A grandmother's trial is set to start. An international fugitive faces a jury. And digital go bags.

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🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

After more than a decade, Donna Adelson, the matriarch of a prominent Florida family, is about to go on trial for murder. International fugitive Nicholas Rossi stands trial in a Utah courtroom after allegedly faking his death to avoid prosecution for rape charges. In Dateline Round Up, we've got a verdict, a surprise guilty plea, and the latest on Alex Murdaugh's appeal. And 2025 has been a year of natural disasters — do you have your digital go bag packed? We break down what you need to know. Find out more about the cases covered each week here: www.datelinetruecrimeweekly.com To learn more about Dateline LIVE in Nashville on Sept. 28, and to get tickets, go here: https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline-event To listen to Andrea’s episode on Nicholas Rossi, “The Man of Many Faces,” go here: https://apple.co/3VDNusv

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0:00.0	Hey, good morning. It's the start of another workday here at 30 Rockefeller Center. A few new updates in the investigation here. The Dateline team is catching up on breaking crime news. Her other husband was accused of killing his first wife. There's another trial too, right? He's been communicating with us sporadically from the jail.
0:28.5	Welcome to Dateline True Crime Weekly. I'm Andrea Canning. It's August 14th, and here's what's on our docket.
0:35.5	In Utah, a verdict in the trial of a man prosecutors say faked his own death and fled across the Atlantic Ocean to escape justice.
0:38.3	He was in Scotland when I interviewed him in one of the more unusual interviews of my time here at Dateline.
0:44.3	Andrea, I am not Nicholas Allen Burney, and I do not know how to make this clear.
0:53.3	In Dateline Roundup, the latest on Alec Murdoch's fight to overturn his conviction.
0:58.4	And dramatic endings for trials we've been following in Wisconsin and Iowa.
1:03.4	The reading of any verdict, everyone is on pins and needles, and this courtroom was no different.
1:09.7	Plus, staying safe in a natural disaster. We've got tips on how to make a
1:14.2	digital go bag with everything you'd need in an emergency. Should something, let's say, happen to your home and
1:20.1	you can never go back, you want to have these documents with you. But before all that, we're taking you
1:24.6	to a courthouse in Tallahassee, where after more than a decade,
1:28.2	the matriarch of a family of Florida dentists is about to go on trial for murder.
1:33.9	In July 2014, respected FSU law professor Dan Markell was shot twice in the head as he pulled his car into the garage of his house.
1:42.9	A years-long investigation by police and the FBI
1:46.1	uncovered a sprawling murder-for-hire plot,
1:49.3	which they say was orchestrated in part by none other
1:52.7	than Dan's former mother-in-law, Donna Aedelson.
1:56.5	Next week, after several courtroom delays,
1:59.3	Donna will finally face a jury.
2:01.7	She has pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder, conspiracy, and solicitation.
2:07.6	Dateline producer Brad Davis, who has been covering this case from the beginning, is here to tell us what to watch out for in the weeks ahead.
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