Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, there's a new podcast in town from Wondering,
Speaker 1: the network that brought you Dr Death and Dirty John,
Speaker 1: and you should give it a listen. It's called Over
Speaker 1: My Dead Body is hosted by journalist Matt Scherer, who
Speaker 1: examines the case of a wealthy Florida couple who seemingly
Speaker 1: perfect marriage ends in a nasty divorce, but then things
Speaker 1: taking even darker turn went on one hot July day,
Speaker 1: one half of the formerly happy couple is murdered in
Speaker 1: cold blood. It's the case I was going to say
Speaker 1: as much to you about marriage and love as it
Speaker 1: says about justice and revenge. It's one of the most
Speaker 1: bizarre murder cases in Florida history, and you're about to
Speaker 1: hear a clip of the first episode. So while you're listening,
Speaker 1: go to a browser search for over My Dead Body.
Speaker 1: The case is still developing, so be sure to subscribe
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Speaker 1: in the show notes that will take you right to
Speaker 1: the show. Enjoy. One morning, attorney David Latt was sitting
Speaker 1: in his apartment in d C flipping through the Sunday
Speaker 1: New York Times when he arrived at his favorite part
Speaker 1: of the paper. I have to confess I am a
Speaker 1: devoted reader of the New York Times wedding announcements. Latt
Speaker 1: loves the wedding section, even though the vast majority of
Speaker 1: couples are total strangers to him. They are looking for
Speaker 1: people with impressive pedigrees. They are looking for people who
Speaker 1: are photogenic. But on that morning he spotted a pair
Speaker 1: of familiar faces. They were both a very impressive, accomplished
Speaker 1: young lawyers. There are a very nice looking couple. So
Speaker 1: if anyone was going to make it into those pages,
Speaker 1: it was going to be Dan and Wendy. Latt began
Speaker 1: to read. Wendy Jill Adelson, the daughter of Donna Sue
Speaker 1: Adelson and Dr Harvey J. Adelson of Coral Springs, Florida,
Speaker 1: is to be married this evening to Dan Eric Marquel,
Speaker 1: the son of Ruth Marquel and Phil Marquel of Toronto.
Speaker 1: The bride twenty x is keeping her name. I think
Speaker 1: it was the best wedding I've ever been to. Every
Speaker 1: Kohler's was a high school buddy of Dan's. He made
Speaker 1: the trip to Boca Raton for the celebration, as did
Speaker 1: hundreds of other friends and family members. The weather perfect,
Speaker 1: the venue extravagant, and at the center of all of
Speaker 1: it the happy couple Dan and Wendy danced for hours
Speaker 1: with their guests. It just felt like it was overflowing
Speaker 1: with with joy and love. I mean that sounds so.
Speaker 1: I actually found an email I sent to Dan on
Speaker 1: March four of two thousand six. Hi, Dan, congratulations and
Speaker 1: best wishes to you and Wendy. I'm sitting at home
Speaker 1: reading the Sunday Times and lo and behold there you
Speaker 1: are best Dave. And it's funny. Dan actually responded, because
Speaker 1: Dan was a very diligent email responder, even though he
Speaker 1: was on his honeymoon. Greetings from Club med, he wrote.
Speaker 1: And then I responded, checking email in your honeymoon. You
Speaker 1: truly are a cyber addict. I thought I was bad.
Speaker 1: Don't respond to this email. I hope you're having a
Speaker 1: wonderful time. So what makes a good marriage anyway? I
Speaker 1: guess I would say that crucial to a good marriage
Speaker 1: is mutual respect, love, of course, but also respect. But
Speaker 1: as you can probably guess, this isn't a story about
Speaker 1: the happy ever afters, the lucky ones, the couples who
Speaker 1: grow more inseparable with age, not even close. I have
Speaker 1: to be a little circumspect here because over the years
Speaker 1: I've become very familiar with the liable laws of the
Speaker 1: United States. So um, I'm I don't I don't think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give my personal view here. It's a story
Speaker 1: about the opposite, a bad marriage, a worse breakup, a
Speaker 1: brutal divorce. And he stormed out, and did he say
Speaker 1: something like I told you you should never be marrying her.
Speaker 1: This is probably the biggest story I'll ever work on.
Speaker 1: It's probably the biggest story in Dallassee ever I would say.
Speaker 1: And everything that came after somebody I stucken knows something
Speaker 1: because she would have not came out unless she paid
Speaker 1: someone else. But there's no thing I have never said
Speaker 1: to anyone. And my mom is a dangerous person. Or
Speaker 1: are you saying that you think maybe one of your
Speaker 1: friends would have done some baby or guilty? You've got
Speaker 1: his sins on your hand, baby crazy, I'm never touched
Speaker 1: them from wondering. I'm Matthew Sharon and this is more
Speaker 1: were my dead body. I've been a magazine writer for
Speaker 1: about a decade now. During that time, I've written some
Speaker 1: crazy stories. I've written about an orthodox rabbi who tortures
Speaker 1: husbands and do granting divorces to their wives. And I've
Speaker 1: written about some colorful characters too, like Stormy Daniel's attorney
Speaker 1: Michael Abanati, but I can say that this particular case
Speaker 1: is the single craziest story I've ever reported on. It
Speaker 1: says at least as much about marriage and love as
Speaker 1: it does about revenge and justice. And the lengths will
Speaker 1: go to to get even to listen to this story.
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.