Robert Adelson

That's cute.

Let's talk about Robert Adelson.

He's done his oldest son, a physician.

Up in New York.

So how do two educated, wealthy adults in Coral Springs, Florida, a podiatrist and a dental office manager, talk themselves into putting a hit on a man in his own garage over a custody ruling? The answer isn't in the execution.

It's in the bond.

Robert Adelson is Donna's eldest son.

He's a physician in New York and hasn't spoken to the family since 2016.

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Responsible for the schedules, classes, lessons for her son Robert, her son Charlie, and her daughter Wendy, her husband Harvey, and her dog Sam.

Notice the order there? Literally listed her husband between her youngest child and the family pet.

Then she solved the puzzle.

So I look forward to maybe a email or something encouraging a banana to go in places where it shouldn't, like you've done to some of my colleagues already.

[laughs] That's cute.

Let's talk about Robert Adelson.

He's Donna's oldest son, a physician up in New York.

That's not real.

Those are the words of FBI agent Pat Sanford, who appeared in the now newly released Dan Markell slash Adelson documentary called Welcome to the Family.

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Then you've got the middle woman, Katie McBanawa, who at one time was dating Dan Markell's ex-brother-in-law.

You need a flow chart for this.

But Katie McBanawa was dating Charlie Adelson, Charlie Adelson.

is also convicted of this crime.

A ticket doesn't mean much.

What made the Vietnam trip look so bad was everything Donna Adelson said before she reached the jet bridge.

We're talking about the Adelsons.

This is part three in our series as we're going through the family story, the history.

If you've just seen the Hulu documentary, this is one you may be sitting here going, you know what? I think I'd like a better understanding of all of this.

Check that out.

Pick it up here with part three.

One day after Charlie Adelson was found guilty, Donna was speaking on a jail call that she apparently believed had ended.

And then the why, it turned out, went back to his divorce.

You see, Dan had recently split from his wife, Wendi Adelson, and the two were locked in this, uh, horrible custody fight.

Wendi wanted to move their sons to South Florida, closer to her family, uh, a wealthy, tight-knit Miami clan that ran a dentistry practice and was, by every account, fiercely devoted to their own.

Now, Dan fought the move, and he won, that the boys had to stay in Tallahassee, and that, prosecutors would eventually argue, is where the trouble started.

You had cash payments.

You had a trail that led straight back to the family dinner table.

One by one, the arrests came: the trigger man, the accomplice, the go-between, and then Dan's own former brother-in-lar- law, Charlie Adelson.

And this Charlie is a character, man.