Donna Adelson Courtroom Shock: Wendy Confirms She Cut Ties With Mom In 2023-WEEK IN REVIEW
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🗓️ 30 August 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Week in review. |
| 0:02.4 | I look back at the most prolific stories of the week. |
| 0:05.4 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 0:08.5 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:12.0 | It was a dramatic day, to say the least, at the trial of Donna Adelson. |
| 0:17.2 | We're going to break down Wendy's testimony. |
| 0:20.0 | There was other testimony today that was also, wow. But we're going to break down Wendy's testimony. There was other testimony today that was also, wow. |
| 0:23.6 | But we're going to keep ourselves over here in the Wendy box for today and try and go through what unfolded. |
| 0:32.2 | It was nothing short of explosive. |
| 0:34.5 | We are going to hear Wendy on the stand, admitting that Charlie joked about a hitman, |
| 0:41.9 | that she was on the phone with him for 18 minutes right in the window when Dan was murdered, |
| 0:48.4 | and that the very TV tied to that hitman joke became her alibi on the morning of the killings. |
| 0:53.9 | We'll walk through her reaction |
| 0:55.3 | at the crime scene, the roadblock, her decision to change her children's names to Aitleson |
| 1:00.4 | while skipping their father's funeral. And her stunning admission that she hasn't spoken to her |
| 1:04.8 | mother Donna since late 2023, a mother who pressured her to back Charlie and who once called relocation a manner of life and death. |
| 1:16.0 | Perhaps most dam, most damning of all Wendy herself once pointed suspicion at her own family during her police interview. |
| 1:24.5 | This is a testimony that lays bare the Adelson family dynamic where what is left of it and how far |
| 1:29.5 | Donna's influence has reached. And there is a lot to unpack in all of this. There are new pieces that are |
| 1:39.2 | coming out today and that we are learning about the Aedelson family and their dynamics. |
| 1:45.5 | But let's start with a little view from the courtroom itself. |
| 1:51.2 | Let's start with taking a look specifically at Wendy's issues with Dan. |
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