How Donna & Harvey Adelson Rewrote Reality — And Believed It | FBI Behavioral Breakdown-WEEK IN REVIEW
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
True Crime Today
3.3 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Why? Because when your identity is built on control, truth becomes negotiable.
In this episode, Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and behavioral expert Robin Dreeke examine how cognitive dissonance, self-justification, and moral compartmentalization allowed the Adelsons to maintain their innocence narrative long after it collapsed. Donna’s defiance, Harvey’s “controlled rage,” and their total lack of empathy aren’t just arrogance — they’re survival mechanisms for people whose reality depends on never being wrong.
Robin breaks down how deception fatigue, emotional rigidity, and “narrative dominance” turn ordinary denial into a pathology — one that consumes entire families.
This isn’t just a breakdown of a courtroom moment. It’s a masterclass in how smart people convince themselves of the impossible.
#AdelsonTrial #HiddenKillers #RobinDreeke #FBI #TrueCrime #Psychology #Denial #CognitiveDissonance #DonnaAdelson #DanMarkel
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| 0:56.4 | This is Hidden Killers Week in review. |
| 0:59.1 | I look back at the most prolific stories of the week. |
| 1:02.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole and Todd Michaels. |
| 1:11.3 | Well, we've determined that no one can get enough of the Aedelson family. |
| 1:15.2 | So it's all Aedelson all the time now here, but it kind of feels like that. |
| 1:19.0 | But there's just been so much to talk about in this last week. |
| 1:22.8 | And believe me, I too am looking forward to other things going on in the ether of true crime. |
| 1:29.0 | But it just keeps popping up. |
| 1:31.8 | So we're going to talk about what we saw this week. |
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