"DONNA ADELSON GUILTY, KETAMINE QUEEN COPS PLEA IN MATTHEW PERRY CASE & BOOT FETISH TURNS FATAL"

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Reed Carter. Monday, September eighth, twenty twenty five. Today, on Celebrity Trials, the verdict is in. Donna Adelson, the seventy five year old grandmother who orchestrated her ex son in law's murder because she wanted to see her grandkids more often, is guilty. Guilty of first degree murder, guilty of conspiracy, guilty of being the worst grandmother in Florida, which is saying something. Plus, Matthew Perry's drug dealer, the self proclaimed ketamine queen, just pled guilty to selling the dose that killed Chandler Bing. Could this be any more predictable? And in today's What Fresh Hell is this segment, a Virginia man allegedly murdered someone during a boot fetish encounter, then super glued the victim's feet into boots because apparently regular murder isn't weird enough anymore.

1:00 All that and more on today's Celebrity Trials, Let's start with the verdict everyone saw coming, except apparently Donna Addelson. Thursday afternoon, after just three hours of deliberation three hours, a Tallahassee jury found Donna Addelson guilty on all counts in the murder for higher killing of Dan Markel, first degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, solicitation of murder. The seventy five year old grandmother who thought speaking in code about TV repairs made her a criminal mastermind, is now facing life in prison, no parole, no early release, no more one way tickets to Vietnam. The verdict came down at four forty seven pm Thursday. Donna sat there in her purple blazer because apparently you dress for the guilty verdict you want, not the one you're getting, and showed zero emotion. The same woman who cried grandmother tears all week suddenly had nothing. You know who did show emotion.

2:01 Dan Markell's family, His sister Ruth, finally saw justice for her brother who was shot in his garage in twenty fourteen. Eleven years, four trials, five convictions, and finally the matriarch mastermind is going down. Prosecutor Sarah Dugan's closing was masterful. This defendant orchestrated the murder of Dan Markell because she couldn't accept that her daughter couldn't move to Miami. She chose murder over acceptance. She chose hitmen over heartbreak. She chose to make her grandchildren orphans rather than accept a custody agreement. The evidence was overwhelming. The one hundred thousand dollars in unexplained cash withdrawals, the coded calls about the TV being fixed the day after Dan's murder, the calendar marking D Day on the murder date, the testimony from hitman Luis Rivera that the mother ordered the killing, the prison call where Charlie told her you said you had it handled, her attempt to flee to Vietnam after Charlie's conviction.

3:03 But my favorite piece of evidence when Donna took the stand and said, I don't remember forty seven times, forty seven times. She didn't remember the TV repair company, didn't remember what gifts she bought with one hundred thousand dollars, didn't remember who she invited to the dinner party on D Day, didn't remember what she packed for her vacation to Vietnam. The only thing she remembered clearly how much she loved her grandchildren, the same grandchildren she orphaned by having their father murdered. Defense attorney Robert Morris tried everything blamed Charlie acting alone, blamed the hitmen lying for deals, blamed the prosecution for targeting a grandmother. But you can't explain away. The TV is fixed. When Dan Markel is lying in a morgue. Judge Stephen Everett will sentence Donna next month, but it's life, mandatory life. She'll die in pray and probably within the next decade, given her age and health. And those grandchildren she killed for they're young adults.

4:07 Now they know Grandma orchestrated daddy's murder. They know Uncle Charlie's in prison forever. They know their family is destroyed because Grandma couldn't handle a custody arrangement. Here's what Dan Markell's father, Shelley set outside court. Donna Adelson stole our son. She stole these children's father. She destroyed multiple families because she wanted convenience. This verdict doesn't bring Dan back, but it brings accountability. The Addelson crime family is finally finished. Harvey, the father, died during the trials, probably from shame. Charlie's serving life, Catherine Magbanua is serving life. Sigfredo Garcia is serving life. Luis Rivera got nineteen years and now Donna joins them. Wendy Addelson, the ex wife who drove by the crime scene, remains unindicted for now, but prosecutors made it clear this isn't over. Donna Addelson thought she was smart, thought coded language would protect her, thought being a grandmother made her sympathetic. Instead, she's proof that evil comes in all ages, that grandmothers can be killers, that family love can turn murderous. She wanted her grandchildren close. Now she'll never see them again except through prison glass if they even visit, which they won't. Eleven years after Dan Markel was shot in his garage for the crime of wanting to be a father, his killer in law is finally

5:39 facing justice. The TV is fixed, indeed, Donna, and you're going to die watching prison cable. Now to the Matthew Perry case, where the walls are finally closing in on the drug dealers who killed our friend. Josvine's Sangha, the self proclaimed ketemine queen of Los Angeles, pled guilty Friday to conspiracy to distribute ketamine resulting in death. She sold the dose that killed Matthew Perry. She knew it was dangerous, she sold it anyway, and now she's facing ten years minimum, thirty years maximum. But here's what makes me furious. She was still dealing after Perry died. October twenty eighth, twenty twenty three. Matthew Perry is found dead in his hot tub ketamine overdose. October twenty ninth, twenty twenty three. Sanga is back to business, selling ketamine to other clients. The man who made us laugh for decades is lying in a morgue, and she's counting money from the next sale.

