Donna Adelson GUILTY: FULL Breakdown With Eric Faddis | What’s Next for the Adelsons?
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
It took jurors just three hours to convict Donna Adelson in the shocking murder-for-hire case that left Florida State law professor Dan Markel dead. Now the Adelson family is in ruins: Charlie is already behind bars, Donna is convicted, and eyes are turning toward Wendi and Harvey.
In this full breakdown conversation, Tony Brueski, Todd, Stacey, and defense attorney/former prosecutor Eric Faddis analyze every angle:
- Donna’s courtroom meltdowns and failed “grandma strategy”
- The controversial jailhouse informants who sealed her fate
- The devastating testimony from her own children
- Whether Wendi Adelson could face charges next
- Charlie’s potential bargaining chips and Harvey’s suspicious role
- And Donna’s grim reality inside a Florida women’s prison
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:08.0 | There you go. |
| 0:09.0 | You had a chance to see how that all went down last night with the verdict in Donna Aedelson. |
| 0:16.7 | And what? |
| 0:18.5 | I had sweet dreams. |
| 0:19.5 | I had sweet dreams last night knowing that Donna is behind bars for the rest of her life. |
| 0:23.4 | How about you guys? |
| 0:24.1 | Did you guys feel good? |
| 0:26.8 | I didn't sleep much. |
| 0:29.8 | Were you having nightmares that Donna was going to come and ruin your life? |
| 0:34.2 | She reminds me of my grandmother, Bert, Bertha, was her name. |
| 0:40.2 | Bertha? |
| 0:41.1 | Yes. |
| 0:42.2 | And I was supposed to be named after her. |
| 0:45.4 | So thank God my mom, like, came out of her stupor of all the drugs when she had me and said, |
| 0:51.2 | no, I'm not having a daughter named Bertha. |
| 0:53.7 | That would have been great right |
| 0:55.2 | hitting yours yeah don't reminds me a lot tony bertha and todd in the morning you have to change |
| 1:03.5 | your name i think but yeah i think a lot of people have have moments that uh that that she reminds |
| 1:10.1 | people of. |
| 1:11.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.8 | Or people. But, you know, I, I feel bad. It's, at least it's not her first day in, in prison. Yeah. I always picture that when somebody is convicted of something, they've been out this entire time and then that night, first night in the, in the, Well, there is a difference here. |
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