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The jury foreperson in the Donna Adelson trial took to TikTok to reveal how the jury came to find the 75-year-old family matriarch guilty of murder
Donna Adelson was convicted of murder, conspiracy and solicitation in the 2014 death of her former son-in-law, Daniel Markel, 41
Adelson was angry that Markel refused to allow her daughter to move 400 miles away to be closer to her and her family, prosecutors said during the trial
Jurors only needed three hours to convict Donna Adelson — the matriarch of a wealthy Florida family — of murder in the death of her former son-in-law, who was gunned down by hired hitmen in 2014, the jury foreperson has revealed.
“Within the first hour, hour and a half, everyone was agreeing that she was guilty,” a woman who identified herself as t