The 44 Checks That Could Convict Donna Adelson | Hidden Paper Trail Exposed
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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3.3 • 908 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
How do you pay a woman who doesn’t work for you? Easy—just write forty-four checks after a murder. In this explosive episode, Tony Brueski and legal expert Eric Faddis unravel the damning paper trail linking Donna Adelson directly to Katherine Magbanua, the alleged go-between in the murder-for-hire plot that ended Dan Markel’s life.
Every single check was personally signed by Donna. Every single payment came after Dan's murder. And they all mysteriously stopped after an FBI undercover sting operation. Coincidence? Not likely.
Eric Faddis dissects the legal impact of this financial evidence, how prosecutors frame it as consciousness of guilt, and whether the defense can realistically claim Donna was just being generous or blindly signing off on shady bookkeeping.
This is more than just check fraud—this is motive with a memo line. Follow the money, and you just might follow the conspiracy straight to the top.
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| 0:25.6 | Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com. |
| 0:29.5 | A better help ad. |
| 0:31.5 | Lewis Capaldi partnered with BetterHelp to get word out about how important therapy can be. |
| 0:36.8 | I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever. |
| 0:42.2 | Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult. |
| 0:46.6 | But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel good. |
| 0:51.0 | I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy. |
| 0:54.8 | Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com. |
| 0:58.5 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 1:01.6 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 1:04.8 | If jurors weren't already suspicious about Donna Adelson, |
| 1:08.6 | all they have to do was follow the money. |
| 1:11.7 | It doesn't take a forensic accountant to see the red flags flying here, although they did bring one in. |
| 1:17.2 | And we found the red flags flying. |
| 1:20.7 | Donna Ailsen signed 44 checks to Catherine McBonna, an alleged murder-for- hire middlewoman who, by her own admission, |
| 1:29.3 | never worked today at the Aedelson Institute, not a receptionist, not a hygentist, not even a temp. |
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