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[Music] foreign this is definitely one of the stranger cases I've covered it seems like it
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comes right out of a novel on November 12 2012 Jake Nolan set out to the office and
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home of Dr Michael Weiss Jake had with him a duffel bag with a massive Sledgehammer a steak
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Knife zip ties and he's walking through the streets of Manhattan with this when you walked into Dr Michael Weiss's
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office with that duffel bag with the weapons that were inside [Music] what did you intend to do
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you know I intended to kill him this is not a whodunit he did what he was accused of doing
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but the big question was why I saw Jake Nolan brainwashed by Dr Pamela buckbinder an ivyly trained
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psychiatrist she's brilliant I would have done anything for Pamela it happens so slowly that you don't
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really recognize this growing feeling inside of you that one day you wake up and say I'll kill for this woman
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[Music] by the end of this manipulation by Dr bookbinder Jake Nolan had become weaponized
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to attack Dr Weiss the man with whom she had been fighting over custody of her son
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they hated each other and in turn she made me hate him she had already told me that she wanted
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me to hit him over the head playing like you know Maxwell's Silver Hammer by The
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Beatles repeatedly in the house [Music] Jake Nolan suffered from bipolar disorder he had these learning problems
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he had personality problems Pamela took someone who she knew was severely mentally ill and she morphed me into
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whatever she wanted me to be and I obeyed just like a puppet [Music] she used him for her own benefit she
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sacrificed him his office door was open and I see Michael sitting in a chair I think this is really when I became
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fully psychotic I don't buy Jake's story that he was brainwashed and manipulated he knew
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exactly what he was doing and do you believe that each step of the way Jake could have made the decision to
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leave of course he Coulda Bender claims that she won't miss that anything Jake Nolan did
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he did completely on his own number one with emergency and what was so odd about this is he
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didn't try to flee Jake Nolan starts snapping selfies of himself covered in blood
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I mean who would possibly snap a selfie of themselves right after they tried to murder someone
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[Music] foreign [Music] [Music] there's never going to be a night I don't fall asleep
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feeling awful for what I've done to this day Jake Nolan insists his mind was not
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his own when he set out to kill Dr Michael Weiss at his office on November 12 2012.
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the knife was in my pocket and the sledgehammer was over my shoulders he sees the sledgehammer and charges at me
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and I reached for the knife here at him with his knife and the guy's bleeding and I'm bleeding and I'm
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thinking oh my God this is terrifying it's as if I woke up from a bad dream after Jake stabbed him
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Dr Weiss fought back furiously both men ended up in the hallway of the Manhattan
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high-rise 911 raise emergency the guy's screaming like crazy for help we're rushed to the hospital where Jake
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was placed under arrest for attempted murder and handcuffed to his bed in the weeks ahead Jake's bizarre story
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unfolded his claim that he had been manipulated to kill by his own cousin psychiatrist Pamela bookbinder
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[Music] my experience with Pamela looking back was incredibly frightening incredibly
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frightening Jake's Target that day Michael Weiss was Pamela's ex-boyfriend and another
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psychiatrist do you believe he was brainwashed yes [Music] to be honest I try and come in here as
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little as possible because it's just too many memories [Music] Debbie and Jim Nolan Jake's parents are
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devastated there's basically a really good kid who have a mean bone in his body Jacob when we met Jake in the summer of
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2016 he seemed rational I've been on meds now for over a year and a half that have finally worked for me but he says
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that wasn't always the case Jake's parents insists that to understand how and why their then 20 year old son could
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have been conditioned to kill foreign you have to go back to his childhood Jake was our third and our
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youngest child he was an absolute Delight he was gifted he was smart he liked to invent things
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but Jake also had problems by the age of five he was diagnosed with ADHD attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
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there was something with him that just wasn't the same as everybody else and we started to notice significant changes in
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his personality and his demeanor around the ages of 14 15. what did you see he went through these large mood swings
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still Jake had moments of Brilliance while in high school in Miami he made news after he won a prestigious contest
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co-inventing a study tool app for iPhones called flash me and then a month later I couldn't get out of bed my
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parents bribed me with everything to get out of bed please get out of bed please
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get out of bed Jake you got to go to school please go to school today don't miss another day of school Jake was then
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diagnosed with depression and anxiety these episodes worsened to the point where at the age of 17 Jake threatened
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to kill himself he got a butcher knife from downstairs and he took it upstairs to his room
