Welcome to the global phenomenon, Surviving the Survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

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

What's up, SCS Nation?

Welcome to Surviving the Survivor.

It is the podcast that brings you the very best guest in true crime covering trending cases like Justice for Dan Markell.

That has been trending for the better part of more than a decade.

Still, one of the more well-known and publicized true crime cases in the United States of America.

And last week you saw Donna Adelson in court.

She is the matriarch accused in the orchestration of a murder-for-hire

plot against FSU law professor Dan Markell, Dan born in Montreal, grew up in Toronto, went to two schools.

You may have heard of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, graduated at the top of his class

from both.

He was an outstanding attorney and then a legal scholar on his way as high as one could go when

his life was cut short back on July 18th, 2014.

Well, Donna Adelson was in court last week saying she didn't like jail, that it's tough.

She doesn't sleep well.

The mattress is thin.

She wanted out.

And also, she wanted a call with her son, Charlie, who's convicted now of the same charges and the same crime as, you know, a co-conspirator.

A call she had with Charlie that was hung up by him.

She goes on to say that she's either going to self on alive herself and or take a one-way trip

to Vietnam, showing some consciousness of guilt. And guess what? That call is now coming in.

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