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Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

Donna Adelson's Life in Homestead and NEW Details about Donna's Jail Life Before Transfer

Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

Big Pond Podcasts

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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0:00.0

Turns out Donna Edelson wasn't just complaining inside the Leon County Courthouse in Tallahassee.

0:07.8

She also happened to be hoarding beef jerky sticks.

0:13.2

You heard me right.

0:14.2

Horting beef jerky sticks and lots of them.

0:18.1

Does this portend her future now that she's at her forever home and homestead

0:23.3

correctional just south of the city of Miami?

0:27.2

Welcome to the global phenomenon, surviving the survivor, where we bring you the best

0:32.1

guests in all of true crime. Here's your host, Emmy Award winning journalist Joel Waldman.

0:39.0

What's up, St.S. Nation, welcome to Survive and the Survivor.

0:41.6

This is the global phenomenon, the show that brings you the very best guest in all of true crime.

0:48.5

And tonight, we are going to be taking a look at some of Donna Sue Adelson's jail records that are just trickling out from her time

0:56.7

in Leon County in Tallahassee.

1:00.1

But now it's a whole different world for Donna Edelson.

1:03.3

Since then, she was at the women's reception center in Ocala for well over four weeks.

1:09.6

And then just this week, transferred to her forever home in Homestead, which is about

1:16.7

43 minutes south in traffic for Harvey to travel to from Miami, from Miami to Homestead

1:24.8

correctional facility.

1:26.6

No longer a county inmate, now a number in the state institution.

1:33.7

So how is it going to be different?

1:35.3

This is our second show with some former inmates and a CEO.

1:39.7

This one, the last show, did not have a former correctional officer.

1:43.4

This one does. And without further ado, let me bring them in here,

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