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🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 90 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the global phenomenon, surviving the survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime. |
0:07.6 | Here's your host, Emmy Award winning journalist Joel Waldman. |
0:11.9 | Four days. |
0:13.2 | One, two, three, four days till the start of Donna Sue Adelson's murder trial up in Leon County, which is |
0:22.4 | Tallahassee, Florida. She was moved yesterday from Wakula County, the jail that she asked to |
0:28.0 | be moved to. She didn't like a female inmate patting her on the butt. She didn't like the |
0:35.0 | treatment she was getting there. She asked to be put into solitary housing in Leon County, and they took her tablet away, and she said, how am I going to talk to my beloved Harvey or husband? |
0:46.0 | So she asked to be transported. |
0:48.4 | She was transported to neighboring Wakula County. |
0:51.7 | And yesterday we got the alert. |
0:58.6 | They put her on a bus from Waukola back to Leon County. And the irony of that to me is stunning because this entire case for those |
1:04.5 | do not know revolves around a custody battle and not Donna Sue Adelson's, but her daughter, Wendy Adelson, who was married to |
1:13.9 | FSU law professor, Dan Markell. Dan Markell, that's what this story is all about. He is born in |
1:20.8 | Montreal, Canada, raised in Toronto, Canada, a brilliant mind, goes to Harvard undergrad, Harvard Law |
1:26.7 | School, gets offers these, you know, $800,000 to a million dollar legal law jobs, corporate law jobs, turns it down, says he wants to be a scholar, gets a job at FSU. |
1:39.7 | And who is disagreeable, Donna Sue Edelson. |
1:45.7 | She says, I want my grandkids in Miami. |
1:48.7 | He says, no way. |
1:50.3 | She says, we'll give you, we'll bribe you with a million bucks. |
1:53.7 | We'll give you a million bucks to move down to Miami. |
1:57.3 | Dan Markell says, I've got integrity. |
1:59.4 | You don't. |
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