Deadly Mischief Part 2- S.34 Ep.5
A Date With Dateline
Kimberly and Katie - ADWDL
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
The One With The Thwarted Vacay to Vietnam, Donna's KKKrazy Emails, and The Adelson Who Escaped, AKA DEADLY MISCHIEF PART 2!
Official Description from NBCU: One week after a dramatic sentencing, the story continues in the 2014 murder of Florida State law professor Dan Markel; a wealthy Florida family faces scrutiny for a murder-for-hire plot that ends with a 75-year-old grandmother on trial. Dennis Murphy reports.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, this is Kimberly. And this is Katie. And you're listening to A Date with Dateline, and I'm so |
| 0:06.6 | excited. I'm so excited. I'm so scared a little because we are finally talking about Donna Edelson. |
| 0:15.3 | Last week, we did Deadly Mischief Part 1, where we covered so many trials, so many co-conspirators. |
| 0:23.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.0 | But now we are at the ultimate, the pinnacle, the mastermind, the architect, as they call her |
| 0:31.6 | repeatedly, except there might be one more after this, but we don't know. |
| 0:35.8 | Except is she? |
| 0:37.1 | Except we don't know, but that's how they're painting her. |
| 0:39.5 | They call her the architect repeatedly. |
| 0:41.6 | If you don't know what we're talking about, you must go back and listen to part one because |
| 0:46.3 | you'll be very confused because there were multiple people indicted, convicted before this. |
| 0:53.2 | This is just wild. |
| 0:54.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:54.9 | So we're in Florida. |
| 0:56.2 | First of all, let me say this is season 34, episode 5. |
| 1:00.1 | It aired on October 24th, 2025. |
| 1:03.4 | It's hosted by Dennis Murphy, our quality non-bath salts, Florida man, that we adore so much. |
| 1:11.0 | Correct. |
| 1:11.4 | This is the murder of Dan Markell, who was a law professor in Florida, and he was in a custody |
| 1:17.8 | dispute with his ex-wife, Wendy Adelson. |
| 1:20.6 | And in part one, we have two hit men, a contact person, and Wendy's brother Charlie convicted and put in |
| 1:31.3 | prison for the murder of Dan Markell. But everyone wanted Donna, who was Wendy's mother, |
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