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and he said he was going to kill himself we were terrified Jake was hospitalized and was also
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diagnosed with bipolar disorder bipolar disorder is a severe and chronic mental illness that's characterized by severe
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mood swings psychiatrist Dr Sasha Bourdain has evaluated Jake for the defense swings that go from deep dark
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suicidal depressions to periods of incredible Elation grandiose ideas poor judgment
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he's a mess he's such a prisoner of his own mind that he can't he can't get anywhere in life
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there's not a day that goes by that I don't think of killing myself by the Time Jake was in college doctors had
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prescribed some 30 medications to treat him with little success some of these medications change brain chemistry do
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they not well these are powerful psychotropic medications his disorder his problems were so profound sometimes
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he's taking four five six medications at once Jake admits he was also doing illegal
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drugs and drinking barely making it to class the Nolans thought their prayers had been answered when Dr Pamela
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bookbinder Debbie's own niece offered to help we thought this was great I adored
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Pam you trusted her I trusted her with my most prized possession my child the plan Jake would live part-time with
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Pamela in her Manhattan apartment she would give him therapy sessions and monitor his meds
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in return she proposed he helped take care of her then four-year-old son Calder in spite of Jake's mental illness
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Pamela and I had formed a relationship when I was really young and this is my cousin this is someone I really knew and
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I entrust everything into this one woman I mean this woman is Gonna Save My Life
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by all accounts the plan seemed to be working I thought he was very happy and I thought he was quite stable so you guys
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must have felt everything's coming together here thank you finally thank you right
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but the Nolans now say sending their son to live with Pamela was the biggest mistake they have ever made
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it's a total horrible nightmare to hear more of the 9-1-1 calls join us on Facebook at 48 hours
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foreign went to live with his psychiatrist cousin Dr Pamela bookbinder he had no
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idea he'd end up on the front lines of a physical and psychological War the relationship between Dr bookbinder
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and Dr Weiss was very toxic from the outset reporter Rebecca Rosenberg has covered the case for the New York Post
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the relationship was on again off again there were allegations of domestic violence on both sides it definitely got
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physical Roland Acevedo is an attorney for Dr Michael Weiss is it true that Pam once attacked Michael with broken glass
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she was arrested and charged with an assault he receives stitches I mean there's physical proof that he
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was attacked is it true that Michael Weiss has also been arrested in the course of this
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war with pan yes Pamela contended that Michael threatened her or attempted to assault
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[Music] incident the charges were dismissed but the war of the psychiatrists moved
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on to another Battlefield the courtroom as Pamela and Michael fought over the custody of their son
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these are two psychiatrists couldn't they talk it out there was no communication but back
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during the times when he and Pamela were communicating Big Time Michael Weiss attended family parties including Jake's
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bar mitzvah the couple of the knights want to wish you congratulations on your bar mitzvah we're both so happy for you
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inspired by all of the speeches about opportunity and charm and character and we think you
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have them all and that makes it even more incredible that Jake would Target him this is a man who respected me and who I
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respected greatly [Music] Michael and Pamela never married and broke up for good soon after their son
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Calder was born ready when Calder was four Pamela asked Jake to be her child's Godfather
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shortly before she took Jake in Jake's mother is convinced that is when Pamela began to manipulate his mind
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Jake had been feeling so bad about himself and here all of a sudden I'm so important to Calder everything I do has
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to be right yeah yeah this was a kid that I loved more than life Jake wants a normal life defense
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psychiatrist Sasha bourdes says Pamela knew how to give Jake the life he craved he wants to be a successful respected
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family man with a nuclear family and a happy life there's a photograph of the three of you
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in bed basically in your underwear what should we take from that picture I guess that just goes to show you the
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level of comfort that I really felt there it was not unusual in the morning for her to invite me into into bed with
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Calder and I and to share that familiar moment you know really feel like a family together
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but Dr barday finds these images deeply troubling when you think that you're seeing pictures of essentially a
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a patient and his psychiatrist it's really horrific it's really creepy just as troubling for Jake's family were
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text messages discovered on his cell phone let me read to you some of the texts that Pam bookbinder sent to Jake you're
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just the most fun person to love you're so beautiful she'd call him lovey sweet Jade you are
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remarkable you are brilliant I have so many thoughts about you well it's almost sickening and there was
