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This is definitely one of the stranger cases I've covered. It seems like it comes right out of a novel. On November 12, 2012, Jake Nolan set out to the office and home of Dr. Michael Weiss. Jake had with him a duffel bag with a massive sledgehammer, a steak knife, zip ties, and he's walking through the streets of Manhattan with this. When you walked into Dr. Michael Weiss's office with that duffel bag with the weapons that were inside, what did you intend to do? You know, I intended to kill him. This is not a whodunit. He did what he was accused of doing. But the big question was why? I saw Jake NOLAN Brainwashed by Dr. Pamela Buckbinder, an Ivy trained psychiatrist. She's brilliant. I would have done anything for Pamela. It happens so slowly that you don't really recognize this growing feeling inside of you that one day you wake up and say, I'll kill for this woman. By the end of this manipulation by Dr. Bookbinder, Jake Nolan had become weaponized to attack Dr. Weiss, the man with whom she had been fighting over custody of her son. They hated each other, and in turn, she made me hate him. Jake Nolan suffered from bipolar disorder. He had these learning problems. He had personality problems. Pamela took someone who she knew was severely mentally ill, and she morphed me into whatever she wanted me to be. And I obeyed. Just like a puppet. She used him for her own benefit. She sacrificed him. His office door was open and I see Michael sitting in a chair. I think this is really when I became fully psychotic. I don't buy Jake's story that he was brainwashed and manipulated. He knew exactly what he was doing. And do you believe that each step of the way, Jake could have made the decision to leave? Of course he could have. And Dr. Bookbinder claims that she had no involvement at all in this. That anything Jake Nolan did, he did completely on his own. 911, we're emergency. Hi. I can hear someone out in my hallway screaming in pain, but I don't know what's going on out there and I'm afraid to go out. And what was so odd about this is he didn't try to flee. Jake Nolan starts snapping selfies of himself covered in blood. I mean, who would possibly snap a selfie of themselves right after they tried to murder someone? There's never going to be a night I don't fall asleep feeling awful for what I've done. To this day, Jake Nolan insists his mind was not his own when he set out to kill Dr. Michael Weiss at his office on November 12, 2012. The knife was in my pocket and the sledgehammer was over my shoulders. He sees the sledgehammer and charges at me. And I reached for the knife. Here I am with this knife and the guy's bleeding and I'm bleeding and I'm thinking, oh, my God, this is terrifying. It's as if I woke up from a bad dream. After Jake stabbed him to, Dr. Weiss fought back furiously. Both men ended up in the hallway of the Manhattan High rise. 911 graves emergency. This guy's screaming like crazy for help. Both men were rushed to the hospital where Jake was placed under arrest for attempted murder and handcuffed to his bed. In the weeks ahead, Jake's bizarre story unfolded. His claim that he had been manipulated to kill by his own cousin, psychiatrist Pamela Bookbinder. My experience with Pamela, looking back, was incredibly frightening. Incredibly frightening. Jake's target that day, Michael Weiss, was Pamela's ex boyfriend and another psychiatrist. Do you believe he was brainwashed? Yes. To be honest, I try and come in here as little as possible because it's just too many memories. Debbie and Jim Nolan, Jake's parents, are devastated. He is basically a really good kid who doesn't have a mean bone in his body. Jacob Nolan. It's a pleasure to be Jacob. When we met Jake in the summer of 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 that wasn't always the case, Jake's parents insist that to understand how and why their then 20 year old son could have been conditioned to kill, you have to go back to his childhood. Jake was our third and our youngest child. He was an absolute delight. He was gifted, he was smart, he liked to invent things. But Jake also had problems. By the age of five, he was diagnosed with adhd, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. There was something with him that just wasn't the same as everybody else. And we started to notice significant changes in his personality and his demeanor around the ages of 14, 15. What did you see? He went through these large mood swings. Still, Jake had moments of brilliance while in high school in Miami. He made news after he won a prestigious contest co inventing a study tool app for iPhones called flashme. And then a month later, I couldn't get out of bed. My parents bribed me with everything to get out of bed. Please get out of bed. Please