For the Adelsons of South Florida, murder was very much a family affair. It certainly was for the matriarch and the male scion at the heart of an American tragedy.

As is frequently the case, the murder-for-hire slaying of a Toronto-born academic has obliterated everything in its path.

Late Monday, malevolent matriarch Donna Adelson was sentenced to spend the rest of her life in prison , joining her idiot son Charlie, a dentist. According to a Florida court, the two hired hit men are also doing long stints in Florida penitentiaries along with a facilitator.

Two children are without their father, as is his family. Wendi Adelson was desperate to ditch the backwater of Tallahassee, Fla., for the sun-splashed sophistication of Miami, where her parents and brother lived. She wanted to take

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