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🗓️ 14 October 2025
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In July 2014, FSU law professor Dan Markel was gunned down in the driveway of his Tallahassee home. In this episode, we continue to cover the long-awaited case against Dan’s former mother-in-law, Donna Adelson.
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| 0:01.0 | Patricia Bird testified that she was in custody with Donna Aedelson and slept right next to her in their pod. |
| 0:07.4 | She said they talked every day all day. |
| 0:10.5 | Once you and Donna Aidelson became close friends, did she ever talk to you about her pending case, this case? |
| 0:18.4 | She did. |
| 0:20.3 | When y'all would have those conversations, did you ever outright ask her whether she did what she's |
| 0:27.4 | accused of? |
| 0:28.6 | I did. |
| 0:29.5 | And what did she say to that? |
| 0:31.3 | She said she did. |
| 0:32.7 | It was to keep her grandkids, but it wasn't supposed to go that far. |
| 0:37.1 | We're still covering the murder trial of Donna Adelson, who's accused of being the mastermind |
| 0:42.7 | behind the killing of Dan Markell, a Florida State University law professor who was shot in the |
| 0:48.0 | head after pulling his car into his driveway in July 2014. |
| 0:53.4 | Some of the last witnesses the state of Florida presented to the jury |
| 0:57.0 | were inmates, who they say got to know Donna while behind bars. According to Patricia Bird, |
| 1:04.8 | Donna asked her if she was ever in custody with a woman named Catherine Magbanua. Patricia |
| 1:10.1 | told her that she was several years prior. |
| 1:13.9 | Once Donna Edelson knew that, what did Donna Adelson want you to do? |
| 1:19.1 | She wanted me to say that Medbonga told me, when we killed him, I knew my boyfriend |
| 1:24.4 | parents had money. Okay, so basically, and some other people did this crime, and they did it because her boyfriend's parents had money. |
| 1:34.5 | Yes. |
| 1:38.0 | Who did she want you to tell that to? |
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