Donna Adelson’s Son & Wendy’s Ex DESTROY Her in Court!
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The Donna Adelson trial just delivered its most explosive testimony yet — not from investigators or experts, but from the people who knew her best. Her oldest son, Dr. Robert Adelson, and her daughter Wendy’s ex-boyfriend, Professor Jeffrey Lacasse, both took the stand, and their words could haunt Donna for the rest of her life.
Robert Adelson painted a portrait of his mother as the controlling matriarch of the family. He told jurors that Donna was “very involved” in Wendy’s divorce, deeply enmeshed in her children’s personal lives, and — most chillingly — dismissive after Dan Markel’s murder. When Robert asked her what she thought had happened, Donna told him flatly: “I don’t know and I don’t care. It doesn’t concern me.” He also revealed that his mother warned him not to speak to the FBI after the murder — advice he rejected.
Then came Jeffrey Lacasse, who recounted disturbing conversations with Wendy Adelson just days before the murder. On July 13th, 2014, Wendy told him “the only way she’d ever relocate is if something happened to Danny.” She went further, confiding that her brother Charlie had looked into “all options” to deal with the “Danny problem,” including hiring a hitman for $15,000. Lacasse said she was deadly serious — “it made my stomach flip.”
He also described Wendy pulling her children’s artwork off the wall days before the murder, her obsessive questioning about his exact travel plans for July 18th, and her confession about a “celebration dinner” with Charlie where she vomited at the table.
Together, Robert and Lacasse gave jurors a devastating view of Donna Adelson’s influence, the family’s secretive culture, and the obsession with relocation that prosecutors say led to Dan Markel’s death.
Watch as we break down every shocking detail of this testimony — and what it means for the fate of Donna Adelson.
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| 0:00.0 | is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:02.8 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.1 | Things have not been working out so well for Donna Aedelson. |
| 0:10.3 | You may be surprised to learn that. |
| 0:12.8 | I know she seemed very innocent, signing the checks for a hit person, |
| 0:17.9 | you know, talking about the we problem, the us problem with her son who's convicted. |
| 0:23.0 | Um, and you know, just overall, she seemed like a really lovely woman, you know, the woman that was, you know, wanting to hear everybody else's opinion, their thoughts, their feelings, and then go according to what the next generation wants. |
| 0:35.1 | Wow. Wow. |
| 0:37.3 | Wow. Somebody's sugarcoding that. Wow. Wow. Wow. |
| 0:38.4 | Somebody's sugarcoding that. |
| 0:40.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:41.0 | No, that's not Donna. |
| 0:43.9 | And we've learned quite a bit in the last two days of testimony. |
| 0:48.1 | We're going to focus here today on the testimony of her, I guess, a strange son. |
| 0:56.2 | I mean, they were at least calling on holidays or anniversaries up until the murders took |
| 1:03.8 | place. |
| 1:04.7 | Rob Adelson, he's the E.N.T. |
| 1:08.1 | That's out in New York and, you know, has, |
| 1:32.2 | I think he identified the problems in his family early on and said, I don't want to be a part of that. So smart man. Good for you. Uh, and then, uh, we're also going to take a look at testimony from the ex-boyfriend of, of Wendy, uh, who I think almost does more to implicate Wendy on this than Donna, which is interesting. |
| 1:33.7 | And this not the first time he testified. |
| 1:35.4 | He testified in Charlie's trial. |
| 1:37.0 | He testified, I think it was just Charlie. |
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