Diana Nadell
NEW CITY – A Florida woman pled guilty in Rockland County Court
to killing her 81-year-old mother-in-law in her Valley Cottage home back
on January 25, 2014.
Diana Nadell, 51, of Cutler Bay, Florida pled to murder and attempted
tampering with a witness in the killing of Peggy Nadell.
Diana Nadell will be sentenced to 23 years to life in state prison when
sentenced in May and will receive a concurrent sentence of five to 15
years on the tampering plea.
Nadell traveled to Washington, DC on January 24 where she allegedly offered
Andrea Benson money to drive with her to New York to assist in the killing.
When they arrived at the victim’s home at 644 Andover Road in Valley
Cottage, they murdered her. She suffered strangulation, multiple blunt
force trauma wounds to her head and face as well as several stab wounds
to her torso, causing her death.
It was alleged that Tanisha Joyner, 27, of Washington, DC and Eltia Grant,
25, of Long Beach, California, rendered criminal aid to Diana Nadell.
Joyner allegedly told Clarkstown Police Nadell was with her in Washington
during the evening hours of January 24 through the early morning of the
25th. Grant allegedly acted as a go-between for Diana Nadell and Benson
in aiding in the logistics and specifics of the false alibi.
Joyner and grant has pled guilty to hindering prosecution; their sentencings
are pending.
While incarcerated at the Orange County Jail on the murder indictment,
Nadell contacted another inmate whom she believed was being deported to
Jamaica and solicited that person to participate in a plot to murder two
of the cooperating witnesses she believed would provide crucial testimony
against her at trial.
Authorities in Orange and Rockland counties investigated and charged Nadell
with attempted witness tampering.
