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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, there's a new podcast in town from Wondering,

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Speaker 1: the network that brought you Dr Death and Dirty John,

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Speaker 1: and you should give it a listen. It's called Over

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Speaker 1: My Dead Body is hosted by journalist Matt Scherer, who

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Speaker 1: examines the case of a wealthy Florida couple who seemingly

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Speaker 1: perfect marriage ends in a nasty divorce, but then things

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Speaker 1: taking even darker turn went on one hot July day,

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Speaker 1: one half of the formerly happy couple is murdered in

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Speaker 1: cold blood. It's the case I was going to say

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Speaker 1: as much to you about marriage and love as it

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Speaker 1: says about justice and revenge. It's one of the most

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Speaker 1: bizarre murder cases in Florida history, and you're about to

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Speaker 1: hear a clip of the first episode. So while you're listening,

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Speaker 1: go to a browser search for over My Dead Body.

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Speaker 1: The case is still developing, so be sure to subscribe

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Speaker 1: to get the updates. You can also find a link

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Speaker 1: in the show notes that will take you right to

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Speaker 1: the show. Enjoy. One morning, attorney David Latt was sitting

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Speaker 1: in his apartment in d C flipping through the Sunday

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Speaker 1: New York Times when he arrived at his favorite part

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Speaker 1: of the paper. I have to confess I am a

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Speaker 1: devoted reader of the New York Times wedding announcements. Latt

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Speaker 1: loves the wedding section, even though the vast majority of

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Speaker 1: couples are total strangers to him. They are looking for

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Speaker 1: people with impressive pedigrees. They are looking for people who

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Speaker 1: are photogenic. But on that morning he spotted a pair

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Speaker 1: of familiar faces. They were both a very impressive, accomplished

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Speaker 1: young lawyers. There are a very nice looking couple. So

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Speaker 1: if anyone was going to make it into those pages,

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Speaker 1: it was going to be Dan and Wendy. Latt began

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Speaker 1: to read. Wendy Jill Adelson, the daughter of Donna Sue

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Speaker 1: Adelson and Dr Harvey J. Adelson of Coral Springs, Florida,

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Speaker 1: is to be married this evening to Dan Eric Marquel,

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Speaker 1: the son of Ruth Marquel and Phil Marquel of Toronto.

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Speaker 1: The bride twenty x is keeping her name. I think

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Speaker 1: it was the best wedding I've ever been to. Every

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Speaker 1: Kohler's was a high school buddy of Dan's. He made

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Speaker 1: the trip to Boca Raton for the celebration, as did

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Speaker 1: hundreds of other friends and family members. The weather perfect,

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Speaker 1: the venue extravagant, and at the center of all of

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Speaker 1: it the happy couple Dan and Wendy danced for hours

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Speaker 1: with their guests. It just felt like it was overflowing

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Speaker 1: with with joy and love. I mean that sounds so.

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Speaker 1: I actually found an email I sent to Dan on

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Speaker 1: March four of two thousand six. Hi, Dan, congratulations and

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Speaker 1: best wishes to you and Wendy. I'm sitting at home

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Speaker 1: reading the Sunday Times and lo and behold there you

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Speaker 1: are best Dave. And it's funny. Dan actually responded, because

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Speaker 1: Dan was a very diligent email responder, even though he

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Speaker 1: was on his honeymoon. Greetings from Club med, he wrote.

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Speaker 1: And then I responded, checking email in your honeymoon. You

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Speaker 1: truly are a cyber addict. I thought I was bad.

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Speaker 1: Don't respond to this email. I hope you're having a

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Speaker 1: wonderful time. So what makes a good marriage anyway? I

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Speaker 1: guess I would say that crucial to a good marriage

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Speaker 1: is mutual respect, love, of course, but also respect. But

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Speaker 1: as you can probably guess, this isn't a story about

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Speaker 1: the happy ever afters, the lucky ones, the couples who

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Speaker 1: grow more inseparable with age, not even close. I have

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Speaker 1: to be a little circumspect here because over the years

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Speaker 1: I've become very familiar with the liable laws of the

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Speaker 1: United States. So um, I'm I don't I don't think

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give my personal view here. It's a story

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Speaker 1: about the opposite, a bad marriage, a worse breakup, a

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Speaker 1: brutal divorce. And he stormed out, and did he say

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Speaker 1: something like I told you you should never be marrying her.

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Speaker 1: This is probably the biggest story I'll ever work on.

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Speaker 1: It's probably the biggest story in Dallassee ever I would say.

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Speaker 1: And everything that came after somebody I stucken knows something

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Speaker 1: because she would have not came out unless she paid

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Speaker 1: someone else. But there's no thing I have never said

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Speaker 1: to anyone. And my mom is a dangerous person. Or

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Speaker 1: are you saying that you think maybe one of your

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Speaker 1: friends would have done some baby or guilty? You've got

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Speaker 1: his sins on your hand, baby crazy, I'm never touched

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Speaker 1: them from wondering. I'm Matthew Sharon and this is more

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Speaker 1: were my dead body. I've been a magazine writer for

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Speaker 1: about a decade now. During that time, I've written some

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Speaker 1: crazy stories. I've written about an orthodox rabbi who tortures

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Speaker 1: husbands and do granting divorces to their wives. And I've

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Speaker 1: written about some colorful characters too, like Stormy Daniel's attorney

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Speaker 1: Michael Abanati, but I can say that this particular case

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Speaker 1: is the single craziest story I've ever reported on. It

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Speaker 1: says at least as much about marriage and love as

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Speaker 1: it does about revenge and justice. And the lengths will

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Speaker 1: go to to get even to listen to this story.

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Speaker 1: Search for over my Dead Body wherever you're listening right now.

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Speaker 1: be giving you updates over the next several weeks.