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🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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0:00.0 | Just because they seem normal doesn't mean they are. Welcome to Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
0:07.8 | Picture this. You're facing trial for allegedly orchestrating a murder for higher plot, |
0:14.0 | and the one thing keeping you connected to your defense team gets ripped away because of bureaucratic red tape. |
0:20.3 | That's exactly what happened to Donna Edelson this week when she got shuffled from one |
0:24.4 | detention facility to another, not because she caused trouble, but because Leon County decided |
0:29.5 | inmates in protective custody couldn't have tablets anymore. |
0:35.8 | It's like being told you can't use your phone during the most important |
0:39.5 | business negotiation of your life, except in this case. The business is convincing 12 people |
0:46.7 | you didn't help plan a murder. The timing couldn't be more ironic. Donna Adelson, the 73-year-old |
0:53.7 | mother who prosecutors say was the financial |
0:55.9 | mastermind behind a family conspiracy to murder Florida State University law professor Dan Markell. |
1:02.9 | Just got moved to Wakula detention facility on June 6th. Here's a woman who allegedly helped |
1:09.5 | orchestrate one of the most calculated murders in recent Florida history, now getting sympathy because she can't properly communicate with her lawyers due to administrative incompetence. |
1:22.6 | Here's what went down. Leon County Sheriff's Office implemented a new policy that basically said, |
1:28.0 | if you're in administrative or protective confinement, you can't have a tablet. |
1:33.4 | Now, tablets aren't just for entertainment in jail. They're how inmates communicate with their |
1:38.2 | attorneys in the digital age. Donna's defense attorney, Josh Zellman, painted a sob story about how his client would get |
1:46.1 | exactly 20 minutes out of her cell on Tuesdays and Thursdays, one hour on Mondays, Wednesdays, and |
1:52.0 | Fridays, and absolutely nothing on weekends. That's like trying to prepare for the bar exam |
1:57.5 | while locked in a closet, except most people taking the bar exam didn't allegedly |
2:02.0 | finance a murder plot first. The irony here is remarkable. We're supposed to feel bad that a woman |
2:08.1 | accused of paying hitmen to kill her daughter's ex-husband is having trouble accessing her legal |
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