get out of bed. Jake, you gotta go to school. Please go to school today. Don't miss another day of school. Jake was then diagnosed with depression and anxiety. These episodes worsened to the point where at the age of 17, Jake threatened to kill himself. He got a butcher knife from downstairs and he took it upstairs to his room and he said he was going to kill himself. We were terrified. Jake was hospitalized and was also diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is a severe and chronic mental illness that's characterized by severe mood swings. Psychiatrist Dr. Sasha Bardet has evaluated Jake for the defense. Swings that go from deep, dark, suicidal depressions to periods of incredible elation, grandiose ideas, poor judgment. He's a mess. He's such a prisoner of his own mind that he can't get anywhere in life. There's not a day that goes by that I don't think of killing myself. I've tried strangling myself, drowning myself, overdosing on drugs. By the time Jake was in college, doctors had prescribed some 30 medications to treat him with little success. Some of these medications change brain chemistry, do they not? Well, these are powerful psychotropic medications. His disorder, his problems were so profound, sometimes he's taking four, five, six medications at once. Jake admits he was also doing illegal drugs and drinking, barely making it to class. The Nolans thought their prayers had been answered when Dr. Pamela Bookbinder, Debbie's own niece, offered to help. We thought this was great. I adored Pam. You trusted her. I trusted her with my most prized possession, my child. The plan. Jake would live part time with Pamela in her Manhattan apartment. She would give him therapy sessions and monitor his meds. In return, she proposed he help take care of her then four year old son, Calder. In spite of Jake's mental illness. Pamela and I had formed a relationship when I was really young. I mean, this is my cousin, this is someone I really knew. And I entrust everything into this one woman. I mean, this woman is going to save my life. 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 must have felt everything's coming together here. Thank you. Finally. Thank you. Right, but the Nolans now say sending their son to live with Pamela was the biggest mistake they have ever made. It's a total horrible nightmare. I'm Ashley Graham, and as a parent, I know the back to school transition can be a lot when it comes to wellness. Ollie supports me and my family through it all. Kids multi is big in my house. It supports their immune system and they love to take it. A win win for everyone. Shop these products@ollie.com or retailers nationwide. 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The relationship was on again, off again. There were allegations of domestic violence on both sides. It definitely got physical. Roland Acevedo is an attorney for Dr. Michael Weiss. Is it true that Pam once attacked Michael with broken glass? She was arrested and charged with an assault. He received stitches. I mean, there's physical proof that he was attacked. Is it true that Michael Weiss has also been arrested in the course of this war with Pam? Yes. Pamela contended that Michael threatened her or attempted to assault her in each incident. The charges were dismissed. But the war of the Psychiatrists moved onto another battlefield, the courtroom, as Pamela and Michael fought over the custody of their son. These are two psychiatrists. Couldn't they talk it out? There was no communication. But back during the times when he and Pamela were communicating big time, Michael Weiss attended family parties, including Jake's bar mitzvah. Well, Pamela and I just want to wish you congratulations on your bar mitzvah. We're both so happy for you. We were inspired by all of the speeches about opportunity and charm and character, and we think you 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 respected greatly. Michael and Pamela never married and broke up for good soon after their son Calder was born. Ready. When Calder was 4, Pamela asked Jake to be her child's godfather shortly before she took Jake in. Jake's mother is convinced that is when Pamela began to manipulate his mind. Jake had been feeling so bad about himself, and here, all of a sudden, I'm so important to Calder. Everything I do has to be right. This was a kid that I loved more than life. Jake wants a normal life. Defense psychiatrist Sasha Bardet says Pamela knew how to give Jake the life he craved. He wants to be a successful, respected family man with a nuclear family and a happy life. There's a photograph of the three of you in bed, basically in your underwear. What should we take from that picture? I guess that just goes to show you the level of comfort that I really felt there. It was not unusual in the morning