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never any romantic or sexual relationship ever between these two people so what this is is all mental
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manipulation I miss you terribly she would say when you were away that sounds romantic
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you know it does I don't know what her intentions were to this day I wouldn't be able to tell you
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and as Pamela was apparently building Jake up he says she was tearing Michael Weiss apart claiming Michael was
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refusing to pay calder's child support and worse she had me convinced that he was being molested at his father's home
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and how many times did she say this was this repeated over and over this was every day has Michael Weiss ever
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ever abused his son in any way absolutely not Michael worships that child Jake what
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real evidence did you have that Michael was sexually abusing his son there was no evidence
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but at the Time Jake says that's how Pamela was able to pull him into the plot to kill Michael Weiss
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part of the indoctrination process was to get Jake to participate in developing the plan and the plan if you believe
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Jake was horrific Pamela was determined for me to torture Michael before killing him
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she wanted me to inject him with some you know poisonous chemicals she wanted to burn him alive in front of a group of
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people [Music] Jake's story is dramatic but is it true despite Jake's accusations he was the
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only one charged but Michael Weiss sued Dr bookbinder for the attack and in court papers she calls
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the claims against her utterly baseless and states I never asked Mr Nolan to attack or harm Mr Weiss Dr bookbinder
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also claims that there's no Smoking Gun here there there's no evidence of emails
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or text messages that show that she and Jake plotted this together you can't deny the footage that shows you're in
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Home Depot buying a sledgehammer Jake insists this surveillance video at a Home Depot in New York City proves his
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claims that's Pamela standing next to him paying for the very tool that police would find the next morning on the floor
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of Michael Weiss's office [Music] Jake there's no one that really disputes that you suffer from mental illness
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but could you have another problem as well could you be a sociopath no I could not
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had I never met Pamela bookbinder this wouldn't be my story [Music] as Jake Nolan's eyes opened on the
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morning of November 12 2012 the day he was supposed to kill Michael Weiss he says he wasn't alone
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Pamela was there in bed rubbing my back telling me how much she loved me that I was a savior that I was the greatest
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person ever that no one else understood her [Music] just the night before Pamela had bought
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this Sledgehammer at a Home Depot in New York that is Pamela bookbinder paying for the sledgehammer she's right there
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she has cash in her hand with plans Jake claims of having him bash her ex-boyfriend in the head you
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know I intended to kill him Jake says that Pamela's lovey-dovey mood quickly changed
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as she allegedly packed a duffel bag with weapons she was hysterical crying tears as she put the sledgehammer into a
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duffel bag with the kitchen knife like she's packing a bag to head off to school except this is to head off to a
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murder exactly and there was one more item that was vital to the scheme the night before she
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had provided me with the map and how to get into his apartment she handed me that
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this map which Pamela Drew herself showed the multiple entrances of Michael Weiss's building
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Michael's attorney Roland Acevedo do you believe essentially this was a battle plan map
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I believe it was a map that Jake was provided to allow him to get access to Dr Weiss's apartment without going
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through the normal security measures says she never gave Jake the knife and that the map was given to Jake to
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help care for Calder it had the daycare where he was going and had Dr Weiss's building
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Jake says Pamela said goodbye that morning with just one goal in mind today is the day
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life is going to be so much better after Michael is she used the word terminated
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after Michael is terminated clutching that hand-drawn map Jake headed to Michael's Midtown
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Manhattan high-rise kind of scoped out the building on different sides it had two separate
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entrances entered through the business entrance Jake signed in writing that he was
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heading to a tutoring center in the building called bright kids it was marked on the map
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he didn't even bother using an alias if they sign in with my own name remember I
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was willing to die for this woman I wasn't trying to hide anything Jake went straight to the 12th floor
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and walked in on Michael in the middle of a session Jake left the office and waited in a
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stairwell while Michael finished with the patient what are you thinking to yourself what's
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going through your head I think I was really nervous I think I wanted to back out
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but I didn't have a means to do it because I couldn't go back to Pamela without this done
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I felt like I had no choice after the patient left Jake asked Michael for some Financial forms for
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calder's school Pamela claims picking up those forms was the only reason Jake was
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there but Jake says it was Ola ruse to distract Michael while Jake went to the restroom to prepare
