roads surrounding the city on the oneyear anniversary of markels murder the tallahassee police department released a new photo of the toyota prius that they believe was driven by whoever murdered markel based on the image of the toll transponder seen in the car police then pulled the toll records for all of the toyota priuses heading into the tallahassee area around the time of the murder the toll records led them to a car rental agency in miami fla that rented mostly hybrid cars it turned out there were fewer than ten toyota priuses rented during this period of time in the state of florida that could have been the same car the rental agreement for the car showed that it was rented by a man named luis rivera using the listed cellphone number police were quickly able to confirm riveras identity luis rivera tallahassee police department police say rivera is a leader in the notorious latin kings gang which has an especially strong presence in miami a second telephone number was also written on the rental contract with the word brother written beside the number the listed cellphone tracks back to sigfredo garcia of north miami garcia is a childhood friend of riveras who also has a felony record and numerous runins with the law sigfredo garcia tallahassee police department using cellphone data and gps info police said they were able to trace the trail of rivera and garcia in that prius which the two men in the vicinity of markels home at the time of the murder may 2016 police announced firstdegree murder charges against rivera and garcia in may 2016 for markels murder june 2016 rivera and garcia were indicted in june 2016 and are facing the death penalty if convicted both have entered not guilty pleas they are scheduled for separate trials later this year court documents made public in june linked garcia one of the alleged hit men to wendi adelsons brother charlie adelson his former girlfriend was also the mother of garcias children the arrest affidavit for rivera and garcia alleges that charlie adelson reportedly did not like markel and did not get along with him in a probable cause affidavit police allege that garcia and rivera were enlisted to commit this egregious act and that police believe the motive for the killing stemmed from the desperate desire of the adelson family to relocate wendi and the children to south florida along with the pending court hearing that might have impacted their access to the grandchildren prior to the 2013 divorce settlement markel had successfully fought wendi adelsons attempt to move with their two young sons to south florida for a new job and to be closer to her family but prosecutors have thus far declined to charge anyone in the adelson family in the murder of dan markel and state prosecutor georgia cappleman said theres not enough evidence to do so the investigation is ongoing lawyers for the adelsons in a joint