Wendy Adelson in the Hot Seat: What Donna’s Conviction Means Next
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this first segment, the Hidden Killers team sets the tone with a mix of sharp commentary and off-the-wall humor. Donna Adelson has just been convicted, and the looming question is whether her daughter Wendy will face charges in the murder of Dan Markel. While speculation swirls, the hosts open up the conversation with personal riffs about exes, courtroom testimony, and the strange thought of what would happen if your former partners were asked to testify about your life.
But this is Hidden Killers, so the humor quickly collides with dark reality. The team uses comedy—complete with jokes about walabe costumes, honey badger gloves, goat-milk backpacks, and reversed Golden Girls episodes—as a way to underline how surreal and grotesque the Adelson saga has become. Narcissism, denial, and family control emerge as themes before the panel transitions into the meat of the case: Jeff Lacasse’s testimony, the boyfriend who found himself dangerously close to the center of a murder plot.
This opener is chaotic, funny, and unsettling, a snapshot of how dark crime stories bleed into the absurd. The laughter masks a much darker reality: while everyone jokes about exes, Wendy Adelson’s ex is about to provide testimony that points straight to discussions of murder for hire. This is the setup for one of the most damning witness accounts in the Adelson case, and we’re about to dive into it.
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| 1:07.8 | Well, there's one thing that we've learned in the last week or two, uh, since Donna Adelson has been convicted. |
| 1:14.9 | You're really wondering what's going to happen to Wendy next. |
| 1:18.1 | That seems to be the big question that a lot of people are asking. |
| 1:22.0 | And, you know, obviously, we don't know the answer to that. |
| 1:26.1 | Wendy is innocent, uh, as of right now. She's never been |
| 1:29.1 | charged with anything. But when we look back at the testimony that she gave in mom's trial, |
| 1:36.8 | when we look back at the testimony that her ex-boyfriend, Jeff Lacos, gave at this last trial, |
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