From Domestic Coordinator on Wheel of Fortune back in 1989 to orchestrator of one of the most shocking family annihilations in modern history, Donna Adelson did not just destroy one family, she destroyed two.

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Tonight, we are taking a psychological dive into Donna Adelson.

So buckle up.

It could get scary.

It's like a roller coaster ride into horror.

She is.

I was thinking about this today, in a way, a family annihilator.

Now, I know family annihilator is a very specific term, and we can ask our guests about it,

but she did manage to basically destroy her own family.

She's got one son in prison for murder, and Ruth Markell's eloquent victim impact statement basically said, here's a mom who turned her mother,

her turned her son, a mother turned her son into a murderer. Then you've got a daughter who's under

very likely the watchful eye right now,

Georgia Kaplanman and could be indicted next as a co-conspirator, an indicted co-conspirator.

Her husband Harvey, I don't know what he's doing, just traipsing around Miami. and he also potentially is on the radar of law

enforcement and then another son Rob who's estranged and testified in this case and then you've got

a whole other family that was destroyed by this one woman in the Markell family Dan Markell of course

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