For years, we have been following the bizarre murder-for-hire case involving the fatal shooting of Florida State University law professor Daniel Markel. All of the evidence pointed toward the family of Markel’s estranged wife Wendi Andelson. Now, her mother, Donna Adelson, 73, has been arrested trying to get on a one-way flight to Vietnam, a country without an extradition treaty with the United States. …

Donna was arrested at Miami International Airport as she and her husband were attempting to board a one-way flight to Vietnam. She is heard saying “I didn’t know there was a warrant.”

She is now charged with first-degree murder and solicitation of murder.

Notably, Wendi Adelson is not charged and may have not been told of the alleged plot. The same could be true about her father.

[My mother has followed the case closely through news reports and live coverage of the trials, and she’s convinced that Donna helped arrange the murder. It’s a fascinating story, and as Professor Turley says, it keeps getting a little stranger every week, it seems. — Ed]