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. She will receive 23 years to life in state prison when sentenced in May and will get 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.
