Donna Adelson’s Appeal EXPOSED + Wendi Adelson’s Interrogation — COMPLETE Breakdown!
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
In this Hidden Killers Live special, we dedicate a full two hours to the unraveling of the Adelson family, breaking down Donna Adelson’s desperate appeal and Wendi Adelson’s unforgettable police interview. From the bizarre revelation that Donna’s appeal lawyer operates out of a crematorium to the flimsy legal arguments her team is raising, nothing is off the table.
The first half of this deep dive unpacks Donna Adelson’s appeal step by step: juror TikTok posts, claims of judicial bias, and arguments about courtroom reactions. With sharp humor and hard analysis, Tony, Stacy, and Todd show how weak and desperate these defenses appear — and why the appeal is unlikely to succeed.
Then the spotlight turns to Wendi Adelson. We revisit her initial police interview after the murder of Dan Markel, where her nervous rambling, contradictions, and bizarre tangents paint a disturbing picture. Did she know more than she was saying? Or was she simply overwhelmed? The team dissects every twist in her words, comparing her behavior to the controlling influence of her mother, Donna.
Joining the discussion is psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott, who offers expert insight into the psychology of the Adelson family. She examines both possibilities: what if Wendi knew, and what if she didn’t? From compartmentalization and trauma to toxic family loyalty and control, Shavaun helps us understand the deeper forces that could have shaped Wendi’s words and actions.
The episode closes with a sobering discussion of the Adelson children — teenagers now — who have grown up under this cloud of murder, conspiracy, and family dysfunction. The psychological damage is clear, and the path forward is uncertain.
This is the full 2 hour breakdown — bizarre, chilling, and absolutely riveting. If you’ve been following the Adelson case, you won’t want to miss a minute.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:09.2 | Okay, Donna Adelson, Wendy Adelson. |
| 0:12.2 | We're going to talk a lot about those two today. |
| 0:14.8 | In fact, two hours of it. |
| 0:16.9 | We're going to get into the latest on Donna's appeal. |
| 0:19.0 | We're going to go through Wendy Adelson's initial, I would say deposition, but her initial talking to police, her initial interview with police right after Dan Markell. |
| 0:30.8 | Well, as you haven't seen that before. |
| 0:33.4 | There's a lot to unpack, and yes, this goes way, way back. |
| 0:37.3 | But we're having to do that because |
| 0:39.8 | way, way forward in the future is where we are now in this case, and the microscope is |
| 0:45.6 | unwending. |
| 0:46.6 | The microscope is there and we're going, hmm, is there going to be charges here? |
| 0:50.7 | She's never been charged with anything innocent until proving guilty, innocent in general |
| 0:55.8 | right now, because there are no charges against her. But in order for us to kind of, hmm, let's examine |
| 1:01.7 | where this might go. And on the words of Georgia Kaplanman, the attorney, stay tuned. So let's tune in. |
| 1:09.6 | Let's find out maybe what might lead us to the next chapter in the |
| 1:13.6 | Edelson case. But before we get to watching that, and we're going to also break down a lot of |
| 1:20.0 | testimony from Wendy, we're going to talk about what might she be acting like if she has no |
| 1:26.1 | knowledge of any of this after the fact. What might she be acting like if she has no no knowledge of any of this after the fact but might she be acting like if she does have knowledge after the fact chavon scott psychotherapist and author going to be joining us in her second hour to pick all of that down as well so this is it'll be a big big wendy deep dive today um let's start with the latest information, though. Donna, |
| 1:45.4 | she's not super happy about the fact that she was found guilty and is going to be spending |
| 1:49.8 | her life in prison. So she's appealing, which is what pretty much everyone who has found guilty |
| 1:55.7 | does. That's not anything crazy here. So she had a letter drafted up by her attorney, who I think we should start |
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