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I grabbed the sledgehammer I put the knife in my pocket [Music] from here on out it's it's
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um I remember bits and pieces but according to Michael Weiss's attorney Michael remembers it all too well Jake
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came out of the bathroom in Michael's office and hit him with a sledgehammer Michael managed to duck just in time
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missing the full brunt of the 10-pound tool the sledgehammer made contact with his
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shoulder that's when Michael says Jake reached for the knife that's when I first stabbed Michael
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Weiss and then from there on out it was just it was a fight and then he stabbed Michael seven or
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eight times in various places the stomach the back the chest Michael who's six foot three and 205
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pounds managed to overpower Jake on the ground standing up you know I got stabbed multiple times
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I thought this I thought that someone was bound to die the two men stumbled into the hallway
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where neighbors heard the commotion I think it's a psychologist client it was not good morning man call
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on the patient breathing yeah but I got a lot of blood they're losing a lot of blood
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then as he sat on the floor bleeding Jake lifted his cell phone and took that selfie
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why did you take a selfie you know we were sitting right next to each other and I was reporting back to
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Pamela like what do I do next Jake says Pamela didn't respond a short time later at the hospital Jake
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tried texting her again this is what you wrote in hospital please come Michael bleeding badly same I walked into office
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he stabbed me with my knife in the heart this time Pamela answered with a single
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word where there was no plan for after the attack I think it was Pamela's plan to just
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dismiss me and like oh well he tried to kill him he lost you know we'll try again later I mean I really believe it's
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her plan to try again later hospital records say Jake was in a manic state after the attack
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Pamela eventually showed up at the ER but was not allowed to see Jake I was in full-blown psychotic episode I was
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heavily medicated on morphine Michael Weiss suffered multiple cuts to his upper torso and legs he was stitched
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up and released from the hospital Jake was still recovering from his own wounds to his chest and hand
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when the reality of his arrest for attempted murder hit him [Applause] could Jacob backed out of the attack see
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more of the crime scene photos at 48hours.com foreign [Music] after his arrest for attempted murder
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Jake Nolan spent four days recovering in the hospital he then appeared before a judge and was freed on two hundred
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thousand dollars bail pending trial Jake was allowed to fly home to live with his parents outside of Miami ready
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what would you have said to Calder one day if he asked you why did you kill my father I don't know
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I give everything for this child I was willing to kill someone for this child that alone can only show how sorry I
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feel when he finds out about this later on in life but what of Pamela bookbinder soon after
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the attack Michael sued for custody of their son claiming Pamela was The Mastermind a family court judge
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considered the evidence in that case including the Home Depot images and granted Michael Weiss full custody of
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Calder and barred Pamela from any contact for five years the evidence showed and the family court agreed that
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Pamela was involved in the plan or plot to attack and kill Michael despite the evidence presented in Family
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Court Pamela was still not criminally charged in the attack why not the District Attorney's office will not
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comment but Michael Weiss's attorney thinks part of the problem is the key accuser in this case
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Jacob because he contends that he has this history of mental illness is perhaps not the most reliable witness
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for the prosecution Jake spent much of his time awaiting trial in and out of treatment centers
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for both his mental problems and drug and alcohol addictions despite those efforts his life almost came to a tragic
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end in May 2015. what happened that caused you to be in this hospital bed I try to kill myself I tried to take my
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own life This Time Jake ended up in a coma after poisoning himself this was probably the worst day of my life
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because they told us they didn't think Jake was going to make it finally in March 2016 three and a half
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years after the attack Jake's trial gets underway in New York the prosecution portrayed Jake as kind of a spoiled rich
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kid just one of many challenges for the defense Jake Nolan was a very unreliable
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narrator of this event for one thing it wasn't until weeks after the attack that
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Jake claimed Pamela had manipulated him another problem he gave at least three different versions of what happened each
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was meant to cast him in the most innocent light possible in one version Jake tried to put the blame on Michael
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Weiss when the first responder showed up he immediately pointed the finger at Dr
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Weiss and said he stabbed me in another account Jake told investigators he never
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swung the sledgehammer this was a big hammer I couldn't even lift the thing up Jake claims he only brought the
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sledgehammer and knife because he was afraid of Michael perhaps most stunning of all a third
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version he claims that Dr Weiss pulled the sledgehammer out of his bag and attacked him first with it
