On a May day five years ago, in the morning gloom just before daybreak, Ariel Poholek awoke in his small townhouse in the Florida Keys to find his oldest son, Daniel Weisberger, straddling him with a knife. As Poholek begged for his life, he told his 17-year-old son he needed to live to care for his younger son. Daniel said it was too late. He’d already killed his 14-year-old brother in the bedroom they shared, just down the hall.The tragic murder followed years of anguish for Daniel, whose struggle with mental health started when he was just five an...
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31 min
Episode 4: The Final Act
In this last episode, Judge Mark Jones becomes our Twelve Angry Men, who will decide Daniel’s fate. Will he spend his life behind bars, or at least well into his 50s, or will he be…
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55 min
Episode 3: Judgment Day
On the first day of his trial, Daniel Weisberger arrived at the Key West courthouse dressed in a blue blazer, chinos and black-framed glasses. His short dreads had been cropped. At…
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51 min
Episode 2: The Pressure Cooker
Years before the murder, Daniel’s parents met in the Peace Corps in Central Africa, got married and started a life in the U.S. But a contentious divorce, followed by years of fight…
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30 min
Episode 1: The Insanity Defense
In the days after Pascal Weisberger’s murder, the tight-knit community in the Upper Florida Keys rallied around the grieving family. Between Boy Scouts and volunteer work at the lo…
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5 min
Introducing Keeper and Killer
Over his short life, Daniel Weisberger went from Boy Scout and beloved older brother to killer. To understand why, we headed to the Florida Keys, where Daniel’s world unraveled. Li…