for her to invite me into bed with Calder and I and to share that familiar moment, you know, really feel like a family together. But Dr. Bardet finds these images deeply troubling. When you think that you're seeing pictures of essentially a patient and his psychiatrist, it's really horrific. It's really creepy. Just as troubling for Jake's family were text messages discovered on his cell phone. Let me read to you some of the texts that Pam Bookbinder sent to Jake. You're just the most fun person to love. You're so beautiful. She'd call him lovey Sweet J. You are remarkable. You are brilliant. I have so many thoughts about you. Well, this is almost sickening. And there was never any romantic or sexual relationship ever between these two people. So what this is is all mental manipulation. I miss you terribly, she would say when you were away. That sounds romantic. You know it does. I don't know what her intentions were. To this day, I wouldn't be able to tell you. And as Pamela Was apparently building Jake up. He says she was tearing Michael Weiss apart, claiming Michael was refusing to pay Calder's child support. And worse, she had me convinced that he was being molested at his father's home. And how many times did she say this? Was this repeated over and over? Oh, this was every day. Has Michael Weiss ever, ever abused his son in any way? Absolutely not. Michael worships that child. Jake, what real evidence did you have that Michael was sexually abusing his son? There was no evidence, but at the time, Jake says that's how Pamela was able to pull him into the plot to kill Michael Weiss. Part of the indoctrination process was to get Jake to participate in developing the plan. And the plan, if you believe Jake, was horrific. Pamela was determined for me to torture Michael before killing him. She wanted me to inject him with some poisonous chemicals. She wanted to burn him alive in front of a group of people. Jake's story is dramatic, but is it true? Despite Jake's accusations, he was the only one charged. But Michael Weiss sued Dr. Bookbinder for the attack. And in court papers, she calls the claims against her utterly baseless and states, I never asked Mr. Nolan to attack or harm Mr. Weiss. Dr. Bookbinder also claims that there's no smoking gun here. There's no evidence of emails or text messages that show that she and Jake plotted this together. You can't deny the footage that shows her in Home Depot buying a sledgehammer. Jake insists this surveillance video at a Home Depot in New York City proves his claims. That's Pamela standing next to him, paying for the very tool that police would find the next morning on the floor of Michael Weiss's office. Jake, there is no one that really disputes that you suffer from mental illness. But could you have another problem as well? Could you be a sociopath? No, I could not. Had I never met Pamela Bookbinder, this wouldn't be my story. As Jake Nolan's eyes opened on the morning of November 12, 2012, the day he was supposed to kill Michael Weiss, he says he wasn't alone. 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 person ever, that no one else understood her. Just the night before, Pamela had bought this sledgehammer at a Home Depot in New York. That is Pamela Bookbinder paying for the sledgehammer. She's right there. She has cash in her hand with plans. Jake claims of having him bash her ex boyfriend in the head. You know I intended to kill him. Jake says that Pamela's lovey dovey mood quickly changed as she allegedly packed a duffel bag with weapons. She was hysterical, crying tears as she put the sledgehammer into a duffel bag with a kitchen knife. Like she's packing a bag to head off to school. Except this is to head off to a murder. Exactly. And there was one more item that was vital to the scheme. The night before, she had provided me with the map and not against his apartment. She handed me that. This map, which Pamela drew herself, showed the multiple entrances of Michael Weiss's building. Michael's attorney, Roland Acevedo. Do you believe essentially this was a battle plan map? I believe it was a map that Jake was provided to allow him to get access to to Dr. Weiss apartment without going through the normal security measures. Pamela says she never gave Jake the knife and that the map was given to Jake to help care for Calder. It had the daycare where he was going. It had Dr. Weiss's building. Jake says Pamela said goodbye that morning with just one goal in mind. Today's the day. Life is going to be so much better. After Michael is. She used the word terminated. After Michael is terminated. Clutching that hand drawn map, Jake headed to Michael's midtown Manhattan high rise. He kind of scoped out the building on different sides. It had two separate entrances, entered through the business entrance. Jake signed