Florida grandmas shocking excuse for trying to board Vietnam flight before she was arrested in alleged murder-for-hire plot
The Florida dental matriarch accused of masterminding the 2014 murder-for-hire plot against her former son-in-law wanted to flee the US with her husband to find “peace” in Vietnam before turning themselves in on their own will.Donna Adelson, locked in shackles and a purple jumpsuit, made the shocking revelation as she sought her release from jail and appeared in Leon County court Wednesday.“I wasn’t afraid of being arrested,” she told the court, according to CourtTV.“My husband and I – literally shocked and traumatized at what had happened to Charlie – and he said ‘we need to just get some peace, we need to catch our breath, we’re gonna go away somewhere.”Adelson, 75, was arrested at Miami International Airport in November 2023 when she and her husband, Harvey, were about to use one-way tickets to Vietnam via Dubai — two countries without extradition treaties with the US.The couple understood what fleeing the US would look like to law enforcement officials.
However, they decided on Vietnam as their destination because they enjoyed the Southeast Asian country during previous vacations and they could buy a plane ticket back and turn themselves in on their own accord.Adelson assumed police in the US would have reached out with their counterparts in extradition countries that would have held the couple in their jails “for God knows how long.” Calling Vietnam “a place of peace,” Adelson claimed her husband came up with the idea so they wouldn’t be kept in a foreign jail waiting to be extradited back to Florida.“He said ‘if we go to a non-extradition country, then if the law enforcement decided that they wanted to arrest you or me, we won’t be sitting in a foreign prison waiting months to go back,'” Adelson recalled.“My understanding was we could go home and I could turn myself in if that’s what they wanted.”“I thought it was a good idea because I just couldn’t think straight,” she claimed in court.Adelson was charge...