how far did the conspiracy reach, and was everyone who knew something about Dan's murder ever held accountable? Links
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