6:43 The Plea Deal reveals devastating details. Sanga sold Perry fifty vials of ketamine for eleven thousand dollars in the two weeks before his death. Fifty vials. That's not therapeutic use, that's not medical treatment. That's dealer level supply to an addict. And she knew he was an addict. Everyone knew. Perry wrote a book about it, did a press tour about his struggles, was open about his battles with substance abuse. So when Matthew Perry's assistant came looking for ketamine, Sanga didn't see a warning sign. She saw a business opportunity. Here's the text she sent after making the sale. I wouldn't do this for anyone else. But you know, I like Matthew Perry, so I'll give him a good deal, a good deal on the drugs that would kill him.

7:29 After Perry died, did she feel remorse? Did she stop dealing? No? She texted her supplier delete all our messages, then continued selling to other clients like nothing happened. This wasn't her first ketamine death either. In twenty nineteen, she sold ketamine to Cody McClory. He overdosed and died the same day. Her response, she searched Google for can ketamine be listed as a cause of death? Not how to help someone overdosing, not ketamine emergency treatment, but whether she'd get caught. Two deaths, at least that we know of, the other defendants are falling, like Domino's doctor. Salvador Placentia, the doctor who sold Perry ketamine and taught his assistant to inject it, pled guilty.

8:19 He texted, I wonder how much this moron will pay about Perry. The moron who trusted a doctor, Doctor Mark Chavez, another doctor who sold ketamine meant for his clinic, pled guilty. Kenneth Iwamasa, Perry's assistant who injected him with ketamine multiple times the day he died, pled guilty. Eric Fleming, the middleman between dealers and Perry, pled guilty. Five people involved in killing Matthew Perry. Five people who saw an addict with money and decided to profit off his disease. Perry had been sober for nineteen months before relapsing, nineteen months of fighting, of working the program, of trying to be the person he wanted to be. Then chronic pain led to ketamine therapy. Legal ketamine therapy turned into illegal ketamine sourcing, and the vulture circled. Fifty five thousand dollars. That's what Perry spent on ketamine in his final months. That's what his life was worth to these dealers, fifty five thousand dollars.

9:20 Matthew Perry made us laugh for ten years on friends, struggled publicly with addiction for twenty more, tried to help others get sober through his foundation, and he died alone in a hot tub. Because Jasvin Sanga wanted to be the ketamine queen and doctors wanted to profit off pain. The plea deals mean no trial, no public testimony, no chance for the full truth to come out. They'll all get reduced sentences for cooperation. Sanga faces ten to thirty years, but will probably get fifteen out in twelve. With good behavior. She'll be free before she's fifty. Matthew Perry will still be dead at fifty four. The ketamine that killed him came from someone who called herself a queen. Turns out she was right, the queen of death, dealing destruction at discount prices. Could this be any more tragic? Yes, because she's not the only dealer in Los Angeles, and Matthew Perry won't be the last celebrity to die because dealers see dollar signs instead of human beings. We'll be right back with a murder that started as a boot fetish and ended with superglue. Yes, you heard that correctly, boot fetish murder. This next case from Virginia is what happens when fetish has turned fatal. Bernard Betts, seventy three, of Farmville, Virginia, has been charged with second degree murder in the death

10:52 of twenty nine year old Rodney Thurman. The cause of death a boot fetish encounter that allegedly ended with Thurman's his feet super glued into boots before he was strangled. I've covered a lot of murders, I've never covered one where the victim's feet were literally glued into boots. According to Prince Edward County investigators, Thurman and Betts met on a fetish website. Thurman advertised himself as someone who would engage in boot fetish activities for money. Betts responded. March fifteenth, twenty twenty four, Thurman goes to Betts's home. Security cameras show him entering at seven pm. He never leaves alive. What happened inside, according to prosecutors, is a fetish encounter that turned into murder. Bets allegedly paid Thurman two hundred dollars to wear specific boots, military style combat boots, but at some point Bets superglued Thurman's feet inside the boots, not tied, not buckled, glued. When Thurman tried to leave, couldn't because his feet were glued into boots, an argument ensued.

