Donna Adelson Had Every Right to Remain Silent, But Why Did She? | Closing Arguments Podcast
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🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are simply that. |
| 0:04.8 | Opinions. |
| 0:05.8 | All are presumed innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law. |
| 0:09.8 | Sensitive topics are discussed. |
| 0:11.8 | Discretion is advised. |
| 0:16.3 | 21-year-old Lake and Snelling seemed to be living her best life. |
| 0:19.8 | The Tennessee native was going to school at the University of Kentucky. She was a member of the cheerleading stunt squad. And like many other young adults, she was also active on social media sharing her life. But investigators say there was something she wasn't sharing. A dark secret hidden in her closet a dead baby now Lakin is under |
| 0:41.4 | arrest and we have the latest but first in July of 2014 Florida State |
| 0:49.0 | law professor Dan Markell was murdered in his Tallahassee driveway shot |
| 0:53.9 | execution style in the middle of a bitter custody battle following his divorce from Wendy Adelson. |
| 1:00.5 | Prosecutors say that Wendy's mother, Donna Adelson, the matriarch of a powerful South Florida family, became the architect of a deadly conspiracy. |
| 1:09.7 | Emails and recordings revealed Donna's obsession with relocating Wendy and her two young sons to Miami. |
| 1:17.2 | The only obstacle in the way was Dan Markell. |
| 1:20.5 | She allegedly enlisted her son Charlie Adelson who recruited intermediary and lover Catherine McBanowa to hire hit men. |
| 1:29.3 | Now over a decade later, Donna Adelson at age 75 is on trial facing charges of first-degree murder, |
| 1:37.3 | conspiracy, and solicitation accused of orchestrating a murder for hire plot born of custody and control. |
| 1:46.0 | Wendy denies any involvement and has not been charged. |
| 1:51.0 | And tonight we have all the big moments from court, including Donna Adelson's big decision about whether or not to testify. |
| 2:01.6 | I'm Vinnie Polyton. |
| 2:03.6 | Thank you so much for joining us tonight here on closing |
| 2:05.6 | arguments. |
| 2:06.6 | And you know, I know, we all know that every suspect, |
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