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Opening statements are slated to begin Wednesday in Danielle Redlick’s Florida murder trial for the 2019 stabbing death of her stepfather-turned-husband, ex-NBA executive Michael Redlick.
Danielle, 48, allegedly used a kitchen knife to slice up her husband in their upscale home in Winter Park then waited 11 hours to call 911 — while she perused a dating app, according to investigators.
Neighbors said the pair, who were married for 17 years and share two children, had a “rocky relationship and fought often,” an affidavit for an arrest warrant states. Michael had even joked to one of them that he would be fine “as long as I hide the steak knives.”
Michael was 65 and a faculty member at University of Central Florida at the time of his murder. He previously worked as vice president of corporate sales for the Memphis Grizzlies.
He became smitten with Danielle, 20 years his junior, after marrying her mom, Kathleen Aquino, to help her get better health insurance, according to WFTV. Aquino had breast cancer.
But the tumultuous union ended abruptly Jan. 11, 2019, with Michael’s death. Danielle is on trial in Orange County, Florida, charged with second-degree murder and tampering with evidence in his stabbing death.
One day after the fatal altercation, Danielle called 911 to report “a tragedy at her home” and said her husband “might have had a heart attack,” wrote Detective Pamela Woehr in the arrest affidavit.
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