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Pretty Lies And Alibis

RECAP: Donna Adelson Trial Wendi Takes The Stand: Part 1

Pretty Lies And Alibis

GiGi McKelvey

True Crime, News, Daily News, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Wendi Adelson takes the stand to testify against her mother, Donna. This episode breaks down her testimony on direct exam up to the lunch break.





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0:00.0

What you know, alibiers. Welcome to another episode of Pretty Lies and Alibis. I'm Gigi. It's Monday, August 25th. Wendy Adelson on the stand. We are currently at lunch. This will be out after testimony resumes, but I don't want to miss a thing. So I wanted to break this up into two separate episodes because both will be long. And also, unfortunately, Gramey is back in the hospital with AFib, so I'm going to be back

0:25.8

and forth there today.

0:27.0

But I'm trying to get this out for everybody to stay updated on what's happening if you're

0:32.1

not able to watch.

0:33.4

First up this morning was Jason Newellyn.

0:36.1

He really was brought into Lay Foundation for the emails between Donna and Wendy,

0:40.7

where Donna is very involved in the divorce filings and the relocation issues.

0:45.9

Some of the emails Wendy asked Donna to edit responses.

0:49.5

They also just showed Donna's control of this whole situation.

0:53.5

And prosecutor Kaplanman really meticulously

0:56.1

went through these emails showing Donna's role. So let's jump to Wendy Adelson being on the stand.

1:03.8

When Wendy came in the room, Donna looked emotional. She was breathing in and out very heavily.

1:09.8

At first, Wendy did not even look at her mom. So they start

1:13.8

with how Wendy and Dan met. They met online in the fall of 2003, which would have been Wendy's

1:19.8

first year of law school, and they married in February of 2006. They moved to Tallahassee, her final

1:26.5

year of law school, which would have been the summer of 2005.

1:30.3

They stayed there until 2006, where they went back to South Florida and spent a year at the University of Miami.

1:38.3

They moved back to Tallahassee from 2007 to 2014, and they lived on Tresott Drive. That's where their children were born.

1:48.0

They show a photo of that residence. Dan was killed 10 days before their oldest son's fifth birthday,

1:54.6

and their youngest was three and a half, and they were 14 months apart. They separated in the fall of

1:59.6

2012, and that was Wendy's decision.

2:02.5

She said they had talked about it several times before that,

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