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How Do You Parent After Murder? Wendy Adelson’s Children in Crisis

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

Tony Brueski

News, True Crime, News Commentary

4.2612 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

How Do You Parent After Murder? Wendy Adelson’s Children in Crisis

What happens to children when their father is murdered, their grandparents are in prison, and suspicion hangs over their mother? In this closing segment of Hidden Killers with Tony Brueski, the panel and Shavaun Scott tackle the impossible parenting dilemmas at the heart of the Adelson saga.

The discussion asks blunt questions: How can Wendy Adelson raise her children under such a cloud of suspicion? How do kids process the reality that their family members conspired to kill their father? And what hope exists for them to break free from the toxic cycles of manipulation and control that seem to define the Adelson legacy?

Far from sensational, this conversation is emotionally grounded and painfully honest. Tony, Stacy, Todd, and Shavaun weigh the long-term psychological impacts, the role of therapy, and the possibility of rebuilding identity outside of the Adelson name. It’s a sobering close to a story that blends true crime with the deepest questions about love, loyalty, and survival.

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0:00.0

A Better Help ad.

0:02.3

Lewis Capaldi partnered with Better Help to get word out about how important therapy can be.

0:07.6

I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever.

0:13.0

Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult.

0:17.4

But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel

0:21.3

good. Because I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy.

0:25.6

Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com.

0:29.5

A better help ad.

0:31.5

Lewis Capaldi partnered with BetterHelp to get word out about how important therapy can be.

0:36.8

I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever.

0:42.2

Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult.

0:46.6

But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel good.

0:51.0

I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy.

0:54.9

Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com.

0:58.5

This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole and Todd Michaels.

1:07.0

There was a lot of money at play. There was a lot going on here. Let's play this from the other angle for a second. Not necessarily Wendy's angle, but had Dan survived? Because I think a lot of people are able to relate to this. We've all been able to relate to this story in many different ways. But the dynamics change, obviously, if he lives, if this never happens.

1:29.7

He's still dealing with all of the behaviors he alleged, block call, secrecy about travel,

1:35.2

disputes over school, alienation.

1:37.7

If you're a parent in that position, you can't change the other person.

1:41.7

So how do you even begin to parent in that sort of an environment when you have

1:49.0

this going on where strategies are going on that a parent is basically using to sabotage the other

1:58.4

at every element they possibly can.

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