11:58 Bets then allegedly strangled Thurman with a ligature, possibly bootlaces, though that detail isn't confirmed. Thurman's body was found two days later when his roommate reported him missing. He was still wearing the boots his feet still glued inside them. The medical examiner had to cut the boots off to perform the autopsy. The superglue had bonded with his skin. He couldn't have removed them without serious injury. Think about that horror. You agree to a fetish encounter for money. Not illegal, just unusual. Someone superglues you into boots. You realize you're trapped, You can't run, can barely walk. Then the person who trapped you comes at you with a ligature. Betts's defense attorney, Marcus Webb, is claiming it was consensual activity that went wrong, that Thurman agreed to the superglue as part of the fetish. Who consents to having their feet permanently glued into boots, that's not fetish, that's imprisonment.

12:53 The prosecutor, Patricia Scales, puts it simply. This was about control. The defendant wanted total control over the victim. When you glue someone's feet into boots, you're not engaging in consensual activity. You're taking a hostage. Betts has no criminal record, seventy three years old, retired postal worker. Neighbors describe him as quiet, kept to himself, the typical. He seemed normal, that we hear after every bizarre murder. But here's what investigators found in his home. Dozens of pairs of boots, military motorcycle work boots, photos on his computer of other men in boots, some clearly taken without their knowledge, and a journal describing his fantasies about trapping someone in boots. This wasn't a fetish gone wrong. This was a fetish that was always headed toward violence. Rodney Thurman was twenty nine, working multiple jobs to pay bills. The fetish work was extra income.

13:48 He wasn't hurting anyone, just trying to make money in a gig economy that includes everything. He didn't deserve to die, certainly didn't deserve to die with his feet glued into boots, unable to run from his killer. Betts is being held without bond. Trial is set for February. He faces forty years if convicted. But this case raises questions how many other victims are out there, how many other men met Bets for boot encounters. How many have stories they're too embarrassed to tell. The fetish community is built on trust and consent. Bernie Betts violated both. He turned a kink into murder, turned boots into weapons, turned super glue into shackles.

14:31 Rodney Thurman died at twenty nine, trapped in boots he couldn't remove, strangled by a man who saw him as an object, not a person. That's not fetish. That's murder with extra steps. Finally, a quick update on Richard Baptiste, the Arizona father who murdered his ten year old daughter Rebecca and dumped her body on Interstate ten. Friday, Judge Monica Edelstein ruled their sufficient evidence to proceed to trial on all charges, first degree murder, child abuse, concealing a body. Baptiste's attorney, Jeffrey Kersler, tried to argue the evidence was circumstantial, that someone else could have dumped Rebecca's body, that Baptiste's story about her running away could be true. Judge Edelstein's response was perfect. A ten year old found dead on a highway didn't put herself there. The defendant was the last person scene with her. The evidence is more than sufficient.

15:32 The medical examiner's testimony was devastating. Rebecca had injuries consistent with long term abuse, healing, fractures, old bruises. This wasn't a single incident. This was sustained torture ending in murder. The surveillance footage is damning Baptiste's truck at the dump site, him returning home alone, no evidence of him searching for his supposedly runaway daughter. You know what he did search for on his phone? How long before a body smells? Can you track a phone that's turned off? Interstate ten traffic cameras, not missing children resources, not how to find a runaway, but how to avoid getting caught dumping a body.

16:18 Trial is set for April twenty twenty six. The death penalty is on the table, though Arizona rarely uses it. Rebecca Baptiste was ten. She liked to draw. Her teacher saved her pictures, mostly of happy families, the kind she never had. She was learning multiplication. She'd just got in glasses and was excited to see. Clearly she should be in sixth grade now. Instead, she's in a cemetery because her father decided she was disposable. Richard Baptiste will get a trial, a defense attorney, due process appeals. Everything he denied his daughter when he beat her to death and threw her away like garbage. That's justice in America. The killers get more rights than their victims ever did. That's celebrity trials from Monday, September eighth. Today we saw justice for Dan Markel as Donna Addelson goes to prison forever, accountability for Matthew Perry as his dealers plead guilty, and two different kinds of evil, a man who glues victims into boots and a father who dumps his daughter on a highway. Tomorrow more updates from ongoing trials. The kiss and kill case continues in Wisconsin, plus whatever fresh horror emerges from America's courts overnight. I'm reed, Carter. Donna Addelson wanted her grandkids close. Now she'll die in prison. The ketamine queen wanted to rule LA's drug scene. Now she'll

17:49 rule a prison cell. And somewhere someone's probably being super glued into footwear as we speak. Lock your doors, screen your fetish partners, and remember grandmothers can be killers too. See you tomorrow,