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Podcast: Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers
Episode: If Wendi Adelson KNEW: Psychotherapist Breaks Down the Mind Games
Description: If Wendi Adelson KNEW: Psychotherapist Breaks Down the Mind Games
Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott joins the conversation, bringing a professional lens to the question haunting the case: what if Wendi Adelson actually knew? In this segment, the team explores the psychology of complicity. Could Wendi’s scattered interview responses reflect someone who was covering up knowledge of her family’s role in Dan Markel’s murder?
Shavaun explains how people in enmeshed families often compartmentalize, splitting their lives into separate realities. On the outside, Wendi was a respected law professor and mother. But if she knew...