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Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

Part Two: Wendi Adelson’s Police Interview Analyzed By Seasoned Investigators

Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

Big Pond Podcasts

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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0:00.0

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

0:07.6

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

0:12.8

What's up, SCS Nation, and welcome to Surviving the Survivor.

0:17.5

It is a show that brings you the very best guests in all of true crime

0:22.0

about trending criminal cases.

0:24.5

And this one's been going on for years.

0:28.0

It is the Dan Markell murder story.

0:30.9

For those who do not know, he was an FSU law professor, Harvard undergrad, Harvard Law School grad. He was a rising star in the world of law. He had big, big offers to go to law firms and said, now I want to teach the next generation of lawyers, which is what he was doing at FSU. July 18, 2014, two shots ring out.

0:55.0

He is shot in the head twice and after a long, windy road to justice and police investigation.

1:05.5

You see these three people on the left were all tried.

1:09.1

Luis Rivera had a plea deal.

1:13.2

They're tried and convicted.

1:19.4

Charlie Edelson on the right is the ex-brother-in-law of Dan Markell in the middle. He was tried and convicted in under three hours. That includes the dinner break. And he is in South

1:25.6

Dakota because part of his defense was throwing the Latin Kings gang

1:29.1

under the bus and he's not safe in Florida.

1:32.7

So they've moved him to South Dakota, but he'll be back for the woman on the left's trial,

1:37.0

June 3rd.

1:37.6

That is Donna Adelson, the matriarch of all this.

1:41.1

And you see Wendy Adelson, Wendy with an eye, big day for her. The defense is deposing

1:46.9

her in Austin, Texas. That is Donna's defense. So she is being deposed yet again. And as I said,

1:55.4

we've got the best guests in all of Chukran. And on Friday, they're extra special best guess. I have to bring

2:04.4

them in in this order because otherwise Phil Waters will lose his mind. First up,

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