Date: March 19th, 2018 11:49 AM
Author: Jet-lagged aromatic boiling water station
the Tallahassee Democrat has published an explosive 99-minute video of the prosecutors' interview of hit man Luis Rivera. Rivera states (beginning at 11:06:17 of the video) that he and hit man Sigfredo Garcia saw Wendi Adelson walking the children in front of Dan Markel's home the day before the murder and that Wendi was making sure that the hit men were there to kill Dan before he left on a flight the following day:
Wendi's walking this way with the two kids. ... What's up with this lady? Why is she looking so much? [Garcia says] that's the lady. That's Wendi. What's she doing up here? ...
[Garcia says] she came up to make sure everything's all right because he's leaving out of town tomorrow. So it's gotta get done tomorrow morning before he leaves. ...
Garcia asks Katie [Magbanua] what she's doing up here? ... I asked him what's she doing up here? He said she came up here to see if everything's is all right with the kids. You gotta know something beside that shit. What is she doing up here? She knows you're up here. She knows we're up here. So what's she doing up here?
He calls Katie. Hey what's going on? I seen this lady up here? ... She's making sure everything's fine ... He's leaving tomorrow on the flight or wherever the f* he was going. ... So we gotta do this tomorrow because he's leaving and she came up to see the kids. ... She's just making sure everything's all right with the kids.
She wants to make sure we was up here. She wants to make sure she wasn't paying him for nothing.
Tallahassee Democrat, Rivera: 'We Were Coming Up Here to Kill Somebody':
Rivera last week pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to a 7-year prison term in exchange for his cooperation with prosecutors. He is currently serving 12 years in federal prison on an unrelated charge.
In an interview with investigators obtained by the Tallahassee Democrat, Rivera laid out how he was connected to the plot and how the hit went down in broad daylight in July 2014. ...
There was $100,000 in cash waiting once the murder was done. Garcia, who would take $40,000, promised him $35,000. The rest, and then some, went to Garcia’s on-and-off girlfriend Katherine Magbanua, Rivera said.
He said he was hesitant to come along. He told police he didn't want to kill anybody. He asked why they were killing Markel. “Because the lady wants her two kids back,” Rivera said. “She wants full custody of the kids. That was the plan...We’re going to kill this guy for the kids. Are you serious?” ...
“Katie is the woman in the middle doing everything,” Rivera said in his interview. "It's all because of Katie, man. She had him crazy. She would go cheat on him and she would tell him if you want me back you have to go do this." ...
Garcia’s Miami attorney, Saam Zangeneh learned about Rivera’s statement through the Tallahassee Democrat. He said it was unfortunate prosecutors were relying so heavily on Rivera’s statement in moving forward. “The State Attorney’s Office has gone all in with Luis Rivera, and they’re either going to sink with him or swim with him,” Zangeneh said.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3859775&forum_id=2#35637330)