in writing that he was heading to a tutoring center in the building called Bright Kids. It was marked on the map. He didn't even bother using an alias. I signed in with my own name, remember? I was willing to die for this woman. I wasn't trying to hide anything. Jake went straight to the 12th floor and walked in on Michael in the middle of a session. Jake left the office and waited in a stairwell while Michael finished with the patient. What are you thinking to yourself? What's going through your head? I think I was really nervous. I think I wanted to back out, but I didn't have a means to do it because I couldn't go back to Pamela without this. Done. I felt like I had no choice. After the patient left, Jake asked Michael for some financial forms for Calder's school. Pamela claims picking up those forms was the only reason Jake was there. But Jake says it was all a ruse to distract Michael. While Jake went to the restroom to prepare. I grabbed the sledgehammer. I put the knife in my pocket. From here on out, I remember bits and pieces. But according to Michael Weiss's attorney, Michael remembers it all too well. Jake came out of a bathroom in Michael's office and hit him with a sledgehammer. Michael managed to duck just in time, missing the full brunt of the 10 pound tool. Still, the sledgehammer made contact with his shoulder. That's when Michael says Jake reached for the knife. That's when I first stabbed Michael Weiss. And then from there on out, it was just. It was a fight. And then he stabbed Michael seven or eight times in various places. The stomach, the back, the chest. Michael, who's 6 foot 3 and 205 pounds, managed to overpower Jake on the ground standing up. You know, I got stabbed multiple times. I thought this. I thought that someone was bound to die. The two men stumbled into the hallway where neighbors heard the commotion. I think it's a psychology, so they might have had a client who was nuts. Good morning, man. Call on Is the patient breathing? Yeah, but they got a lot of blood. They're losing a lot of blood. Then as he sat on the floor bleeding, Jake lifted his cell phone and took that selfie. Why did you take a selfie? You know, we were sitting right next to each other and I was reporting back to Pamela, like, what do I do next? Jake says Pamela didn't respond. A short time later at the hospital, Jake tried texting her again. This is what she wrote in hospital. Please come, come. Michael bleeding badly. Same. I walked into office, he stabbed me with my knife in the heart. This time, Pamela answered with a single word where there was no plan for after the attack. I think it was Pamela's plan to just dismiss me and like, oh, well, he tried to kill him. He lost, you know, try again later. I mean, I really believe it's her plan to try again later. Hospital records say Jake was in a manic state after the attack. Pamela eventually showed up at the ER but was not allowed to see Jake. I was in full blown psychotic episode. I was heavily medicated on morphine. Michael Weiss suffered multiple cuts to his his upper torso and legs. He was stitched up and released from the hospital. Jake was still recovering from his own wounds to his chest and hand when the reality of his arrest for attempted murder hit him. This episode is brought to you by kpmg. Making an impact is how KPMG helps make the difference. 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Soon after the attack, Michael sued for custody of their son, claiming Pamela was the mastermind. A Family Court judge considered the evidence in that case, including the Home Depot images, and granted Michael Weiss full custody of Calder and barred Pamela from any contact for five years. The evidence showed and the Family Court agreed that Pamela was involved in the plan or plot to attack and kill Michael. Despite the evidence presented in Family Court, Pamela was still not criminally charged in the attack. Why not? The district Attorney's office will not comment, but Michael Weiss, attorney, thinks part of the problem is the key accuser in this case, Jacob, because he contends that he has the this history of mental illness is perhaps not the most reliable witness for the prosecution. Jake spent much of his time awaiting trial in and out of treatment centers for both his mental problems and drug and alcohol addictions. Despite those efforts, his life almost came to a tragic end in May 2015. What happened that caused you to be in this hospital bed? I tried to kill Myself try to take my own life. This time, Jake ended up in a coma after poisoning himself. This was probably the worst day of my life because they told us they didn't think Jake was going to make it. Finally, in March 2016, three and a half years after the attack, Jake's trial gets underway in New York. The prosecution portrayed Jake as kind