The matriarch of a wealthy South Florida family learned her fate from a jury that took only hours to deliberate Thursday.
After a nearly two-week trial, 75-year-old Donna Adelson was found guilty of first-degree murder in a plot to kill her former son-in-law, Dan Markel, a law professor at Florida State eleven years ago.
Prosecutors argued that Adelson helped hire hitmen to drive from Miami to Tallahassee and shoot Markel as a way to win his child custody dispute with her daughter Wendi.
"I wish her to live to 120, alone in her jail cell," said Markel's father, Phil Markel. "I wish that every day of her remaining days she thinks about the harm she has caused so many."
Then he posed a question to Adelson: "Was it worth it?"
Markel's mother, Ruth, addressed the court saying she hoped the judge throws the book at the grandmother for killing her son.
Adding that Adelson "blames external forces for her family's curse ... but she is the curse."
The two boys are currently in the care of their mother Wendi. However, it is not clear, yet, if the state will bring charges against her as well.
No sentencing date has been set, but Donna Adelson could get life behind bars.
Her son, Charles Adelson is currently serving a life sentence, as are the others involved in the hit.