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Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

LUNCH LIVE: WENDI TAKES STAND IN DONNA ADELSON TRIAL

Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

Big Pond Podcasts

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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0:00.0

This right now, what you are witnessing, which is Wendy Adelson on direct examination from Georgia Kaplan, is classic Georgia Kaplan, just dismantling a witness, piece by piece, fact by fact, question by question, and using tabs, which are in a notebook to refer her back to information that she seems to have forgotten.

0:26.6

She keeps saying, I can't quite remember Georgia pulling out the reliable tab to bring up said forgotten information.

0:35.6

And right now it is basically carnage from Georgia Kaplanman as it pertains

0:42.9

to the direct examination of Wendy Edelson.

0:47.3

Welcome to the global phenomenon, Surviving the Survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

0:55.6

Here's your host, Emmy Award-winning journalist Joel Waldman.

1:00.4

What's up, St.S. Nation? We are live in Tallahassee, courtroom 3G, just behind me here at the Leon County Courthouse.

1:08.1

This is your lunch live updating you on day two of testimony

1:12.0

in the trial of Donna Sue Haleson versus the state of Florida. Just a quick note. One of things

1:18.7

I love about being on scene, I just had a gentleman come up and asked me to sign the book. And who is it?

1:24.3

It is Harold, Anything But Dull, who is always in the chat for this story.

1:30.2

I found out he is a paralegal for 20 plus years. Just ran a marathon in Iowa, and he's got a bunch of

1:37.9

years on me, and the guy's in phenomenal shape and an interesting character. So it is amazing

1:42.7

to meet the different people here. So this

1:45.7

morning, just to get you caught up on this lunch live, started off with Judge Stephen Everett

1:51.6

hearing some motions again pertaining to some emails that Donna was sending around. And then we had

1:58.5

witness number one of the day. Some people suspected it was going to be just Wendy as the first witness. But in fact, we had the chief investigator for the state attorney's office. And that, of course, is Jason Newellyn. He was up there with demonstratives. Georgia Kaplanman says, what is this?

2:18.3

It's basically a folder. He says it is the entire divorce filing

2:23.3

between Dan and Wendy Markell at the time, of course.

2:29.3

And it is a hefty file, a hefty folder.

2:32.3

And you start to see him read and bring out emails from daily

2:37.5

planners, and a lot of these emails predominantly were from Donna. And they're, you know, disturbing a bit

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