of a spoiled rich kid, just one of many challenges for the defense. Jake Nolan was a very unreliable narrator of this event. For one thing, it wasn't until weeks after the attack that Jake claimed Pamela had manipulated him. Another problem. He gave at least three different versions of what happened. Each was meant to cast him in the most innocent light possible. In one version, Jake tried to put the blame on Michael Weiss. When the first responder showed up, he immediately pointed the finger at Dr. Weiss and said, he stabbed me. In another account, Jake told investigators he never swung the sledgehammer. This was a big hammer. I couldn't even lift the thing up. Jake claims he only brought the sledgehammer and knife because he was afraid of Michael. Perhaps most stunning of all, a third version. He claims that Dr. Weiss pulled the sledgehammer out of his bag and attacked him first with it. So that really doesn't make any sense. I mean, how would Dr. Weiss even know that the sledgehammer's in the bag? Jake has said all along he had been convinced the attack on Michael was the only way to save Calder. But at trial, prosecutors hinted at another motive. Michael Weiss had taken out a $1.5 million life insurance policy. The beneficiary was his son, who probably at the time was three or four years old. But there was a cat. Just three days before the attack, Michael agreed to make Pamela the policy's irrevocable trustee. What does that mean in English? Irrevocable means can't be taken back. So if Michael dies. If Michael passed away, the child would get the $1.5 million, but she would be the person that controlled the money for the child. To this day, Jake insists he had no clue before the attack that money may have been involved. I had no idea. Pamela never mentioned that to me. Her plan was for you to kill him. But the most damning evidence came from Jake himself. The prosecution psychiatrist interviewed Jake before trial, and clips from the exam were played to jurors. In one, a shockingly frank discussion about another item Pamela bought at Home Depot. What was the zip ties for? She wanted me to, like, torture Michael, which I didn't tell her, but I wasn't down to do that. So you were down to kill, but not torture? Yeah. What did she want you to do? To torture him. She wanted me to cut off his. She said that was a line too far for you? Yeah. How come? I don't know. I've never heard anyone before. The prosecution saw this as a stunning admission. On tape at least, it appears Jake was a willing participant in planning the attack and could draw a line when he wanted to. The crux of the prosecution's argument here is that this is not some babbling idiot that didn't know which way was up. I think I was in control up to a degree. But the deal was to kill Michael Weiss. The deal wasn't to torture Michael Weiss. It might seem like Jake is splitting hairs, but one of Jake's lawyers, Stephen Brownstein, says that's exactly how Jake's mind was working. In fact, it's why he and his legal team argue a risky defense. Diminished capacity. You're going to have to admit that your client did the crime, but his capacity to establish the intent, the motive to commit that crime, he lacked and therefore should be found not guilty. I understand that the prosecution feels that clearly Jake never had a gun to his head. In my opinion, psychologically speaking, he did. Dr. Sasha Bardet, who testified for the defense at trial, says 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 thought processes to meet the cult's ideals. It's a small cult. It has two people in it. There's the cult leader, Pamela Bookbinder, and the cult member, Jake Nolan. Jake never takes the stand. Pamela Bookbinder never even set foot in the courtroom. Neither side called her to testify. In March of 2016, after a two week trial, the jury began its deliberations. In less than an hour, the jury comes back. We have reached a verdict. Guilty. Guilty of attempted murder. It's unjust. I'm no harm to society. And a little over three months later, the judge describes the attack as an act of extreme brutality and violence and sentences Jake Nolan to nine and a half years in prison. You're in just such shock. I was like somebody just crushed me from top to bottom. Just totally took my heart right out of me. And what of Michael Weiss, the man Jake Nolan would have killed if the murder plot had succeeded? Michael never goes anywhere without looking over his shoulder. He's been traumatized by this. I know what I did was very serious, but there is also another party that needs to take responsibility too. And that person Is Pamela Bookbinder. And her role in this sordid case is about to take. Let's wait till she comes down. A dramatic turn. Pamela Bookbinder. Peter van Sant from 48 Hours. No, she's not. I have a simple question. Why did you buy that sledgehammer? Hablas espanol. Spries to droids. If you used babbel, you would. Babbel's conversation based techniques teaches you useful words and phrases to get you speaking quickly about the things you actually talk about in the real world. 