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so that really doesn't make any sense I mean how would Dr Weiss even know that the sledgehammer is in the bag
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Jake has said he had been convinced the attack on Michael was the only way to save Calder
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but at trial prosecutors hinted at another motive Michael Weiss had taken out a 1.5
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million dollar life insurance policy the beneficiary was his son who probably at
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the time was three or four years old but there was a catch just three days before
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the attack Michael agreed to make Pamela the policies irrevocable trustee what does that mean in English irrevocable
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means can't be taken back so if Michael dies if Michael passed away the child would get the 1.5 million dollars but
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she would be the person that controlled the money for the child Jake insisted he had no clue before the
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attack that money may have been involved I had no idea Pamela never mentioned that to me her plan was for you to kill
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him but the most damning evidence came from Jake himself the prosecution psychiatrist interviewed Jake before
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trial and clips from the exam were played to jurors in one a shockingly Frank discussion
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about another item Pamela bought at Home Depot what was the zip ties for she wanted me to like torture Michael
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um which I didn't tell her but I wasn't down to do that so you were down to kill
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but not torture yeah okay what did she want you to do to torture she let me cut off his balls she said
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that was a line too far for you yeah how come I don't know I've never heard anyone
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before the prosecution saw this as a stunning admission on tape at least it appears Jake was a willing participant
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in planning the attack and could draw a line when he wanted to the Crux of the prosecutions argument
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here is that this is not some babbling idiot that didn't know which way was up I think I was in control of to a degree
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but the deal was to kill Michael Weiss the deal wasn't to torture Michael Weiss it might seem like Jake is splitting
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hairs but one of Jake's lawyers Stephen Brownstein says that's exactly how Jake's mind was working in fact it's why
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he and his legal team argue a risky defense diminished capacity you're going to have to admit that your client did
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the crime but his capacity to establish the intent the motive to commit that crime he laughed and therefore she'd be
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found not guilty [Music] I understand that the prosecution feels that clearly Jake never had a gun to his
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head in my opinion psychologically speaking he did Dr Sasha bardet who testified for the defense at trial says
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Pamela had replaced Jake's Free Will with her own it's very much like a cult where there is a shaping of the person's
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thought processes to meet the cult's ideals it's a small cult it has two people in it there's a cult leader
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Pamela bookbinder and the cult member Jake Nolan Jake never takes the stand Pamela bookbinder never even set foot in
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the courtroom neither side called her to testify in March of 2016 after a two-week trial
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the jury began its deliberations in less than an hour the jury comes back we have reached a verdict
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guilty guilty of attempted murder it's unjust I'm no harm to society and a little over three months later the
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judge describes the attack as an act of extreme brutality and violence and sentences Jake Nolan to nine and a half
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years in prison you're in just such shock I was like somebody just crushed me from from top to bottom just just
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totally took my heart right out of me and what of Michael Weiss the man Jake Nolan would have killed if the murder
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plot had succeeded he's been traumatized by this I know what I did was very serious but
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there is also another party that needs to take responsibility too and that person is Pamela bookbinder
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and her role in this sorted case is about to take let's wait till she comes down a dramatic turn Pamela befinder
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Peter Van sat for 48 hours I have a simple question why did you buy that sledgehammer
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um Pamela bookbinder the most talked about woman during Jake Nolan's trial had always managed to elude the public
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but we caught up with Pamela about four months after Jake Nolan was sentenced I have a simple question why did you buy
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that Sledgehammer you know what you can answer that question we're going to do some Home Improvement
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or were you buying a murder weapon get it out of her face Pamela you can answer that question
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but on October 19 2017 almost five years after Michael Weiss was attacked the law
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finally caught up with Dr Pamela bookbinder bookbinder was arrested at a friend's
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house outside Syracuse New York charged with second-degree attempted murder and first degree attempted
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assault the Manhattan district attorney accused bookbinder of masterminding the plot to
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send Jake Nolan to murder her ex-boyfriend and the father of her son Michael Weiss
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at the Time Jake Nolan would not comment on Pamela bookbinder's arrest but Michael Weiss's attorney did I was not
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surprised when she was indicted and arrested the prosecutor's office said months ago during the Nolan trial that
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they thought she was involved and I think the evidence against her is significant Pamela is innocent I'm
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telling you that Pamela bookbinder hired two top New York defense attorneys Ronald fishetti and
