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Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

Donna Adelson's Defense Witnesses & the Jail Video with Informants

Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

Big Pond Podcasts

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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0:00.0

Donna's best friend swore she was on a WhatsApp call with Donna Adelson.

0:05.3

The day that Dan Markell was murder, that Donna was absolutely broken apart, devastated,

0:11.6

there's just one slight problem.

0:13.6

On cross-examination, it was revealed by Georgia Kaplanman that WhatsApp did not have phone call capability until the year after.

0:25.8

So what was going on there?

0:28.0

What about the rest of the defense?

0:30.0

What is happening?

0:31.1

Lots of questions to ask the best guests.

0:34.2

Welcome to the global phenomenon, surviving the survivor, where we bring you the best guests in Welcome to the global phenomenon, Surviving the Survivor, where we bring you the best

0:39.3

guests in all of true crime.

0:42.0

Here's your host, Emmy Award winning journalist Joel Waldman.

0:46.4

What's up, SCS Nation?

0:47.6

Welcome to Surviving and Survivor.

0:48.8

This is the show that brings you the very best guests in all of true crime.

0:53.9

As you know, we've been following gavel to gavel coverage of Donna Sue Adelson

0:59.2

versus the state of Florida.

1:02.5

And so far, I think it is fair to say it is not going too well for Donna Adelson,

1:08.6

a native of Queens, New York, who raised her family in South Florida.

1:12.9

And for those who are not familiar with the story, her little daughter, Wendy Adelson,

1:17.3

marries Dan Markell, an FSU law professor who went to Harvard undergrad, Harvard Law School.

1:22.6

The marriage started to go south.

1:24.6

And grandma, Donna Adelson, wanted her grandchildren living in south florida not

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