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Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

Donna Adelson Trial Explosive Closing Arguments: Will Jurors Find Guilt or Reasonable Doubt?

Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

Big Pond Podcasts

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 112 minutes

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0:00.0

In the end, was this about custody or control?

0:04.8

The government says Don Adelson could not stand to lose.

0:09.0

And when relocation was denied in the divorce of her daughter, Wendy, to Dan Markell,

0:14.7

she made it Charlie's problem to fix.

0:19.2

So the jurors now have to try to figure this out, sort it out, and unravel

0:24.9

what the defense tried to make a mystery. Welcome to the global phenomenon, surviving the

0:31.3

survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime. Here's your host, Emmy Award-winning journalist Joel Waldman.

0:40.7

What's up, St.S. Nation?

0:42.2

We are live in Tallahassee coming to you from the Leon County Courthouse, where we just wrapped up

0:49.3

closings in the case of Donna Sue Edelson versus the state of Florida.

0:55.9

And it was a long day of closing arguments.

0:59.4

First, Georgia Kaplanman, prosecutor of the year going and going for a lengthy amount of time,

1:06.0

followed by a lunch break.

1:07.3

And then Jackie Fulford, the one-time judge here in this part of Florida,

1:13.8

who is now an attorney and a owner of a funeral home.

1:18.4

And she put on a fairly vigorous defense with the facts that she had,

1:25.5

trying to muddy the waters, pointing the finger at everyone but Donna Adelson.

1:30.7

And now this entire case is in the hands of 12 jurors who are deliberating two floors above me inside the Leon County Courthouse.

1:44.2

And now we welcome to the show.

1:45.5

Our best guest is always.

1:47.5

We have court TV, Julia Jeney.

1:50.0

She's been anchoring this show for two hours a day, every day from the courthouse.

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