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Eric Franz Pamela buckbinder had nothing to do with that who say that this video of bookbinder
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buying that Sledgehammer is just a sideshow Pamela buckbinder is an educated psychiatrist not Wiley Coyote she didn't
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plan to orchestrate a murder with a sledgehammer that the man couldn't pick up bookbinders attorneys argued before
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two judges that their client should be granted bail and her family offered to put up a 1.5 million dollar bond to
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guarantee she wouldn't run off this despite the fact that when she was arrested she had in her possession her
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passport birth certificate and her son calder's expired passport the entire world has fallen on this woman
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periodically methodically over the last five years and what did she do she engaged counsel she engaged the bondsman
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she stayed around and made no attempts to flee her attorneys contend that the case has essentially been solved and
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that Jake Nolan is the sole perpetrator when you walked into Dr Michael Weiss's office with that duffel bag with the
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weapons that were inside [Music] [Applause] what did you intend to do you know I intended to kill him
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[Music] bookbinders legal team later pointed to what they say is an incriminating new
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piece of evidence found buried in their legal file a note allegedly written by Jake Nolan
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to his mother Debbie after the attack in 2012 as he recovered in the hospital it
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reads Pamela has nothing to do with this this man acted completely on his own so
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it's a very very crucial piece of evidence remember Jake's defense team said he wrote this letter while he was
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in what his doctors called a manic State and heavily medicated that note probably
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can't be admitted into evidence in any event because it's hearsay after the judge heard these arguments he refused
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to Grant bookbinder bail she was ordered held in New York's notorious Rikers Island jail
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where she remained for five years through legal wrangling and the pandemic then on September 7th 2022 in a
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pre-trial hearing she made a stunning announcement she accepted a deal to spend 11 years in prison in exchange for
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pleading guilty to attempted assault and a lesser charge in connection with Dr Weiss's attack seemingly bringing her
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case to a close but just one month later bookbinder turned her routine sentencing on its
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head with her lawyers telling judge Farber that she wanted to withdraw her plea she claimed on the day she agreed
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to the deal she was exposed to mace on Rikers Island she did not take her medication and she inadvertently got a
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contact high when someone was smoking drugs on her bus ride to court but Judge Thomas Farber would have none of it he
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ordered the plea deal to stand and the sentencing to continue Dr Weiss showed up to make a victim's
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impact statement he did not want to be recorded while he read his remarks telling the court that he suffers from
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PTSD and that he believes bookbinder has so much hatred for him that she will do
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anything in her power to harm him even after she is released from prison prosecutor Joel seideman was next and he
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did not hold back I think it's necessary to make the record straight defendant try
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to have Dr Michael Weiss murdered she hated his God she sought to destroy him because of their failed relationship
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she stood to control 1.5 million dollars in life insurance on his life in the name of his son she couldn't find her's
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attorney had heard enough sentencing not a lynching I understand Mr Mr France but I don't control what
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the D.A says it sent us and cidermen kept going is on video her all of her genius in
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terms of academic genius didn't mean that she could out with the NYPD who immediately went to Home Depot when they
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saw the sledgehammer and they knew where it came from and she sent Jacob Nolan with a map
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bookbinders lawyer finally had his chance to speak well that was a rather unpleasant experience following a
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negotiated disposition the bottom line is her pleading guilty is not a license to step on her throat and just say
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whatever you want that's an injustice she stands ready for sentence or honorable it's pubfinder you can speak
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if you wish to you don't have to she was brief if there was one true statement Mr
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seidman said I missed it judge Farber had the finals say there can be no doubt that if you plot to bash somebody's head
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in with a sledgehammer that the intent is to cause his death he he then reminded everyone that he presided over
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Jacob Nolan's trial back in 2017. the compelling and Powerful evidence at that trial supported Mr Nolan's account
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that Miss Buck binder planned to brutally murder Dr Weiss Farber then sentenced bookbinder to serve 11 years
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in prison and he also issued an order of protection for Dr Weiss and just before
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officers took bookbinder away she turned to her family and friends who blew kisses at her
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defense attorney Monica nejatame says that in 2027 Pamela bookbinder will be free to start her life over and even
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reach out to her son there's no question about her love for her son [Music] a son with Secrets he just lied to
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everybody his parents vanished you know cars go off the road things happen what happened to the holders not making any
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sense it's taking weirder and weirder turns nobody saw this coming 48 Hours next on CBS
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