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, STS Nation, and welcome to Surviving the Survivor.

It is the show that brings you the very best guests in all of true crime covering trending criminal

cases like the Dan Markell murder, which has been trending for the better part of 10 years.

It's been very, very eye-opening to many people over the last decade and change.

For those who do not know about it, Donna Adelson, she's set to go on trial

April, sorry, June 3rd of 2025. She is the matriarch of the Adelson family. She has been charged

with first degree murder, conspiracy, and solicitation in the 2014 shooting death of FSU law

professor Dan Markell. He went to Harvard undergrad, Harvard Law School, and was married to Donna Adelson's daughter, Wendy, with an eye till things seemed to go south. They were divorced a year prior to the killing. And there was a bitter custody battle that ensued with Donna Adelson at the center of

it all and just in a few months she will face trial her son Charlie already convicted the best

guests here they are one by one famed Tallahassee criminal defense attorney are the letter are

Timothy Jansen and also a former federal prosecutor.

She is one of my favorites, but also scary, scares me.

And this is Monica Jordan, private investigator, one of the most prominent private investigators in all of the United States.

She worked out a plea deal, helped to in part, for Luis Rivera, the Latin Kings gang member,

who is part of the list of shady characters in this trial.

But ironically, he seems to be one of the more credible people every time he is on the stand. He just speaks it as it is,

which I guess you would expect from a Latin Kings gang member. And last but certainly not least,

by the way, Monica worked on the Eileen Warno's case, a notorious female serial killer.

And here's another person connected to a serial killer. Defense Diaries, Bob Mott,

a host of Defense Diaries. His father was a defense attorney for John Wayne Gasey and Bob has

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