Donna Adelson The Hidden Hand Behind the Murder Plot.
Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories
Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories
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🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to police off the cuff, real crime stories. |
| 0:06.3 | I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD. |
| 0:12.0 | Just like to remind everyone, this show is sponsored by Fandual on the Believe Network. |
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| 0:22.4 | That'll definitely help our algorithm. |
| 0:24.7 | So the case, the trial of Donna Adelson, ended yesterday, guilty of all charges. |
| 0:34.9 | This is a very extremely complicated case, convoluted case going back to 2014. A jury found |
| 0:45.8 | Donna Adelson guilty of murder in the 2014 death of her former son-in-law, Dan Markell, a Florida law professor. |
| 0:57.7 | She is the fifth person convicted in this case. |
| 1:01.8 | On the screen, you see her son Charlie, who was previously convicted. |
| 1:08.0 | For more than a decade, the killing of well-known Florida law professor Dan Markell |
| 1:13.8 | has consumed a group of state prosecutors in Tallahassee who secured four convictions as they |
| 1:22.5 | peeled back a complicated murder for hire involving the family of the professor's ex-wife, his ex-wife, |
| 1:30.2 | on the screen near Wendy Adelson. Donna Edelson, Mr. Markell's mother-in-law, and the grandmother of his two sons, |
| 1:41.4 | was convicted of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, |
| 1:45.3 | and solicitation of murder. |
| 1:48.3 | Ms. Adelson, who's 75 years old, |
| 1:50.9 | sobbed and repeatedly cried out, |
| 1:53.8 | oh, my God, after the verdict was read |
| 1:56.4 | at the Leon County Courthouse in Tallahassee. |
| 1:59.3 | So this case really caught the, |
| 2:03.6 | uh, caught everyone's interest because it was so devious and convoluted and four people already had been convicted. |
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