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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 buy that sledgehammer? You know what? You can answer that question. Were you going to do some home improvement or were you buying a murder weapon? I'll just up her face. I can touch the camera. Get it out of her face. Pamela, you can answer that question. But on October 19th, almost five years after Michael Weiss was attacked, the law finally caught up with Dr. Pamela Bookbinder. Bookbinder was arrested at a friend's house outside Syracuse, New York. She has been charged with second degree attempted murder and first degree attempted assault. The Manhattan district attorney accused Bookbinder of masterminding the plot to send Jake Nolan to murder her ex boyfriend and the father of her son, Michael Weiss. My name is Cameron. I'm not guilty. Jake Nolan would not comment on Pamela Bookbinder's arrest, but Michael Weiss's attorney did. I was not surprised when she was indicted and arrested. The prosecutor's office said months ago. During the Nolan trial that they thought she was involved. And I think the evidence against her is significant. Pamela is innocent. I'm telling you that. Pamela Buchbinder has hired two top New York defense attorneys, Ronald Fischetti and Eric Franz. Pamela Buckbinder had nothing to do with that. Who will argue at trial that this video of Bookbinder buying that sledgehammer is just a sideshow to explain why she bought the sledgehammer for him is not what the case is about. It's why Jacob Nolan took it upon himself to sneak into an apartment, attempt to bludgeon a man, and knife him. She is presumed innocent. But merely saying that she presumed innocent doesn't mean that she enjoyed that. Bookbinder's attorneys have argued before two judges that their client should be granted bail, and they've offered to put up a $1.5 million bond to guarantee she won't run off this despite the fact that when she was arrested, she had in her possession her passport, birth certificate, and her son Calder's expired passport. The entire war has fallen on this woman, periodically, methodically, over the last five years, and what did she do? She engaged counsel. She engaged a bondsman. She stayed around and made no attempts to flee. Her attorneys argue that the case has essentially been solved and that Jake Nolan is the sole perpetrator. Judge, he was on 48 hours, and on 48 hours, he admitted everything. When you walked into Dr. Michael Weiss's office with that duffel bag with the weapons that were inside, what did you intend to do? You know I intended to kill him. Bookbinder's legal team later introduced what they say is an incriminating new piece of evidence found buried in their legal file. A note allegedly written by Jake Nolan to his mother Debbie, after the attack in 2012. As he recovered in the hospital, it reads, pamela has nothing to do with this. This man acted completely on his own. So it's a very, very crucial piece of evidence. Remember, the defense team says Jake wrote this letter while he was in what his doctors called a manic state and heavily medicated. That note is a handwritten note that is unsigned, undated, unauthenticated, that was allegedly written by Jake in 2012. So that note probably can't be admitted into evidence in any event because it's hearsay. After the judge heard these arguments, and he refuses to grant Bookbinder bail, she is being held in New York's notorious Rikers island jail. Prosecutor Joel Seideman is anxious to get this case underway. We're ready. But one person who will be apprehensive about yet another trial in this case is the real victim, Michael Weiss. Michael has been traumatized by this incident and Michael continues to go on with his life. He's a real fighter. The defense believes their star witness will be Jake Nolan. Because when we're done cross examining him, this jury wouldn't trust him on taking their lunch order. But ultimately, this case may very well come down to this one. 10 pound sledgehammer and why Pamela Bookbinder paid cash for it at this Home Depot the night before the attack. Pamela Buckbinder is an educated psychiatrist, not Wile E. Coyote. She didn't plan to orchestrate a murder with a sledgehammer that the man couldn't pick up. Why did she buy that sledgehammer? To quote our President. Stay tuned. In 2022, Pamela Buckbinder accepted a deal to spend 11 years in prison in exchange for pleading guilty to attempted assault and a lesser charge in connection with Dr. Weiss's attack. 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