Inside Donna Adelson's 6 Latest Attempts To Delay Trial
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
As the long-awaited trial of Donna Adelson approaches, we’re peeling back the curtain on the six most aggressive—and sometimes baffling—attempts she’s made to pump the brakes on justice. From trying to boot the judge off the case to claiming Tallahassee is just too “informed” for a fair jury, Donna’s legal team has been throwing spaghetti at the courtroom wall to see what sticks. Spoiler alert: most of it hasn’t.
In this episode, we break down each delay tactic one by one, revealing the legal arguments, the courtroom reactions, and what these moves say about the defense strategy. Did her lawyers really try to claim a change of venue because of “emotional news coverage”? Yep. Did they file a motion suggesting Judge Stephen Everett might be biased because he signed off on warrants? Also yep. And don’t forget the last-minute requests to re-depose witnesses based on “new evidence” that’s not exactly new.
We also explore what these stalling tactics mean for the larger case—and how they’re being received by prosecutors, the court, and the public. Is this standard defense playbook behavior? Or are we watching the unraveling of a legal strategy with nowhere left to hide?
If you want the real story behind Donna Adelson’s courtroom maneuvers—not the fluff, not the spin—this episode delivers. Fasten your seatbelt. Justice is still on the clock, even if Donna’s trying to hit snooze.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.5 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:09.7 | All the Donna Adelson case is starting to heat up a little bit. |
| 0:14.4 | Will we make it to trial on the selected date? |
| 0:18.2 | Well, you know, anything can happen and a lot has happened. We're no longer talking |
| 0:22.2 | about some cold case who done it here. We're talking the home stretch. And Donna Adelson is barreling |
| 0:28.8 | toward trial with that freight train of evidence about to hit the courtroom and possibly |
| 0:34.6 | flatten the last line of defense this family has left. |
| 0:41.0 | We are going to go into the case against Donna Adelson. |
| 0:44.4 | What's going on, what some of these new motions are meaning exactly what happened, |
| 0:49.9 | what it all means, and what's next in this case. |
| 0:54.7 | To recap quickly, in case you're new to this, Donna Adelson, she's 74. |
| 0:59.5 | She's accused of helping to orchestrate the 2014 murder of her former son-in-law, Dan Markell, |
| 1:07.0 | a Florida state law professor. |
| 1:09.0 | The state alleges that she was part of a conspiracy that included her son, Charlie, |
| 1:14.9 | who's now serving a life sentence, being part of all this conspiracy. |
| 1:21.0 | And the hitman already convicted. |
| 1:23.6 | That's a different guy. |
| 1:24.9 | Charlie paid his girlfriend to pay the hitman and the money they're alleging came from dana |
| 1:32.2 | and that's how this is starting to there's a lot of things lots of moving parts in this case |
| 1:39.2 | the woman whose husband it is her ex-husband it is that had the hit, she's free as a bird, charged with nothing. |
| 1:48.3 | Maybe she didn't know anything about this. |
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